I was thumbing through Daytona Magazine–an automotive lifestyle book from Japan that I’m lucky to be on the comp list for, when I came across a story about these crazy miniature Lamborghini Murcielagos. We love Lambos here so took look  a little further. Since I do not read Japanese I really don’t have too many [...]

You may recall drift machine Vaughn Gittin, Jr. frolicking through Japan in the 2010 Ford Mustang. Visions of Jr. getting his tuned pony sideways on the most revered of the country’s drift tracks probably struck up a powerful longing for those who follow the drift scene. If that’s you, we’ve got good news. Given the [...]

Falken Drift Fiend Vaughn Gittin Jr. is making his way across Japan, introducing the locals to his 2010 Ford Mustang GT along the way. You may remember the video of Gittin demolishing the “drift record” a few days ago. After the jump you’ll find a handful of videos, including what the locals think of the [...]

Globe-trotting drift guru Vaughn Gittin Jr. is headed to the birth-place of his sport. After driving across the U.S. in a 2010 Ford Mustang GT, Gittin has loaded up his car and splashed down in the land of the rising sun to tackle the country’s roads and tracks. It should be interesting to see what [...]

Whoops! You know how we just told you that despite the Great Depression 2.0, Japan is on track to deliver all sorts of mack daddy cars to our shores? We told you that because Pete Lyon over at Inside Line made us broke the news. Well guess what? The same Pete Lyon is now saying [...]

The story goes that even though everyone is now poor, Japanese car makers are going to rolling out some pretty hot (and pricey) metal in the upcoming years. Let’s just get to the most ridiculous part first — a Nissan GT-R SUV. Why? To compete with the Porsche Cayenne, of course. At least so says [...]

I. While we may not be getting the Pontiac G8 ST, Brit importers already have the Holden version, called the Maloo, on the grey market.  It may have a silly name, and even sillier paint schemes, but it’s hard to argue with a 425 hp kangaroo killer. All that power, and Autocar claims it can [...]

Told you it’s SUV day. My dad loved the Japanese. No, he’d never been to Japan. Nor could he speak a word of Japanese. He wouldn’t even eat Sushi (thought it was a vector for food born illnesses). But every now and again he’d come across an article about a group of Japanese businessmen that [...]

Some of those Japanese domestic market cars really frost my cupcake. Not just the Cube, but the Kei cars, the whacky luxury cars (Toyota Crown? Nissan President?), and everything else. Until today I’d never even heard of the Nissan Rasheen, and yet here it is. It seems the Rasheen is based on the Sentra, and [...]

I’m being dead serious here — do cars get any cooler? Equally at home in a Vermont parking lot or the next Mad Max film, something tragic has happened to cars over the last three decades. R.I.P. B.R.A.T. Oh, and if you’re curious, BRAT stands for Bi-Directional Recreational All-terrain Transporter. Well, duh.