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Why is it that the small car so low to the ground and sporting a ginormous wing What hatchiroku What makes so cool drift and where do hybrids.
These are the kinds of questions that most car fans know the answer to this question probably seems insulting to you guys that I would even dare to put question marks at the end of these sentences, but we would like to put a new spin on the classic story, the spin autoevolution, of course, we will try our best to you things you've never seen him show before, things that are as weird and wonderful as sumo, eating raw octopus and other things that won t be mentioned for fear of censorship.
Today, most cars made in Japan for Japan are hybrids, electric vehicles and small cars kei But it was not always so up to the mid-2000s, this island nation is more elegant, cuts set than anywhere else in the world If you were JDM fan, you were almost guaranteed a nerd crisis of pure job every day.
Today, Nihon No car culture is not as strong as it used to be Sportscars are too expensive to buy for most young lovers who do not want AE86 drift around the Touge as Keiichi Tsuchiya all so they prefer instead of cell phones and the actual video games control of the car and silicone dolls real flesh and blood of his girlfriend Go figure.
Even the recent Tokyo Auto Show tells this trend we noted granted Mazda6, Honda CR-Zs and other hybrids, nothing like the former stronghold of worship Car This is the new Japanese car culture green cars, small transport and integration with technology, all manufacturers are hoping things will save and industry that's slowly killing herself.
The nation still has a huge car culture that goes far beyond its natural limits in the world, especially in the US Most automakers from Japan, Honda has other industries made bicycles and small motorcycles and cars later Subaru has its roots in Nakajima Aircraft Company, which made warbirds during World war II Although coarchbuiders existed in the nineteen tens, serious car production did not become an industry well established in the 60s for example, the first year of production for the Toyota Corolla was 1966.
You've probably about kei cars which are also called K-car or kei car in Japan they are a vehicle subcategory sold in this area and some other markets that are limited in terms of size and engine capacity to limit the impact they have on an already crowded roads.
Current regulations dictate that kei car must be less than 3 to 4 meters 2 feet 11 and not more than 1 48 m September 4 ft high maximum was set at 2 meters 6 ft 6 The maximum displacement of the motor was set at 660cc and there is even a restriction on the output power fixed at 63 c in order to maintain the use of turbocharger too increase emissions.
Toyota Daihatsu, Honda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki are the leading manufacturers in this segment Other companies sell rebadged version or rebodied models manufactured by them even smart tried to market a narrower version of its fortwo in Japan, they called K. smart
Thought we didn t have anything new to tell you Think again This has to be one of the strangest car customization types worldwide Bosozoku The style is closely related to the culture of Japanese gangs and a stage custom bike with the same name.
The idea is to make a Bosozoku car is to add gigantic aerodynamic kits, very visible exhaust pipes sticking out the back, the fins on the roof and bright paintjobs Sometimes these cars mimic comic hero, others have a theme of cheesy leopard for seats, always things to consider you as over-the-top.
The body kits are modeled on Group 5 Special Production Cars of the 70s, with huge splitters front and box-shaped, wide wheel arches are extended exhaust pipes at the rear right in the air, as on the chopper bike gangs use.
This is a Mitsuoka Not a Mitsubishi China is the most famous copier of all things Western, but the Japanese did before them and are still from Rolls Royce or Bentley don t have headlights rights rounded and large grids, they can come out very well.
When we visited the Tokyo Motor Show last time, we were rather taken with luxury cars Mitsuoka false, that look like fake Jaguars and Rolls Royce 60s We do not know how they would be if a security accident, but frankly we HEAL Don really because the novelty never wears the day.
It is something that Western automakers could really learn, or are car buyers in the Western world too mature to enjoy something that looks like the car of a dictator, but costs only 30,000.
And, if you want a fake Rolls Royce, Mitsuoka also made a fake supercar, a fake taxi London called Yuga and a retro faux cabriolet Excalibur as you might be, they have even developed their own Caterham copy called Zero 1 it is powered by an engine 6 liters with 120 hp and weighs only 708 kg through ladder frame is light.
The automobile company Mitsuoka Mitsuoka JidMsha has been in business since 1979 as a manufacturer and has about 500 workers making 1,000 cars a year, mainly based on architectures and Nissan Micra engines.
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