The three Japanese Sports Cars You need to buy now - AFTER / DRIVE
Masafumi Suzuki Suzuki invited me to Japan is the editor of a Japanese magazine called engine is an ambitious effort of 300 pages per month, with the high yen photograph printed on the paper type, the royal family used to thank you notes Suzuki wild, tangled hair he loves bronze leather pants and shirts with glitter looks like a Japanese Professor Irwin Corey last spring, he has become famous among motoring journalists to pilot a Rolls-Royce through a radar trap on the Pacific Coast Highway was plucking along at some 130 mph an interviewee cop Suzuki for five minutes, studied the inscrutable characters on the license, then said, you may want to slow down a little.
Suzuki smiled his disarming smile perfectly Hans Blix and replied: Okay, so, maybe then he hunted rather quickly.
It was the idea of Suzuki to collect 20 cars in his native country, the cars that are built exclusively for the Japanese consumer Then he invited foreign reporters to peddle them a German, a Briton, an Australian, I and two Italians did not want to show fear to loose SARS, said Suzuki He recorded our impressions for a function to 45 pages in the engine's biggest stories CDs rarely exceed 12 pages.
First, I wanted to know is whether these cars would be interested fans outside Japan, Suzuki told The answer, not surprisingly, yes, with two or three exceptions more interesting at least because we were these cars are intended downright domestic buyers, manufacturers felt safe in imbuing them with all the quirks and kinks specific to Japanese culture stuff like radios with 95 functions, including e-mail; TV cameras for backup; style action-adventure; and impenetrable embroidered legends in floor mats, as saying: Life is first in the area of the house Perhaps that Suzuki told the cop in California It has a nice ring to it.
Automobile, Americans consider themselves damn terribly sophisticated, perhaps pioneering the rest of the world thinks not the recently introduced Honda radical by American standards is a derivative of a vanilla craze minivan as the Japanese celebrated for almost a decade they refer to these practices vanettes the cars height, a first popularized niche by the Suzuki Wagon R. wildly successful
You should also know that the Japanese remain essentially stunned by our eternal fascination with SUVs, including even the Utes based car such as the Honda CR-V said deputy editor engine For us, the CR-V is old, a caricature, something like a false pretense perhaps what your Hummer H2 is its military grandmother young Japanese men don t pretend they'll never drive off-road, and they're mystified, even a little annoyed, a manufacturer suggests such a thing in a style that's not word for word what he said, but it's close now, guys Japanese cars are a kind of euro-modern Cubism whose origins are somewhat Wagon R and many french Renault and Citro n, especially a new one, a cheerful style I admire, Suzuki confirmed.
We drove cars mainly the sprawling Twin Ring Motegi not north of Tokyo on the track, mind you, but in one of the parking lots Motegi another Japanese oddity here we found 10 more resembles nothing ever parked in the garage of your neighbor.
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