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October
27
2009
1:18 pm
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Tony Borroz

Honda Civic Type R Euro Hot Hatch For Japanese Market

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OK all you Civic fan boys with large checkbooks and connections to the home market, get your browsers ready, because there’s going to be a whole lot of JDM parts for you to order up. At this year’s Tokyo Motor Show, Honda rolled out a JDM only version of the Civic officially called Civic Type R Euro. But right off the top, let me just say that I’ve always been a little bit puzzled by Honda’s making JDM specific and Euro-market specific and North American market specific versions of these cars (or any other ride that’s sold in all three markets).

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October
21
2009
2:59 pm
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Tony Borroz

Subaru Exiga 2.0GT Tuned by STI

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Normally, station wagons don’t do much for me. But station wagons that are tricked out by STI (Subaru’s skunk works/racing arm/rally parts bin) and trimmed out in WRC blue … OK, I might be interested, sure. Anyway, the wagon you see here just rolled out at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show. It might get missed amongst all the general weirdness that is rampant at the show, or overshadowed by stuff like the Lexus LFA … but then again, a high performance wagon might go unnoticed by certain types of other people too.

“Why, no officer. It couldn’t have been ME that was speeding, it must have been those hoodlums over there with that racy looking car with the huge wing on it!”

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October
24
2007
12:22 am
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Chris Burdick

Nissan GT-R Debut - Tokyo Motor Show

Nissan GTR Debut - Tokyo Motor Show

Today, Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn debuted their long-awaited GT-R Supercar. The GT-R features a hand-built, twin-turbo V6 engine that produces 480 horsepower.

This all-wheel-drive beauty can run from 0-62mph in 3.6 seconds. Take a look below for a few low-quality screenshots I was able to grab from the live debut… Continue Reading…