If you’ve got an even ten minutes up your sleeve and you can handle the bad hair, this oldy-but-a-goody video of Jeremy Clarkson dropping into Japan to investigate its car enthusiast scene offers a great look at the striking contrasts between the car scene of Japan and that of the outside world.

Of course, with the [...]

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That sounds quite ominous, doesn’t it? Lengths of concrete reinforcement steel—”reo” in tradey speak—sneaking out and wrapping itself around the feet of unsuspecting pedestrians, gorging itself on the sustenance needed to multiply and cover the city in more and more highways… Alright, too much sci-fi in my house perhaps.

With Japan being such a densely [...]

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Mazda announced a new minivan for the JDM market today, called the Biante. Specs are sparse at the moment but it looks to be one notch larger than the existing MPV. As you can see the styling is, um, interesting. It’s taken the whole tall headlight look to a new extreme, extending them all the [...]

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