Rod asked me to make a top ten list of the best and most influential AE86's. I'm no expert on everything Hachi so I decided to ask some of my friends from Australia who run the Hachiroku blog if they could help me out, they happily obliged. So here you have it, the top ten [...]
We really haven't posted many photos of AW11 MR2s on our Speedhunters Toyota month thus far. While I really like the cars themselves, it's very challenging to find a nice first generation MR2 that isn't completely thrashed from old age. I had some AW11s lined up actually, but the owners of the cars weren't able [...]
When we went on the very first Speedhunters trip to the UK in April of 2008, I was excited to attend an EDC drift event. Thanks to the generosity of our hosts, EDC's own Andy Barnes and Glenn Horncastle, the European Drift Championship Round 1 event at the famous Donington Park motor racing circuit was [...]
Rough World. The name is infamous amongst AE86 owners in the know. Rough World is a name that is filled with legend. Characterized by their aggressive, mean, down-to-business drift cars built in the Rough Style, the name is defined by the hardcore crew of old school street drifters who hail from Ibaragi, but gained respect [...]
I came across this special Corolla AE86 racecar earlier this year via Ten-Tenths.com, one of the premier Motorsport forums. Forum member (and I notice, new Speedhunter) "Eircamae86", owns this very special car which has just 22 miles on the clock, Yes, thats right! This racecar was originally built by TOM’s for Team Chowini in Hong [...]
With so much doom and gloom in the car industry at the moment, its great to pass on some exciting positive news coming out of Nissan Motorsports. Nissan today announced its 2009 Super GT programme, but the main news was the plan to develop the FiA GT1 NISMO GT-R during 2009, in preparation for the [...]
Rounding out Toyota month on Speedhunters, I’d like to post about some of the most successful Toyotas ever raced in North America. My fascination with these cars first started when I got a book called Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars by David Bull Publishing as a gift for my birthday last fall, and ever since [...]
When it comes to Toyota drift cars, there's basically two paths. You have the light and nimble AE86 OR the big turbocharged monsters like the Chaser and Soarer. For this post I'll be paying tribute to the latter – the "big" Toyota drift cars seen in D1 Grand Prix competition over the past few years. [...]
I've always liked Lotus. Must be something to do with the fact I have a British Passport! LOL OK, a little bit of trivia. Without using Google, what is the connection with this Lotus Esprit X180 and Toyota month, here on Speedhunters…. I'll check in later. -Andy Blackmore
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The JZS161 Lexus GS300/GS400 (Toyota Aristo) is definitely an extremely popular car for modifying in the VIP car scene. Especially here in Southern California, we can frequently see very nice examples of GS luxury, slammed with great looking wheel and tire setups. This trend especially came about because some of the original fixed-up car guys [...]
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Pagani refer to their 750 bhp Zonda R as a "track toy"… imagine showing up with one of these at your local track day huh? Hahaha…..This is probably the most insane track day special ever…. Personally I've love to see the "R" running in ALMS, FIA GT or Le Mans….. Let's see it break a [...]
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