As we bring Exotics and Luxury month to a close, I bring you this shot of the Auto Fashion Lexus LS430 rolling down a street in San Diego. This is what luxury motoring is all about, looking so cool in your extremely hard looking car. Just imagine rolling around this laid out car around town. [...]
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Over the last month or so we have seen two drifters from abroad come to Japan and compete in the D1 Grand Prix. First up it was Federico Sceriffo, the Italian driver who was showing off his stuff at the Odaiba exhibition rounds in May and this time over in Okayama we got another surprise. [...]
As a final bit of luxury material for this month, here's a car that combines the traditional Japanese luxury flagship with some of the kustom style that I showcased yesterday. I never knew the Toyota Century would look so natural in flat black slammed (with hydraulics) on some white walls with sidepipes. Who said VIP [...]
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I'm sure a lot of you folks collect die-casts of varying forms and would be interested to take a quick tour of a model shop located in Maranello, Italy no? "Warm-Up" is located right across the parking lot from the Ferrari Museum, some 200 odd meters from the factory. Maranello appears to be a bit [...]
Before every new Speedhunters theme starts at the beginning of the month, I always try to find some exclusives cars to feature. One of the cars I wanted to do was the Mercedes CLS owned and driven by RJ De Vera. I remember reading about RJ in a Belgium magazine called Opgezet, which featured his [...]
Well, here's my first blog post for Speedhunters, I should really have started with an introduction but I haven't got around to scanning some of the old photos I want to use for that so I'll start here instead. So in short, my name is Bryn Alban, I'm a keen amateur drifter from Wales, UK [...]
Here's another bit of printed treasure that I picked up during my recent stay in Japan, and another magazine title that fits well with this month's theme – Style Wagon. Since I bought my own van earlier this spring, I've been keeping an extra close eye on this magazine along with some of the other [...]
Right now we are hard at work on preparing features for next month, but there's still a few last bits of luxury and exotic material that I'd like to post. As a way if looking back at the roots of luxury customization, I've put together a gallery of vintage kustoms that could be considered luxury [...]
When this dropped into my inbox this morning, I thought it was a hoax.. Aston Martin have developed a 'luxury commuter concept', the Cygnet, which is based on the Toyota iQ. According to AM, the concept represents a creative, environmentally conscious solution, being small, yet with presence, fuel efficient with the prestige of Aston Martin's [...]
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With both the cars and drivers spent after Round 3 on Saturday, it was back to Okayama for Round 4 the following day. The mechanics had to work overtime to get the cars back in shape, ready to take another beating for this new twin-round format. One guy that didn't seem phased by the stressful [...]
Well Exotics and Luxury month is about to end and we’re about to usher in a month devoted to AWD cars in all shapes and sizes (although you can expect to see a lot of Imprezas, Evos and GT-Rs)… I wanted to end my own writing on the subject of supercars with a good look [...]
I spent a while this month trying to come with an Exotics and Luxury feature. I’d know where I could find some well prepared JZX100′s but I wanted to find something different, something a little bit more off the wall than the usual. Of course when Ffrench rang me to tell me what he was [...]
Ok let’s get straight in to part two of our visit to the Galleria Ferrari , with a tour of the next display area. So we start our tour with the Enzo, Ferrari’s current top level supercar. What do you think of this car? Is it ultimate Ferrari supercar ever? Behind sits its immediate predecessor: [...]
NFS-EDC Round 4 Brands Hatch was always going to be a bit special, a few drivers had driven demos here in the past but round 4 was going to be the first time that the historic Brands hatch circuit was to be used for a championship event so very few people including myself really knew [...]
Since it's luxury and exotic month (for another day or two at least), I thought it'd be a good time to take a look at one of the top magazines covering the VIP scene in Japan – VIP Style. Unlike here in the USA where the internet is where most automotive trends are born, print [...]
