HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: THE DESKTOPS

HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: THE DESKTOPS

What better way to end a week’s worth of Hellaflush Kansai coverage than a nice selection of high-resolution images. Since Japan is so unique in the assortment of cars it serves up at these kind of events I’ve made sure to include a few Kei cars in there too, from the more family oriented Daihatsu [...]

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A LITTLE SIDEWAYS ACTION AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

A LITTLE SIDEWAYS ACTION AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

With the Hellaflush Kansai event pretty much wrapped up after the awards were handed out by Mark, I decided to hang around a little longer… …and check out the cars from the main paddock head out. After looking at parked cars the whole day, hearing engine sounds truly added to the experience, especially when it [...]

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HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: MORE SLAMMED AWESOMENESS

HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: MORE SLAMMED AWESOMENESS

After wandering for hours through the main paddock at Hellaflush Kansai, I headed across to the other secondary display area that was set up. With so many cars participating… …space at Central Circuit was definitely at a premium and if you consider that most spectators showed up with awesome cars too…the parking lots were also [...]

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HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: STANCETASTIC

HELLAFLUSH KANSAI: STANCETASTIC

Time to head back to Central Circuit now and continue on with the coverage of Hellaflush Kansai. I’ll start off with two of the most talked about cars of this year, first up the Super Made Aristo which we have already featured, and the street-spec BenSopra demo car. Ueda-san, the man behind the all-new tuning [...]

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JAPAN’S LOVE OF FITMENT AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

JAPAN’S LOVE OF FITMENT AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

There is no other way to put it, but the Japanese are simply the masters of fitment. Since the beginning of their aftermarket-tuning scene in the seventies they have established, experimented and evolved the whole relationship between cars and the wheels they are fitted with, in the process creating specific trends and a variation in [...]

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EAST MEETS WEST: A PEEK AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

EAST MEETS WEST: A PEEK AT HELLAFLUSH KANSAI

While some of our team are busy bringing you live updates from the world’s most grueling endurance race, the Nurbugring 24 hours, I couldn’t possibly have a more different kind of coverage lined up for you from Japan. You won’t find any purposely built race cars here, this is where coolness rides supreme, where a [...]

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