Lamborghini is unquestionably one of the most fascinating car manufacturers around, with a brand identity unlike any other. You’d be hard pressed to come across someone who hasn’t heard of them or who couldn’t do a crude drawing of their favorite Lambo, yet very few people will ever actually own one. Their reputation therefore is [...]
January is already receding into the distance, and global car culture is shaking itself down and preparing for the year ahead. But is there ever a quiet time in the automotive world? I’m sure there isn’t; there’s always someone, somewhere, planning and plotting their next move. Australasian car events are basking in the sun; Japan [...]
I’m still recovering from the wake of insanity that was my trip to Japan last week, but I figured this would be as good a time as any to quickly recap my recent adventures. The effort that Dino and I managed to pack into one week was incredible to say the least, and the result [...]
It must be Tokyo Auto Salon time because here I am, in the middle of the night, already sleep deprived, attempting to put a post together. Today has been a busy day of shooting feature cars, not to mention walking the halls of the Makuhari Messe to bring you a little teaser of what to [...]
It’s been exactly two years since Motor Head began circulation in Japan. In these 24 months this publication has brought an unparalleled level of quality to print media and has managed to stay fresh and innovative in what can only be described as the hardest time print has ever endured. Issue number six, which has [...]
There are builds, and then there are mentalist builds. Cars where the original is buried under a collage of crazy. Where they carry themselves in a way that requires a double (or even triple) take, these are either the product of a deranged mind or warped genius. Often both. It’s not always clear which. This [...]
Art is one of the most diverse words in all of the English language, and it’s certainly one of my favorites. If you ask a dozen people what they consider art, you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. That’s the beautiful thing about art, it’s completely subjective. Many have said that cars cannot be art, [...]
In the eyes of a Speedhunter, the SEMA Show is absolute overload. There are likely hundreds of cars spread across the show which could all be deemed spotlight-worthy, but part of the challenge is narrowing it down to the cars absolutely need to be shared. Sean, Larry, and myself have plenty of SEMA spotlight specials to come, but I’d like to begin with a look at once machine that grabbed my attention as I passed by the Toyo Tire booth this morning.
The Japanese really are masters of style. Approaching a big event like Slammed Society in Fuji definitely is quite the chore. Three days on and my legs are still aching from the non-stop squatting I had to do to capture close to every car that showed up. And when there are 400 impressively unique vehicles [...]
Following on from the success that the last two Hellaflush shows have had in Japan, the Fatlace crew was back in Fuji Speedway yesterday for the first ever Slammed Society event in the land of the rising sun. With 400 cars present, representing every extreme of Japanese car culture there was plenty of awesome cars [...]
Paper will always remain paper, no matter what. Over the last decade the web has really reinvented the way we get clued up in anything from the latest news, to the thing we all love the most here, cars. We are all now used to seeing awesome content from each corner of the world, presented [...]
I can’t possibly imagine what your average Joe might think when being confronted with a shakotan ride from Japan. For me these sort of cars are as much as part of Japanese car culture as drifting is, but I’m sure a lot of people out there, including enthusiasts, might scratch their heads in confusion when [...]
I thought I’d share this shot of Kato-san’s private garage at Liberty Walk, a place where he stores five of his shakotan rides. He treats and looks after these cars in the same way he does his valuable exotics; to him they are just as important albeit very different reasons. These kinds of cars are [...]
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Shakotan rides and Kaido racers are as Japanese as sushi and natto beans and we all love them for it. I had a great deal of fun shooting these type of cars at Kato-san’s private garage and the feature on his C130 Laurel just wouldn’t be complete… …without some high resolution version of some of [...]
Japan is one hell of a bizarre place. It’s as international as any advanced nation could ever be, but at the same time impossibly backwards on so many fronts. It’s a place where beliefs and cultures clash on a daily basis, where traditional values are challenged but at the same time respected by all generations. [...]
