The Group A era, from the 1980s through to the 1990s, gave us a lot to be thankful for. On racetracks and rally special stages all over the world, fans were treated not only to some of the best racing ever seen, but afterwards, if they wished, they could drive the cars home. Not the [...]
It’s time to dedicate a bit of time to the true tuner cars that were dotted around the vastness that was the Tokyo Auto Salon this year. Performance is the name of the game here and if there is a bit of style thrown in for good measure you can rest assured it’s all driven [...]
Had enough of GT-Rs yet? Hopefully not as I’ve got one final selection of pictures from what was one epic gathering of Japan’s best Skylines. It’s so hard to decide what to show, as there are so many generations of the GT-R, it’s often hard to satisfy everyone, but I think I’m not wrong in [...]
Super GT is a series I had almost forgotten about, put on the side if you will, as I got on with my job of featuring and covering the bread & butter of the Japanese car culture. You see way before I became part of the Speedhunters project, before SH actually even exited, I used [...]
Recently an old friend of mine called to tell me he was building something special in an old garage in Amsterdam. What owner Rik has been working on in the garage is this S14 Zenki; a tough street car built specifically for fast laps around the Nordschleife. Trainspotters may notice the newer Kouki front or the wide-body panels, but [...]
This weekend The International Racing Car show at the sprawling NEC complex in Birmingham becomes the focus of the racing and performance car world. It's where the manufacturers often choose to launch their new models: this year Nissan and JRM officially launched the GT-R NISMO GT3 at the show. The GT3 variant lacks none of [...]
A Speedhunters reader, who wishes to stay anonymous, has just sent in these spy photos of what appears to be the FIA GT3 spec R35 GT-R. These photos were taken at a private test that was conducted at the Aragon Circuit in Spain. According to our reader, the GT3 specification GT-R – which is being jointly developed [...]
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While interesting from a technical standpoint, the Nissan Leaf electric car isn’t quite Speedhunters material. It looks like that might be changing as Nissan has developed a racing version of the EV known as the Leaf Nismo RC that will be shown at the New York Auto Show this week. Developed with the help of [...]
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Fire spitting, RB26-powered Super GT R34s flying past a few meters from me can only really be described as pure bliss. Seeing these cars like this lined up on the Fuji grid at the Nismo Festival on Sunday was one thing, but later witnessing their massive performance out on track is another thing all together. [...]
It's over to Fuji Speedway once again as we dive deeper into the Nismo Festival coverage, an event that has become nothing short of legendary over the last decade. While the Z Challenge guys were out on track doing their thing, I grabbed the opportunity to check out what was lurking down in the pits [...]
This final month of 2010 seems to be jam packed with events and just five days into it I've already covered two of the most important shows of the year. After completing my first post on the Mooneyes Hot Rod Custom Show and crashing for a few hours, it was once again up at the crack of [...]
After checking out the M35 AXIS yesterday I though I'd post another picture of the now discontinued Stagea. This is Nismo's own demo car wearing their S-tune aero kit and 5-spoke cast Nismo wheels. An S1 ECU boosts power from the VQ under the hood and a more thrilling sound is achieved via the free-flowing [...]
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A few weeks back Rod mentioned a new tag that sounded promising, sequences. I knew that somewhere within a vast file of images, there was a sequence of the then lead NISMO factory car coming into the pits at Fuji Speedway. I spent hours looking (at the wrong season as it turned out – [...]
Missing SUPER GT coverage? Me too! With the cancellation of the Fuji round a couple of weeks back* there's a gaping hole in the latter part of the season. So to fill the void, I've decided to post a few random snaps of action from earlier this season. This image is of satoshi Motoyama being [...]
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