SPEED HERO Blog — australia

Brocks technology: Late 70's Australia wasn't quite a technological marvel. In a previous post we mumbled about his gear ratios. 4th seems to provide for him 270km/h at 6000rpm. Either his 4th gear was excessively long, or the rear end ratio is long. The latter is the more likely of the scenarios. His 308 V8 would've needed quite a clean strong, and long power band from low RPM's through to the high ones in order to run such long gears for the first scenario mentioned. The second is...

Station wagons? Too many seats. Sports cars? Too fast. Pickup trucks? Too tall. Cube vans? too useful. The pride of Australia comes the mix of them all: The Ute. Short for Utility Coupe. An attempt to make a vehicle socially acceptable for any occasion, the origins come from Ford Australia in the form of the V8 Utility.   Continued as a tradition in the land down under, the Ute has remained a staple of form and...

The relevance of this scene is mind bogglingly accurate to that of the off beat burnout culture...... If your new to the best episode of the simpsons ever, then let me lend you a link to the scene: Here. Although both countries love their burnouts, they treat them very differently. Australia has the burnout competitions at most drag events, the biggest as far as I know, at the Super Nationals and other massive events.

As you can see, they bring out some...

These guys are badass! I can't compete with a 1JZ A65 Celica. Nor can I compete with a 1UZFE AE86. Bastards. http://www.kaizengarage.com/

If you haven't seen it yet go check out the videos and such from the folks at http://www.wearedrift.com/ or head over to minihux's channel on Youtube.

As always, watch, favorite, comment and show your support for the world of drift. Happy long weekend to those who get it and a derisive laugh to those who don't. Oh yeah! The 2010 trailer for the doc dropped a few days ago.

Tire genocide.