SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

I'll never have the money to go to Japan, buy a car, and compete in the G1-Gp at Ebisu Matsuri. However, I don't let that keep me from dreaming. I know, I'm a huge nerd, but we've all got our fantasy's, mine just happens to be beating the snot out of a car for as many hours as I can stay awake. The game? rFactor, not a favorite of mine,...

Before moving out west, I had to get rid of my last ae86, you know the one I got for $10. Below is one of the worst cases of Initial D tax I've ever seen. I'm sure some of you have heard the story. I got this car for $10. A friend of a friend had his car backed into. The culprit left a vague note saying "I'll make this up to you". Some time later when returning home from work one day, there was another ae86...

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Actually, let's be honest here, they are most likely the worst Toyota ever built. These are my top 10 reasons for hating the mk3 supra. How do I know them so well? I worked on them for nearly 2 years, I drove both RHD and LHD mk3's with all sorts of different engines, stock and modified. I've spent a lot of time wrenching on them, and man do they suck badly.  Let's begin: 10. Racing History:  Let's be honest, there's really nothing special here, Bjorn Waldergard won...

I like boxy 80's cars, and to be honest, my first slide, albeit terrible, was in a Foxbody mustang.  Most people don't know that the Boxfody....err, it's even got a boxxxy name, wasn't just a mustang. There's the Fairmont Futura, Zephyr, Capri, Thunderbird, Cougar, Granada, Continental, LTD, Marquis, Mark VII. There's one missing and we'll get to that.... Not until recently did I make the connection, sure I knew it was a foxbody, but for some reason I didn't even notice that the...