SPEED HERO Blog — Japanese Culture

Feminism, Bosozoku style!

So this being an automotive blog, might associate Bosozoku with the silhouette style cars with the crazy long front lips and the 6 foot high exhaust pipes.  But it does have a history of its own. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640"] Not like this.[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640"] More like this.[/caption] Bosozoku lifestyle was originally a motorcycle thing, with its own over the top style and personality.  For some it was a way to reject society's expectations and norms.  Japan is a nation built on tradition...


Circuit Soul, Act Like You Know

You know who and what Circuit Soul is, I'm sure. This is just a little pimping for his new online store. If your car lacks a victory glove, it's only half a car. If you haven't encouraged friends to kill their local car thief, you're half a person. Go here! Tell him Speed Hero sent you. It wont get you a discount but we'll get the warm fuzzies, and isn't that good enough.


Growth

Momentum is a dangerous good, It's often dealt without warning and creeps in from the back corner. Growth is that hard guy smoking in school, leather jacket, cool but rough and unpredictable. If you know what your doing, if approached correctly, the momentum of growth can be harnessed for productive purposes, improvement. But like any thing, when you stack more weight on an object, we hope it can bear the increased load. The local scene is now conflicted, with the sudden increase in popularity there is a...


Irrusion

The backwards entry is a tricky bit of trickery. In the coming years it will be standard practice for all big entries. It's interesting how they turn a regular drift into a backwards entry, as normally you just jump right into one as your entry. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nqJ52piAY]


I ♥ Nikko

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGhG-5TDMMY&fs=1&hl=en_US] and to a lesser extent, Corollas.