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Goof times

Some goofy but fun looking FF drifts. :)   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDr4GMS_6Q&feature=related]


More Guessing

thats right, I'm busy, so I'm making you guess cars. Can you guess this one? I saw a variation of one of these in traffic the other day and flipped out, since it was a first gen. I hadn't seen a first gen yet.  


Guess that car!

More good times for guessing cars. See if you can guess this one. Bonus points for all the manufacturers that make it, and what the original it is based from!


Toaster 2, the ignored.

Markets, people, dumb people. The differences between Japanese cars sold in each and every country is vast, so many small variations. The largest and most noticable differences come between Japanese cars sold to the rest of the world, and that of Japanese cars sold in North America. Case in Point, and a continuation of our Toaster theme: The Nissan Vanette....or in this case the Quest/Serena mix fuck up. Pictured above is the Nissan Quest, what us North Americans known also as a Mercury Villager. The van was licensed to...


Burnt Toast

Engine fires are a matter for the courts! Toaster vans existed in North America at some point, and to be honest so few noticed. Victoria is littered with old Toyota Vans. Maybe that was the problem; names. The Toyota Van was literally the name they were sold under, Van was uncreative but a utilitarian approach the Japanese companies took to tell North Americans they were making mini-vans long before the Caravan....wait, there's more? The fact is Toyota was not alone on this venture into cheap people movers,...