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Silly question really, we all want to buy wholesale, the prices are cheaper, the product the same. Let’s restate that question. Would you like to buy directly from the Japanese used car auctions or would you like to buy from an exporters stock list? When you buy from an exporter involved in the price of… Continue reading Would you buy wholesale or retail?

We have the iPod, iMac, iTunes, iPhone…. but who is going to develop the first iCar?  Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, Mazda, Isuzu (they have a slight advantage there, there name begins with the holy grail “i”), Daihatsu or are the honours going to go to a foreign auto-maker? Also, what sort of vehicle is it… Continue reading iCar, who is going to launch it, when will it be developed?

Apple does it, so why can’t Honda leak out bits of information about it’s up and coming concept cars to show at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month.   Honda is planning to bring a large number of concept and production vehicles (more than any other automaker) to the Tokyo Motor Show. One of… Continue reading Honda leaking out prints of EV ACX

The 2012 Nissan GTR model to be sold from this November in Japan will have a “TRACK PACK” version which will inherit the present Spec-V’s DNA plus the lightness of having no back seat for ideal trackday performances. By improving the Nissan GT-R’s engine efficiency, its fuel economy has been decreased from 12L to 11.8L/100… Continue reading 2012 Nissan GTR to have back seats removed!

Not so good news for Yanase, Japan’s representative for most foreign made models, the new car sales of foreign cars in Japan is down 26.7% compared to a year ago. Perhaps the only good news is that truck sales increased by 37.5%

SEMA is the US’s biggest tuner show.  3 remodelled or ‘tweaked’ iQs made their appearance. Remember the iQ?  It was the small car that retired granny would choose to economically do her shopping or visit her grand kids in.  Great modern piece of conservative creation by Toyota.  Here is the stock standard iQ found in… Continue reading Toyota iQ with some remodelling

Toyota first revealed the concept version of the FT86 Coupe at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.  Since then there have been a lot of rumors, could this be the takeover of the Celica brand? As per usual in recession environment, the development of the FT86 is a combined work with Subaru.  The release date is… Continue reading Toyota FT86

Mitsubishi just announced an upgrade for it’s Lancer Evolution X (ten).   Now you can run your family around the rally stages with a maker option rear backing monitor.  Also, as you are coming around a gravel corner at 190kms/hr and you push both the brake and the accelerator at the same time, the brake… Continue reading Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X upgrade

We all saw the floods of the tsunami hitting all those cars and trucks.  So where are these vehicles now?  Could it be that they are being sold in the Japanese used car auctions?  Could a vehicle that you buy be one of these? Basically there are major barriers to companies slipping tsunami history used… Continue reading Tsunami used cars for sale?

The Euro-Focus has one, HUMMER has one, Mercedes has one, Porsche has a few of them, Nissan has one, so why shouldn’t Mazda have one too?  Introducing the Mazda Roadster black-tuned edition.  It went on sale in Japan this week.  So why isn’t the car black?  Perhaps it is just the roof that is going to be… Continue reading Mazda jumps on to the “Black Edition” bandwagon with its Roadster