Small-town carshow - Chikuma, Nagano #RandomJapan

The cat's old man took me here the last time I was in Nagano because   I like cars. It was good to see a gathering like this in small-town Nagano, The only sad thing is that most of the rides weren't actually local.

Music:
Asahi by Tanada Band (The Cat's father's band)

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Tokyo Autosalon 2016 (wide wheels & high heels) 東京オートサロン 2016 #RandomJapan

2016 is here and like last year, my first big video of of the year is from the 2016 Tokyo Autosalon. I hope you guys enjoy drooling over the rides and ladies from this year as much as I did at the show.

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Music:
"Preoccupied in Thoughts" (RewindTheWeekend Remix)” by DJ DeadSheakerz feat. HunterSynth

https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1196502/dj-deadsheakerz-feat.-huntersynth-preoccupied-in-thoughts-rewindtheweekend-remix

The Rides of Tokyo Auto Salon - BIG-ASS GALLERY #1 (AkihabaraNews.com)

On the Rides of TAS 2015:

This year's Tokyo Auto Salon was held from the 9th to 11th of January. Unlike the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, which is all about showcasing the newest technological developments (translated: how to make driving, quiet, boring, safe and slow), the Auto Salon is all about modified cars; that could mean sticking a V8 into a prius (it was done… and I want to drive it), or it might mean bolting fenders to a lambo because Lamborghinis are boring stock (;p). All the best custom madness from one of the most custom-crazy places on earth was on display.

This year saw a marked increase in non-Japanese cars on the show floor, especially from the bigger houses - it doesn’t help that Japanese automakers seem fundamentally opposed producing any new cool cars that moneyed folk would want to buy. With the exception of the 86 and the GT-R, the majority of Japanese tuned vehicles were the same mid-nineties to early-naughties classics.

It also reflects the state of the tuner market because, increasingly, the only Japanese people who mod are the overly wealthy who buy sports cars to stroll along Tokyo’s Aoyama-dori showing off how well they exploited Abenomics. Or, there are the increasingly poor car enthusiasts who scrape their continually decreasing (thanks to Abenomics) part-timer wages to spend on the 25 year old JDM because parts are plentiful and dirt cheap (and they don’t break).

The funny thing is, out of all the cars on show, the only car I desperately wanted to take home was the Car Guys/Vertex Nissan Silvia S15... Okay maybe the Roberuta Ferrari F40 too.

Editor Reno Interjects: 
Ferrari F40 all the way. No debate. Also, I made Nayalan use the phrase “Big-Ass Gallery” in the title, and I stand by the decision.

Picture galleries are all on AkihabaraNews.com go lookie!

Tokyo Autosalon 2015 - sexy cars and fast women.

I went to Tokyo Autosalon as press this year to take photos, which are going to be published (I'll post them when they are up), but nobody wanted to pay proper money for the vid (nobody seems to want to pay proper money for any content these days it seems). SO I put it on my own YouTube channel. Enjoy.

Tokyo Auto Salon 2015 - A Preview.

I hit up the Tokyo Auto Salon once again this year, and as always it gets better each year. This year I rekindled some old contacts and made some new ones. There is a lot of sifting, retouching and admin, as well as a whole bunch of video editing needed to get all the content ready and out to where it's going to be published, but for now, here is a small taste of what is coming.

Thanks to to the intro of a mate of mine, I also got to to meet and greet the LB Perfomance crew. I also met the man behind all their illustration and graphic design. Who is, like Just about everyone in the automotive world it seems, a really cool guy. I now need to capitalize on some of those contacts and dig myself deeper into the industry. If I'm going to be doing media job, I'd prefer to do them for rev-heads and yankii businesses than the impersonal corporates power-suit suit ones.

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon - The Cars

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon - The Cars, a set on Flickr.

As promised. Pics from the Tokyo Auto Salon.

First up. The stars of the show....

The cars!

Tokyo Auto Salon (AkihabaraNews.com)

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon 
For when your car needs a facial and a manicure...Okay. Maybe not.

Held January 10-12 at Chiba City’s Makuhari Messe convention center, this year’s event drew a staggering 296,714 visitors! The first event, held back in 1983 by Option Tuning Magazine, was an effort to promote car customisation and tuning culture.

The event has steadily grown over the years, and 2014 was billed as the largest custom car show in the world....

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And now the backstory...

Audi R8 and M-Benz A45 AMG

A month or so ago, I was out in Shibuya (as I often am) and spotted these two import bad boys. I couldn’t resist firing off a few shots.

 

While they are no means the pinnacle of performance in their respective classes, nor are they my favorite cars in those classes, they are still sweet rides.

What do you think of the shots?

And the cars themselves?