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yeah, i'm not moving to japan, if i move to another country it would be the great down under haha
Tokyo Auto Salon - Heavy on pics
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Toyota
OK so when I first tried to go to the Toyota booth, it looked like this:
A frickin' sea of people. So I skipped it but then it finally cleared out and I was able to take a look and found basically only 1 car that I thought were worth my time - yes a lowly but nicely souped up Corolla:
And why didn't they just leave this in the junkyard? (uhm)
OK so when I first tried to go to the Toyota booth, it looked like this:
A frickin' sea of people. So I skipped it but then it finally cleared out and I was able to take a look and found basically only 1 car that I thought were worth my time - yes a lowly but nicely souped up Corolla:
And why didn't they just leave this in the junkyard? (uhm)
Mitsubishi Ralliart
As I've noted in my opening comments, their presence was very limited. Mitsubishi must just be hurting. They also just announced that they will not participate in the Dakar Rally. Wow, for them, that's like Honda pulling out of F1.
The cars though were a big hit by fans and it was a battle just to get these shots.
Parts (I mean, this was it)
Evo Rally Car
Ralliart Lancers
As I've noted in my opening comments, their presence was very limited. Mitsubishi must just be hurting. They also just announced that they will not participate in the Dakar Rally. Wow, for them, that's like Honda pulling out of F1.
The cars though were a big hit by fans and it was a battle just to get these shots.
Parts (I mean, this was it)
Evo Rally Car
Ralliart Lancers
Cellerator
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The Stealth lexus looks to be their concept LF-A but great pics, 
Subaru!
They actually had a dismantled WRX on display with the parts strewn up against the wall (neatly). That was pretty cool. A naked WRX harharhar!
And by this point I was getting really tired....so many cars, too many people and not enough time...
Rally version? WRX
Yellow WRX - this actually looked nice (I mean, do the recent WRX's really look nice?)
They actually had a dismantled WRX on display with the parts strewn up against the wall (neatly). That was pretty cool. A naked WRX harharhar!
And by this point I was getting really tired....so many cars, too many people and not enough time...
Rally version? WRX
Yellow WRX - this actually looked nice (I mean, do the recent WRX's really look nice?)
Honda Modulo
I didn't go crazy taking pics of the companion ladies - there was enough competition to get pics of the cars. The girls - fuhgeddaboudit! These 40 to 50 something year-old camera geeks would just go crazy taking pictures of them. But I did manage to take a few myself!
Fit
S200
Civic R
I didn't go crazy taking pics of the companion ladies - there was enough competition to get pics of the cars. The girls - fuhgeddaboudit! These 40 to 50 something year-old camera geeks would just go crazy taking pictures of them. But I did manage to take a few myself!
Fit
S200
Civic R
Dunlop
Dunlop too was on the "Ecologically friendly products!!" bandwagon. They had a tunnel where they demonstrated their "quiet tire" technology (it was just a room with sound absorbing panels) and they had a rolling resistance comparison jig in the tunnel that demonstrated their Enasave tires were more efficient. Whatever. In Japan, one doesn't drive enough to care about how much noise or how long a tire lasts or what kind of fuel economy you can get (most of the time you're sitting in traffic anyway...well unless you live in the boonies like Antoine)....
OK enough ranting.... pics!!
Dunlop too was on the "Ecologically friendly products!!" bandwagon. They had a tunnel where they demonstrated their "quiet tire" technology (it was just a room with sound absorbing panels) and they had a rolling resistance comparison jig in the tunnel that demonstrated their Enasave tires were more efficient. Whatever. In Japan, one doesn't drive enough to care about how much noise or how long a tire lasts or what kind of fuel economy you can get (most of the time you're sitting in traffic anyway...well unless you live in the boonies like Antoine)....
OK enough ranting.... pics!!
