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You guys get "Battle Gear 3 version 2" in AU? It's exactly the same as Battlegear 3 except theres some more cars like Z33 Fairlady, RX-8 and more tuned cars like "Mecha" tuned AE86 Trueno.

With all due respect, that thing has been out in Japan for 6 months already. NOBODY talks about it... almost like it's an unwanted child!??! I guess the market for multi-use all-in-one DVD recoder/game console/photo dump/MP3 and CD jukebox isn't so big...

1) I've never heard anything about it being rude to sign your name... I mean, we're talking about foreigners right? Just about all Japanese take it for granted that foreigners don't have a "hanko" (name stamp) and so straight away ask us to sign. I've had some very suprised looks from bank staff etc when I produced my custom "Justin" hanko. As for my wife, she never signs her name unless it's for registered mail (as Andrew said) or for credit card transactions. So as for it being rude to sign your name... I don't think so. 2) Mmmm, a bit of a grey area here with the unemployment statistics. I guess amongst older people the unemployment situation was a bit taboo, and talk about why Mr Watanabe comitted suicide centers around "personal crisis" and never solely blamed on unemployment. On the JR Kobe train line just last week there were two (2!) suicides where people jumped infront of trains... yes, this is common in Japan. Unemployment related? I don't know, but bear in mind, the pressures of living in a society were status is EVERYTHING, life can get a bit shitty if you're at the bottom. But with the younger generation, unemployment - amongst my students at least - has almost become "cool", like they are rebelling against societies expectations or something. I haven't answered your question well SKY, so I'll shut up now...

Cheers for the kind words It's nice to hear from the "older" crowd around my age!!!

So theres 1 in Perth, and 2 in Brisbane? Any more about the place?

Check the other thread...

180SX... the only car (well the S13 and S14s are good too) to drift in in GT3

PM me for the link lads, uploading now...

Holy shit... APS well done! Love the 'cooler end tanks...

Where are you staying??? Lets hook up on Sunday... me, you and Troy for starters?

I lived in country Mie-ken (west of Nagoya, near Suzuka Circuit ) in a town called Iga-Ueno for a year contract job teaching kids English back in '00/'01 and for my first job in Japan... it was good. It was REALLY boring during the week/weeknights, and on the weekend I'd go back to Osaka to meet friends... well practically every weekend. But on the bright side I could save about $11,000 that year (the exchange rate was fookin good back then!) and I got over my phobia of speaking Japanese out loud. I was the only gaijin in that town for about 6 months, and was told by one of the obasans (old ladies) that I was somewhat of a celebrity, I was often brought up in conversation??? Wierd, but it really hardened me to the reality that Japanese STARE at you again and again, it's in their genes.

Nah, they're not showing again today too. Circusmonkey, give "Imagestation" the boot and host them on SAU, that'd be much better.

I personally haven't herad of them Sciby but give em a shot... they're well established so everthing should go really smoothly. Just bear in mind that you could be stationed far out in the country...

Certainly my dear... it'll be much more difficult next time though.

Not only that Funky, our man r35gtr.com posted my pic on his forum calling it a "far-fetched photochop... but not too bad". Little does he realize that that "photochop" was almost identical to the actual prototype running around Nurburgring old course, as shown here at Cosworth in the UK: (posted by meshmesh)

Photochop... been proven and re-proven about 7 times before on various forums including this one.

r35forums.com: I only telling you this once, do NOT hotlink pics from MY website onto yours without permission. Do it again, and you'll be banned. You can steal my pic and upload to your own space if you want, but you won't get any repect from the SAU team... and you can forget about plugging your site here. ...awaiting response...

Toyota Camry Gracia... you ok Shan???

We'll do, for sure... I've already paid my money too!

We have a winner! Well done. These cars are basically the 4 door hardtop versions of the AE101 Sprinter Trueno/Carolla Levin, the car in my pics being: the AE101 Toyota Carolla Ceres 1.6 G package.

I mailed the shop I got my Option Stream Z from and they said that the R34 Nismo GT-R is definately not available yet... but that was it, no indication of how long. Sorry peeps!

Nope... only in 2 door aswell.

Mmmm, you *could* upload em to the SAU gallery the through "properties" get the link and link the pics to this thread... I7ve done it before and it worked. Wait a second... some of them are working now! I can see the "Euro R", the Tommy Z33, the NSX, the Integra... wierd.

Seriously, it's not a Levin (Levins are 2 door)... but it is on the AE101 platform.

Not a Toyota Corona either... it's actually one size smaller than a Corona. Last hint: It's based on a Carolla platform...