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Hirotishi Honda, head of Mugen Co. has been accused of evading 1,000,000,000yen in taxes. A commision has been assembled to gather details of how the company has "absorbed" profits from their F1 division in paticular, and the rest of the company. The lucrative F1 business has been the primary source of the unpaid taxes. The unpaid taxes have been used to buy property and other assets. I'll keep you posted on further developments. /Rezz (druken spelling mistakes edit!)

>YBSLO4: Do you have that issue of Wheels with the GT-R in it? Could you post up some of the article if you have it? I'm a badger I know, but I`d love to see what they have to say...

Very nice work. IMHO now you just need a set of Aero Mirrors, and a front Chin spoiler and your done!

...and played out! When you start seeing Veilside (or whatever) stuff on VT Commodores, I think it`s time to move on... I saw one on a VT in Perth in `98, back then Veilside was done to death.

^^^ This is it, right? I had to zoom in on it, it`s abit small. YBSLO4, can you post some of the accomanying article too?

No one said it was the finished version, but that said, I'd love to see the Wheels pics!

I think the new one looks good. Then again, I've never liked the 4 indicator/driving lights on the Type M bar...

>Ryosuke: Where did you hear that? No offence, I've heard some waaaaay out claims for all the successors to the Supra, NSX, GT-R, RX-7, and Lexus, but eg: Nissan using the R390 engine in the new GT-R? How on earth are they gonna get that to meet emmissions laws? And same with the 4-rotor? All the new sportscars are gonna have all new eco-friendly engines. It sounds boring but thry're all gonna have the same or more power than their predecessors, and be lighter aswell. I've got an NSX pic, but it was all CG, so I didn't put it up. But on that note, I have a friend working in Honda, and as soon as something breaks, I'll let you guys know. Incidently, a garage called "Scoot Sports" have been working on an NA 4-rotor engine (2 12A's with a common crank) to put in an FD3S, they want to get it to 325km/h, no turbo, no Nos, street trim.

Check out that link Demon Dave pointed out, gtst88. But as far as being a mechanic is concerned, it's not worth it (moneywise - you get paid bugger-all compared to an English Teacher) unless you specifically wanted the experience. I while ago, I heard that a foreigner was working at Trial in Osaka, but I could be wrong there. My advice is just e-mail one of the bigger garages (theres bound to be someone who understands English) and just try and shimmy a contract for 3 months or something...

Yep, RX01. I was wondering how many people remembered it? Well, they say Mazda are gonna show it in Tokyo in October, and it really looks like they haven't changed much since '96 RX01, except give it a "Family face"... and a new engine.

There are newer one on the "The New GT-R..." thread.

One of the 2003 Tokyo Motor Show Concept car entries... the RX-7. The the article that goes along with that pic entertains the idea that Mazda "may" use a Supercharged version of the Renesis Rotary engine. Either way, a blown Renesis of some sort is on the cards...

Yes... and no. yes, in that it's a 2-door coupe, no in that these pics are a "guestimate", using the 1:5 scale clay model as the basis for the CG. Of course the clay model could change 25 times before they make a final descision. All through that article, the writer re-iterates that this is their "Perfect Expectation"... you can read into that statement anyway you want, but thats just them being professional journalists, not blowing the whole suprise for Nissan, someone who buys advertising space in their 'zine. So there you go. A "teaser"...

Yeah mate, I know what thats about. I didn't study Japanese at Uni, but I've got a few friends that did, and they all said the same thing basically... but they were better for it. So chin up eh?

Don't worry dude... theres guys that have been here for 5+ years and they still can't even say "Baka ja naaaaaaaaaaai?":D

I'm 28...

I know about 300, and I'm studying about 300 more now.

Yes. I've read most of the article, and all the good stuff I got from it is in the updated 1st post of this thread.

All have been sent to you Ryan:)

Ok. I'm on it...

...I just updated the 1st post too!

Nope. I mean RX-7.

The pics of the car are *NOT* anything to get excited about. Basically, they're just pics of the Skyline coupe, with CG ehancements taken from the 1:5 scale clay model which, DOES NOT look like the GT-R Concept. What is good amongst them though, is the diagrams of the Motor-assisted Turbo's, pics of the engine itself, and a pic of the new RX-7!

Sorry Ryan! Intensevil got there just before you, and I've just sent them all to him. Thanks heaps for the offer anyway... /Rezz

I've got different pics... I sent RedLine the links, but theres no response from him. Is there anyone else that can re-size the pics?