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Hi everyone, here's my blow by blow report of the dreaded 'Sayonara Japan' saga I'm about to go through. Thursday, 9th June, 2005: Today was just the same as every other day for the last 6 months... or years? I had a 2 hour break between classes today, so I was able to just reminisce about what I've done in the last year or so - went to Central Circuit, went to Osaka Auto Messe, went to Ti Circuit for the Nismo Festival etc etc etc. But what about everything else? Besides motorsport and car culture events, I'm basically just teaching the same old students the same old English lessons... hardly what I call 'interesting'. At home, it's just watch all the English channels on cable. Who needs Japanese TV? Even if I could understand everything, it's still whacky and dare I say - annoying? Going out at night isn't actually a babe goldmine either. Once your beer goggles are off, the girls that you *actually* want to speak to (ie: intelligent) are few and far between... the 'cutesy J-girl' thing is as overrated as Star Wars Ep III. I've got to get out of here...

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So if it's not the final product, why are you criticizing it? Did you know that the 'test mule' for the V35 Skyline was actually a long-wheelbase R32 4-door? You can see it at the Nissan Prince Museum. So going along with your assumption, you could've said that the V35 looks sh!t because it's too much like an R32? lol

LOL... that pic is a TEST MULE! It's about as far removed from the final product as you can get.

ROFLMAO... check out the Japlish on the Sunline site: "Urban Spraw, you've probably never!" Yes, Bori's Factory are pretty well known in Osaka, they deal mainly with NA cars, and have a good connection with the street racing scene. I might head out there soon to have a look. Sunline on the other hand are in Okayama prefecture... near Ti Circuit kinda. Okayama is in 'Chugoku' region I think, the furthurest west Kansai goes out to is Hyogo prefecture.

SkylineBnr34: seriously, ask one of your Japanese friends, it'd be quicker than dropping scant details on here... thats is if you are indeed in Japan as your location says.

R Supo = Rear Spoiler Btw Andrew, all the places where you put 'outside' is actually 'Aftermarket'.

It's in Fu*kuoka Prefecture, Dazaifu City... I've never been to Fu*kuoka (damn swearing filters - just discard the '*') so I'm only reading of the map that M&M supply... check out this link for details: http://www.mapion.co.jp/c/f?el=130/29/59.9...33&size=500,500 (Japanese)

Btw, it 'Yoshi-DA-ya'... Couldn't find anything useful really, but I got an address: ガレージよしだや (Garage Yoshidaya) Ph: 082-927-3836 広島県広島市佐伯区利松2丁目121-3 (Hiroshima City) And this link: http://www.l-co.co.jp/times/log/04/040312/08.html to a page that just explains what they do at the garage... basically he prepares cars for club circuit events (rollcages, harnesses and other track duty equipment), general servicing and soft/medium tune modifications... nothing hardcore. In fact, he's the owner/mechanic! Only a one man band it seems. **Edit: It also seems that he's only been open since June 2003, so I dare say he *might* have records of what was done to your GT-R, but I seriously doubt it as he's such a small operation... probably does 'cashies' lol.

Was that pic taken with the worlds first 1 pixel camera phone?

I think 'per capita' (I say this having lived in Japan for what seems like an eternity) Australia has an unhealthy amount of sportscar/import lovers... with NOWHERE to go (compared to Asia/Europe) to drive their cars they way they'd like to. In Japan it's soooooooooo easy to rock up to a local skidpan or mini-circuit and pay bugger all to have an afternoon of fun, and the avenues to advance to higher levels of motorsport are plentiful... it really depends on how... big... your.......... wallet............ is. ^^^I think I just hit the nail on the head. Heheheh, as Australians are known the world over as being 'cheap', I'm not suprised that every Tom, Dick and Harry would rather take a chance with the Police than part with $30 or whatever to go down to the dragstrip or pay much more to go to the circuit... So there you go! Australian Government! Do something for the young people of Australia and open up cheap motorsports venues (mini-circuits/skidpans) where people can enter for $5!!!! That'll stop the hoons!!!

lol @ Richard... it's 'SAN-ju ni'... close though!

Btw, the stop sign with the 2 in it is just a registration sticker

Yeah, like the RAC... no mysterious stuff

Hey I'm here! I've just spent the last 2-and-a-bit weeks in Germany.

Hey thanks alot guys! I spent most of my birthday on a Boeing 747-400 coming back from Germany... shit... 'the big 3 - 0'... THIRTY... THUR-TEE...

After a quick search nothing came up for me. I dare say you could find out where the local circuit is within 2 days of being there? Just ask somebody!

Drifiting in Beppu? No offence mang but thats like asking what the drifting is like in Broken Hill, NSW... Beppu is in Oita prefecture which is on Kyushu island, the 3rd biggest island thats closest to China (well closest out of the 3 biggest islands lol). About the only thing Beppu has got going for it in 'location' terms is that it's reasonably close to Fu-ku-oka (<- stupid censor), where 'URAS' is, so if you can hook up with those guys it would be pretty crazy trust me. No idea what the drift is like, and frankly, coming from Osaka, Beppu isn't even on the map... but having said that it *is* a rural kind of town so there'd be plenty of car action out there (not just drift). The key would be to get a car, then go hunting! Meet people that way...

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=47288 Seek, and ye shall find... but first you've gotta 'seek', see? Thats the tough part

No it's not, it's a Honda Orthia:

This is a pic taken in March: ... but I have the 'Aero bumper', you can't fit my front lip to your bumper...

Since when has the V35 been rumoured to have vinyl seats? Or have I misunderstood?

^^^ Japan doesn't need 'Aussie style' utes... Holden, at very best, will be an oddity in Japan. A sedan version of a Corvette so to speak, and how many Corvettes do you see rolling around in Japan? You could count them on one hand on a daily basis. I'm sure there are Corvette clubs in Japan with members numbering in the hundreds, but theres just no impact on the market whatsoever... so what would a sedan or even ute version be? An oddity, nothing more. Nice try Holden!

Great update Dino thanks for sharing.

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