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Some pics from Japan

Postby Timmo » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:46 pm

Hey Fullas- Just got back from a couple of weeks in Japan- I was with my Girlfriend this time so didn't get to go crazy on the car things this time but did manage to pop across to the Toyota Showroom in Odayba (Tokyo) Im glad I did because there were some new things as well as a couple of surprises

There were a few Toyota Sports concepts including this sweet Mark X (The Mark X is mechanically similar to a Crown Athlete but lower specced......still, 2gr-fse Direct/Port injected V6 and RWD is pretty sweet)
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hmm What is this! Didn't expect to see this here but stoked I did! Ft-86 with some sweet aero parts. I can't remember seeing any details about mods, presumably because the base car hasn't even been released yet. (oh yeah, that is me....I look shite but we had made our schedule pretty busy!)
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Lexus as a brand was released just after I left living there...So hadn't been to the showroom there
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A pimped out Prius....why not?!
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Toyota Crown Hybrid.....nice cars, full of tasty tech
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Brakes sizes aren't restricted in SuperGT....can you tell?
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Sweet GT300 MR2....first time I've seen it there at the museum.....they must keep rotating stock....which begs the question: Where are the rest of the cool cars kept?!
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A bit of a random pic but I took it to show where they had routed the coolant pipes- In the inside beside the 'trans tunnel'. Interesting.
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Sweet wide body mmmm
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Early Formula Toyota series 3S engine?
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Early JGTC Supra 3S engine
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At a guess this is an Indy engine....It was interesting because it was a single turbo but only got exhaust gas from the RHS....the left was a standard exhaust?
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Cool WRC Corolla....another new addition I'd not seen before.
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Another new one- This is the Supra (V8) that won the SuperGT series the year I went and saw a race at Fuji
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A few 'hachi Roku's'
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The lnext two pics are of the sweetest spacie game EVER! You actually got to sit in a WRX Sti Coupe, AE-86 or FD RX7 to play the game (Initial D) and these moved on big platforms as you drove (steering and gears, no clutch)
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Random GTR....he saw me with my camera out so gunned it down the street. Sounded nice.
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Postby snwtoy » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:10 pm

Nice, thanks for sharing! :)
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Postby Bling » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:25 pm

If there was a perfect way to make a Toyota fan envious..... you have found it!!

*#&%*(#& some damn nice cars there! I hope they all make it to the street and those simulators are super sweet! Did you have a go? 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Postby eskimo » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:41 pm

If there was a perfect way to make a Toyota fan envious..... you have found it!!


Agreed, I now have a new "must see" thing added to my list

That FT86 is sweet!
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Postby Akane » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:01 pm

I hope you got a full 360 degree 5D high res shots of the JGTC engine, I need to make use of all of my Chinese genes and try to replicate what it has with cheap parts
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Postby Timmo » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:09 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:If there was a perfect way to make a Toyota fan envious..... you have found it!!

*#&%*(#& some damn nice cars there! I hope they all make it to the street and those simulators are super sweet! Did you have a go? 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)


haha of course! I had a couple of turns- once in the '86 and once in the FD..It was purely by luck that I discovered they had these as I was waiting for my GF to get a drink from the convenience store and picked up a random pamphlet which had it advertised.

Eskimo- Heading over is definitely worth it. It is fairly easy to get to and is free to enter. The actual museum is through the shops and separate from the Toyota showroom.
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Postby FLAWLES » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:11 pm

sweet pic's
i will one day get there!!!

but um..............screw the 4age im more interested in what looks to be a 3k-r engine next to it

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Postby Timmo » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:03 am

another couple of funny ones

Pedo bear....infiltrating Japan with his crazy eyes!
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Blue screen of death! this was an actual LOL moment (in Hong Kong)

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Postby Dell'Orto » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:19 am

What a laugh... sweet motor, sweet motor, stock bluetop :lol:
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Postby Akane » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:52 am

Oh you went to Hong Kong? what did you think of it?
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Postby cogent » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:55 am

Amongst my friends, the bluetop t-vis is highly regarded as an infallible piece of engineering (as an in-joke). So to see it lined up next to all those other engines was a bit of a lol for me.
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Postby mr30%jr » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:23 am

you look back to 1983 and it was a feat.... honda couldnt even get theres running smoothly and toyotas was in production yar! 4age is a legend...
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Postby 2jayzgte » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:35 am

Old Skool Super GT JGTC Supra's absolute dream racecar I'm JEALOUS didn't you do this last year when you put up pics of the ESSO JGTC Supra that may have been in AUS though and also I have to say the FT-86 concept looks quite nice aswell.
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Postby B_giB » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:43 am

That MARK X is sweet!
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Postby Timmo » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:17 am

Akane wrote:Oh you went to Hong Kong? what did you think of it?


Yeah my brother (pilot for Cathay Pacific) lives there with his family so spent 6 days there. It was better than I was expecting to be honest- Lots of cool shopping (i.e. new Benetton suit...$180 NZD) and it was easy to get around and decently priced. We didn't get over to mainland China but the hoards of 'mainlanders' from tourist buses kinda reinforced our decision not to...
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Postby Timmo » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:19 am

2jayzgte wrote:Old Skool Super GT JGTC Supra's absolute dream racecar I'm JEALOUS didn't you do this last year when you put up pics of the ESSO JGTC Supra that may have been in AUS though and also I have to say the FT-86 concept looks quite nice aswell.


Yeah I did another trip in 2008 and lived there in 2006 for a year or so- This trip was for a mates wedding
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Postby .:O4AGTZ:. » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:37 am

Man I havent been to Japan in years. Last time i went to Tokyo there was a stock Altezza in th Toyota Showroom!

So jealous...i envy you
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Postby GT101 » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:27 pm

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Postby Akane » Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:06 pm

Timmo wrote:
Yeah my brother (pilot for Cathay Pacific) lives there with his family


My dream job.

any more random pics? :P
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Postby fuel » Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:54 pm

mr30%jr wrote:you look back to 1983 and it was a feat.... honda couldnt even get theres running smoothly and toyotas was in production yar! 4age is a legend...


Never mind that the Europeans were doing that in the 60s and 70s :P
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