The Tokyo Motor show is one of the biggest car events in the automotive world. The biennial auto show held in October-November at the Makuhari Messe, Chiba City, Japan for cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles is always media cowered in excess, and not the least when it comes to it’s show girls. Everything looked great, stunning, classy and… Asian. And that’s a compliment, and a big one too considering how smart and good-priced cars that part of the world came up with this year (and not only) as well as considering how good other … bodywork… looked at the auto event. Scroll down at the gallery and take a look yourself. Don’t be afraid to use the comments section to tell us your favourite. Car or girl, or both.
But you probably don’t want to read all that after you clicked that title above. You probably don’t want to know right
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We already buzzed you on the new LFA supercar from Lexus in this previous post here. But let’s presume you didn’t catch that and were just seeking for the videos, so let me resume the car again. Scroll for the two cool videos.
The Lexus LFA supercar brings stomach churns for some people out there. No, not the car itself but it’s history. Back in 2005 at the Detroit Auto Show, a first version of the then concept-car was presented, but the project wasn’t finished and no news of a real prototype surfaced. Teasers and other concept version kept on being unveiled, from 2006 through 2008. Of course, the net was buzzed, rumours kept going round as well as (more or less authentic) spy shots. JUMP: Want to know a cool thing about the Lexus LFA? Check our post right here.
Well, this time for good: the LFA supercar from Lexus is
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Even though this is not a 100% debut for the Subaru Legacy B4 GT300, this car attracted the glances of the visitors here at the Tokyo Motor Show. The wide fenders, carbon fiber spoilers and everything you will find on a race car caught the attention of the viewers. I previously said that this is not a 100% debut, because the Subaru’s Legacy B4 GT300 was previously spotted at the Fuji Speedway last month, racing in Japan’s Super GT. So, as you already guessed, this is a pure GT race car. Although this car was supposed to hit the circuits of the Super GT series earlier, some driveline malfunctioning retarded its debut. Even so, the B4 GT300 finished the race on the 18th place, after 300 kilometers free of any major trouble.
Not a word yet about the performances of the B4 GT300, still w are able to provide you some
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After we saw a pink R8, a purple Lexus LFA is what we just need. So far we’ve seen it painted in white – as shown at the Tokyo Motor Show – and in black. But the Japanese from Lexus considered that is not enough, so they made a LFA configurator to let you choose whatever color you may like, both on the exterior and in the interior. So go ahead, take a shot, and build the LFA of your dreams, at least virtually if you don’t have the money to buy one or if you are to busy to book one of the 500 pieces made for selling.
You will be surprised how cheap it is to configure your own LFA like this and you can have it anytime you want it… on your desktop. You can even pick up girls and say that a LFA waits for her back to
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Probably not wanting to fall behind their rivals from Toyota – which presented the amazing Lexus LFA – the guys form Nissan came to the Tokyo Motor Show with an improved GT-R. Yes, it’s hard to believe that the GT-R needed improvement, but since it was first launched in December 2007, the Japanese continuously revised it.
There’s no big deal when you observe the revised GT-R from the outside – except for the rear diffuser cooling ducts, previously available only with the SpecV model – the real fun beginning when talking about technical improvements. Of course, the JDM buyers will be the first to enjoy this enhanced version of the GT-R, but I’ll tell you what are the changes anyway: a new suspension, new higher-flow cats to the exhaust system and a new navigation system that includes iPod connectivity.
The suspension of the Nissan GT-R was enhanced for better ride comfort by increasing the “accuracy” of the front shocks and by stiffening
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