The Nissan Skyline’s 50th Anniversary exhibit opened Tuesday, April 24th at Tokyo Midtown, and that means that the new Skyline Coupe (a.k.a. Infiniti G37 here in the States) has made its first official appearance. The exhibit in Tokyo features examples from each generation of the Skyline, and the opening event was attended by luminaries including Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe. A series of television commercials featuring well-known personalities like Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro is also being aired in Japan to coincide with the 50th Anniversary and the Coupe’s launch. As for the Skyline Coupe, what’s there to say? It’s got all the goodness of the G37, just with Nissan badges — and a name that carries some serious cachet in Japan.
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Gotta admit that this one left me totally speechless. Ok; I can find some kind of logic in turning a Peugeot 406 Coupe into a Ferrari 360 Modena, a Lincoln Continental into a Rolls Royce Phantom or even a MX-5 / Miata into a BMW Z3.
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In this video a japanese drifter is getting a Nissan Serena sideways, not that sideways, but he is still drifting it, pretty sweet!
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May 5, 2007 | Filed Under
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The return of Ford representation to the Toyo Drift Australia Series will add another element to the continuing V8 Drifting invasion, when the series takes to Mallala Motorsport Park this weekend, April 14-15.
While four and six cylinder Japanese cars have dominated the sport, true to its origins in Japan, V8 muscle has made strong inroads.
In the Toyo Drift Australia Series, Holden V8s arrived in 2005, with Jeremy Lake taking out the final round of the season aboard a Monaro.
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The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will decide today whether or not to uphold a decision to allow drifting at Altamont Motorsports Park.
The Alameda County East Board of Zoning adjustments ruled 2-1 in March that both drifting and overnight recreational vehicle camping are acceptable activities at the speedway, and that drifting is an acceptable form of motorsports. A group of track neighbors called Community for a Better Altamont appealed the decision, putting all drifting events on hold until today’s hearing.
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RIYADH, 2 May 2007 — In an attempt to crack down on drifting, a popular joyriding maneuver where drivers apply hand brakes at high speeds to cause their cars to enter a controlled skid, Saudi authorities in Riyadh announced yesterday that they are now categorizing any deaths that occur due to this maneuver as a criminally negligent offense.
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May 3, 2007 | Filed Under
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I have a numerous collection of people drifting Vans an Mini Vans, I will be posting them in a series, enjoy. In this video a guy in a FWD MPV manages to get it sideways, I don’t think it would have been possible on dry land. Props to this guy, and I love the “What now fuckahs?” in the end.
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An amazing video of the Citroen rally car crashing into a cows head, the cow just seems to wander onto the track, I am pretty sure its dead, or its head got cut off from the force and speed of the car, anyways a amazing/shocking video.
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April 29, 2007 | Filed Under
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Drifting has became very popular, from the mountains of Japan to the Big Screen in Hollywood. An Australian company has recently started its own drifting school. From what I know, I already thought that drifting was pretty big in Australia with Holden’s and Nissan’s, but now I guess it is even bigger. The school is based in Japan, which is very interesting, but makes since, because of the already popularity of drifting in Japan.
The queensland based company has deemed its school “Physics in Motion Drift School at the Tokachi International Speedway in Obihiro, Hokkaido.”. Rather than trying to attract Japanese drifters, and racers, the company is leaning towards the thrill seekers in Asia, Safe Drive Training managing director Joel Neilson said. “We are aiming at a high-end group of corporate travelers. Senior executives from Hong Kong or Singapore who often go and charter a boat, or go on a five-day holiday to a tropical island. The school’s courses are in the same price bracket and a bit more unique,” he said.
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A family in Alameda, CA has forced Atlamont Speedway to put a temp. ban on drifting at the speedway. This family built there mansion right near the speedway, which is nuts, and now they’re complaining, what a joke. Why would anyone in there right mind build a house right next to a motorsport speedway. I don’t see why they just banned drifting, why didn’t they just ban everything? The family complains that people do donuts in front of their house, and burnouts. The owner of the speedway states that the track would loose close to 3.4 million dollars a year if the ban goes though, and the county would lose about the same from taxes, this has to be stopped.
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April 25, 2007 | Filed Under
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