Posted in Rumours, Junk & Other Stuff, tagged america, aud, Australia, cost, dollar, gbp, gt-r, gtr, Japan, japanese, JDM, Malaysia, myr, nissan, pound, price, r35, ringgit, rm, Singapore, united states, us, usa, usd, yen on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day I noticed a couple of the new Nissan GT-Rs being sold on Motortrader, which is Malaysia’s biggest car sales website. One thing that grabbed my attention was how much more expensive the car is when compared to prices I’d heard them going for in other parts of the world - especially Japan.
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Posted in Rumours, Junk & Other Stuff, tagged 180SX, Australia, Japan, japanese, JDM, modified, modify, qld, queensland, rps13, sr20, sr20det, standard, stock on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I was going through a DVD last night that is literally filled with nothing but photos from when I was back home in Australia. I didn’t think I actually had any photos of any of my old cars when I found a couple of pics of my RPS13 I took a few days after buying [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged Australia, Australian, barack obama, bostik, clinton, glue, hillary, hillary clinton, obama, paste, president, rant, upgrade, wordpress on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, I used to eat paste at school. You know those wind-up Bostik glue stick things? I don’t know if they have them outside of Australia so most of you think I may be somewhat of a raving mental patient, but just Google it and you should find out what they are. In fact, I’ll [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged Australia, brisbane, cab, car, carless, driving, hire, johor bahru, Malaysia, queensland, rent, sunshine coast, taxi, toowoomba on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is the first time since I’ve been in Malaysia that I’ve really been bored, as it’s a Sunday and I’ve got absolutely nothing planned. You see, if I were religious I guess this would be my church day, but since I’m not I’ll just have to find something else to do.
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I was reading through an issue of Option this morning - and when I say reading, I mean looking at the pictures as the whole magazine is in Japanese - and I got to thinking about how obsessed everyone is at the moment with the cult of drift.
Now don’t be too hasty if you think [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged JDM, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, scene, differences, Proton, Mitsubishi, Lancer, Scion on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Back home, I always thought that Australians loved their Japanese performance cars above what would be the standard for the rest of the world. Sure the country is predominantly dominated by teenage hoons in VL Commodores, tradies with their arms hanging from the window of their brand-new Ford Falcon XR8 ute, or executive businessmen prancing [...]
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