Banzai Magazine

WHEELER DEALER
This immaculate WRX STI of Jon Mathers is sitting higher up the Time Attack leaderboard than any rookie should in his first season. But then this is no ordinary STI…and Mathers is no ordinary newbie.

BESIDE THE TEESSIDE
Balmy weather and non-stop action banished memories of the BDC’s previous visits to the Teesside Autodrome

THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
Is there a difference between a car being well equipped and equipped well? TRA-Kyoto’s mysterious proprietor, Kei Miura, puts forward a case for the latter with this scene-defining fourth-gen Civic

FLUSH WITH SUCCESS
If you were unsure that the Hellaflush movement was expanding, the eighth annual meeting in LA dispelled all doubts

10 YEARS YOUNGER
An all-over chemical peel might sound like an expensive spa treatment but for an aging project car it is a wise move. We find out how dipping and coating can wind the clock back for even the tattiest motors

MOCK THE WEAK
Bought unseen from Japan, this hardcore Skyline drifter needed to be put in intensive care before it came out fighting

ON THE QT
After the 'standing room only' mania of Japfest last month, JapShow was quietly busy as the show carousel hit Santa Pod for the first time in 2011

ALL PLAID OUT
Wild paint, slammed on widened steels and with a plaid bonnet, this Yaris sets a funky template for a welcome new entrant to the stance scene

A BIT OF ROUGH
Nissan’s modern muscle car receives a few tweaks to smooth off some of its rough edges. But does it go far enough?

KING OF THE HILL
Already six-time overall winner of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, you'd think that 'Monster' Tajima would have nothing left to prove. The timing clock says differently, though – could the ten-minute barrier be broken?

SEARCH AND RESCUE
For over a decade Joe Mirabile has spent almost every weekend working on his pride-and-joy RX-7, gathering parts from far and wide to build a carbon fibre wide-bodied and 750bhp triple-rotor monster