GOING COMMANDO
With an H22-lump under the bonnet and army green paint, Simon Game's Civic is as quick as it is controversial

FULL OF EASTERN PROMISE
Prepare yourself for photos galore as we take you through part two of the awesome Tokyo Auto Salon

GENERATION X
Can the new Evo X prove to be all things to people of all sorts?

WORKS IN PRACTICE
Charge Speed has rekindled our love for the works Super GT 350Z by releasing a wide-body kit for our road cars

GOT WOOD?
If JMI Motoring has its finger on the pulse, we'll all want to be sat in the wood-lined comfort of this Scion xD

HEAVEN ON THE GREEN HELL
Welcome to RMA's exclusive Nürburgring track days

STEALTH TACTICS
Stage two Evo tuning package from Turbo Technics tested

COUPÉ OF THE DAY
Nine members of the FTO Owners' Club spin the rollers at Hyper Sports & Racing to compare their V6 engine outputs

LIVING LEGEND
This UK-spec 1100bhp Supra is no flash-in-the-pan for Envy Performance's Kevin Huntley. After spending eight years and more than £100,000 modifying it, this is one of the finest and fastest road legal cars in the world

THE EXACIST
The owner of this Nissan Pulsar EXA Turbo has spent nine years and $60,000 modifying this unusual beast

MEGA DRIVES
Does Toyota Mega Web's Japanese car theme park work?

DANCING ON ICE
Andy heads to Sweden to sample the ultimate experience day, driving a modified Scooby on a frozen lake!

THE ONE AND ONLY
As Jorel Antonio's driving career has progressed, so has his love for his turbo'd Acura RSX Type-S

RACE ALTERED IMPREZAHOLIC
This Tracktive Solutions-modified Impreza STi II lives up to the Type RA philosophy - Race Altered by name and nature

POTENT-IN-PINK
Straight from Japan to our Banzai track day, this JDM Cruise-tuned, pink Evo is built for maximum track attack

FULL OF EASTERN PROMISE
Part one of our comprehensive three-part coverage of the most important show of the year - the Tokyo Auto Salon

PACE CAR
When owner and tuner are thousands of miles apart, this Impreza WR1 had to be perfect before it was unleashed

NATIONAL TREASURE
How would the UK's top tuner cars fare against Japan's own in Time Attack at Tsukuba?

THE PEOPLE'S FAVOURITE
Check out the winners of Banzai Car of the Year 2008

CAMRY CAMPAIGN
This 'low-rider' project showed SEMA visitors a new side to the top- selling Toyota Camry

ECONOMIES OF SCALE
Meet the cheap and cheerful face of modern modifying - a Suzuki Swift that proves there is life beyond eco-friendliness

FAMILY FUN
The new facelifted Mazda5 proves your practical family daily driver doesn't have to be dull as dishwater

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
Imagine being just 17 and having one of the finest, UK built R32 Skyline GT-Rs in the country on your drive. Farooq Khan, you're a ridiculously fortunate individual!

SPORT FOR CHOICE
Autosport numbers were at an all-time high at over 80,000. Maybe they were all after a glimpse of the all-new Evo X?

THE MAK DADDY
Garage Mak turns to the classic PS13 Silvia for its awesome new Time Attack machine

VIRTUAL REALITY
Who'd have thought that the virtual world would give Mark Johnston the biggest win of his driving career?

CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP
Sticking to what he knows, Darren Law has built a classic JDM-style DC2 Integra Type-R with a modern K20A i-VTEC engine

TWO OF A KIND?
Two rare TRD VM180s together, one of them hiding a secret of V6 proportions

LOADING BAYS
Will retro utility vehicles hit the right note for Japanese car enthusiasts? We sample two Datsun Sunny pick-ups

THE MODERN WAY
Using his brain, not his wallet, Brian Filoteo has crafted a show and shine winning Evo VIII

VARIATION ON A THEME
Adam Strelein proves with this rare Silvia Varietta that individuality can still be found in the Japanese car scene

A TOUCH OF FROST
Rindy Frost's Honda Prelude helps us see that you don't need to be rich to afford a dedicated track day car

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US
Suzuki bridges the gap between car and bike with the SXForce concept

YOU CAN FIND ME IN DA CLUB...
Five Axis Yaris Club concept is a stripped-out, single-seat concept with more than a hint of retro racer

SEMA-ANTICS (PART TWO)
It's bigger and crazier than you'd ever imagine and filled to the gunnels with Japanese cars

LOYALTY TO THE CAUSE
John Goodwin has shown loyalty to Mazda throughout the build of his Time Attack RX-7, by picking and choosing the best bits from three generations of rotary-engined sports cars

WHO ARE... TRACKTIVE SOLUTIONS?
We headed back to Tracktive's workshop and found a specialist tuner with an unparalleled foundation in WRC

A-TRACK OF THE TITANS
With this magazine being all about enhancing performance, we headed to Snetterton for the official Banzai track day

NO TOYMOTAS
Toyota recently celebrated 50 years in international motorsport. To honour this, we've highlighted the best bits

KICKIN' LIKE A MULE
Tracktive Solutions owner Richard Bulmer's STi VII Type RA produces up to 500bhp - with an internally standard engine

WORTH EVERY DIME
What would you do with a cash windfall? Copy Jason Weaver and spend $50,000 on an old Datsun? You betcha!

HISTORY REVISITED?
Ian Newell traded his front-wheel drive car for this Evo VI. But fitted a huge T67 turbo and a dream of over 450bhp

TWO'S A CROWD
Looking to make a step up from track days? Then you could do a lot worse than racing in the MR2 Challenge

THE IMPREZA STRIKES BACK
The all-new Impreza WRX is here, so a trip to the Nürburgring with the track's ultimate expert, Sabine Schmitz, was in order

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Impressive power figures, outrageous graphics and ludicrous rims - this is Australia's unique Auto Salon Final Battle show

FIRST-TIME DRIFTERS
We head out to a Drift What Ya Brung day in a borrowed R32 Skyline

FIXED UP, LOOKING SHARP
The new Mazda6 promises Japanese-inspired perspectives

SEMA-ANTICS
Bigger than our Joe had ever imagined, the SEMA show in Las Vegas was as crazy as the city that hosts it

A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE
The race is on to build the first front-wheel drive car in the UK to break the ten-second barrier, and TDI North's 1000bhp Civic Type-R could well be the first to do it

WHAT IS... MILLBROOK?
We visit the enormous Millbrook Proving Ground test facility

WHAT THE F?
Joe drives the new 416bhp Lexus IS-F and discovers a phenomenal, engineer-led project that outguns the BMW M3

BANZAI CAR OF THE YEAR
We need your help to choose 2007's best Banzai feature car

SHIBBY CHIC
Ignoring the temptation to fit cheap replica parts, Andrew 'Shibby' Stacey built himself an S13 filled with J-land goodies

NEW KIDS ON THE DRAG
Poised to take the quarter-mile by storm is the UK's most powerful 7M-powered, home-made MkIII Toyota Supra

TOMMY GUNNED
Designed in Japan but built in the UK, the ultra-rare Tommy Kaira ZZ was Japan's answer to the Lotus Elise

FETTLING 400
Think again if you thought the FQ-400 was the ultimate Evo. It’s not bad, but with a few choice Cosworth goodies and careful remapping tuner TDI has unleashed its potential.

A DAY AT THE RACES
Contributor Owen Mildenhall takes part in the UK’s only 24-hour race in an RJN Motorsport-prepared Nissan 350Z.

RAISING THE BAR
Traditionally the last show of the season is always the big one, and the Jap Show finale was everything we wanted!

FABULOUS, DARLING
Loaded with sumptuous and crazy VIP Style mods, this Indonesian Jazz is simply Fabulous inside and out.

GEARING UP FOR ACTION
Weston Performance’s mechanical guru, Greg Gush, gets technical when describing the gear ratio and final drive modifications he’s making to the team’s PS13 drift car.

LIGHT FANTASTIC
By following a weight-watching regime, Mazda has released a new supermini that’s lighter and fitter than the competition.

THE RIGHT SIDE OF 30
In the case of this 674bhp Skyline GTT, that means swapping the original RB25DET engine for an all-singing, all-dancing RB30 engine with a custom GT4088R turbo conversion.

STARSHIP ENTERPRISE
With a Power Enterprise twin-turbo conversion and more JDM goodness than you can shake a catalogue at, Envy Performance’s 600bhp 350Z is a master class in 21st century modifying.

LIVING THE DREAM?
The Cannonball 8000 sounded like the ideal European road trip. Until the rolling party entered Germany…

WEAKNESS IS NOT ALLOWED
Team Whifbitz begins addressing the weaker areas of its Time Attack RX-7 in preparation for next season.

THUNDER DOWN UNDER
Do Jap cars rule in Australia’s official drift championship? Possibly, but those Aussie V8s take some beating.

PREACHING ABOUT THE CONVERTED
Wayne Milne has carried out enough mechanical and visual conversions to place his Supra among the top of pile.

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
After five engine management systems, four sets of wheels, five turbos, four body kits, three resprays and three suspension setups, SXOC chairman, Ken Scudder, has finally found a winning combination with his 501bhp S14 200SX.

GOING IT ALONE
How much does it cost to turn a standard R34 Skyline GT-R into a 500bhp track monster? Not as much as you’d think...

TAKING STOCK
Round three of the HKS Drag Series, Rotorstock 4 at Santa Pod was a quarter-mile thrash fest

HIGH-SPEED CRAFT
As more RX-7s turn up in Time Attack competitions, Kyoto-based Auto Craft shows us how to build a real winner

TROUBLE AT THE TOP
The Weston Performance drift team headed to North Weald for the final round of the European Drift Championship

WIN FOX WHEELS
Win a set of Fox Racing’s finest with Motorsport Wheels

JUST FRONTIN’
Would the Whifbitz Time Attack team get rid of their RX-7’s understeer problem in time for the final round at Brands?

LIVE FAST, BLOW HARD
Every sports car has a heavy-hitting engine. Tuning legend Stillen has one of the best with its ’charged 400bhp 350Z

HOND-R REPLAY
Everyone’s got a soft spot for the CRX. But squeeze a 231bhp DC5 K20A engine under the bonnet and it’s difficult to have anything but love for the ageing Honda!

OLD-SKOOL HEROES
Rare, funky Japanese classics made their mark at the Retro-Rides show. Stepping back in time is hot news…

TORQUE IS CHEAP
Meet Emma Kobylko and her TD04-powered Starlet Glanza V

SWEDE DREAM
With a track-orientated chassis and plenty of weigh saving, this Swedish Civic dares to challenge the big boys

BOOST FROM OOST
Josh Oosterwaal builds and tunes imports for a living, so expectation was high for his own project. His 500bhp RB26-engined S13 doesn’t disappoint

WALKING TALL
With a European record to its name, Steve Whittaker’s 810bhp MA70 Supra is still in early stages of development