Issue 97

Issue 97 
November 2009

The sides of march
Put aside your preconceptions and open your mind to a Micra that has pooled parts and resources from halfway around the world to become a hero in the Micra community

Not for road use!
Imagination meets application in Sky Chan’s phenomenal one-off tribute to the GT500 NSX – a road-going racer for the mean streets of Hong Kong

Soar doctors
Two mates, two Toyota Soarers, two different approaches to drifting. We can’t decide whether it’s the street fighter or BDC competitor that floats the 1JZ boat

Park life
Would the latest move to Wicksteed Park help recreate the atmosphere we’ve come to expect from the huge JAE weekend?

Novelty Colour, Serious Performance
Emily Doudon, one half of Japan-based specialist exporter Power Vehicles, tells us in her own words how she got to grips with an ex-Yashio Factory demo car and made it her own

Blinded by the light
The Toyota Supra is more of a laidback grand tourer than mental track car, right? Not if your name is Ryan Griffiths and you’ve slimmed the kerb weight to the motoring equivalent of size zero

Life in the raw
Raw and unbridled yet so perfectly honed – the Mugen Civic concept is simply the best hot-hatch that money can’t buy… at least not yet

Rapid response
Fireman Sam never had an engine like this to play with, Nissan’s unique Nürburgring GT-R fire ‘intervention vehicle’ now on guard to protect racers and tourist drivers alike

Time warp
Dropping an SR20DET into an old-skool Datsun 1600 is nothing new but this Aussie example is one of the most rapid and perfectly engineered examples we’ve seen

Block party
We take a white-knuckle ride-along with the Subaru-toting worldwide driving superstar that is Ken Block

A real wild child?
Directing 256bhp of turbo grunt through the front wheels sounds like a recipe for wheel-scrabbling fun but is Mazda’s new ‘wild child’ hatch anything of the sort?

Talking the torque
A B20 VTEC conversion is primarily about torque, but can it walk the walk and win over the sceptics? We talk the torque with B20 specialist Daz Honour from DNR Performance Engineering

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