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Thursday night was a special night. A...
Friday, 24 November 2017
Thursday, 23 November 2017
S-Chassis Perfection
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I wasn’t alone in my surprise either; almost everyone I spoke to on the day asked if I had seen the pair of...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
When Supra Met Skyline: A Match Made In NZ
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Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that make an...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Monday, 20 November 2017
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Saturday, 18 November 2017
Friday, 17 November 2017
It Was Acceptable In The ’80s
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Usually when preparing and structuring these stories I like to start slow in my storytelling,...
Getting Slapped In The Face By The Future
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So after tonight’s reveal of the Tesla Semi, a...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
The Perfect Father & Son Project
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Back in September, I put together a few stories from my...
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Monday, 13 November 2017
Sunday, 12 November 2017
SEMA 2017: How Did I Get Here?
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How did I get to this point? This is a question that I get asked pretty often. The...
Saturday, 11 November 2017
Form, Function & Factory Fitted
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While roaming around Koza Motorsports Festival, I knew I’d find an example to point my camera at. And Toyota (Toyopet) of...
Friday, 10 November 2017
Thursday, 9 November 2017
RB25-Powered & RWD: A GT-R With A Difference
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Winter appears to be just around the corner, often a sad thought for many car enthusiasts. While ice covered roads can be a lot of...
Keeping The JGTC Dream Alive
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As much as I enjoy watching modern motorsport push the boundaries of what’s possible on a race track, the nostalgic part of...
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Rally Legend: The Subaru Impreza WRC99
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As some of you might know, I love first generation...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
The Ultimate Fox Body Street Machine?
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With so many cars on show at SEMA, it’s an extremely tough ask to see them all, let alone go back for a second...
Carbon Everything: A Time Attack WRX
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It’s no secret that time attack builders are willing to go to great lengths when crafting their cars. The...
Monday, 6 November 2017
A Look Inside Crank Neo Garage
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While all the excitement was going on in Las Vegas last week for the 2017 SEMA Show, I...
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Twingenuity: The Worthouse S15 Silvias
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I don’t think there’s ever been two cars that...
Saturday, 4 November 2017
Back To Reality: A Las Vegas Lexus LS400
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I was presented with the prospect of either missing...
Friday, 3 November 2017
White Or Red? Pick Your Poison
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One follows a more traditional formula while the other seems to throw the rulebook out almost entirely. Instead of...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
The ‘What-If’ Shelby GT350 Mustang
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There has been plenty of time now to reflect on various design elements of the 52-year-old model, and three of the original...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Why Cut Up A $100,000 Car?
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It’s a question worth asking, and one that serial SoCal-based Lexus builder...
Welcome To The SEMA Show Floor
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Over the course of the next few days I’m going to be doing a lot of walking around the...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Monday, 30 October 2017
The Hardcore Tokyo x Pandem Pickup
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The Rocket Bunny philosophy applied to a left-hand drive, US-only long bed version of a ’70s Japanese pickup. It sounds like an unlikely...
Sunday, 29 October 2017
The Last Friday Before SEMA…
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While it seemed like a great idea at the time, I can highly not recommend getting off a 10-hour red-eye flight, and...
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Friday, 27 October 2017
The Endless Hunt For Speed
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In the year and a half since taking over the reins as Editor In Chief at...
A 1,000+hp Huracán: First To SEMA Wins
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Unless you’ve been living in a cupboard for the past few weeks, you’ll know that the coming few days will undoubtedly be some of the...
Thursday, 26 October 2017
6 Standouts From The Tokyo Motor Show
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Before we get started, no, there was no new Toyota Supra, no new Mazda RX-7,...
Global Rallycross: A Speedhunter’s Life
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As some of you may know from previous stories, I work as the official Red Bull Global Rallycross...
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
The Hidden Gems Of Irwindale’s Parking Lot
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If you caught Paddy’s recent coverage of the Formula Drift Title Fight at...
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Why We Keep Coming Back To WTAC
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So why do we keep coming back to the Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge? On the...
This Is What A 136mph Brake Failure Looks Like
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Imagine you’re behind the wheel of an Unlimited Class R35 Nissan GT-R and you’ve just started accelerating onto the...
Monday, 23 October 2017
The 2JZ Is Dead, Welcome To The Barra Era
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At the time I remember being blown away at seeing a Toyota 2JZ head next to the massive Barra twin cam...
Saturday, 21 October 2017
7 Things We Love About CSF’s SEMA Evo Build
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The 2017 SEMA Show is upon us and, lord have mercy, I bet there’s going to be some sleepless nights over the forthcoming...
Friday, 20 October 2017
The Master Special: From V8 To V12
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In the story, Dino alluded to the fact that Mattias wasn’t anywhere near finished with the ’33, and that he had a few ideas for the...
Thursday, 19 October 2017
SoCal’s Finest At AutoCon Irwindale
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This year’s Formula Drift Title Fight at Irwindale Speedway was insane. So much happened...
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Form, Function & A 2JZ Swap With Attitude
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What dilemma is that I hear you ask? I’m talking about not being able to please everyone all of the time, something that’s always...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Is This Real Life? Shooting The Ford GT In Austria
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On a daily basis I receive emails from individuals and...
Monday, 16 October 2017
Welcome To The R31 Pearly Gates
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Now that I look at the title, it’s probably a tad incorrect. This isn’t the place where R31 Skylines come to die; it’s a place...
Sunday, 15 October 2017
MCA’s Hammerhead Retains The WTAC Crown
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The threat of downpours turned out to be nothing more than a bit...
Saturday, 14 October 2017
In The Moment: The House Of Drift’s Final Act
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The ‘House of Drift’ is considered the birthplace of drifting...
Friday, 13 October 2017
Sparks Fly On Day 1 Of WTAC
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As early as the first sessions of the day, records were being reset, but as Friday...
Taking Over Japantown SJ For Shukai
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Last weekend was just like any casual classic meet where you and your friends go to your favorite burger spot and...
Thursday, 12 October 2017
World Time Attack Challenge 2017 Is On
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The Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge might not kick off officially until Friday morning local time in Sydney, but...
Is This The Future Of Basic Tuning?
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A long-running partnership between the American subsidiary of...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
It’s 1987 Again: A Fully Refreshed GTS-R
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Although there were no less than seven mint examples of the racing homologation special present at the shop, it was the first car I looked...
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Monday, 9 October 2017
The R31 Skyline Done 3 Ways
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If you caught Dino’s shop tour post on Friday, you’ll already know just how overwhelming our...
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Team Wild Cards Invade Long Beach
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I was recently asked what my favorite aspect of car culture to shoot is. My answer may or may not surprise you, but...
Friday, 6 October 2017
When R31 Skyline Love Becomes An Obsession
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We all have them; those times that you make plans and say things...
How To Destroy The 0-400km/h-0 Record
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The AiM EVO5 telemetry: 0km/h to 400km/h and back to 0km/h in 36.44 seconds. That’s a...
Thursday, 5 October 2017
The FIA Does Drifting
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Had you just been a casual observer, this past weekend’s drifting competition in Odaiba, Tokyo may have...
King Of Princes: The GT-R’s Forefather
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For Nissan, the R35 GT-R has been an absolute game changer. There is no questioning the abilities of the...
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Race Cars & Modified Machines Of JCCS
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While the Japanese Classic Car Show is better known for well-kept original condition and beautifully restored Japanese...
Project F80: The 190mph HEX-Tuned M3
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As a long-time reader of Speedhunters, and rather sporadic contributor to this site I love...
Monday, 2 October 2017
Hunting Original & Restored Gems At JCCS
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The heart of the annual Japanese Classic Car Show (JCCS) in Long Beach, California are the factory restored and original condition...
Sunday, 1 October 2017
Friday, 29 September 2017
A Wild RX-7 Appears
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When I spotted this Mazda at Wekfest SJ where it won Best RX-7, I knew I would need to find time to take a closer...
Thursday, 28 September 2017
The Making Of Fast & Furious Live
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It’s hard to believe that the original Fast & Furious movie was released almost 17 years...
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Hoonicorn RTR V2: Taking 1,400hp To 14,000ft
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What does it take to make a car worthy of Ken Block’s...
Project GTI: Keepin’ It Rubber Side Down
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Yes, Project GTI is still a thing. I’m quite a...
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Monday, 25 September 2017
Saving The T50 Japan AE86
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There’s definitely been a pattern over the last week with some of the Juicebox BBQ cars I identified for further spotlights. In more ways...
Sunday, 24 September 2017
Can We Still Use The ‘S’ Word?
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It’s the one word that always provokes a response from the automotive community. I won’t go into the semantics of why this is...
Saturday, 23 September 2017
Project Bunta: All The Small Things
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At the end of that post, I asked for your thoughts on how I should approach this project, and the response was...
Friday, 22 September 2017
The 1,000hp GT-R Chasing A 7 Minute ‘Ring Time
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What does it take to build a street legal GT-R with the goal of lapping...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Weird & Wonderful At Players Show
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There are two types of people – those that really enjoy car shows, and those that really don’t. Up until...
RX-Hate: A Cummins Diesel-Powered Mazda RX-8
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Despite the name, this wasn’t an RX-8 built to incite keyboard...
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
How One Irishman Saved An AE86 Trueno
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It’s something that we all too often overlook, and something which...
Monday, 18 September 2017
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Saturday, 16 September 2017
Top Secret’s Long-Nose GT-R
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I was beginning to think that Kazuhiko ‘Smoky’ Nagata had ignored the face-lifted R35 that was released last April, but 2016 was a...
Friday, 15 September 2017
Falling For A Couple Of Classics In Okinawa
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While baking under the powerful Okinawa sun at Cars and Coffee last weekend, I came across two beautiful...
This Is GT-R Otaku Heaven
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And so the obsession continues. Year in and year out, the lure of Nissan’s GT-R badge brings us back to the R’s...
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Deane x Więcek: All Or Nothing
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If there was one feeling that was prevalent in the Worthouse Drift...
Meeting The Tokyo Girls Car Collection Group
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Whether it’s early in the afternoon or during the late night hours,...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
How To Buy An NSX Sight-Unseen
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This story does its best to condense about six months...
How many...Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Kansai Flavor: How Auto Select Builds An R34
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The reason this BNR34 stood out wasn’t because of its carbon...
Monday, 11 September 2017
Why You Need To Own A Sports Saloon
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For a very long time, I’ve had a lot of love for sports saloon cars. The swollen looks, borderline stupid power-plants often...
High-Mount Twins: The Avance R33 GT-R
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You have the country’s best GT-R tuners and their demo cars lined up in front of you; some...
Saturday, 9 September 2017
What Does Speedhunting Mean To You?
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These, it would seem, are a pretty good set of rules to live by, providing that you understand...
Friday, 8 September 2017
E-Type Zero: New Age Resto Or Blasphemy?
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There are going to be many that look at this and feel like it’s a stab in their hearts. How dare anyone, including Jaguar, take a 1968...
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Introducing Project Bunta (Eurobeat Intensifies)
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. For the longest time, I’ve been a fan of the GC8 Subaru Impreza. I didn’t come...
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Think Electric: The New Nissan Leaf
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Until earlier this morning, I had a very defined space in my mind where I categorize...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Track & Backroad Testing The Civic Type R
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We’ve begged, we’ve imported the parts to install on standard models, we played with them in video...
Monday, 4 September 2017
September Editorial: Analogue Love
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We love all sort of cars here at Speedhunters, but this month I personally want to explore the world of the...
Sunday, 3 September 2017
Saturday, 2 September 2017
Friday, 1 September 2017
The Frankenstein 20B E-Type Is Alive
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In its half-finished state it was an ambitious and...
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Hunting Historics At Laguna Seca
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Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. With the first race being held here in 1957, the iconic California track recently...
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Monday, 28 August 2017
Gumball 3000: Drive All Day, Party All Night
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The Gumball 3000 is one of those events that you hear about as a car enthusiast, but something only few can...
Sunday, 27 August 2017
Cool Runnings: Building The Ultimate Endurance BMW M4
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Building a fast street car is a challenge. Building a fast race car is the next level. But to build a fast endurance race car,...
Saturday, 26 August 2017
Friday, 25 August 2017
Thursday, 24 August 2017
Business In The Front, Family In The Back
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It wasn’t the ideal car to start with. After it made its way across the oceans of the world, from Japan to Ireland, the...
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
The Forgotten Bull Of Tokyo
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And why wouldn’t they? After all, this was a limited edition model built to commemorate a very special...
Monday, 21 August 2017
Sunday, 20 August 2017
Saturday, 19 August 2017
Friday, 18 August 2017
A Place Saabs Can Call Home
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It’s the unexpected and unplanned that often yields the best...
An FD RX-7 That’s Easy To Live With
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Even so, I didn’t look closely enough to appreciate exactly what I was looking at the...
Thursday, 17 August 2017
Golden Week Adventures In A Mark X G’s
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There is something special about jumping in your car and going on a road trip. Getting to your final destination as fast...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
One 911 Autoworks & An Unbelievable Find
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There’s nothing I love and appreciate more than...
Realizing A 190E Racing Dream
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Having a personal relationship similar to that of Mr. Miyagi and Daniel LaRusso, Supornsak Ake Martjamroonkul of...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Exhaust Porn: Japan’s First $30K VB55 System
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Looking, touching, appreciating – it’s just not enough. It’s human nature; we...
Off-Road Adventuring On The Rubicon Trail
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Covering all aspects of car culture for Speedhunters means shooting off-road action as much as I shoot on-road...
Monday, 14 August 2017
The Best Car Magazines In The World?
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Ever since I was 11 years old, a car magazine has never been far from hand. Today, my apartment is full of them. If I’m flying, a...
Saturday, 12 August 2017
Deane x Więcek: One Step Closer
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The speed at which the 2017 Formula Drift season is passing, is frightening. It feels like only a couple of...
The World Needs More Wagons
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It’s a simple fact of life – you can never have too many wagons. Before I get into the in-depth, behind the scenes coverage from last...
Friday, 11 August 2017
Farewell To Australian Muscle
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In a matter of weeks, Australia’s automotive manufacturing industry will be reduced...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
One needs a...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
GT-R Racing Legends In The Honda Museum
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2002 was also a turning point for Nissan itself; R34 production ended in August, and the beginning of the racing...
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Monday, 7 August 2017
A Slice Of Japan In The UK
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I think I’ve stumbled upon the perfect recipe for a great car meet. Keep it small, keep it informal,...
Sunday, 6 August 2017
Exploring 86 Style At Fuji Speedway
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What is it about the humble Hachiroku that has so...
Saturday, 5 August 2017
The Parking Lot Gem
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These are the cars that most likely don’t have any type of sponsorship, and anything done to them is purely out of pocket and...
Friday, 4 August 2017
Hunting Speed In Project Nine
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I have spent more time interstate than at home the past month, but somehow I’ve managed to squeeze in some...
In The Moment: Throwdown For The Title
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We’ve just wrapped Thursday practice at the sixth round of the 2017 Formula Drift...
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Using AC For A Cooler Boost Charge
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Has boost cooling gone beyond the intercooler? Dodge has done it again...
August Editorial: Beyond The Conventional
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Within the content we present you with in our little car-centric corner of the internet, we aim to...
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Would You Buy A High Performance Model 3?
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According to Elon Musk, Tesla Motor’s co-founder, CEO and Product Architect, it will be happening, and possibly by this time next year....
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Good Vibes Only: Meguiar’s BBQ Club
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I’d like to think that the term ‘petrolhead’ is a unifying identifier. That being, that if any two petrolheads were to find themselves in...
Monday, 31 July 2017
Sunday, 30 July 2017
Jumping Into The Deep End
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The idlers 12 hour endurance race is one that’s consistently marked with a big red X on the Speedhunters calendar. For a few years...
Saturday, 29 July 2017
Art Of Speed: Car Culture Overload
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I can’t believe that another 12 months has passed since...
Friday, 28 July 2017
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Goodwood Festival Of Speed: Through My Lens
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The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of those events that I first heard about as a kid. Every year I’d see...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
How To Choose The Right Roll Cage For Your Car
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The roll cage, one of the defining parts non-enthusiasts...
Kei Miura’s Pandem Touch For The Datsun 620
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That happened again earlier this week, but this time around the car and the body kit treatment it’s...
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Good Thing, Small Package: An XE Mini
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During the winter, in Europe at least, everything goes into hibernation and hunting any sort of speed becomes a huge challenge. In the summer...
A Day With The Bosozoku
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Of all the days I’ve spent hunting speed in Japan, this day will go down as one...
Monday, 24 July 2017
Need for Speed ProStreet In Real Life
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So, what is it? This is video game character Ryan Cooper’s 240SX from Need for Speed: ProStreet – or at least a faithful, real-world...
The Greatest Hill Climb In The World
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When I first stepped foot on Pikes Peak back in 2011, I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would...
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Saturday, 22 July 2017
Nismo’s Ultimate Street-Spec R33 Skyline GT-R
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For some people, authenticity counts for a lot. The factory-fresh look and feel, plus the official paperwork to guarantee it all,...
Friday, 21 July 2017
Thursday, 20 July 2017
The Anatomy Of A Winning WRX
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Australia’s recent Subaru Nationals, or SubiNats as the locals prefer, showcased some the fiercest competition...
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
This Is Why Old Race Cars Rock
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Engineering advancements have pushed technology so far ahead in modern day racers that you can’t help but think of...
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Vipox: A Viper V10-Powered Fox Body Mustang
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No more than 15 minutes had passed after arriving at Rudskogen Motorsenter...
Monday, 17 July 2017
Sunday, 16 July 2017
Saturday, 15 July 2017
Friday, 14 July 2017
Glorious Goodwood, Speedhunters Loves You
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I’ll just come out and say it – us Speedhunters are a difficult bunch to please. You see, when you’re...
Into The Night: 7’s Day At Umihotaru PA
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Welcome to Umihotaru Parking Area and the second part of what is...
Thursday, 13 July 2017
An Early Morning Date With 3 Hakosukas
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Believe it or not, but even in Japan it’s rare to see a Hakosuka roaming the streets. With values of the ’70s Nissan Skylines...
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
En Chantez: Not Your Average ’70s Kei Car
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If you’ve never heard of this model, don’t worry – before RE Amemiya stuffed a 13B...
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Adding Lightness: Forge Motorsport’s Carbon Golf
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While there’s always new stuff to be...
Rotary Overload At 7’s Day
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Are we at a crossroads? Are the younger generation no longer into cars?...
Monday, 10 July 2017
Breaking The Mold
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It’s time for another I Am The Speedhunter submission, and this time around Dave...
What’s An R334 Skyline GT-R?
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It’s not rotary-powered, which of course doesn’t make a difference...
Sunday, 9 July 2017
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