11 Mar 2014, 18:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Datsun 260Z, or the Fairlady Z, is one damn sexy Japanese coupe, borrowing much of the 70’s European cars design while coming at a considerably lower price than a Jaguar E-Type for example...
10 Mar 2014, 18:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A clean customized Toyota Supra will look awesome anywhere, even if a graveyard got set to be a theme for a photo shooting, like it happened with this one here in the photos.
Despite the few body...
10 Mar 2014, 15:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Nissan 240SX gifted with a custom 2JZ Supra engine is back again to test the new setup and put some times on the board.
Previously we’ve seen this black 240SX doing its first tests and ...
10 Mar 2014, 10:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The collaboration between Toyota and BMW over a new sportscar is a subject everyone has heard of and developed an opinion on, while the two automakers are still silent as fish about it.
What we k...
28 Feb 2014, 17:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The 2JZ six-cylinder engine from Toyota is known to be one of the most capable engines ever made. Not in stock mode, of course, I’m talking about modifying it a bit and achieving over 600 hp.
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27 Feb 2014, 14:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota Emirates Drifting Team led by the UAE drifting champion Ahmed Al Ameri was present at the Emirates Motorplex in Um Al Quwain for the first round of the Drift UAE Championship recently.
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26 Feb 2014, 10:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Building a drag car is not that easy as you may think. It’s not all about fitting turbos and nitrous to a stock car until it makes enough horsepower to pull a train.
It’s useless to h...
20 Feb 2014, 13:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What’s better than a tuned twin-turbo 2JZ? Well, two of them reunited in a quad-turbo V12, that’s a lot better.
Toyota had a single V12 engine in its whole history, the 1GZ-FE 5-liter...
17 Feb 2014, 17:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since matte black and cool rims is a fashion that will never wear out, here’s this awesome-looking first generation Lexus IS 300, which is actually a Supra in disguise.
Yep, it has the good...
11 Feb 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everyone knows about how powerful a 2JZ engine gets if you fit it the right parts and force more air and fuel into it. So powerful that it can break your transmission if you’re not careful.
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4 Feb 2014, 13:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Unlike the good ol’ manual transmissions, automatic ones are way more complicated and have lots of parts that can go wrong at some point in their life.
A normal automatic transmission consi...
31 Jan 2014, 10:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Chris, the owner of this red gem was never intending to make the first step into the automotive tuning world with a first generation Lexus IS - he always wanted a Toyota Supra.
His passion for ca...
29 Jan 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you’re in Sweden and this old battered Volvo 245 Wagon pulls up next to you at a red light, don’t go for a quick drag - all you’ll be able to see after the stoplight turns green...
28 Jan 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The 2014 Tokyo Auto Salon has now ended, but in case you missed it, here are some photos with Toyota’s most interesting exhibitions there.
Toyota just uploaded these new entries from the sh...
27 Jan 2014, 17:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When you have to test your new build on the dyno, you really don’t need to fit it with the fanciest wheels on the market, you know. It’s like doing gymnastics in the morning while wearin...
24 Jan 2014, 15:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The first Lexus IS came around in 1998 and it was just an L-badged Toyota Altezza and it was also offered in an estate version and even better, with a 2JZ engine.
And this one here in the picture...
23 Jan 2014, 13:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, it’s not like Ekanoo’s Supra IRS, but this Supra can go pretty fast on the quarter mile and it’s a real tire bender as you’ll see it on the dyno bellow.
Ekanoo&rsquo...
21 Jan 2014, 13:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The folks that published this following video on Youtube claim the car you’re looking at here is a BMW E46 M3 GTR. Whilst it is a cool name to use, I find it hard to justify it.
The GTR ver...
13 Jan 2014, 14:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, BMW had their own 3.2-liter inline-six engine, but it appears that if you want to go pro drifting, you’ll need to drop something Japanese into that engine bay.
Like the classic 3-lite...
13 Jan 2014, 10:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota Supra 2JZ seems to be the universal swap engine, and soon there will be someone to even fit it to a blender or vacuum cleaner.
Or even an oldschool muscle car, as you can see here. Thi...