16 Mar 2012, 09:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Fuji Heavy Industries, the makers of Subaru vehicles, announced their main plant in Japan has begun production of two brand new sports coupes. We are of course talking about the Subaru BRZ and its s...
15 Mar 2012, 15:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Mazda’s new CX-5 is a very significant car for the Japanese carmaker, as it’s the first brand new car to have Skyactiv engine and gearbox technology. We had our doubts at first whether t...
18 Feb 2012, 16:17 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Japan has always been one of the countries that rolled out top-notch technologies and not necessarily in the automotive industry, although we all agree that Japanese car manufacturers are still crea...
6 Feb 2012, 17:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Subaru has released a brand new commercial for the BRZ sports coupe, and it’s got nothing to do with 50/50 weight distribution, the boxer engine or a low center of gravity. Instead, they went ...
30 Dec 2011, 10:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / From the first moment we understood what it actually is, we know that the new Toyota Yaris-sized hybrid would potentially have the appeal to outpace a lot of other such cars, and that the automaker ...
27 Dec 2011, 12:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Compact hybrids are the new thing right now and Toyota has just introduced the Prius C hatchback, aimed at a younger audience. Automotive News today reports that the Aqua, as it’s named as a J...
20 Dec 2011, 19:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Probably the only two things that ‘normal’ people know about a little corner of the world called Korea is that there was a short dictator called Kim Jong-il who has ruled North Korea wit...
12 Dec 2011, 15:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota recently announced they would be bringing back the fun to their automotive brand, but we’d never have thought that they would start with something like a Prius, a tree-hugger bent on ma...
12 Dec 2011, 12:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The strong yen is putting extra pressure on the once mighty Japanese automotive industry, making exports highly uncompetitive. With an eye on the future and a nothing better to do in order to help t...
11 Dec 2011, 17:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A casual conversation between two drivers, one coming from the United Kingdom and the other one based in the United States, is like listening to two kids trying to figure out whose father is better:...
5 Dec 2011, 10:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We’re back from the Tokyo Motor Show and would like to ad one thing to the Nissan-related pieces of news: the Leaf has received the Car of the Year Japan 2011-2012 award, making this the first...
5 Dec 2011, 09:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Oddly enough, when we searched what year it is in the Chinese horoscope, we found out that starting this February, we’ve entered the year of the rabbit... the metal rabbit. Honest to goodness,...
30 Nov 2011, 18:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Japan is now focused on the Tokyo Auto Show, but there’s one carmaker that decided to introduce its 2011 big bang in Japan outside the event. Lamborghini held a special launch event for the Av...
29 Nov 2011, 09:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Yesterday, we Honda made an official announcement that the market launch of the fourth-generation CR-V will see a market launch in Japan on December 2nd, at the end of this week. We now have a full ...
23 Nov 2011, 10:38 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / In the last few days, we’ve been constantly talking about the Lexus GS and it is now time for the IS to get some of our attention, as Best Car magazine in Japan has released a set of rendering...
13 Nov 2011, 13:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Just when we thought there was nothing more to hear about the Toyobaru, the FT-86 Club comes to the rescue with fresh info of a motorsport application. According to a Japanese source, the Subaru BRZ...
2 Nov 2011, 16:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Did you think that robots were only a silly fad and that the Japanese would grow out of it? Well think again, as they’ve engineered mechanical humanoids that can take care of the elderly, do c...
31 Oct 2011, 15:38 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / This piece of news is dedicated to a Japanese tuner called RWB (RAUH-Welt Begriff), which has a passion for Porsches. The aftermarket specialist is so obsessed with the German company’s produc...
25 Oct 2011, 14:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / MINI is introducing the special edition Crystal model, a development destined for the Japanese market and borrowing the name of the well-known Crystal Palace building in London.
The vehicle is dr...
24 Oct 2011, 12:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Aston Martin today announced the launch of its Cygnet city car in Japan and Hong Kong, with the vehicle bringing two limited Launch Editions. The Cygnet comes with a starting price of YEN4,750,000 ...