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AUTO MESSE WEB has profiled a 2000 Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR34) V-spec that has been through five turbocharger changes on its way to a reported 827 PS — and the owner is clear that the number was …
AUTO MESSE WEB has profiled an owner who showed two separately modified 71-series Toyota Mark IIs at a classic car event in Shimonoseki — one built around a later Toyota gearbox, the other around a …
Motor Fan has published a feature on an FD3S Mazda RX-7 that has been with the same owner for more than twenty years, and has spent most of that time being changed a little at a time rather than …
HKS has launched a Hipermax Touring adjustable spring kit for the FL5 Honda Civic Type R, lowering the car by up to 25 mm while keeping its factory adaptive dampers in place. It went on sale in Japan …
HKS has added the ZN8 Toyota GR86 and ZD8 Subaru BRZ to its Flash Editor ECU reflash tool. The Japan-market unit carries part number 42015-AT105 and is priced at ¥110,000 including tax; Japanese …
After repeatedly damaging a 200 PS 4A-G, one AE86 owner took a radical route out: an Altezza-sourced 3S-GE, set farther back behind a cut bulkhead, backed by a six-speed gearbox and a two-stage …
For many enthusiasts, the Skyline GT-R means a two-door coupe. This 1970 example is something else entirely: a four-door PGC10.
Some of the best ownership stories begin with a car the buyer never intended to buy. Auto Messe Web has published one of those.
This 1972 Toyota Sprinter Trueno spent six years undergoing a full restoration at the Kyoto specialist Saito Shokai (斎藤商会), rebuilt with regular road use — not display — shaping the finished car, …
TEIN has added the BNR32 Nissan Skyline GT-R to its EnduraPro Plus damper range, covering cars built between August 1989 and December 1994. The four-damper set is priced in Japan at ¥64,900 including …
More than two decades after the R34 Skyline GT-R left production, Hoshino Impul has put a newly designed front bumper for the BNR34 on sale. The company announced it on September 9 and opened orders …
AUTO MESSE WEB has published a feature on an R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R finished in the white-and-pink Clarion livery of the NISMO GT-R LM — built, according to the feature, with purported race-car …
Auto Messe Web has featured a 1971 Nissan Skyline HT 2000GT that comes out just once a month — for a two-hour drive before dawn. That, at least, is the routine described in the feature.
This BNR32 Skyline GT-R pairs Toyota 2JZ-GTE power with Nissan's ATTESA E-TS all-wheel-drive system, according to a feature published on Motor Fan — the RB26DETT is gone, the Supra's engine sits in …
HKS has launched a swan-neck rear wing for the FL5 Honda Civic Type R in Japan, priced at ¥423,500 including tax, with sales starting September 4 as part of the company's Body Kit Type-S line.
Mugen has launched a Sport Steering Wheel for the Honda Prelude in Japan, priced at ¥143,000 including tax, with sales starting September 3.
RE Amemiya — the rotary tuning house whose name is shorthand for the FD3S itself — has torn down a 13B-REW with nearly 100,000 km of street use for a Motor Fan feature. The teardown points not to a …
Motor Fan has published one of those owner interviews that maps an entire era of Japanese car culture onto a single garage. The subject spent years deep in top-speed tuning with a JZA80 Supra, a …
Five RAYS wheel designs are shrinking to capsule-toy scale, the six-spoke TE37 SAGA S-plus among them. Toys Cabin plans to release the "RAYS Wheel Metal Keychain" series in December 2026 at ¥500 per …
It started with a plan to repaint the engine bay. Per a Motor Fan feature published September 3, the owner of this well-preserved Nissan F31 Leopard — an enthusiast who keeps multiple Leopards — …
Motor Fan has published a feature on a Y31 Nissan Gloria with a backstory that explains itself in one sentence: the owner's father went through six failed automatic transmissions in his own Y31 years …
Motor Fan has featured a one-off build that reads like a bar bet: a DC2 Honda Integra wearing the face of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX and the tail of a Nissan 180SX. Three manufacturers, one …
Motor Fan's web option has featured an AE86 built by Tech Art, the long-running Hachiroku specialist, around a request that shapes every decision in the build: the owner wants a car finished to last …
HKS has released Phase 2 of its Mastery ECU reflash for the Subaru WRX S4 and Levorg, priced at ¥154,000 including tax. HKS lists output of up to 294 PS on the Levorg, with the WRX S4 gaining 52 Nm …
TRUST announced four GReddy intercooler and aluminum-pipe packages for the GXPA16 Toyota GR Yaris on August 23. Each is listed for both pre- and post-facelift cars, with either the six-speed manual …
Motor Fan has featured an FC3S Mazda RX-7 that started as a car with more than one hundred holes in its body — and ended as a show winner with a high-revving naturally aspirated rotary. The number is …
Good 2JZ and RB26 cores are not getting younger. GReddy Performance Products, the California arm of the Japanese tuning brand, has an unusually direct answer: brand-new, fully assembled long blocks, …
Motor Fan has featured a BNR32 Skyline GT-R styled to answer an irresistible what-if: apply the visual language of a 1970s Hakosuka works racer to the R32-generation GT-R, and see what comes out.
Nissan never offered an open-top version of any second-generation Skyline GT-R — no R32, R33 or R34 ever left the factory without a roof. That did not stop Autech Shirakawa, a custom shop in …
Of the roughly 44,000 R32 Skyline GT-Rs built, the ones collectors argue about most are the GT-R NISMO: the stripped-out Group A homologation special launched on March 11, 1990. Nissan offered 500 …
Autech Japan built roughly 1,700 answers to a question Nissan's mainline never asked: what if the Skyline GT-R had a wagon body? The Stagea 260RS — factory-fitted RB26DETT twin-turbo, ATTESA E-TS …
The R34 Skyline GT-R went out of production in August 2002 — 24 years ago. This September, Impul, the Nissan tuning house founded by racing legend Kazuyoshi Hoshino, plans to launch a new BNR34-based …
As usable RB26DETT engine blocks grow harder to find, HKS has launched parts aimed squarely at keeping the ones already out there alive. The tuning house announced on August 11 a new cylinder liner …
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