Bouncing Red Ball

Perhaps a little out of place among the multitude of customized racing cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 is Mazda’s Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. This is the latest iteration of the dual-fuel rotary-engined Premacy announced by Mazda over a year ago. This version of the Premacy promises better fuel efficiency, greater range and more [...]

One of the most striking cars in the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 was J’s Racing’s extremely modified Honda “Satan” S2000. I didn’t see a lot of S2000 cars at the show but this thing is just sick. The characters on the hood say “Satan” below the image of the Evil One himself. I guess when you’re racing [...]

Diahatsu, the small-car specialist, has put out a nice concept car at Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 based on their Move Conte X Limited compact car. The so-called D (for “Dog”) -Sport Move Conte “My Sneacar”, which looks like… a shoe. Cute though (dog on a leash not included). The custom work and parts cost ¥719,810 [...]

Here’s a cool mod car, the Masquerade Prodrive Impreza for street and circuit use.

Intricately decorated left side wheel

Right side wheel with different color

The new year kicks off with an exhibition of custom cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 in Makuhari Messe. I went and took some pictures. Here’s one of my favorites: the customized μ-Dimension Acoustic Research anime-painted car.

μ-Dimension ELEMENT Series 4ch amp

μ-Dimension 12-inch subwoofer

μ-Dimension 50W/4ch AB-class power amp

After a recent spell of bad news, here’s a good one for Toyota.
The Winglet, Toyota’s personal transporter in the style of Segway, will start initial production next year, 2009. Aiming for corporate customers, Toyota will deliver the first batch of 10 Winglets to the Central Japan International Airport in Aichi Prefecture.
This early release of the [...]

Blogger and flickr user beve4 has an online gallery of the recent Eco Products 2008 expo that was held in Tokyo Big Sight for 3 days from Dec 11 to 13. Below are some interesting photos. {You can browse through the whole gallery on flickr.}
Soy sauce made of chicken entrails. Apparently, it passed the user [...]

Awesome photo galleries from Mainichi, Asahi and Response about the recent anime car festival in Odaiba called Itasha G Fesuta and covered by major news media. {Also check out this great gallery by Otasuke. Thanks for the link Yamatologic!}
The festival features more than 400 cars adorned with anime and game characters. Surely an event that [...]