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Mar 18 2010, 03:03 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 36 comment(s)
A friend of mine sent me a link this morning showing a new MX-5 special edition from Mazda of France. Designed by LK Paris, the concept seems to be capitalizing on the flat black trend, which is apparently alive and well.
I'm not sure if the friendly little Roadster is the best candidate for the flat black treatment, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
What do you think?
-Mike Garrett
Source: Left Lane News...
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Feb 26 2010, 12:49 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 31 comment(s)
We've featured quite a few reader-owned FC RX7's this month haven't we? Here's one more, owned by George who represents the great state of Arizona.
Somehow when I see this car, I get the feeling that if Nakai-san of Rauh Welt had an FC, it'd look something like this.
That's never a bad thing.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Feb 26 2010, 08:51 AM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 6 comment(s)
Pretty close to being done the cage and all the chassis prep! Took this pic last weekend. I'll post up some real pictures soon, lost my camera charger so this iPhone picture will have to do... - Carl Jarrett
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Posted
Feb 24 2010, 02:44 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 30 comment(s)
For the past seven days, I've been tooling around the Los Angeles area in a 2010 Mazda RX-8 R3. Even seven years after it was introduced, the RX-8 is still one of the most unique cars on the road, and despite some drawbacks, it offers a driving experience to match....
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Posted
Feb 22 2010, 05:20 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 40 comment(s)
There's a never a bad time for some Miata content. This car is owned reader Ryan Cote of Florida, and is sporting a Flyin' Miata turbo kit along with supporting exhaust upgrades and some mild suspension work.
Although he loves the car, Ryan says that the turbo four probably won't be around for much longer as an LS1 swap is in the cards...
It seems like the V8 Miata is getting more and more popular - the Shelby Cobra of the 21st century.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Feb 19 2010, 08:01 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 13 comment(s)
SoCal based reader Dane Harding sent us this awesome picture of his FC RX7 drifting the Horsethief Mile course at Willow Springs.
The photo was taken by none other than Mr. Papparazi, Larry Chen of Driftfotos.com.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Feb 18 2010, 11:28 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 81 comment(s)
How many of us were taken through the streets of childhood in a minivan? I was, and I hated it, I couldn’t dare be seen in it. At the tender age of six my family bought a 1993 Mazda MPV and used it for everything from towing the boat to shuttling our stuff across the border during our move from Canada to the States. Ten years later when I got my driver’s license, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that I would inherit the dreaded minivan......
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Posted
Feb 15 2010, 10:17 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 42 comment(s)
Some of you might remember that when I moved back to the US from Japan last spring, one of the first things I did was pick up a '97 Mazda Miata as weekend toy. I did a few little things to it, like installing a set of SSR MkIII's, but in the end the car ended up spending most of its life gathering dust at my house....
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Posted
Feb 10 2010, 06:00 PM
by
Speedhunters
with 30 comment(s)
So where has top kiwi drifter Mad Mike Whiddett been lately? In Onuma, Hokkaido – the northernmost tip of Japan that’s where – and he’s been working on a secret film project dubbed "Red Bull Drift-n-Ice". In a freshly built replica of his MADBUL Mazda RX-7, engineered by Japanese drift tuning shop Magic, and rolling on skinny WRC style studded snow tyres (with 275mm spacers!), it’s been Mike’s first taste of sliding on ice. Along for the ride, however...
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Posted
Feb 09 2010, 12:03 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 37 comment(s)
Hey fellow speedhunters, here is a few shots from a group of friends from the Gatineau région up in Canada. Shots are from a meet last summer including four Nissan Pulsar GTi-R's and two very rare Mazda 323 GTR's. Waiting for summer to come to let the beasts out is very long, but thanks to Speedhunters the wait is so much easier....
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Posted
Feb 08 2010, 10:08 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 58 comment(s)
Slava hails from the great state of Colorado and comes to us with a simple request - to help him fire up Colorado's drifting community.
In his words -
"So the drift scene here in Colorado is starting to die off. Me and a few others are trying to keep people excited about this s___ again so we can all have more than two events a year. A lot of people are quiting for whatever reason and less drivers just means that we cant hold as many events because of lack of moneys. Posting some of CO's hard hitters might help get people excited about drifting in Colorado again just from seeing us on Speedhunters" ...
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Posted
Feb 04 2010, 04:46 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 67 comment(s)
Like 99% of car fans, I grew up with motors all around me – my old man loved his cars, often bringing classics back from Italy including a Lamborghini Espada, 1976 Porsche 911 and even began building his own Jaguar E-type until the unfortunate birth of the brother put a stop to things...
Anyways, since 2004 I’ve been a ‘motoring journalist’ over on the UK title Max Power which, when you’re 16 at the time of starting work, it opens your eyes to the entire car industry pretty quickly.
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Posted
Feb 01 2010, 02:24 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 62 comment(s)
Hello Speedhunters! I’m Adam Wolf of dusty, deserted New Mexico. The car you’re looking at is Sharka, a 97 NA Miata in the above photo. Yes, I’m a huge dork and name my cars. But when you get to be as close to something or someone as I am to Sharka, it just makes sense have a name.
See, I’ve been building Sharka for 10 years. ...
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Posted
Jan 28 2010, 11:45 AM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 34 comment(s)
The sound.. the fury! I love the slide throttles too.. nice touch. I wonder how fast this car will be? If you want to see this video in HD, check it out on YouTube.
- Carl Jarrett
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Posted
Jan 26 2010, 12:04 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 24 comment(s)
Has it already been a full year since we did Mazda month? Indeed it has. No matter what month it is, I think we can all agree there's never a bad time for some rotary action, and here we have plenty of that - thanks to Roo Wills from New Zealand.
Roo headed out to the New Zealand Rotary Summer (yes, summer) Drags earlier this month and sent us some photos of his findings....
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Posted
Jan 17 2010, 11:30 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 30 comment(s)
The best way to sort through all the material I got from the Tokyo Auto Salon is to divide things up a little and for this first in-depth post I've decided to concentrate on the best rotaries I spotted...along with a couple of other Mazdas. The RE-Amemiya stand in the first Hall has always been the first stand I visit and this year Amemiya-san had prepared a few nice cars starting with this RX8 fitted with the same aero as on Suenaga's new D1 machine. I think the bumper looks much better...
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Posted
Jan 10 2010, 09:12 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 37 comment(s)
Just spotted this FC on Al's Car Stuff blog . It rolls on a set of Work Equips with a very large dish in the rear, just enough to fill those arches. Love the understated look of this particular model. Maybe Carl can get some inspiration from this car, although it hasn't been made as a Time Attack car.
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Posted
Jan 06 2010, 03:12 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 25 comment(s)
Last year I picked a 2007 issue of the Japanese magazine Racing On chronicling the complete history of the Japanese Touring Car Championship of 1990's. The story does a great job showing the brightly-colored, ground-scraping sedans that ran in the JTCC, but unfortunately JTCC info and photographs are almost non-existent on the internet. It's a shame because there were some incredible (and great-looking cars) that ran in this series.
The photo above shows a JTCC-spec Mazda Lantis running at MINE Circuit in 1994.
I'd say this fits into the monthly theme of looking at the non-mainstream, no?
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Jan 06 2010, 07:39 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 24 comment(s)
Could the people behind Mazda be considered Mavericks after they conquered the 24hrs of Le Mans in 1991?
Be sure to turn the volume up.
-Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Jan 05 2010, 04:33 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 12 comment(s)
The Panspeed and Revo FDs tend to get the most attention during the many Time Attack events at Tsukuba... But this Screen Powers FD also deserves some love. This car packs quite the punch with almost 450bhp thanks to a HKS T04Z turbo. -Jeroen Willemsen Screen Powers
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