Author Archives: Ben Hsu
We Need This Stinking Badge
Hey Sugarteats, check out this replica badge from Japanese company M.F.P. Clothing. Remember the the Main Force Patrol? It’s the post-apocalypse Australian police unit Mel Gibson’s character served under in the 1979 movie Mad Max. Along with The Road Warrior … Continue reading
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Dryer Lint to the Rescue: Oil Cleanup Tips
Here at JNC headquarters, our weekends are filled with excitement. And by excitement we mean the things our butlers would be doing if we were filthy rich. Well, at least there’s something to be gained from doing your own laundry. … Continue reading
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Mora Dekotora, Tora, Tora!
Will Jalopnik‘s fascination with dekotora ever cease? We sure hope not. You’ve got the coffee table book, now supplement that with Zenkoku Dekotora Matsuri, a new game for the Nintendo Wii. Piloting a giant chrome truck through the narrow streets … Continue reading
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GT-R Manual Warns: No Bad Taste
More Skyline importing news: our friends at Cobb Tuning have received one of the first privately owned R35 GT-Rs in the US. How? By importing their own, of course, and you know what that means: comical scans from the Japanese … Continue reading
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Leap for Joy: Holy Jumping Mazdas!
In honor of Leap Year, here’s a car chase from a 1979 Japanese movie whose title translates as “The Man Who Stole the Sun.” It’s got a plot, but we haven’t seen it, so let’s just cut to the chase … Continue reading
Posted in datsun, mazda, nissan, Video Games
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Skyline Valentine
So we have a new member of our extended family to welcome. No, it’s not a wedding or newborn child. Even better. A couple of weeks ago, our mate Kev from grandJDM received a very special Valentine in the form … Continue reading
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Toyotafest Registration Open
Fresh from the wire, TORC‘s 13th annual All Toyotafest is now open for registration. If you’ve got an old school ‘Yota (or even a new school one) that needs to be seen to be believed, head on over to their … Continue reading
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Photos Finnish: Celica Rally Restoration
Several readers have posted this nugget of awesomeness in our forums now, and with good reason. The Celica you see in the pic above is the end result of the most thorough, intense restoration we’ve ever seen for J-tin. It … Continue reading
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Dekotora, Tora, Tora!
Say you want a blingy whip but an Escalade just doesn’t cut it in the cargo hauling department. Or perhaps it’s just a few acres short on chrome and a few millilumens short on lighting. What’s a ride pimper to … Continue reading
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Classic CM: Celica XX, Electric Boogaloo
This one goes out to all the MkII Supra owners out there. Never say JNC doesn’t love ya. As you know, the second-gen Toyota Celica Supra was known as the Celica XX in Japan, and this commercial for the home … Continue reading
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Tetsuuuooooo! Akira Live Action Remake
Seriously, Hollywood? Were the millions you made peddling dumbed-down versions of Speed Racer and Transformers not enough? You even managed to dumb down Knight Rider, which had the intelligence of a baked potato to begin with. Do you really need … Continue reading
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Return of the 'Roku, Part V
Today we received the most convincing news yet that Toyota is seriously considering a return to its rear wheel drive roots. We thank dear reader Buddy J, who informed us that an unnamed lead project developer at Toyota has contacted … Continue reading
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Nissan Motorsports Exhibition 2008
If you’re lucky enough to be in Japan on March 1-2, head over to the Nissan Motorsports Exhibition 2008 at the Red Brick Warehouse and Yokohama Marine Disaster Prevention Complex. It’s an annual event Nissan Japan puts on to celebrate … Continue reading
Badge Engineering
Here’s a great piece on Neatorama about how some of the world’s most recognizable automobile brands got their logos. For instance, Mitsubishi’s logo combined the crests of two families. The diamonds came from the Iwasakis, a former samurai clan to … Continue reading
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Happy President's Day from JNC
For those of you reading from other parts of the world, today is President’s Day here in the USA. All hail the the greatest influences on our beloved nation’s history: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the three day weekend. What … Continue reading
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New Crown in Town
Today, Toyota unveiled the 13th generation Toyota Crown in Japan. It doesn’t look much different from the 12th generation Crown, but it looks a helluva lot different from the first generation Crown from 1955. There aren’t many models in the … Continue reading
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Nissan USA Quietly Avows 50th Anniversary
Down at the JNC ranch, one of our favorite dead horses to beat has been the fact that Toyota, the richest and largest car company in the world, did nothing to celebrate their 50 years of business in America except … Continue reading
Happy Valentine's Day from JNC
If we received this Carmania set of chocolate shaped tools from Japanese confectioner Frantz Kobe Sweets, we’d totally put out. Last year we took this photo (right) of the 2007 set at Tokyu Hands department store. The much better pic … Continue reading
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Snoop Datt
We were just checking in with our compadres at grandJDM and nearly died laughing when we came across this post on rapper Snoop Dogg’s new album cover. If you’ve had your eye on one of these cars you’d better grab … Continue reading
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