Japanese Nostalgic Car

True car enthusiasts know it’s more fun to drive a slow car fast. But what about a really slow car? Maybe just getting home without a catastrophic event makes an everyday drive a thrill ride. Anyway, we don’t care about experiences in the latest and greatest supercars. We want to hear about the harrowing adventures you’ve had in the slowest boxes you’ve ever had the pleasure of wheelin’.

What was it like in the least powerful car you’ve ever been in?

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Last week’s Gran Turismo 7 update brought back a lot of memories. Some of us have played the latest and greatest, but the last GT game I really played religiously was Gran Turismo 4, simply due to the sheer number of classic and “regular” cars it had. Now I have a son, and I’m looking for a father-son bonding activity that may have me dusting off my PlayStation 2. Should I spring for a PS5 and GT7? Should I stick with GT4? I don’t have anything but the controllers the PS2 came with, so should I get a whole wheel and pedal system? Is there another installment of the series that I should look into?

What’s the best Gran Turismo setup?

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We’ve asked before what you’d select if you could only drive cars from a single marque. But instead of limiting the options to one brand, what it if it was one year? You can own and drive as many different cars as you want until the day you expire, but they must have been built or sold in the year of your choosing.

If you could only drive cars from one year for the rest of your life, which would it be?

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Today, May 20, is Electric Car Day in Japan. It was named so in 2009 after battery company Yuasa restored a century-old electric car. As we hurtle toward the EV era automakers seem to have settled on two main naming strategies. The first is to give their electrified car a new eco-friendly or futuristic-sounding model name like Leaf or bZ4X. The other is to force an existing nameplate on a beloved but unrelated car, like the Mustang Mach E or Toyota Crown. Neither does much for enthusiasts. But perhaps a better plan would be to revive a dormant name that would have no hope of being used otherwise. We would love to see the return of a stylish cruiser like the Cressida, which was never intended an enthusiast’s car when new. Instead, it was built on a reputation as a quiet, smooth operator, characteristics that seem ideal for an EV.

What dead nameplate should be revived as an electric car?

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