High Noon Touge Challenge [FINAL REVIEW OUT]

abg7 · 16 November 2021 07:33

1994 KAI KS300 Turbo TR (Touge Racer)

435 bhp pushing around 1.3 metric tons - all for just $40k AMU.

Driver and car details

This extensively modified KAI KS300 Turbo will be driven by Nate West, a 22-year-old amateur racer from the West Midlands looking to break into the pro ranks. With such aftermarket mods as a lightweight interior, wider forged wheels, a more aggressive aero kit, a close-ratio gearbox, uprated brakes and suspension, and a highly tuned engine (which comes with a freer-flowing exhaust and more boost pressure than stock) it should be better-equipped to tackle the mountain passes that are often used for touge racing.

Portalkat42 · 16 November 2021 09:50

1970 Midlands Io Sprint

This vintage kei sized sports coupe has been brought up to date by its artistic owner, Storm Breedlove, a transplant from northern Britain who’s just accepted a position at TEGA as an animator.

Since he wanted to live in a slightly more rural setting and commute in to work like he did back in Britain, bringing his '70 Midlands Io sprint over with him was an immediate decision. Nimble enough to make it through small Japanese streets with ease and powered by a 1.6 l motor small enough to not be hit too hard by displacement taxes, the sprint fit his needs nicely and as he found out, was a joy to throw into the curvy mountain roads of japan. Since arriving and discovering what he equates to a Japanese version of the Nürburgring as his daily commute, Storm has since upgraded the Io sprint to match contemporary 1994 sports cars like the eunos roadsters he sees blitzing down the motorway. He’s also taken to putting stickers from brands he’s used to modify the car on each of the mechanic’s doors either side of the bonnet, where he keeps all the essential tools to deal with any foibles that come up from owning a classic British sports car. He has upgraded the interior with the higher level of tech he has access to now that he’s living in Japan, fitting a premium sound system and figuring out how to heat the seats. He’s also begun timing his commute and other trips to see how his performance modifications, like fuel injection, wider, stickier tyres, and aero bits, have made a difference. His aggression in these tests and the fervor with which he works on tinkering has given him and his car the nickname of Shiroi ōkami (The White Wolf) among his friends at TEGA. It also comes from how they both go howling through Japan’s forests in the late evening, where there is less of a chance for his liberal use of speed to be noticed. The Io sprint may only have 130 hp, but it can top out at an aero limited 150 mph and has a 0-60 of about 7 seconds. He’s also timed one of his frequent routes down the Hakone Turnpike at 4 minutes 46 seconds (when he’s found time to do so “uninhibited”).

Urke101 · 16 November 2021 11:27

JVNIPER

NAGA MATSUMOTO

名が松本

PROLOGUE

1993 January (NAGA MATSUMOTO)

At the top of the mountain, at the border between two individual towns, the crickets chirped about to the rustling of the leaves of midnight. Matsumoto stood there beneath the dim light of a nearby lamp post with an automotive magazine in his left hand, right next to a metallic green sedan, the faint silhouette of its four-door lines subtly illuminated by the orange tint of the street light, reflected by the sheen of the golden plated wheels.

He tossed the magazine onto the car’s hood, and dug into his pocket, looking for the faded and flimsy box of tobacco he’d barely finished. He took the ragged box out and pulled a stick from its faded innings, before tossing it back into the pocket of his trousers and pulling out a lighter instead, flicking the sharp metal can open and lighting the roll of paper and tobacco between his lips.

A bitter puff of smoke filled his vision. It was another one of those nights where he’d feel empty again. No matter how many drives, how much praises, how many awards, he still felt something empty sucking through the rest of his insides.He felt the bitterness of the cigarette intensify as his ears picked up the faint buzzing of a vehicle in the distance.

The smell and smoke of the cigarette still partially clouding his view, Naga heard four high-revving engines roaring up the mountain roads, occasionally seeing a glimpse of the cars coming out of the trees.

As four silhouettes zipped by him close to midnight, Naga turned and heard faint tyre screeches in the distance. After anticipating the racers’ arrival, several high-performance cars pulled up to the corner runaway area. Under the street light, Matsumoto could finally make out the shape of the cars and their drivers.

Four characters stepped outside their racers and started a muted chatter with one another.
A salarywoman driving a bright blue Bradford steps out of the group and starts questioning Matsumoto about his metallic green four-door.

“Those rims look nice. It’s standing so low to the ground, it looks so cool! There’s nothing like it on the road.” Tokai exclaimed as she went around, touching the car as she saw it in the flesh for the first time. “Thanks, you’re all into cars, I see.” Replying back happily, “I saw your car featured in the magazine not too long ago, it definitely stands out, too. You did so much to the car, I can tell you’ve put in lots of work on the engine. I bet that car handles as well as all the cars in our group. - ” The girl never seems to stop talking about the car, it’s as if she knew it inside and out. Matsumoto was pretty happy that she knew a lot about it.

Matsumoto, awkwardly scratching his head, was anticipating meeting the other members of the street racing gang. “Come on, I think you’d want to meet the other members, too…” Tokai was slightly blinded by her fangirling. Chucking his cigarette to the floor, Matsumoto walked over to the rest of the group, standing near their brightly-coloured cars.

“Hello, how is it going, my name is Tokisaki Kento, and our fangirl over there seems to be all over the car, you famous or something?” Reaching out his hand to Matsumoto. “I wouldn’t quite say so, but I guess my car did get featured in the magazine your friend was talking about.” Matsumoto reached out and shook his hands, “But yeah nice to meet you, name’s Naga Matsumoto.”

“Over there Umemura Ryuuko is a close touge-friend of mine, though she has a tendency to cook her engine…” Smirking at Ryuuko, as Ellie rolls her eyes at what was going to happen. Angrily replying to his remark, “SHUT UP! You also binned your car when I wasn’t even pushing” Yet again, the two were butting heads at one another, it was quite surreal for Matsumoto, they were quite the? Couple? Not quite, he couldnt put a finger on it…

“Enough, enough you two…” Interjecting herself between the two, “The name’s Ellie Thomas, an Australian, nice to meet you.” A rather tall foreigner, she was the one who was driving that V8 thing? Matsumoto replied, “I’m Naga Matsumoto, first time I’m seeing a V8 on the trail, chopped too.”

“It’s called a ute, pretty common where I come from, over the pond, in the land down unda’ (Eng) ” Briefly speaking in seemingly bastardised English as she points back to her blue ute with the rather race-like aero kit at the front.

“Your accent is impressive for a foreigner. Are you planning on racing it?” Pointing at the spare tyres and petrol canisters in the bed of the ute. “Yeah, ya see those two arguing love birds” Snickering quietly, “I saved those two cars quite regularly ya know. And thanks to me, they don’t have to worry about any breakdowns anytime soon”

“Sorry for causing the trouble,” as he scratches his head, with Ryuuko apologising, “Yeah, thanks to him, for making fun of me…” As the two momentarily look gazes again, Ellie shakes her head, face palming. “Sorry…” Kento pausing slightly flustered. The sudden sincere apology, caught her off guard as the two yet again, are caught up in their ‘affair’.

“I take it that the bumper scars are a trademark of the club, eh?” Chucking after the altercation between the members, Matsumoto ran his hand gently across the rear bumper of Ryuuko’s car. “I think you’ll be helping me out sooner or later as well.”

“I can show you under the bonnet if you’d like.” Reaching her hand toward the bonnet release wired under the centre console. Matsumoto anticipated seeing the racer’s equipment under the bonnet. Lifting the bonnet, Ryuuko said in a muted voice “There was once an 8-valve engine here, I blew it somewhere over…” Pointing her finger at a distant corner on the mountain pass. Matsumoto noticed the new valve cover and exhaust manifold “That’s not the case anymore, huh” Moving out of the moonlight, a 20 Valve emblem on the matte-black engine cover lit up.

“I kinda blew that engine while practicing for a race. I was saving up for this engine for a while after that.” Lifting the tag from the engine lift point, the word “GROUP-A” could be made out, pressed into the metal. “You even gave it a gigantic turbo, props.” Ryuuko blushed as the seemingly magazine-famous street racer complimented her car at every chance he got.

Kento stepped in and asked, “Tokai told me that you found your car deserted at the bottom of a hillside path, or something.” Leaning on his car, Kento started once more, “I got this ol’ girl from my pops” as he pointed to the classical 80s styling, a rather long car for the touge. “It’s a 1982 Suisei Ken GT, it was quite the killer back then, It still drives like a charm. Still holds up well to this day.” Pausing to also look at the many scratches on his car, “These bad boys are my ‘battle scars” slightly smug.

“Those are from you binning your car Kento, not from a battle.” Ryuuko lifting her eyebrow and a slight hint of a smile from her rather calm composure. Kento laughed at the reply, they seem to be close aren’t they, Matsumoto thought… chuckling, Kento popped the bonnet as well, “We’ve all decided to go down the turbo route”

Peering deeper into the engine bay, Naga spots the 5th and 6th cylinders. “Another straight-six, love it.” Turning toward Kento Matsumoto asks him, “What sort of power are you making?”

“360hp last time I checked when I got the new turbo, and apparently engine wise it said 380bhp. I’m pretty happy about this, I can send this car sending around the touge on the uphill very easily for a heavy car.” Touching the still warm engine.

Peering deeper into the Suisei’s engine bay, Matsumoto commented, “That’s quite some power, if you’ve managed that from 2.6 litres or less I’m actually quite embarrassed to say mine makes only 330 at the crank.”

“Though my engine is pretty laggy, from the paper graph the guy printed out. It’s quite a big turbo I mounted. Had to get basically a new set to support the new setup.” Pointing at the beefy intercooler and intake housing, fairly messy and amateurish. “It gets the job done. Not the prettiest setup.”

Tokai once again walked up to Matsumoto and sheepishly asked, “Mind if we see under the bonnet of your car?”

Turning around, away from the group Matsumoto started walking toward the flashy four-door. All members started following him, anticipating something big.

Reaching for the two separate bonnet latches, Matsumoto commented “You might want to lower your expectations a bit, it’s really nothing that special…”

The aluminium bonnet lifted without much effort, revealing the 2.6 litre six.

Noticing a bundle of metallic shielded tubing coming from the front bumper, Kento pointed and asked “What’s that supposed to do, it’s just hanging off the front bumper, right?”

Grinning slightly, Matsumoto said “Oil cooler. It’s the gold thing hanging off the bumper. This engine had problems with oil cooling even before tuning. The only annoyance in an otherwise superb engine. As you can see I’ve dealt with that in quite an… Agricultural fashion.”

Tokai commented on the “330” sticker hanging off the exhaust manifold “What does 330 mean? Is it some production number or…?”

Matsumoto reaches for the pocket inside his bomber jacket and pulls out the very magazine his car was featured in. Right on the front page, written in bold was “330PS!”
Continuing, Matsumoto remarked “The car was tuned at TR-RACING, as you probably know. All of their builds are hand-made and one-off.”

While the rest of the group was nerding out at the engine, Matsumoto stepped inside the car and yelled “Clear prop!” before firing up and revving the engine.
The signature smoothness of the engine meant Matsumoto could balance a coin on its side at the top of the valve cover.

Kento pointed toward the seemingly intricately-crafted rollcage and remarked “This girl can take quite a few screw ups by the looks of it…”

Chuckling, Naga replied “You remember Lancia’s team in the heyday of Group B rally? The most intense battle in the history of motorsport, Lancia vs. Audi.” Kento nodded. “Well they had to have roll cages for safety regulations, but the team’s leader deemed them too heavy. You wanna know what they did?” All of the other racers had turned to Matsumoto now. “They made it out of bloody cardboard…”

The group was stunned. Ryuuko asked “Is… Is that a cardboard roll cage…”
Everyone but Ellie burst out laughing. An obviously very high-effort car… with a cardboard rollcage?

“Oh that’s a shame” Knocking on the rollbar of the Ute, “Now this is a rollbar.”

Kento shook hands with Naga, “Nice meeting you, we’d like to take you to a race some time if that’s not a problem…”
Naga replied “Oh… sure, not like I’ve got much to do in the meantime.”

The group all headed back to their cars. The sound of four high-performance engines revving and tyres peeling was a welcome change in his otherwise mundane life.
In the rearview, Kento saw The tall racer wave to them before fading out behind the dark corner.

His early-generation digital clock now reading 00:43, Matsumoto slammed the 5-speed into gear and dropped the clutch before speeding down Mt. Haruna.

ABOUT

Heading out for a leisurely stroll up Mt. Haruna’s infamously beautiful forests and walkways, Matsumoto spots an ominous sight. Laying half-buried in the damp leaves is a 1986 Fukorami Clarin.
It looked as though other people have tread here before Matsumoto, the car was covered in graffiti and the interior was full of notes. The car had lost all its former majesty, it was now nothing more than an eyesore.

Matsumoto has always had a fascination with the brand, and more specifically this very car. It represented the finest in Japanese engineering at the time, packed with advanced features.
As an accomplished street racer, Matsumoto had a thought…

Due to the legislations in his prefecture, Matsumoto was able to submit a request to retrieve the seemingly abandoned car. After a month or so of nobody claiming the car, Matsumoto towed the car out of the thick forest.

After a deep and thorough clean, the car turned out to be in almost impeccable condition. Everything except for the engine and rear subframe were spotless.
Matsumoto set out on mission to restore the car to its former glory.

After installing a new subframe and fixing what little rot the chassis had, the interior was stripped and light-weight replacements were fitted. The car had been taken to TR-RACING after the easy-to-install items were fitted.

The car was fitted with chassis reinforcements, an aluminium bonnet and front wings, upgraded brakes, shocks and springs as well as an upgraded variant of the car’s original 2.6 straight-six which was now tuned to produce 320bhp.
After the part upgrades, TR-RACING fitted a Suzuka bodykit to the car, topping of the build.

The car, now garnished with the JVNIPER emblem, was the fastest Clarin ever conceived. the silky-smooth 2.6 litre 6 cylinder and 5-speed manual gearbox meant the car could go from 0-60 in nearly 4.5 seconds.
The interior was left spartan, the luxurious leather and mahogany trimming was thrown to the bin in place of lightweight plastic and fibre glass. The wheels were milled from a single piece of aluminium and took 3 months to complete.
Its stratospheric sticker would’ve surely put every other builder off, but Matsumoto was ready to pay.

After getting his car featured in a renowned Japanese tuning magazine, Matsumoto was satisfied.

S_U_C_C_U_L_E_N_T · 16 November 2021 14:55

1991 Hinode Carrier Super Deluxe "AHOY!"

The Story

Yokosuka, 1974

It was a bright summer’s day, a young couple and their daughter visited the Mikasa museum ship. The daughter was rather excited, running about the ship and admiring its many features. An hour later, the family left the ship. Looking back at the Mikasa, the daughter told her parents,

“I want a ship like that. I’m gonna sail the seven seas and rule the oceans!”

Her parents laughed it off, of course. She’s still a child after all. But the daughter knew that she wanted to rule the seas one day, no matter the cost.

Susono, 1993

Misato (not her real name) is a nun serving at a local church on the hillsides of Susono, Japan. Some say that before she started to spread the word of God, she had been an idol, performing in several concerts. However, she left the business several years ago due to unknown reasons. Only God knows why, and only He knows if the rumours are even true.

The church where she served was a rather modest one, with a handful of pews and a confession booth. Still, the church had a decent amount of visitors, even if they were mostly old people. As the years went by, however, some of them stopped showing up. Eventually, nobody came to mass. But the old priest and Misato kept the church running, perhaps waiting for a visitor.

But just like the other regulars, the time had come for the old priest. He died of natural causes one evening with no one but Misato by his deathbed. Before he died, however, the priest gave Misato a pair of keys.

“When I finally return to the Father, open the cabinet in my office.” he said, “What’s in there is yours, please use it the way you see fit. You’re still quite young, Misato. I appreciate all that you’ve given to your church, but you should go out there and pursue your dreams.”

“Dreams, huh?” Misato thought.

Misato stood in front of a wooden cabinet in the priest’s office. She inserted the key and opened the door. Misato was surprised. All this time, the priest had been living a very modest life, donating the church’s earnings to charity and only keeping what is necessary for food and utilities. Yet the cabinet is filled to the brim with stacks of bills. Misato took one bundle out.

“Good Lord.” she thought, “They’re all 10,000 yen bills!”

Closing and locking the cabinet, Misato sat on the priest’s chair to collect her thoughts. The cabinet could easily contain tens of millions of yen. But what to do with all that money? On one hand, Misato wanted to give the money to charity, to help others in need. But the priest’s dying words weight heavily on her. What were her dreams? What does she want to achieve? Was it fame? Money? Well, she has that now. And then she remembered her time at the Mikasa, with its impressive guns, funnels, and hinomaru flag.

“Not even this much money can get me a ship like that!” she chuckled.

Misato was still confused on what to do with the money and so to help her decide, Misato exited the office and went towards the driveway where a car was parked, covered in tarp. She removed the tarp, revealing a 1991 Hinode Carrier Super Deluxe that one of the wealthy churchgoers (who stopped visitng just a few months after that) donated for the church’s use. The van had a top-of-the-line 3.4l 6-cylinder engine and AWD, along with a 5-speed manual transmission and a posh interior. Just a few years ago, Misato would drive the priest and the churchgoers to religious events but the van was driven less and less as the visitors dwindled.

Misato opened the door (which, remarkably, was unlocked) and turned the ignition on for the first time in a few months before driving towards the mountains.

When Misato first signed up to serve at the church, she swore that she would dedicate her life to serving others in stark contrast to the selfish nature of her previous job. She was happy to serve God, but she felt like something was missing in her life. After a few hours of driving on the winding mountain roads, Misato decided to stop for a drink. She had expected the rest area to be empty, but that night there were a group of modified sports cars and their owners socializing.

“Street racers, huh?” Misato thought.

Misato exited her car and walked towards the parked cars, inspecting the lot. There were many different cars, including a Quezon Laguna, Hinode MID2, Homura GT2000i SAV just to name a few. As Misato looked around, one of the drivers noticed her and called her out.

“Hey!” the driver called.

Misato, having little interaction with people younger than her, jumped in shock.

“Wanna join us tonight?” the driver asked, “Don’t worry miss, we’re only here to have fun driving!”

“O-oh sorry b-but I have other things t-to attend to!” Misato stammered, backing off from the driver.

“Come on, miss!” the driver said, “It’s just a short drive! It’ll be fun! Besides, don’t you think that your ordinary life is boring?”

Then it hit Misato. Sure, she was happy. But her life was boring! All she did was clean the church and run a few errands for the priest. She served others, but never herself. Maybe, just maybe, street racing can bring her the thrill that she needed in her life.

“You know, actually, can I join you?” Misato asked.

“Sure!” the driver replied, “Come, I’ll show you to my car.”

The driver guided Misato to his modified 1982 Hinode Capeta. It had a lip and a wing up back, and had considerably bigger and wider wheels than the Capetas that Misato normally saw. The insides were stripped and the seats were horrible. But Misato bore with it, hoping to see if street racing could satisfy her need for thrill.

And without ado, the Capeta headed towards the exit and began its run though the mountain pass. The driver and his Capeta did just about anything a normal car shouldn’t: it went at speeds a few times above the limit, dove into corners, and sometimes even slid, screeching the tyres and leaving marks on the road. It was terrifying. It was nauseating. Misato could’ve died that night, but she loved it. This was it. This was the thrill that was missing from her life in the church.

The Capeta returned to the rest area and parked back at its previous spot.

“Phew!” the driver exclaimed, “That was fun! How was it for you, miss?”

Misato was hyperventilating in excitement with a big wide grin on her and a blush on her face.

“Ten years I served the Lord.” Misato said excitedly, “And I have never been this excited, ever.”

“Well, that’s great to hear!”

“I thought that I should continue my life serving Him and spreading the gospel… But this… This is the way forward for me!”

Misato unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the door.

“Thanks for the ride, young man! I know exactly what to do with my life now!”

Misato exited the car and ran straight to the van, much to the bewilderment of the driver. And with that, Misato fiinally knew what to do with her life going forward: drive fast cross the mountain passes and conquer Japan’s roads.

Misato drove back to the church to rest for the night. The next morning, she took some of the preist’s money and drove to a local garage, intending to turn the van to a lean and mean street racing machine. The owner of the garage was bewildered by the idea and is concerned about Misato’s lack of experience, but he believed in the idea and decided to build the car while teaching Misato how to properly handle it. Misato learned quickly and practiced almost every night. By early 1994, Misato had learned the ropes and was doing quite decently for a van on the mountain passes.

The Car

The Carrier has been modified extensively for the touge. The body panels, for instance, were replaced with fiberglass parts to reduce weight. Misato also removed the rear seats and entertainment systems from the back of the van (although she kept the radio and the speakers up front) and replaced the driver’s seat with a racing-style bucket seat.

To help move the stripped box, Misato slapped a turbo onto the 3.4l 6-cylinder engine which now produces 460hp which is sent to all four wheels. The brakes were also enlarged to help stop the car and the suspension was lowered and stiffened to help the Carrier corner better. An aerodynamic bodykit was also installed to help provide downforce. Being a van, however, the Carrier still retained its solid rear axle and body-on-frame construction which isn’t particularly common for cars on the touge.

The dull-looking van was resprayed maroon, with gold accent and gold wheels. Misato also applied heart logos and AHOY! decals onto the car. When asked where the logo came from, she only said “Wait another 26 years”, whatever that may mean.

These upgrades were not cheap, but it was most certainly a good way to spend the money that the priest left Misato with. And of course, it brought the excitement that Misato had been missing in the past few years.

Gallery

The original van (ignore the doors yeah I made this one after the wangan version that the touge van was based on)

Urke101 · 16 November 2021 18:17

oh yes.

Maverick74 · 16 November 2021 18:17

What’s up with the JVNIPER entries? Was that a five way collaboration?

chichicoofisial · 16 November 2021 22:19

float like a butterfly sting like a Bee or smth like that idk

Texaslav · 17 November 2021 03:56

Akira Aizawa and his 1989 Arlington Foxhound

The Man

30-year-old Akira Aizawa has always felt like he needed more space. Between intrusive parents and teachers, never-ending expectations, and the reality of holding a well-paying job in a big city, he felt that he would live and die smothered by everything and everybody. Where other people might have envied cowboy movie protagonists because they were 'cool' or whatever, Akira only coveted their apparent ability to be left alone whenever they so desired. Western protagonists rode horses, so Akira - after getting that job that his family was pushing him towards for *all 23 years of his goddamn life* - got a steed of his own as soon as possible. It was a beat-up, base-model 1979 coupe, but hey, it'd do. First thing Akira did with the car was get in one night and drive as far out of town as possible. In the 4 hours that he sped away before realizing he'd need to turn back to make it to work the next day, he covered 220 miles, escaping not only the city, but the prefecture, too. Fast forward 5 years: Akira had learned concepts such as "drifting" and "touge", and is happier for it. Normally he'd never voluntarily join *yet another community to conform to*, but if it's a community of people who live on their own terms, then it's fine. He was also the owner of a car most unusual by Japanese standards: a 1989 Arlington Foxhound GS.

The Machine

Mr. Aizawa got the Foxhound for cheap as a lightly-used car in 1990. It has a debored and destroked Japanese-special version of Arlington's V6 engine that coped better with Japanese tax regulations, displacing 3 liters. The next year, Akira found out the Arlington was launching an all-out track version of the same muscle car called the Dominator, and - as it had zero chances of ever coming to Japan - he decided to make an even better one as a project. The base GS's drivetrain was strengthened for the build and the rear seats were replaced with... well... Scaffolding. The hardest part was sourcing the engine: while Akira was able to upgrade the 3.0 for the time being, his real objective was to convince a dealer to sell him an American-spec engine. Only in 1994 did this dream become a reality, and after some tuning and a stroker crank, Akira Aizawa's car has a 5.7-liter V8 with over 400 horsepower. Yep, practicing with this thing was *not* fun.

HybridTronny · 17 November 2021 04:42

Time's Over...

Odawara, Afternoon, 20th July 1994

“So, we have 38 newbies that are interested in our club. No more and no less and that’s final, is it right, Yui?” Tanaka asked to Yui while other club members which is Yanagi and Erin in Yui’s apartment.

“Yeah, those numbers are final and no more forms from others now.” Yui replied.

“Good, now we can prepare on our event or something for the recruitment at Mt.Hakone.” Tanaka said.

“Well…” Yanagi added while others looked at him curiously.

“Mt.Hakone is not available because there was some sort of construction work halfway up on the route. I suggest we should do Mt.Haruna and it’s pretty quiet road there too.” Yanagi said.

The groups chatters in agreement after Yanagi’s explanation. “So, Yui. You should tell the newbies the course has changed to Mt.Haruna and as in for others, just make sure the police and civilians are out of that course, just don’t end in violence or something. Looking at you, Erin.” Tanaka gave the eye at Erin.

“Yeah yeah whatever, i won’t beat up a poor man trying to get through the road next time.” Erin said while crossing her arm and chewing gum.

As time passed by, the group continued discussing about the event and such untill night with each person leaving Yui’s house as time goes on.

Submission is now closed! May expect review in a few days and such

Xepy · 17 November 2021 05:07

From @Xepy and @chiefzach2018

Zacspeed ONE Turbo

"Astora"

Driver

The driver is Takahashi Rin (高橋凛), who works for a car importer of foreign automobiles. While Rin had much love for what was available domestically, it was those that was foreign, dominating internationally that truly captured the heart. And while professional racing was out of Rin’s reach by the time a suitable automobile was obtained, the passion for it had never died…

Details

Derived from the highly successful Zacspeed ONE race cars, the roadcar versions were always known to keep its racing soul no matter the road worthy regulations thrown at them. This Astora tuned example is no different, though it is very much more of a street tune than full on track spec. The interior has not been totally stripped back, with the rather barebones stereo still intact. What has changed is its engine, now producing 429 horsepower from its 3.0l turbo boxer-six. The aero, as wild as it looks, is factory spec equipment like the other Zacspeed ONE models of previous years. Suspension and brake tuning has been touched upon, to enhance upon its sharp handling.

Painted a striking metallic purple, its only mark of tuning is the fancy white stripe, baring the name of the tuning house where it has came: Astora.

Gallery

abg7 · 17 November 2021 08:11

I just edited the post showing my entry to include a hidden spoiler about its driver and the list of mods it has been fitted with - so don’t forget to click on the spoiler to find out more.

Anyway, the entry list contains a diverse and formidable list of cars - I can’t wait to see which one will come out on top!

Tzuyu_main · 17 November 2021 10:22

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PROLOGUE

June 1993

The waves crashed and slid up the pale golden sands of the orient, and in the sky an auburn burst encircled the rising sun that now began its gradual plummet into the sea. An otherwise serene maritime chorus was drowned out by the grating ambience of car horns, untold millions of white collars and students making their daily commute home, hissing air brakes of buses, a private jet or two soaring overhead, and the hustle and bustle of the lively patrons of the bar that Albert Stingray-Liu happened to end up in at this odd hour of the afternoon. He rested his head on hands, staring down the half-full glass of shitty sake that equally stared back through the visage of his distorted reflection. Today was one of the few free days he could take solace in through his otherwise busy week, but unfortunately, it just so happened that none of his friends shared a similar gap in their schedules.

Albert quickly glanced around the bar, but to his dismay, there wasn’t a single single woman in sight. Combined with the quickly-setting shamefulness of drinking in the middle of the goddamn day, he slid a couple of thousand yen to the bartender and strolled outside. A deep breath of outside air replaced the lingering taste of secondhand cigarette smoke with the smoke of leaded gasoline and the salt of the beach not fifty meters from where he stood. The contemporary funk/soul from the bar was whisked away with the seaside breeze as he started walking along the sidewalk parallel with the unusually busy seafront. As he started making his way back to where he parked his car, something in the corner of his eye caught his attention. Something quite bountiful, if not prodigious. Even without dedicating the full extent of his mental faculties, Albert could never forget that unmistakable shape after having seen so many unique sets all over the world.

Everything about it was perfect, from the way the rubber stretched around tightly and hugged its impossibly round, symmetric shape, and the dull sheen of its albedo and how it glistened in the dying sunlight. A smile spreading across his face, Albert walked right up to it and leaned in, feeling its smooth texture and fading grooves under his fingertips. To his surprise, they were still warm to the touch. “Who the hell ruins a perfectly good pair of rims with these bald-ass tires?” he remarks to nobody in particular. The car attached to the rims in particular was some green Fukorami landboat with an extremely gaudy bodykit and even tackier paint and trim. Given the state of the tires, he figured this thing had to be packing something impressive under the hood.

But one thing he knew for sure was that it was nowhere near as impressive as the size of the bust on the girl playing volleyball off in the distance that now caught his full attention. In the four, maybe five cumulative years he’d spent throughout Japan and the United States tallying up one-night stands and girlfriends that would last for weeks at most, Albert had never seen a bigger pair on any American woman, let alone any Japanese woman. The way they arced graceful paths in the air against their fabric restraints as she leapt up to counter a spike made his head light, pupils dilate, knees weak, palms sweaty, and scleras almost visibly bulging. Whatever remained of his manners or composure he could easily maintain 98% of the time around other women instantly went out the window after having caught a passing glimpse of this unusually stacked volleyball-smacking chick.

As Albert’s instincts slowly devolved towards that of a primate’s, he realized that she was actually looking back at him, pulling him out of his daze. Shouting, in fact, not just to anyone but to him in particular. Before he could even piece together the words coming from her mouth, the rapidly-approaching volleyball emerging from the upper periphery of his vision filled in whatever blanks were still left. “Oh shit-” he choked, but it was already too late. The final vision of spherical objects embedded in his retinae were not those attached to the chest of the woman, but that of the volleyball smashing his nose into the back of his throat.

Albert was stirred to consciousness some unknown time later, his ass on the sun-kissed sands and his head resting on a pair of firm, warm thighs. The taste of iron was still strong in his mouth and his nose was throbbing with a dull pain, but after briefly recollecting the events leading up to these unusual circumstances, he could finally take notice of the four figures staring down at him from above; one was the girl with the sizeable bust, her hair loosely tied in a ponytail that fell past her face and shone dark brown. The next girl, noticeably worried, wore round-rimmed glasses that were just slightly too big for her, but looked cute. Compared to the last girl, she was quite lacking in a certain department, although Albert wasn’t discriminatory when it came to that.

What caught his eye in particular was a very foreign and even more ginger girl, who was shining a penlight right in his eyes. “Ow! Hey!” Albert snapped, bringing a hand in front of his face to block the blinding light. “Stop shining that shit in my face!”

“Well, at least he isn’t concussed,” the ginger nodded as she pocketed her flashlight. Albert rubbed his aching eyes, taking extra care to not touch his sensitive nose that was absolutely destroyed just moments ago.

“You got hit pretty hard back there, how are you feeling?” came a fourth, deeper voice, this time from directly above Albert. Looking up, his eyes met with Kento’s. That’s when he realized that the set of thighs his head was laying on wasn’t belonging to any of the three girls. He was fucking laying on Kento’s lap. His firm, warm, toned, hairy thighs that tickled the back of Albert’s neck.

“Fuck!” Horrified, Albert quickly shot up and rose to his feet, brushing the sand off himself and any of Kento’s loose leg hairs that could’ve stuck to the back of his head. “I mean, yeah, I’m fine. Have an absolute bitch of a headache but I’ve had worse hangovers. Who threw that ball?”

The ginger was about to open her mouth, but stopped short. Everyone slowly turned and looked at the glasses-wearing girl, who after having four pairs of eyes look at her in varying stages of accusation, looked like she was either about to break down or run away in pure shame. Both the ginger and stacked girl glanced at one another, snickering, while Kento chuckled nervously and took one step back, as if to absolve himself of any responsibility regarding this unfortunate and extremely unlucky volleyball mishap.

Had it been anyone else, Albert probably would’ve already swiftly administered a backhand to the party at fault, but something in his conscience ultimately made him think twice about bitchslapping some random girl who probably just made a honest mistake. “You know what? Don’t worry about it,” he sighed with a wave of his hand, turning to leave. Suddenly, a wave of pain returned and coursed through his entire head, causing him to freeze in his tracks and croak out a faint “motherf…!” in agony.

“Maybe you should have a seat here for a while, so you don’t suddenly clock out and fall into oncoming traffic or something,” the ginger suggested. “In any case, nobody’s walking off a direct volleyball hit from Tokai that easily. Ellie, by the way, and there’s Kento and Ryuuko.”

“Ell… Ken… Ryuu… uhhh, Tokai? Albert, by the way.” His feet started to wander away from under him, and as Albert muttered their names in an attempt to commit them to memory, he realized he was starting to feel a little dizzy as well, probably from the drinks he had earlier that day.

Ellie seemed to notice even this most minute change in stability. “Want a drink?” she offered.

“Oh. Just water’s fine. Thanks.”

“Tokai, maybe keep an eye on Albert for a quick sec and make sure he doesn’t slip into a coma or anything, aye?” Ellie suggested, before turning away and jogging back to what appeared to be her car, a half coupe half truck affront to god that Albert had never seen before. Ryuuko stole a very slightly mischievous look towards Kento, and without any warning, kicked a bare foot full of sand right up his shorts.

“Oh, you bitch!” Kento growled, pursuing Ryuuko into the water as she took off laughing, ponytail dancing behind her in sync with her strides over the hot white sands. Ellie briefly stopped by to give Albert a bottle of water before chasing after Kento and Ryuuko, leaving Albert and Tokai alone by the volleyball net.

“Does it still hurt?” Tokai suddenly breaks the silence as Albert takes a voluminous swig of his bottle of all-natural spring water.

“Like a motherfucker.” Albert groaned and leaned back against the cold steel of the volleyball net pole, resting his outstretched arms on his knees. He sat next to Tokai on soft mounds of finely-ground minerals that crumbled underfoot.

“I’m… really sorry about that…” Tokai spoke after another unusual pause, her voice audibly wavering. From the corner of his eye, Albert could even see her slightly bow her head.

“No, don’t worry about it,” Albert sighed, waving it off. “I’m more surprised how you managed to completely miss and spike it all the way right in my face, though. Do the three of you come here often?”

“Not always… whenever our schedules are clear.” Albert couldn’t just hear the tension in Tokai’s voice. He could even see it from the way her shoulders barely scrunched up and even how the skin on her inner forearms indented against her knees as she hugged them close to her chest.

“How do you all know each other, anyways?” Albert asked, hoping that focusing less on Tokai herself and more on the group as a whole would help.

“Ah! Well, it was sort of by accident… Kento was doing runs in Myōgi one night and had a minor crash. If it wasn’t for Ryuuko, it would’ve ended up a lot worse for him. Ellie is Ryuuko’s friend, and she helped pull Kento’s car out of the ditch. And as for me… I happened to run into Ryuuko the other night and we drove together for a bit.” Tokai’s posture gradually loosened and she even started to make eye contact with Albert at times, although not for long. Still a start, though.

“Mountain pass runs?” Albert chuckled. “That’s cute. I thought they’d have cracked down on it by now. So is it more of a casual date night thing or something more serious?”

“D- date night?”

“I’m just fucking with you.”

“To be honest… we’re not really experts. Kento’s technique especially is very sloppy, and Ryuuko’s on her second engine already… we’re the opposite of the likes of the High Noon club. I haven’t been driving for long, either…”

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Albert shrugged. “But what do you get out of it?”

“…” Tokai remained silent, staring a thousand miles past the sunset and her friends that straddled the edge of the ocean.

“Was that a bit loaded? You don’t have to answer that-”

“No, i-it’s okay…” said Tokai. “It’s because of them. They may not be the best, or have the nicest cars… they’re far from perfect in many ways, but they’re still my friends. I wouldn’t give up anything for them. Not even for a spot on High Noon.”

“You sure about that?”

“…”

“I’m just kidding.” Albert reached up and ran his fingers through his hair in an attempt to brush the sand off. “Friends? Doesn’t get much cheesier than that… but that’s something I’d drink to.”

The two of them watching the sun paint an auburn and magenta canvas over the evening sky. Under the colors of the waning day, Ryuuko, Ellie, and Kento fucked about in the foamy waters that danced and coursed around their ankles, returning splashes with retaliatory splashes.

“It’s getting a bit late, isn’t it… where do you live?” Tokai suddenly asked.

“Somewhere far enough… I think I’ll just crash at some low rate business hotel for the night. I really don’t feel like driving back like this, nor do I want to take the train and come back and get my car tomorrow.” Albert looked at his watch and sighed. It was getting pretty late, near the closing times for most of the public transport services he would need to get home. “God…”

Albert painfully rose to his feet, carefully unfolding his knees and brushing the sand off his faded red floral shirt and ass.

“Actually…” Tokai suddenly spoke up, stopping Albert right in his tracks. “I- I do have a room for the weekend. You can stay the night if you want.”

“That’s a really generous offer for a guy you’ve just met,” Albert remarked. He turned back to look at Tokai. Usually, he would rarely reject such an offer from a woman, since the nature of these invitations almost always led to an inevitable hookup. Not this time, however. Something about her was very different from all but one of the women he’d slept with through the years. Whereas any other woman would’ve turned up his libido to 11, Tokai was starting to awaken something different within Albert… along with his drive, of course, for his tastes were as varied as they were cultured.

“I can’t just let you go after what happened. What if you get hurt?” Tokai sprung to her feet and stood before Albert. At her full height, she was just under Albert’s nose, from which dark, congealed streaks of blood flowed and caked the corners of his mouth and chin. “Please.”

Albert really wasn’t bothered by the fact that he got beaned right in the nose by a volleyball that might as well have been going at mach 3, but Tokai clearly was. He also didn’t feel like making her feel any worse than she probably was currently. He reached into his pocket and felt the jingle of his Aerobyte’s keys, which he thankfully parked at a free spot with a generous time limit.

He sighed, as if in contemplation and weighing decisions in his mind, but he’d already made up his mind. “Ah, fuck it. Why not. Where are you staying again?”

ABOUT

Albert Stingray-Liu is a Hong Kong-born, Japan-and-California-grown mechanical engineer with dreams of fast cars and fast women. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he spent the better half of the 80s traveling between Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States, dabbling in finance, partying, and participating in questionably legal street racing rings, where he could properly exercise his engineering expertise to tune cars and fabricate custom performance parts.

Albert eventually found work with tuning company PERFORMANCE WORKS RENOWN (PWR). He purchased this 1994 Seikatsu Aerobyte Turbo NX+ brand new. With an entire tuning company’s facilities and assets at his disposal, he used his car as a testbed for developing new products and as his own personal vehicle.

Albert started his work by lowering the Aerobyte on new sport-tuned coilovers and springs and installing magnesium racing wheels wearing 265mm section tires. He designed a new aero kit including a new front bumper, lip, side skirts, diffuser, and underbody cladding. The R30SJN-P turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 3-liter inline 6 was extensively modified to produce 370hp, a “94hp” increase from its factory rating. Not much was removed from the interior, as it was already well-optimized in terms of weight reduction.

Although the Aerobyte is a very capable machine on paper, it still has much to prove. Albert wants to properly forge a name for himself and establish a reputation, this time in the underground street racing scene of Japan.

GALLERY

BannedByAndroid · 17 November 2021 12:59

And I thought I’ve made a good intro…love this challenge and the creativity everyone is doing out there.

HybridTronny · 17 November 2021 13:10

Review Part 1

Mt.Haruna Parking Lot, Afternoon, 3rd August 1994

A white Steurmann SC-300 can be seen parked at the parking lot at the nearby shop with 2 people can be seen hanging out.

“So, where are they, babe? We’ve been waiting for 5 minutes now and they’re supposed to come here well, like 5 minutes ago??” Tanaka said to Yui with angry tone.

“Calm down, dingus. You expect them to teleport here out of nowhere? Just wait for a bit, man. I know you’re excited for new people but take your chill pill or whatever” Yui replied while reading a magazine while waiting for the contestant. Suddenly, roars of engine can be heard from distance meaning they have arrived.

“Ah talking about good timing.” Tanaka then took a few steps towards the sound but got blocked by Yui as she threw her magazine to his face.

“I’ll the honours, my dearest prince.” Yui gave the sweetest smile to Tanaka, giving a signal to Tanaka to not interrupt the greet while Tanaka gave disgusted face to her. Five of the contestants parked their car and some of the drivers greet each other.

Yui does the clap to get the crowd’s attention “Alright guys, welcome to qualification of our club and don’t be nervous, we’re not werewolfs or something.” Yui said to the contestants.

“Well, she is a werewolf.” Tanaka chuckled but then got thrown pebbles by Yui. “Ow, ow! Alright jeez.”

“Try to act professional.” Yui gave the look to Tanaka and Tanaka was startled by the look from her. “Anyways, I’m Yui and that guy is Tanaka, the leader of this club. He is evaluator or whatever to see if you guys are qualified for this or not. He will sit in with you in your cars during your run to evaluate on how good your car is for our club. Without any wasting our time, we shall start now.”

@Aruna - Python Type-S

“First up, Python Type-S. Tanaka, you can go now.” Yui welcoming Tanaka to hop in to the car.

Tanaka and the Python driver hopped in to the car and Tanaka were certainly impressed this car’s interior.

“Bare-bone, just like how i like it. Anyways, you can go to the marked starting line and do your magic now.” Tanaka asked to the Python driver.

With the car lined-up on the finish line, Yui with a handkerchief on her hand, representing the starting flag.

“3…2…1…Go!” Yui waved the handkerchief to the car and off the Python goes. Python barely does a burnout but gave a great start off the line. The small 1.0L inline 6 screams at high RPM as the car goes down the course. A few minutes later and one hillclimb later, two of them came back to the parking lot.

“And what’s your verdict, Tanaka?” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“My verdict is, this car is just godly at cornering but it lack of speed for Hakone Turnpike course. Other than great handling, the driver seems not struggling at handling the car despite it’s MR. Other than that, since it’s a bare-bone sports car, i feel okay-ish in terms of comfort in the car.” Tanaka gave the verdict to Yui while she wrote down the important notes in her notebook.

“So, is it a yes or a no?” Yui asked.

“It’s a yes to me.” Tanaka smiled and gave a friendly bump fist to Python driver. “You can hang out more with us or feel free to leave.”

@interior - Schnell N50 LSi

“Ah great, bricks on wheels…” Tanaka looked at the car while the driver just looked at him confusedly.

“What if it’s a great car for touge, babe? Who knows.” Yui said to Tanaka. “Now get in there and review it as a passenger.”

Tanaka and the Schnell driver hopped in to the car and NA 4.2 V8 roars as the car starts up.

“V8, not bad.” Tanaka gave the approved look to the driver. “Alright, just drive to the starting line and Yui will give you the countdown.” Tanaka said to the driver while pointing to the starting line.

“3…2…1…Go!” Yui waved her handkerchief and the car launched with some minor wheelspin but yet another great start. The V8 roars down the course as they goes down the course.

Few minutes later, they came back to the parking lot. “So, how was it? What’s your take on this?” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“Felt way more faster than Python but that’s just obvious from the powerful V8 engine in it. It handles good around the corner but not good as Python but i felt some strangeness from this engine. It could produce more horsepower from this yet it just wanted to keep going with more horsepower. Felt fairly standard in terms of comfort for this car but i feel like there’s better option than this car. So, don’t worry you did your best, Mr.Schnell or whatever your name is! Try your luck again next time.” Tanaka said to the Schell’s driver while giving away a business card to him.

“That’s a no then…” Yui crossed the Schnell’s driver name in her notebook.

@inf2 - Lance Mover 2800s street spec

“So… what’s a van doing here? Is he in the list?” Tanaka asked to Yui.

“Let’s see here… Nope, not in the list.” Yui replied.

“Then we are sorry that you had to go, you’re not in the list.” Tanaka gave a friendly tap to the driver and gave a business card to him. “You can try your luck next time.” Tanaka gave a wink and a smile to the driver.

Binned due to the engine name didn’t follow the naming convention

@BannedByAndroid - '87 Zanetti GT240 turbo “White Storm”

“Another mid-ship, eh?” Tanaka walked around the car, just to see how it looks and then he looked at the driver, it was a woman that looked familiar especially her face. Tanaka then walked to Yui to ask about the driver.

“Say… she looks familiar but i can’t put my figure on it. You know who that is, Yui?” Tanaka asked to her curiously.

“… Yeah, it’s just your typical white girl? What, you like her??” Yui was about start to rant to him that she thinks he’s in love with that girl.

“W-what? No, i still love you babe. It’s just… ain’t that girl an undercover cop?” Tanaka said to Yui while trying to stop her to beat him up.

“Undercover cop interested on our club? Ha! Come on, you ain’t that dumb. Why would a cop interested in our club?” Yui and Tanaka suddenly feel into silence after Yui’s banter.

“Yeah, i think we should be careful with that gal.” Tanaka said

“Yeah, agree agree…” Yui replied while pushing Tanaka to her to begin the test. “Now go ahead and don’t think do anything stupid, dearest prince.” Tanaka gave thumbs up to her while he walked to the car and gave signal to the driver that the test is about to start.

As the car lined up at the starting line, Yui raised her handkerchief and began the countdown.

“3…2…1…Go!” as she waved the handkerchief and Zanetti hops off from the starting line with great start. The turbocharged V6 gave some nice exhaust note as the car goes down the line.

One downhill and hillclimb later, the duo arrived to the parking lot.

“So uh… what’s the verdict from that cop?” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“Well for one thing, it’s a damn quick car for a cop car and it handles around the corner like a dream. And one huge problem for this car is, god do i feel like i’m riding in a Flintstones car. I feel barely any comfort in that car. That’s a huge no from me for this car because Python feels better than this car in terms of comfort.”

“Right and that’s a relief that we don’t accept this car…” Yui crossed the driver’s name.

@conan - Mitsushita Boarilla GTi MRP

“Yui, is this parked civilian car or is he interested in our club?” Tanaka asked to Yui confusingly as the car just looks like your average commuter car.

“Well, it’s in the list, babe.” Yui looked at the notebook that she wrote down all of the contestants name from the form that they gave.

“Right, don’t judge the book by it’s cover. It may does well on this course.” Tanaka said it to himself while walking to the driver to start the run.

Cuts to the car at the starting line, Yui raised her handkerchief.

“3…2…1…Go!” Yui waved her handkerchief and the car launched off from the starting line and Tanaka first impression of the car was he didn’t expected this car to be this fast. Like he said earlier, don’t judge the book by it’s cover. The NA 1.6 L4 just loves to scream on high RPM range and Tanaka just love every moment in this car.

As the car came back after the run, Tanaka just gave an instant thumbs up to Yui.

“I know you already fell in love with the car the moment you sat in there but i must know what makes you like it?” Yui said.

“Right, first of all. So far, this car has the best handling out of all those cars. Secondly, pretty comfy for a car like this. Thirdly, can i just say we can fool the cops and other racers with this car?” Tanaka hits the roof of the car.

“And lastly?” Yui asked while she wrote down the notes.

“Lastly, this car got in.” Tanaka replied and Yui nodded and didn’t crossed the name in the list.

“Right, that’s all 5 of them and others are still in the town, waiting for our approval. Shall we call them?” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“Yeah, tell them to get ready and also tell Yanagi down there, only 5 contestants per session. Don’t wanna make a huge crowd here.” Tanaka replied to Yui while grabbing a can of soda in his car and waiting for others too.

Part 1 End, Part 2 Coming Soon...

interior · 17 November 2021 15:49

Very good writing on judgement

Knugcab · 17 November 2021 16:41

Yes, and I must say I like the review format here very much, keep up the good work.

HybridTronny · 26 November 2021 04:22

Review Part 2

“So, i heard this guy at town that sells some imports from all over the world like US and even some Asian cars that we didn’t get! Like this cool Pikemen coupe that they got there, we should check out next time.” Yui said to Tanaka while showing pamphlets from the import dealership that they just mentioned.

“Interesting… could worth to check it out.” Tanaka replied while scanning the pamphlet. “But cars aside, did you know that we can-” Tanaka and Yui’s conversation got interrupted by the 5 contestants that they requested from the town below.

“Oh, here they are. Took long enough.” Yui said but however Tanaka did noticed a familiar car behind the contestants. It’s Erin’s car. She parked the car next to Tanaka’s.

“Erin? What you doing here? I thought you were supposed to keeping out random people getting in here.” Tanaka asked to Erin.

“Oh, don’t you worry. I got my man got them under control.” Erin replied.

“… Who’s your man? Never heard you have a boyfriend.” Tanaka questioned.

“Does it matter, Mr.Tanaka?” Erin gave a stern voice to Tanaka after the questioning.

“Alright, jeez.” Tanaka sighed.

“Well boyfriend aside, how about we start the judgement?” Yui said to them.

@Tez - F&S Seax GTS

“Righto, first car for this batch seems pretty angry. Bet i hope it handles angrily too on this course.” Tanaka gave some comments on this car.

“… Yeah but don’t you think that side mirror is a bit too small and low for driver’s visibility?” Yui asked.

“We die like a true racer.” Erin commented while reading a magazine while Yui and Tanaka turned their back to Erin weirdly.

With Tanaka hopped in to the passenger seat and ready to go downhill, Yui raised her handkerchief to do a countdown.

“3…2…1…GO!” Yui waved her handkerchief and the Seax GTS slams down the gas pedal and the car does some amount of wheelspin down the line.

With the car reached the finish line downhill and came back the uphill parking lot, Tanaka were certainly impressed with the car’s ability.

“Well, you’re seems happy about this car moment when you guys arrived here.” Yui said to Tanaka that had a big smile on his face.

“Well, colour me impress with this car. Everything is impressive with this car. It doesn’t have rock hard suspension yet it’s comfortable for a touge car. That and it handles like it’s on rails and accelerates pretty fast too for a car like this. Liking this car so far.” Tanaka enthusiastically to Yui while she jotted down some notes in her notebook and the driver’s name didn’t get crossed in the list.

@SovietBear - 350 RS-Touge Modified

“Well, ain’t that the most shiny…ness? car that we got here. Boy sure love flakes, eh?” Erin commented on this car while throwing pebbles and rocks down the hill of the parking lot.

“Well, she ain’t wrong. Hoping there is shinyness in terms of performance, ehh? ehhhhhh?” Tanaka bumped his elbow to Yui after the terrible pun that he made while Yui just punched Tanaka’s arm. “Just go and hit the roads, already.” Yui sternly talked to Tanaka.

“Ow! Misses No Fun Allowed here.” Tanaka rubbed his arm while walking to the contestant’s car.

With Tanaka in the 350 RS at the starting line, he gave a thumbs up to Yui as they were ready to go down.

“3…2…1…GO!” Yui waved her handkerchief and the car launched off the line nicely with some wheelspin. With the car went downhill, Erin walked up to Yui.

“You think he will like that golden car? It looks pretty reliable to me.” Erin asked to Yui while looking down the course.

“Well, i don’t know. It may be good but he may prefer other car than this, i don’t know.” Yui replied.

With the car arrived at the parking lot after the downhill time trial, Tanaka got out from the car with Erin and Yui walked up to the car.

“Well, how was it?” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“Yeah how was it?” Erin asked too while crossing her arm.

“Well, it is a good car and…” Tanaka replied while Erin and Yui were eagerly to listened the and part.

“… and i’m satisfied with it. It handles good, pretty comfy and a tad bit better than the car before, i’d say.”

“So, that’s a yes then?” Yui asked.

“Yeah, it’s a yes.” Tanaka replied.

@AndiD - Montebianco 44-300 Pista Evoluzione

“Stubby looking ass car, bet it handles nice too as stubby how it looks, though.” Erin commented on the car.

“Is it me or does this car looks like it has front diffuser…?” Yui asked.

“It does, maybe it’s one of the hidden aero techniques that we didn’t know.” Tanaka said.

“Also, we not gonna comment that this car has Korean plate? Don’t recall you sent a pamphlet all the way to Korea.” Tanaka added.

“Well, i used this magic called the Internet . It has everything from food recipes to-” Yui said while got stopped by Tanaka.

“Alright, alright jeez don’t lecture me like i’m from 12th century. I know what it is. I hope the owner of this car has Japanese plate somewhere in his car.” Tanaka said.

“12th century peasants aside, i heard this is homologation car hence why it has ‘front diffuser’.” Erin added while chewing a gum and offering a gum to Yui and Tanaka.

With Tanaka hopped into the car, they were ready to go downhill and as Yui waved her handkerchief, the car went off the starting line with loud V6 screaming as the car down the hill.

“Bet that car wakes up the whole town.” Erin commented at the car. As the car arrived back up on the parking lot, Tanaka got out from the car.

“So? How’s the car?” Yui asked.

“Well, one it definitely handles nicely around the track. It got an okay comfort although was hoping it to be more comfortable but it’s a homogolated car so what’s there to say? Second, the gearing feels somewhat limited with the driver said it only up to 209km/h. Could go faster than that and not that good for our Hakone Turnpike run. That said, we had to pass on this car. It’s nice but i feel there’s better option than this car.”

Yui then crossed the name off the list.

@Fayeding_Spray - Sakura BM310 HABU SHUUKAN

“What a looker car. Bet that big splitter loves hugging the road during the run.” Tanaka commented on the car’s comically huge front splitter.

“Heh, bet you can chop off people’s foot with that.” Erin commented with a giggle followed by Tanaka.

“Good one, Erin. Say, this car does not seem comfortable at all with bare interior and not so street legal as they claimed.” Tanaka said.

“Yeah yeah, just go into the car and do some review already.” Yui pushed Tanaka towards to the car.

With Tanaka inside of the car at the starting line and as Yui waved her handkerchief, the stupidly loud Boxer 6 screamed down the road.

“Bet that car wakes up the whole country.” Erin commented at the car.

With presumably the car passed the finish line downhill after Yui and Erin heared the driver of that car does some drift u-turn or something, they were suprised that they can still the car.

“Well, i take that back. It can wake the whole galaxy now.” Erin added.

As the car arrived at the parking lot, Tanaka were dizzy from the loud Boxer 6.

“Man, i feel awesome in that car. Stupidly loud engine and just an awesome car in general especially the acceleration and handling of this car. Well except for comfort, i feel like i was sitting in a metal tub although that was the point. Sadly, had to pass on this car with how insane the car is for our club. Too loud and may attract police easily with this car.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the name in the list.

@lotto77 - Shrike SA - 4BTD “Bateman Special”

“Last car for this batch, let’s go, Yui.” Tanaka said to Yui while he was heading to the car.

“Huh, no comments or anything to this car?” Erin asked to Tanaka.

“Saving it for later after doing the run.” Tanaka closed the door and was ready to review the car.

With them in the car and with Yui waved her handkerchief, the car launched off from the starting line with ease and minor wheelspin too. Well thanks to AWD swapped and a beefy V8 swapped from inline 6 which is the original motor of this car. Tanaka were certainly suprised with this engine.

Up and down later, they arrived to the parking lot.

“Right, about the comments on this car, it is definitely a sleeper car which i like. Giving suprises to other people before, during and after touge runs. It may not handling as previous contestants but it handles good for a car like this. But sadly, it suffers the same problem as previous car. Cool and awesome car but felt like i was riding on a rock. Barely any comfort at all. Had to pass on this.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the name off the list. “Well, with that we’re done with 5 people. Kinda hungry right now, shall we head back down and grab some snacks, babe?” Yui asked to Tanaka and Erin.

“Yeah sure, pretty hungry too and while with that, we can call 5 more people up…” Tanaka replied.

“No thanks, i’ve got some snacks in my car and probably beat up some people passing by.” Erin said.

Part 2 End

HybridTronny · 2 December 2021 13:00

Review Part 3

After 3 hours of lunch break, Tanaka and Yui were seen hanging out at the usual parking lot for other 5 batch for the reviewing part.

While Tanaka munching a bag of chips, Yui was seen writing something down in her notebook while glancing at forms on the bonnet of Tanaka’s car and Tanaka noticed her.

“What you writing, babe? A bad fan fiction from some famous movie.” Tanaka giggled while eating chips like a gorilla.

Yui glanced disgustingly at Tanaka’s eating habit. “Well, writing down a note 'cuz Jvniper guys are coming with all the details that they gave from these forms…”

Tanaka spat out the chips from his mouth. “J-Jvniper?? Are they sending a spy for joining our club or something? I’ll teach them a les-” he shouted while got cut by Yui.

“What? They’re gonna send in nukes to our clubhouse?” Yui intercepted while still writing down some notes. “Besides, they’re not fucking terrorist or something. They’re just racers like us, babe. Calm your chips down. They’ll be here in a couple of days from now or so, just letting you know.”

With 5 racers arrived to the parking lot, the couple were ready for do the reviewing part thingy or whatever.

@Mikonp7 - Pfeil Vogtland Coupe Typ B 1982 TeamAdler

Yui and Tanaka looked at the car as if they’ve probably seen it before. Yui pulled out a pic of this car crashed into a ditch

crash rip xd

“Babe, i don’t think this guy is a good driver.” Yui asked to Tanaka.

“Oh shush. They’re not a true driver if they haven’t crashed into a ditch. This one is an expert race car driver, i know it.” Tanaka replied while Yui somewhat nodded with agreement with the Tanaka’s statement.

“But hey atleast we got some doppelganger for our club.” Tanaka said

“Or a cute twin brothers.” Yui giggled and Tanaka just sighed and moved on from that statement.

With Tanaka in the car with the driver at the starting line, Yui does the countdown and the Vogtland launched off from the starting line with a nice amount of wheelspin. The turbocharged small V6 screams down the course.

With the car arrived to the parking lot uphill without any scratches or dent, Yui was surprised that Tanaka and the car were fine and a-okay.

“So, how’s the car and not dying from falling off the cliff?” Yui asked.

“As i were expected, this car and the driver are just god-worthy just like me. It handles like it’s nothing, fast and you know what. For a decked out car, this one has some good comfort in it. This car’s in.”

Yui drew a doodle of thumbs up next to the driver’s name, meaning it’s approved from not dying.

@DuceTheTruth100 - WellsMotorsportDivision

“Babe, look at this and say it out loud.” Yui showed this car’s name to Tanaka from her notebook.

“WellsMotorSportDivison, what a mouthful name and have they not heard of word spacing?” Tanaka confused with the name of this car.

“So apparently a car company were interested in our club, how peculiar.” Yui questioned.

“Probably one of those wacky PR stunts thingy. I sure hope they worked hard on this car.” Tanaka said while getting into the car with the driver.

With all things ready at the starting line, Yui waved her handkerchief and the naturally aspirated V6 revved from the wheelspin it does. With the screaming V6, it is incredibly stupidly loud for a car like this. Yui wasn’t sure if Tanaka would approved of this car or not.

With the car arrived to the parking lot, Tanaka opened the car door and put his hand on the window with Yui walked to him with notebook on her hand.

“Well, how’s for a PR stunt car?” Yui asked.

“Well, for a PR stunt car, it’s not that exciting. I mean it’s not that bad of a car, it’s just an okay car. It handles fine for a car like this but the driver seems struggle on controlling it on some road condition downhill. You know what, it’s similar to our doppelganger before but average compared to this. Had to pass on this car.” Tanaka said to Yui while she was writing down the notes from the blabbers.

Yui crossed the driver’s name on the list.

@fasmukji - Tiffosi Chittai C 6T-2000 ALU

“Another mouthful name to say the name of the car.” Tanaka commented on this car’s name.

“Wanted to look cool and such with that name, babe. Just go with it, really.” Yui said to Tanaka.

“Yeah yeah whatever, i know we’re not live in Blade Runner or Star Wars or whatever. Just go along with it as they said.” Tanaka sarcastically commented and Yui threw pebbles at him afterward and pushed him to get into the car.

With Tanaka in the car and at the starting line, Yui waved her handkerchief and the small 2.0L V6 screamed from the stationary and down the course it went.

Tire screeches and downhill and uphill later, Tanaka got out from the car and gave the review to Yui.

“Well for starter, the driver said this car is homoglated rally car so that’s a plus for cool factor for our club. Second, as cool as the car is, it’s just not good for my taste and for our club. It handles good but not good compared to others previously. The car feels okay-ish with the suspension tune and pretty not comfortable for street legal car like this. Was expecting more comfort from this car. Had to pass on this car.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the name off the list.

@Maverick74 - Ryuji Goemon RS Turbo

“Man, the car looks like a midget compared to these car each other.” Tanaka commented when he looked at this tiny car.

“Yeah, it’s…” Yui looked through the notes about this car in her notebook. “2.2 meter long.”

“Damn, that short? Bet it’s nippy and pretty fun car to drive.” Tanaka commented.

“Well, i do hope you like this car since this is more of your style, babe.” Yui said to him.

As both of the men in the car at the starting line and with the green light, the Goemon RS Turbo revved up the nasty sound of turbocharged 4-cylinder off the line.

Fast forward to them finished the run, Tanaka got out from the car and jogged to Yui where she was chatting with other driver at the parking lot.

“Babe, guess what. I like it. It handles nippy and just love to corner in this small ass car. And for a small car like this, it’s pretty comfortable well granted not comfortable as cars that we accepted earlier but i don’t mind in a car like this. This one passed, babe.”

“Yeah yeah, cool to know.” Yui pulled out her notebook while she was busy talking to other driver and made a check mark next to driver’s name without moving her eyes looking at the notebook and somehow Tanaka was disturbed by this supernatural thing.

@Taffin_Blur - Ernis Omni MK2 Zitrone

“Oh hey this one is decked out and just love the aesthetics of it. Is it from one of the Kanjo club, babe?” Tanaka asked to Yui.

“Well, last time i checked, was owned by an old lady for 2 years and passed down to that young boy. So, nope.” Yui replied while scanning through the notebook for this driver’s info.

“Good, good. A fresh plate for us.” Tanaka commented and headed to get into the car afterward.

With the car off the line with tasty modified turbocharged inline-4 yet pretty quiet for a car like this, Tanaka tried to get impressed by the car as he’s not trusted with Kanjo drivers.

Downhill and uphill runs later, Tanaka commented. “Great looking car and great performance but something feels wrong with this car, it just wanted to push more on cornering yet it just understeers. I dunno how to explain this. Suspension tune feels okay for a car like this although it needs more refining tune on this. Other than that, the engine feels great and alive and i just love how it sounds but sadly the other department isn’t.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the driver’s name.

“Well, with all of those done. Call Yanagi and ask the racers ready to go uphill.” Tanaka said to Yui.

“Alright, let me cal-” Tanaka’s phone was ringing before Yui could finished her sentence.

“Yeah, what’s up? … What? … They’re on the way here? … Crap, why don’t you hold them off? … Yeah yeah, fine we’re off from here.” Tanaka talked to Yanagi on the phone line while Yui looked at him worried.

“Guys! Scramble! Cop’s on the way up here and uh… thanks for coming!” Tanaka shouted at the driver that were hanging out at the parking lot and they all rushed got into their each respective car and flew off from the scene.

With Tanaka and Yui in Tanaka’s car after they ran to it, Tanaka exited the parking lot by reversing the car and off they went from the scene.

Part 3 End

HybridTronny · 11 December 2021 12:50

Review Part 4

Mt.Haruna Parking Lot, Afternoon, 5th August 1994

“Well…” Erin said while crossing his arm. “Why are we here again?” she asked.

“Mr.Big Boss here just wanted to have fair review or whatever the mumbo jumbo said to everyone. Besides, there was some sort of union thing happened on the way up to the lounge at Hakone because y’know. The usual union stuff.” Yui sighed while eating a bag of chocolate Pocky.

“Well, where’s this ‘Mr.Big Boss’? The racers are already here and they’re eager to do some run here.” Yanagi got out from his car after he talked on his fancy car phone in his 70’s shitbox that he installed with her girlfriend.

“Well…” Yui looked at her watch. “He was supposed to be here yet he’s not. Said he was running some errand.”

Erin and Yanagi looked at each other with the ‘Oh, i know what’s going on.’ face.

“… Yeah, he ain’t running some errand, buddy. He’s just off to god know what he went to.” Yanagi said.

“If i’m not wrong, he just probably procrastinate, hanging out at his house and then remembered we have this session and he should arrived about riiiiight now.” Erin said while pulling out a chewing gum from pocket and the group turned around and saw Tanaka’s arrival.

“Yeah yeah, sorry guys. Had to run some errand.” Tanaka quickly got out from the car and was in an adrenaline rush while Yui and others just looked at each other with bored face. “Yeah… errand.” Erin snickered and scratched her nose.

“But anyways, you’re late and the racers are here, just go in that car and do your magic, Mr.Big Boss.” Yui pushed Tanaka quite aggressive towards to the first contestant of the day.

@Tsundere-kun - Calcote Sicilia GTR

"Man, look at this tire and wheel ratio, it looks like a truck! Looks like there’s barely any room for suspension travel in this but it’s not rock hard as some cars before.

Tanaka signed the driver that he was ready to go downhill and he hopped into the Sicilia GTR. With the rolled up at the starting line. With Yui waved the handkerchief, the car launched off the line with a good amount of wheelspin and downhill it goes.

While they are busy going downhill, Erin noticed that Yanagi is up here with them, realized nobody is down there calling up racers.

“Say, who’s keeping these guys down there while you’re up here?” Erin asked to Yanagi.

“Oh, i’m not gonna stay here for a long time. With all these guys dealt with, i’ll come down. What, you think i’ll just stay here throughout the day?” Yanagi answered.

Erin gave the disgusted look at him. “Hey, you got any magazine that i can read?” she asked to Yanagi.

“Oh, there’s plenty of them in the glovebox, feel free to grab them.” Yanagi replied while pointing out at his car.

With Erin reading a magazine, Yanagi and Yui hanging out with the other racers, Tanaka and the driver arrived uphill.

“Quite fast.” Erin mumbled to herself while keeping her eyes on the magazine.

“So, how’s the car and the driver?” Yui asked while holding up a pen and a notebook on her hand to Tanaka.

“Well, for once for a car with these truck tires lookalike, it’s pretty good. It handles nice and not bumpy as i thought and pretty fast downhill. Though, i can feel the engine can push for more RPMs while the driver upshifts and downshifts. It’s all good car but i feel like there’s better options than this, had to pass on this car.”

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@EnCR - Saidenki CS19T AMIS

“Oh hey, i heard this car before. The guys from Wangan division said he saw this car on the highway and now it’s here.” Yanagi said after he noticed this car that he saw from a couple of meters away.

“Huh, interesting. Curious on how this car will handle in these roads.” Tanaka said while rubbing his chin.

With him and the driver at the starting line and waved handkerchief, the car launched off from the starting line with awesome sound of turbo inline 4 from it.

With tire screehes, drift around the corner and such, the car arrived at the parking lot and Tanaka seemed doesn’t impressed with this car.

“Boy, for a Wangan car, i was surely dissapointed by this car. It’s not fast, handles okay actually but not good as others and the car feels off while i’m in it. But on the brightside, i just love how lively the car is and just awesome the sound is. It’s just, y’know too bad that this car doesn’t meet our expectation. Had to pass on this.” Tanaka said.

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@mart1n2005 - Knightwick steed Coupe Turbo

“Well, another foreigners that are interested in our club, how lively. It’s the Internet that you mentioned that you used, right?” Tanaka said to Yui sarcastically while she gave the disgusted face.

“All the way from Hong Kong from the looks like it.” Erin commented.

“Well the good thing that the local plates is on it. Not sure the original plate tacked on was legal or not here.” Tanaka commented.

“Well, it definitely looks cool, though. It has some novelty on it.” Yanagi commented.

With Tanaka and driver are at the starting line, the driver revved the 2 liter 4 pot and launched off the line after Yui waved the handkerchief.

While Yui and Erin looked at the car goes down the hill, Erin leaned towards Yui to talk slowly.

“… You think that guy smuggled the car into our place?” Erin asked.

Yui shrugged. “I… honestly don’t know. Could run on fake plates and such. Hoping we don’t have the '89 case again.” she said and Erin shrugged and turned around and walked to racer’s hangout.

With the car arrived at the top, Tanaka were seem okay with this car and he walked up to Yui’s for the review.

“Well, it’s a decent ride for us but i feel like the car can push more. The driver seemed to y’know, having some work behind the steering wheel? I don’t know or something like that. It’s not good as other cars before. The engine feels lively and smooth and the suspension tuning is fine too. But then again, it’s just an average car and i feel like there’s better car than this. Had to pass on this one too.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@Riley - Zephorus Kigore I5 Time Attack Edition

“Oh hey, Zephorus. Well-known car and fun fact, it was almost Mr.B’s car for his Wangan run before he found out the Denver Arachne.” Yanagi commented.

“Well, that’s a fun fact indeed.” Erin crossed her arm while she was holding a lollipop.

“Thanks for the history, teacher!” Tanaka sarcastically said to Yanagi while heading to the car for the run.

With the car gussied up at the starting line, the car was revving it’s inline-5 and the racers nearby watched at the car, seeing they probably surprised and loving the sound of it. With the car off the line with some wheelspin.

With ups and downs of the car, Tanaka gave a thumbs up to Yui and others before the driver parked the car.

“Well, i can already see you’re letting this car pass.” Yui said to Tanaka.

“Well, for starters. It’s Zephorus! Of course it’s god dang good car. It handles beautifully and the car seems to purr around the corner, it just love to turn. The car’s fast around these road and just comfortable for a car like this. Yui, this car’s in.” Tanaka commented.

Yui checked the driver’s name on the list.

@SayokiN - Korser Striker SN-15 Halleen

“Halleen? American tuning shop? This seems for that old Denver guy from Wangan division taste.” Tanaka said.

“What, you’re saying American cars can’t turn?” Yanagi angrily said to Tanaka seeing he’s driving a modified 70’s American car.

“Yeah yeah, i know your car can turn yatta yatta but i hope this one turns better than yours.” Tanaka sarcastically said to Yanagi’s comment and walked to the car afterwards.

With the car ready at the starting line, the driver revved the 4.8L V8 and the racers nearby was somewhat terrified from this car’s sound.

With downhill run and uphill run later, Tanaka seemed contemplated on this car.

“Well, it’s your typical muscle car. It surely can turn hmm?” Tanaka said while looking at Yanagi and Yanagi was annoyed with Tanaka’s comment. “Other than that, it’s just your typical American car. It rides somewhat rough but not rough as a rock, it’s handle nicely and the driver seemed enjoyed driving this. As nice as this car is and i would love to own this car, not gonna lie but had to pass on this one for the club since there’s better option than this one.”

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

“Well, that’s all 5 of them but shouldn’t we call up more racers? I feel like we can do more especially for a guy like you, you can handle alot for being a passenger in a car.” Yui said to Tanaka.

“Oh what the hell, you’re not wrong. This 5 people could take forever, sure send them more.” Tanaka replied and Yui gave the signal to Yanagi for calling out for more racers.

“Bring like 7 or 8 racers up hill, Yanagi! Tanaka’s request.”

“Thanks, babe.” Tanaka kissed on her cheeks.

“Oh, one of the Jvniper member called me earlier and they’re coming tomorrow.” Yui smiled at him.

“Wait, what-” Tanaka exclaimed and surprised at Yui’s comment before the scene ends.

Part 4 Ends

HybridTronny · 23 December 2021 07:49

Review Part 5

“… So, why do we have a literal news van here? You know, if they aired this on national TV, our cover will be blown!” Tanaka quietly talked to Erin while leaning closer to her and looked at Yui and Yanagi hanging out with other news crew.

“Oh, don’t worry. They’re off duty at the moment and just got off from Wangan line after they filmed a TV show where a female host having an interview with some sort of car dealership guy. And apparently, there’s a third wheeler on the highway and one of the camera man kept saying ‘bugger off!’ whenever they just kept getting into shots. Oh well, idiots behind the wheel am i right?” Erin said while munching a bag of chips that she bought back at town.

“But-” Tanaka stuttered before got cut off from Erin.

“Come on, man. Just chill for a bit, they’re gonna post them at one of the underground video scene or whatever.” Erin just kept on munching on chips.

Erin noticed Yui waved at them and Yui pointed at Tanaka to come there and she nudged Tanaka to go there while finishing a bag of chips.

“So, introducing Mr.Reizo and Ms.Itsuko. They’re just here that they’re interested in our club and wanted to record some footage for archiving purposes. Don’t worry, they also recorded our Wangan division too and they ain’t gonna show them to national TV channel.” Yui introduced Tanaka to the news crew and he shook hands with the news crew.

“Hi, i heard a lot about you these days. It’s just wonderful to meet you in person and hope we can work together too.” Ms.Itsuko said while shaking hand with Tanaka.

Tanaka grabbed Yui and turned around against them. “Yui, are you sure they are the real news crew and not some mumbo-jumbo fakes?” he asked to Yui.

Yui gave the confused face to Tanaka. “… Did you ordered that weird special drink at Natsuki’s, Tanaka?” Yui asked to him and Tanaka gave an unsatisfied face to her.

“Alright, fine. Ask the first racer to get ready at the finish line and i’ll meet him there.” Tanaka asked Yui.

@Xepy & @chiefzach2018 - Zacspeed ONE Turbo “Astora”

“Huh, another rear-engined flat 6 car like mine. Not complaining, though.” Tanaka commented on this car.

“Well, you can sell your Steurmann for this. Zacspeed’s a good brand.” Yui said to Tanaka.

“Nah, still love my Steurmann to death. Not as perfect as Zacspeed’s but i still love her.” Tanaka replied and he got into the car.

“Well, this is definitely better than my interior, atleast.” Tanaka just looked around the Zacspeed’s interior as if he was impressed with interior that is done by Zacspeed’s.

With the driver revving the turbocharged boxer 6 at the starting line, Tanaka just love the sounds of it because he just have bias on boxer 6 engines in general while the news van took off earlier and parked at random spot downhill to get a footage from them.

While the them busy running down the hill, Yui and Itsuko were having a small chit chat.

“Say, since you mentioned that you came back from the highway, who is the TV host that you mentioned?” Yui asked to Itsuko while offering a can of cola to her and sat near Yanagi’s car with trunk opened with a chiller with some cola in it.

“Oh, we were with this fashion model and TV personality interviewing with one of the famous car dealership owner at Tokyo.” Itsuko opened a can of cola that Yui gave and took a sip.

“Oh crap, is it Re-” Yui got cut off from Erin crashed into their conversation.

“Hey, you got more can of cola?” Erin asked to Yui.

“Oh yeah, here you go.” Yui gave a cold coca to Erin and continuing the talk that they were having.

“So yeah, this gal- Oh here they are, pretty fast and earlier than i’ve expected.” Itsuko commented on Tanaka and the driver’s arrival.

With Yui walked up to Tanaka with her notebook for the review, Tanaka were happy with this car.

“So, first of all. I love this car. Zacspeed’s done it again and probably this guy’s tuning too. It’s fast, corner like it’s on rail and not so rough ride quality-wise. Though the car is good ride-wise, i feel like the car doesn’t do it’s justice that it should be more drivable but i don’t mind. This car’s in, Yui.” Tanaka commented.

Yui check marked the driver’s name.

@Texaslav - Foxhound SR Solid

“Another foreigner car, i’m not even sure how did they even get here. Just curious on how did they get here without getting a Japanese plate on it.” Tanaka commented.

Tanaka got into the car and the driver drove off to the starting line.

With Yui waved her handkerchief, the driver slams on the gas pedal and let the huge 5.7L V8 roars on the road and area around it.

“Well, certainly didn’t expect that car has V8 underneath it, psch.” Erin snickered and commented on the car after they watched it the car went downhill.

With the car arrived uphill, Tanaka got out from the car and walked up to Yui for the review.

“Well, it is certainly blast to ride in this car. It can handle around the fine but not on the rail as others. Pretty sporty from what i can feel with this suspension tuning and certainly feels comfort than the previous one but i am certainly not satisfied with this car as i found there’s more better than this car. It’s good but there’s better options than this, really.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@Quneitra - Munot Levant GS Turbo Super “Kurokaze”

“Oh wow, didn’t expect this car to be this big from looking closer to it.” Tanaka said

“… Yeah, ain’t these cars usually much smaller?” Yui questioned to herself.

“Ah whatever, this car looks mean tho.” Tanaka got into the car and as the driver tried to start the car, the engine blew up but not like big explosion blew up, just a small explosion that is thankfully nobody was hurt.

With the car on the towing truck and was sent back to town for further inspection, Tanaka and others just looked at the car as it went down the hill, back to town.

“Well, that was unfortunate and bad timing for an engine to blow up.” Erin commented.

“Atleast it didn’t made a huge explosion, glad that we’re still alive.” Yui commented too.

“Yeah yeah, whatever. Let’s move on to the next car.” Tanaka turned back and walked to the next car.

(Binned due to Engine ET trim went over .3 rule limit)

@Prium - Vulcrum SC-360 Tempest

“Huh, why does this car rocking on Kei plate? How did this even get pass a kei car?” Tanaka questioned the unusual and plate kei plate at the back.

“Well, the car next to this certainly looks like kei car but this one ain’t…” Yui said.

“Well, maybe the owner of this car has the white plate somewhere and thought the kei car plate looks cool but moving on.” Tanaka said and hopped into the passenger’s seat of this car.

While waiting for the green light from Yui, the driver revved the big 3.6L turbocharged inline 6 and Tanaka gave a thumbs up to Yui as he liked the sounds from it.

As Yui waved her handkerchief, the car launched off from the line with not alot of wheelspin from it, probably the driver picked the best tyre setup to get rid of wheelspins.

While the car busy doing the run, Itsuko and Yui were having a small chitchat near Yanagi’s car.

“So, how long has this club been up too?” Itsuko asked Yui while sipping a can of cola that she took from Yanagi’s car.

“Oh, back in early 80’s. 1982, 1983. I’ll tell you that in earlier years, our club don’t even have touge division, just highway division because Mr.B, who is the big boss of this club weren’t even thinking about doing mountain pass runs and such. Just a really big fan of high speed, that’s all.” Yui answered while holding a bag of chips.

“Ah, i see… And uh, touge division was up because he saw potentials in these kind of things?” Itsuko asked.

“Yeah, you’re right. Funnily enough, Tanaka is actually Mr.B’s nephew so that’s why he hired him as head of touge’s division.” Yui said while biting some chips.

“That’s interesting. Oh, they’re back.” Itsuko and Yui looked at Tanaka’s arrival and Yui walked up to Tanaka.

“So how was it?” Yui asked while pulling out her notebook.

“Well, it is definitely fun car to ride in. I can feel every bump on the road and not rock hard suspension tuning, thankfully. It can turn but low speed-turning feels sluggish and not on the rail as they said but wide turn, it can definitely turn. Pretty useful for Taikan run since there’s some wide turn there. I’d say this car did a well done job and got in.” Tanaka said.

Yui checkmarked the driver’s name on the list.

@Portalkat42 - Midlands Io Sprint

“Oh hey, Midlands. My husband has one back at home.” Itsuko came up and noticed this car.

“And how was it? Does he love it?” Tanaka asked.

“Yeah, he definitely loved them. Great small nippy sports car, he daily one in it too, though we have our regular hatchback back at home that he can use it.” Itsuko replied.

“Then, this particular one must been great to drive too. Heard alot of good things from Midlands.” Tanaka said.

Yui was just taking a peek in the interior and was mesmerized by the patterns on the seats and on the door. Suddenly, the driver of this car who is a handsome white British male tapped her shoulder and she turned around.

“Oh, hey…” Yui turned around and saw him right of him and Tanaka just watched the soap opera moment from afar and he coughed loud to get Yui’s attention and she walked away embarassed.

With Yui ready at the starting line and Tanaka in the car with the handsome British man, she can’t just staring at him made Tanaka to pop out from the car.

“Yui, let’s go!” Tanaka shouted at her and made her flinched. While waiting for countdown, the driver revved the small or big engine for the size of the car 1.6L naturally aspirated inline 4 and off the line as Yui waved her handkerchief.

After the run was done, Tanaka and the driver got out from the car and Yui was staring in love with the driver. Erin then poked her and it made her flinch.

“Get out from your head, silly.” Erin said to her and walked to other direction. Yui walked up to Tanaka for the review.

“Well, for the handsome British guy that you seems to fall in love with.” Tanaka gave a stern look at her. “The car is not that bad. It’s peppy, nimble and pretty fun to ride in. Pretty nice interior too for a car like this. And you know what, he said he got good time at Hakone Turnpike which is another good thing. Yui, this handsome ‘boyfriend’ of yours are in.” Tanaka said.

Yui checkmarked the driver’s name on the list.

@Petakabras - CABRERA XV6

“Ah, this is undoubtedly a French car. Love 'em especially quirky ones and this one a looker too. It seems there’s no rear seat for this car, funnily enough. Eh, maybe for weight reductions suchery…” Tanaka said.

With Tanaka hopped in to the car and the driver was ready to go downhill, Yui waved her handkerchief and the tiny 2.6L V6 roars off the line, powering the rear wheels.

With corners, brakes and such down the hill, they are back at the parking lot. Tanaka can be seen has “it’s an okay car” face on this.

“Well, this car is great and such. Comfy, sporty and pretty okay in terms of drivability, well by passenger’s opinion anyway. This car can turn but there’s better car that can turn better than this and actually, it feels similar to Midland one except Midland is better in other department, handles better and cheaper too. Had to pass on this car.” Tanaka said

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@chichicoofisial - AHB Ventura Cyaputa

"Oh hey, another yellow French car except this one is a hatchback. Looks meaner too and foglights, bonus point on that. I can feel the aura that this car will be beast on the road.

“My dad has one of the AHB car, the 70’s or 60’s one, i forgot the name of it but it’s the one that has cool widebodykit on it. He enjoys driving it and he loved the meters in it.” Yui said.

With all things ready to go, the driver revved the big turbocharged inline-4 in it. And what made Tanaka surprised from this car that the driver mentioned it has AWD and it’s pretty cheap car too. With the car off the line, Tanaka was surprised from the acceleration on how quick it is, thanks to AWD drivetrain.

Downhill runs later, they were back uphill and Tanaka walked up to Yui.

“I for sure love this car. Granted it’s not comfortable as other car but it is damn fun to ride in. It can turn around like it’s nothing, thanks to AWD that the driver mentioned. I just love this car on every aspect and it’s just… man. Yui, this car’s in.” Tanaka said.

Yui checkmarked the driver’s name on the list.

@abg7 - KAI KS300 Turbo TR

“Heh, it got that shitface smile on it.” Erin commented on the car’s front.

“Welp, i can’t unsee it now.” Yui replied.

“Maybe it got shitfast performance behind it. Who knows.” Tanaka sarcastically said while the two others just looked confused at him.

“Heh, i know my jokes are awesome.” Tanaka then does the funny walk to the car and got inside as a passenger.

With the car up at the starting line, the driver revved turbocharged inline 6 and off the line as the ‘green light’ was lit.

As Yui looked the car went downhill, Itsuko came up to her and said “Well, that is definitely a weird looking rear.”

With the car arrived uphill after done it’s run, Yui walked up to Tanaka for the review.

“Well overall, the car is just average tuned car. It looks average and performs average well too. It’s a middle on the road car kind of deal. Except the price, it’s pretty expensive i’d say from the tuning and such that he mentioned during all the way down. Well, with that price i had to pass on this car as there’s far more better option than this one.” Tanaka commented.

Yui crossed the driver’s name off the list.

@KSIolajidebt - Nakano Sprinter SR3

“Ah, the famous bodykit that i will not mentioned because copyright reasons in this forum.” Tanaka said.

“What? Who or what are you talking about?” Yui questioned to Tanaka after the comment.

“Just had that out of body experience just looking by at this car, it is just simply gorgeous. Can’t stop looking at it.” Tanaka said.

“Heard it’s from that blonde guy from other popular club at the other side. But looking at the driver, nah it’s not him.” Itsuko commented.

As Tanaka hopped into the car, the car seems can’t to start up. He tried to start up many times, opened the bonnet and checked the engine. He noticed the car has faulty wires in it and can’t be fixed here, had to send to the workshop downhill.

Tanaka got out from the car and was pretty sad that he can’t feel of the car downhill.

"Oh well, another victim of ‘engine not starting today.’ " Erin finished sucking off lollipop.

(Binned due to Engine ET went over the limit - 163.4)

@S_U_C_C_U_L_E_N_T - Hinode Carrier Super Deluxe “AHOY!”

“Another van, Yui. Really?” Tanaka asked to Yui.

“What? It’s not like the last van that we had. It’s official and not false news.” Yui replied.

“Fine, i hope your word holds up.” Tanaka said.

“Oh hey guys, i hope you don’t mind our new van catching up with this van. He said he wanted to get some cool close shot during the run.” Itsuko asked to the couple.

“Oh sur- wait what?” Tanaka confused by Itsuko’s statement.

“Oh right, i forgot that we tuned our news van up to 840hp because my colleague said he can’t catch up and get closer shots at racers back at big city.” Itsuko replied.

“I’m just lost right now, how did this one not getting noticed by your boss?” Yui asked.

“Oh, our boss were fine by it since he liked the shots that we got during run. Oh, he’s here. Catch ya later!” Itsuko answered and ran to the van and drove off.

“I have so many questions…” Tanaka was confused by the moments they had.

“I don’t even know, babe.” Yui were feeling the same too.

With Tanaka hopped into the van, he felt the nice feeling of velour material on the seats and basically everywhere in the van, he felt calmed and comfort in it. With the van at the starting line, the driver revved pretty quiet turbocharged inline-6 and launched with ease, thanks to the AWD drivetrain it had. The van accelerated really fast off the line and faster some of the contestants too which is surprising.

With the van arrived back at the lot, Tanaka just had alot of fun in the van. He seemed satisfied from it.

“Man, do i have tell you that this van is a blast to ride in. Although it’s not on the rail like others but it is definitely handles damn nicely for a van like this. It cornered like it’s nothing! As for the ride quality, it’s not rock hard ride but it’s not nice either but it’s passable.” Tanaka commented.

“What about the news van? Did they catch up?” Yui asked.

“Oh yeah, it is definitely behind our tail all the time. It is defnitely can catch up. Almost pass us on the straight section but the road is tight so they can’t. Right as for this van, it got in, Yui. It is stupid build but i love it.” Tanaka said.

Yui checkmarked the driver’s name on the list.

“So i take that the news crew are out of this place since they’re not here?” Yui asked Tanaka.

“Oh yeah, they have other shootings that they have at Kobe. They said they love our club and our general vibe of our club so which means, that is good, Yui!” Tanaka happily said.

“Oh, i thought you hate recognition…?” Yui asked.

“They don’t mentioned our name, babe. Just fake nickname as they mentioned for us.” Tanaka said.

“Right right… oh by the way, Jvniper’s next.” Yui said.

“Ah, great to know…” Tanaka went from smiling to not-so smile face.

“What? I thought you love them!” Yui sarcastically said.

Review Part 5 End! Final Review Coming Soon…