Sometimes I’m completely overwhelmed with jealousy… this is one of those moments. I don’t know how they got permission to drift Mulholland Drive, but they did and it’s amazing. I’ve always wanted to take my red car up into the mountains with stickers and all and just wreak havoc, but it will probably never happen. I’ll add that one to my bucket list. I can see it now – “Dying 80 year old man arrested for drifting his classic Nissan in the Glendora mountains.”
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I just randomly found this picture of me on a french website. I guess it’s somehow related to Mulsanne… I remember befriending an older French guy with Mulsanne on his business card. I think that same business is somehow involved with a local drift team in Southern California.
Anyway, the picture is of me driving the KAAZ car at Irwindale in front of the D1 judges. Funny – I can’t even remember what event this is! The combination of me not remembering plus the picture shows barely any smoke tells me that I probably didn’t do very well. But it’s still nice to see new pictures from the past!
I’ve been really really really liking these cars lately.
No it’s time for some 4 liter V-8 sound porn:
I just read this article on Jalopnik about the guy who claimed unintended acceleration on his prius just recently.
Funny, I was just talking to Nadine about this. With all the bad press about Toyota lately, it’s so easy for people to cry wolf and take advantage of both the media sensationalism and Toyota who is fighting to fix their image. It’s easy because how do you prove unintended acceleration occurred?? It really sounds like you can’t. I think the only one who was able to prove a problem with his car is Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak because he could successfully repeat the problem over and over.
I feel for Toyota because I deal with this type of situation all the time at work. When somebody reports a problem to me, the first thing I ask for is the error message and how he/she did it. Then I attempt to repeat it by doing what they did… if I cannot, I do my darnedest to figure out another way to repeat it. If I cannot, I look through the code and try to find any possible thing that may cause it… and if I cannot, I have reason to believe that it was something besides my programming that is at fault, or the person may be just crying wolf.
How do you fix a problem that you can’t recreate? You can take your best try at it and just change things that you think might help, but that is just like stabbing in the dark.
I love the heck out of my G35 sedan, but I feel like it has an identity problem. It’s a luxury sport sedan. It’s got an awesome engine that has torque for days, agile handling, a limited slip differential but with all the refinements of a luxury car – heated leather seats, navigation, award-winning Bose sound system, a HDD for music, backup camera, etc. But what it’s missing is that it doesn’t LOOK like a luxury sport sedan.
I think Infiniti was trying to fix that with their 2010 update. I’m glad they tried to make it look more sporty but I’m torn – now it looks too much like a cheaper Maxima or Altima. I’m not sold on the new M37 design either.
I was looking at pictures of Joon Maeng’s RX8 for the 2010 season and noticed something funny on his rear bumper. Looked like some sort of wall bumper.
They put a spring/damper combo on it, too. I wonder how that will work? There’s only one way to find out! If anything, it will protect those taillights at least! Haha!
Edit: I just had an afterthought. They should just put a tire and some Baja style off-roading suspension on it. Then Joon can throw that car straight into the wall at 80mph and keep going.
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