MrCarGuy28

About a year ago me and my family decided that it was time to replace the old car with a new car. Hence the Vellfire – a 280ps 7-seater with a TV. We couldn’t afford a new one so a used one would do. But how well did it fare you might ask. How well did a 2-tonne barge deal with the school runs, the twisties and the highways. Here’s a report on what’s happened in the last year.

‘Wouldn’t you be better off installing coilovers on your car?’ You know, it’s Christmas, everything was on sale, and one of my shocks is leaking rather badly. I couldn’t resist it. Yes, I bought a set of TRD Sportivo fixed rate dampers and springs. I am not going to keep you waiting, it is amazing.

I loathe the eighties right up to the noughties of the Japanese car market. It’s full of interesting cars, fast cars as well. Due to the gentlemen’s agreement, whatever cars they build, were all limited to 276hp. And as a result, to make these fast and keep up with cars made in the rest of the world, they have to excel in every other aspects, i.e. suspension tuning, chassis, materials even. So what you end up with, is some amazing cars.

Not that after all these years, that I finally know that the man in green suit, is called Keiichi Tsuchiya, and the car is an Amuse S2000, which got an award namely the ‘Maou’, which means monster in Japanese. When I was about 4, which of course I knew absolutely nothing back then, one day my Dad bought me a DVD, which unintentionally brought me into the world of cars. The DVD featured a man wearing a green suit, driving an orange car with a big wing on the back and going on a road very fast.

All he did was made Takumi drive up to the restaurant at the top of Mount Akina, with a boot full of Tofu, literally. Initial D is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known animes in the car community. But why? To find out, I’ve watched the entire series, and came out with the 6 reasons below, which might solve the question. But before I start, maybe I should briefly introduce the story to you all, in case you didn’t already know.

I buy minivans for a reason. I buy minivans for a reason, Hong Kong is a small place and often if we are lucky, we would get one parking space and that still costs more than a Ferrari, so we can’t possibly afford a second car or even a hobby car simply because the cost of a parking space is expensive. Therefore, I drive a minivan, to primarily take my parents and my cousins to and from work, and do some school runs in them as well, you know, big family, needs a big car, so I ditched the idea of having a saloon and went straight for a minivan.

As you might see in my last post ‘Falling in love with a rental, is that even possible?’, you’ll know that I’m quite a fan of the Yeti. The story all started when me and my family went on a holiday in 2016, and drove 700km to a mountain with a rental, more specifically a Yeti. However, last time was more of a sharing, this time, having rented another Yeti to go on another road trip, I wanted to up things a notch, by bringing you 10 good and 5 bad things about Yeti, from a user’s point of view.

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To celebrate, HotVersion has got a birthday party and a present for him. Instead of having girls and beers, well, it’s the HotVersion AE86 N2 racecar and his personal NSX-R on Suzuka. Show your support by clicking into the official Facebook page of HotVersion and get the DVD on amazon!