Japanese Muscle
Japanese Muscle
Wouldn't laugh too hard though, there is a lot of untapped potential:
V8-powered Toyota GT 86 drift car undergoes testing
Sure, that's an aftermarket contrivance, but all the requisite bits and pieces are there on the parts shelves of several Japanese/Korean manufacturers to fairly readily create some genuine muscle/pony cars:
Hyundai sticking their 5.0 into the Genesis Coupe?
Nissan sticking one of their V8s into the Z Coupe?
Toyota sticking their 5.0 into the FR-S (or even one of their healthy V6s given the FR-S's light weight)?
Subaru sticking an STi motor in the BR-Z?
Not sure why Asian companies are so reticent to create such vivid performance machines, must be some corporate or social psychology at work or something.
V8-powered Toyota GT 86 drift car undergoes testing
Sure, that's an aftermarket contrivance, but all the requisite bits and pieces are there on the parts shelves of several Japanese/Korean manufacturers to fairly readily create some genuine muscle/pony cars:
Hyundai sticking their 5.0 into the Genesis Coupe?
Nissan sticking one of their V8s into the Z Coupe?
Toyota sticking their 5.0 into the FR-S (or even one of their healthy V6s given the FR-S's light weight)?
Subaru sticking an STi motor in the BR-Z?
Not sure why Asian companies are so reticent to create such vivid performance machines, must be some corporate or social psychology at work or something.
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Plus gas is so freaking expensive in Europe that majority of people don't wanna anything over 2.0L.
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Originally Posted by rhumb
Wouldn't laugh too hard though, there is a lot of untapped potential:
V8-powered Toyota GT 86 drift car undergoes testing
Sure, that's an aftermarket contrivance, but all the requisite bits and pieces are there on the parts shelves of several Japanese/Korean manufacturers to fairly readily create some genuine muscle/pony cars:
Hyundai sticking their 5.0 into the Genesis Coupe?
Nissan sticking one of their V8s into the Z Coupe?
Toyota sticking their 5.0 into the FR-S (or even one of their healthy V6s given the FR-S's light weight)?
Subaru sticking an STi motor in the BR-Z?
Not sure why Asian companies are so reticent to create such vivid performance machines, must be some corporate or social psychology at work or something.
V8-powered Toyota GT 86 drift car undergoes testing
Sure, that's an aftermarket contrivance, but all the requisite bits and pieces are there on the parts shelves of several Japanese/Korean manufacturers to fairly readily create some genuine muscle/pony cars:
Hyundai sticking their 5.0 into the Genesis Coupe?
Nissan sticking one of their V8s into the Z Coupe?
Toyota sticking their 5.0 into the FR-S (or even one of their healthy V6s given the FR-S's light weight)?
Subaru sticking an STi motor in the BR-Z?
Not sure why Asian companies are so reticent to create such vivid performance machines, must be some corporate or social psychology at work or something.
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Japense Muscle Can be a good thing... (to this day it only really resides in the Z- lineage)
They've just always went about it a different way from American muscle.
Z started in 1969 with the 240z had a 2.4L I6 for 151 hp 146 ft-lbs 2350lbs
(red below)
Other examples.
They've just always went about it a different way from American muscle.
Z started in 1969 with the 240z had a 2.4L I6 for 151 hp 146 ft-lbs 2350lbs
(red below)
Other examples.
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