(SpeedHunters.com)
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Their Super Power & Krytonite
A Few Lousy Flaws All Japanese Cars Seem To Have
2. Jack of All Trades; Master of none.
In the modern times, with the growing dominance of European cars and also rapidly improving American cars, especially Ford, for example, Japan, though (arguably) their peak of car stardom was during the 90s, they seem to have slowly but surely fall off in car culture dominance by the end of the 90s, transitioning into the mid-2000s era, mainly because of a staggering Asian economic crisis that has also resulted in the demise of a handful of great Japanese cars like the Toyota MR2, then known as the MR-S in the final edition, for instance.
Japanese cars today seem to have a “Jack-of-all-trades, master of none” syndrome. They try to be good at all the major roles at once; practical, sporty, economical and efficient but they cannot seem to perfect that formula excluding Mazda or Honda today. Like shown above, the Infiniti G37 has a very strong case of that: It is a luxurious sport coupe, but more a GT car. A lackluster one at the very least; it tries to be luxurious, but in the end still feels very Nissan-ish and inexpensive, it is quite fast and sporty but not quite as fast or sportier enough than its rivals like the Audi S5 or the Ford Mustang GT (okay it may cut close to the GT).
You know what, it is essentially just a Nissan 370Z donning a thick tuxedo with extra pockets (of space).
In terms of motorsports, while they are fierce competitors, sadly, these days they have fallen off greatly in motorsport dominance; Keiichi Tsuchiya may be the father of car drifting and a living legend, but Ken Block has been in the spotlight these days and is now the current hot stuff in terms of professional drifting, as seen from his Hoonicorn and Gymkana stunts, though the most adamant of Japanese drift scene fans may disagree. In motorsport, though once Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi may have been iconic victors of Group A, Formula One and WRC respectively, they too have mostly fallen out of the top standing in the podium, and some could say they are a shadow of their former selves.
Today, you don’t get to see too much Japanese cars that ever get fondly remembered or lustfully covetous these days in the general market, save for a few like Nissan’s R35 GT-R, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X, Subaru Impreza WRX STi or the Lexus LFA in 2010, but over the years, these cars too have hardly changed for the worse; the GT-R has fallen off in competition and slowly irrelevant due to better competitors like the Porsche 991 911 Turbo S or the Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06, the Evo X is officially discontinued, the WRX STi seems to have f-cked off ever since the new Honda Civic Type R and Ford Focus RS came back to play, and the LFA is not “general market” for consumers, even though it is an awesome car.
(CarThrottle.com)
2. Jack of All Trades; Master of none.
In the modern times, with the growing dominance of European cars and also rapidly improving American cars, especially Ford, for example, Japan, though (arguably) their peak of car stardom was during the 90s, they seem to have slowly but surely fall off in car culture dominance by the end of the 90s, transitioning into the mid-2000s era, mainly because of a staggering Asian economic crisis that has also resulted in the demise of a handful of great Japanese cars like the Toyota MR2, then known as the MR-S in the final edition, for instance.
Japanese cars today seem to have a “Jack-of-all-trades, master of none” syndrome. They try to be good at all the major roles at once; practical, sporty, economical and efficient but they cannot seem to perfect that formula excluding Mazda or Honda today. Like shown above, the Infiniti G37 has a very strong case of that: It is a luxurious sport coupe, but more a GT car. A lackluster one at the very least; it tries to be luxurious, but in the end still feels very Nissan-ish and inexpensive, it is quite fast and sporty but not quite as fast or sportier enough than its rivals like the Audi S5 or the Ford Mustang GT (okay it may cut close to the GT).
You know what, it is essentially just a Nissan 370Z donning a thick tuxedo with extra pockets (of space).
In terms of motorsports, while they are fierce competitors, sadly, these days they have fallen off greatly in motorsport dominance; Keiichi Tsuchiya may be the father of car drifting and a living legend, but Ken Block has been in the spotlight these days and is now the current hot stuff in terms of professional drifting, as seen from his Hoonicorn and Gymkana stunts, though the most adamant of Japanese drift scene fans may disagree. In motorsport, though once Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi may have been iconic victors of Group A, Formula One and WRC respectively, they too have mostly fallen out of the top standing in the podium, and some could say they are a shadow of their former selves.
Today, you don’t get to see too much Japanese cars that ever get fondly remembered or lustfully covetous these days in the general market, save for a few like Nissan’s R35 GT-R, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X, Subaru Impreza WRX STi or the Lexus LFA in 2010, but over the years, these cars too have hardly changed for the worse; the GT-R has fallen off in competition and slowly irrelevant due to better competitors like the Porsche 991 911 Turbo S or the Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06, the Evo X is officially discontinued, the WRX STi seems to have f-cked off ever since the new Honda Civic Type R and Ford Focus RS came back to play, and the LFA is not “general market” for consumers, even though it is an awesome car.
(CarThrottle.com)
Did You Know - McDonald's Edition
18 Things You Never Knew About McDonalds
#5 As many McDonalds as there are in the US, there are 3x more Chinese restaurants.
#14 The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan.
#18 The most northerly McDonald’s restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Complete list (OcuBee.com)
#5 As many McDonalds as there are in the US, there are 3x more Chinese restaurants.
#14 The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan.
#18 The most northerly McDonald’s restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Complete list (OcuBee.com)
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