To all inter­state and local Ade­laide Japan­ese car lovers, a new event is on the hori­zon! Here’s the low down, straight from the horses mouth:

What is All Japan Day?

Sick and tired of car shows that spend so much time pro­mot­ing them­selves that they’ve for­got­ten all about the cars?

So was the All Japan Day organ­is­ing com­mit­tee! We decided to band together and cre­ate a sim­ple event that ‘got back to basics’ and allowed entrants and spec­ta­tors to do what they love doing best — just admire and talk about the sen­sa­tional cars on dis­play. By keep­ing it sim­ple, we’ve also kept the costs down, which has ben­e­fited both entrants and spectators.

We are very excited about our inau­gural event on 27 April 2008 and we hope its suc­cess will encour­age suit­able entrants from inter­state (maybe even over­seas? Mazda please send us a 787B racer!) in future years.

So, come and enjoy us for a relax­ing day out and be daz­zled by some of Australia’s finest Japan­ese automobiles.

So for those of you in Ade­laide who love Japan­ese cars, head over to the All Japan Day web­site to learn about becom­ing an entrant and spectator.

Well we’re back after an unex­pected depar­ture time, in time no less for news of a new Silvia.

Will Nis­san deliver a coupe, with huge tun­ing poten­tial to the masses? Appar­ently yes. There’s a wait, with both the CEO of Nis­san Car­los Ghosn and Nissan’s COO Toshiyuki Shiga, claim­ing a 2010 release with a price in the region 2,000,000~2,500,000 JPY. Not much else is known, past it might have a Renault engine (Please, please, God no.), will be based on a mod­i­fied Z plat­form, and will be an FR Sports Coupe

Right, it’s soap­box time. In rela­tion to the artists impres­sion above (We coloured it orange) –if this is what we’ve got to look for­ward to, then we have to say an emphatic “GTFO” to the Nissan/​Renault styl­ists. The Sil­via evokes mem­o­ries of a light, capa­ble, highly tun­able and emo­tive, work­ing man’s sports car. It can not be a rehash on the 350z, or staid G35 styling direc­tion, them­selves dif­fer­ent cars in their own right.

The Sil­via needs to be some­thing that cap­tures the eye 7 years later, or fur­ther into the future. The trend for high rake door lines? No. Con­fus­ing grille designs? No. Com­plex head­lights. No. Renault-​​esque Euro trend styling cues? NO. It needs to be Japan­ese. It needs to be an evo­lu­tion of the last gen­er­a­tion model, the S15. It must be a 4 banger turbo, must be RWD, and must han­dle like it’s on rails.

For us, noth­ing else will do.

[Sources: Rocket Punch, Auto­blog]

Great video of drifter Mark March­esan from IJ’s neck of the woods. SR20DET s15 Nis­san Sil­via drift­ing, a good over­take and decent edit­ing for once! Thanks to 5LEEPER.