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.

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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]

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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.

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