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newVideoPlayer("Car-Soccer.flv", 463, 387,""); Japan is just the gift that keeps on giving, from kei cars to lovable but bizarre concepts like the the Toyota i-Real , but it's the extracurriculars which make for today's auto amusement. Sure drifting Previas are sexy, but car soccer is a ballet of crushing metal and gigantic balls. How does it work? Take all the rules of regular soccer and play the game with cars. We'll admit the judges seem pretty lax on handing out penalties, and it looks more like a sneaky way to have a demolition derby, but it does look like a lot of laughs. We took the liberty to clip out a section of footage from a game and the whole game is available below — if you're into that kind of thing. First Half (~8 minutes) Second Half (~7 minutes) [ Youtube Part 1 and Youtube Part 2 , via About Cars ]
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newVideoPlayer("84_Corolla_Japan_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Here's another in a long line of jittery Japanese-market car ads, this one showing how a pack of tie-wearing Toyota shoprats can whomp together an '84 Corolla for fashion-deranged monogloved chopsocky experts and fedora-wearing, flask-in-bottom-drawer newsies alike, all thanks to the mighty powers of the Munificent Plutonium Wrench.
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newVideoPlayer("parking-game.flv", 463, 387,""); Everybody has one of those of friends--you know, the person that seems to think he or she can park their El Suburbamino in places where the sun don't shine. Of course, as with many things, the Japanese have taken this mundane ritual and transformed it into an art form, complete with the obligatory game show. Contestants have to back a car into spot that allows only one centimeter of clearance on each side. One centimeter! Yeah, that would be tricky. I believe in my parking skills, but not enough to challenge the Japanese. [ Core77 ]
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newVideoPlayer("78Multivan_476.flv", 475, 376); If you're the Japanese Sherlock Holmes, you don't want to have any of those boxes of confiscated cocaine get left behind at the station when you're heading out for a night on the town. That's why you need the 1978 Mazda Bongo Multivan- just roll right up and get those flatfoot coppers to pack the goods right in! We'd like this ad better if it had a macho announcer's voice, of course, but perhaps that's not appropriate for a Bongo.
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newVideoPlayer("NissanGTRGhosn_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Although the lingerie is still snugly fitted to the front and rear end of the 2009 Nissan GT-R, Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn wheeled it into a Japanese studio and out on the racetrack the other day to show off the hot sake sports-car to the TV-viewing public. We'll be seeing it revealed live ourselves in just one day when we see the GT-R drop the bra-straps and shake those headlights in person here in Tokyo. For the time being we'll have to be content to see the new Godzilla live on TV. galleryPost('2009NissanGTREd', 8, 'Nissan GT-R Press Shots');
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