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Skyline Crossover SUV.

June 29, 2009

I apologise for the lack of classic or retro in this post but I was just over browsing on the Japanese Nissan Motor Co. website and stumbled across the links to a CROSSOVER vehicle. I investigated further only to discover that they’re making a Skyline SUV!

Nissan Skyline Crossover SUV

Nissan Skyline Crossover SUV

I have to say this has saddened me slightly, not only have Nissan split the GT-R off into it’s own category, they’ve diverted the rest of the Skyline range to an avenue that includes an SUV. Yuck. The only reason I can think of doing it to to take another stab at Porsche who offer their own “Performance” SUV, the Cayenne.  (more…)

Twelve vs. EightySix

June 26, 2009

I’ve always wanted to see a nice side by side of these two cars in a similar paint scheme, just to see what’s looks better.  Personally I think the Twelve takes it on everything but the side profile.  Judge for yourself;

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Sea Are Ecks

June 26, 2009

Whilst I was plundering about for other things entirely I happened upon these images of the Honda CR-X, they’re quite easily the best examples of the CR-X I’ve seen. There was a minor fad in NZ for a time where people were running horrific amounts of (extra) plastic on their CR-X’s, lots of steel and mesh, over-sized exhausts, etc. These how-ever show how the car should be done;

Honda CR-X, Gen. I

Honda CR-X, Gen. I (Wide-body)

Awesome.  Click more, for uhh.. for more!

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Autobahn Shenanigans

June 25, 2009

This video always makes me smile, it used to be labelled something different and on the face of it it appears to just be a Porsche Turbo and Supra Turbo having a bit of a race on the Autobahn. It’s the other car joining in that makes it though, otherwise it would be dead boring.



-Michael

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The joy of having Photoshop or an equivalent picture editing program as well as digital images of cars, means you can modify your car to see how things would look, without even spending a penny (other than the obvious costs of the software/hardware).  Over the years I’ve done a myriad of little bits and pieces for people in order to aid them in their decisions, some taking a hell of a lot longer than others.   Whilst trying to find amongst the millions of photographs of cars that I have of my various HDD a particular image, I stumbled across one or two photochops (slang, like those pesky kids use) that I thought were not too shabby and I figured hell… I’ll share them with you fine people.

Some are done as pure amusement, some seriously and others out of sheer boredom.  This first one I seem to remember being in a Retro Rides thread, the date on the file would indicate June of 2007.  It started out it’s life as this petit 1958 Ford Anglia/Prefect;

1958 Anglia, Small and somewhat Ugly

1958 Anglia, Small and somewhat Ugly

After a little of messing about with various tools and whilst not being overly dramatic, it ended up like so… (more…)