This saturday I'm going to drive a NSX, an AE86 and a tuned S2000...

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy) 01/15/2015 at 05:29 • Filed to: None

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In my quest to find a new car and with my total lack of knowledge in Japanese cars, combined with the fact that it's freaking impossible to get test drives in Japan, I've decided to pay a little visit to " !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! " and drive a few cars... Originally, I wanted to try the AE86, the Miata, the R32 GTR and the FD Rx7, but it's winter and pretty much all their cars are retired at this time of the year. The only ones they have left for 2 more days before they also get retired for winter are these 3 cars:

I have no intention on buying a NSX as I need at least a trunk and well this S2000 is so far from stock that it won't tell me much about how a S2000 really is, but I thought that if I were to go all the way there, I may at least give them a try.

I'm interested in potentially buying a AE86 though and this will give me a good idea if it's still powerful enough to my taste :)

Anyway, I'm sure it will be fun and I guess I'll be doing a little write-up/photo shoot/maybe video of the whole day.

So saturday is a long day for me... 5 hour drive round trip + about 5 hours driving those 3 cars... I may spend the night there :)

EDIT: Just cehcked the roads around there... Not at all a drift focused area... not at all...

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Justin Young > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 05:36

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Nice replica, I must say!

Flavien Vidal > Justin Young 01/15/2015 at 05:37

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What is that thing? it's not a S2000 right?

Justin Young > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 05:38

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That's a Honda HSV-010 GT, the successor to the NSX Super GT500. No production model was made unfortunately.

Jobjoris > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 05:41

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HSV-010 . Have fun this saturday!

Flavien Vidal > Justin Young 01/15/2015 at 05:43

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Ohhhh iracing was supposed to get this if I recall correctly... Meh, looks ugly :)

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 05:43

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NSX does has luggage space:

For the AE86, i never driven those with pop-up headlight, but i once drove one of those with fixed light, the Levin. Quite a fun car, albeit a bit slow.

Flavien Vidal > Jobjoris 01/15/2015 at 05:43

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Thanks :)

Flavien Vidal > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. 01/15/2015 at 05:47

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Yeah, I know but... I've seen it in person and I really need more space than that :)

Same reason why I gave up on the Cappuccino... Just too small...

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 06:04

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Yeah, i know :D

I really want the AE86, but the price in here was Crazy. like, 20-25k USD Crazy.

PG; the scalpel wielder > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 06:37

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ohhh yeah. I drove the nsx a few months ago. no regrets. Say hi for me. tell him im the brown doctor from australia!

get excited!!!!

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/a-story-160053…

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/need-a-new-buc…

Flavien Vidal > PG; the scalpel wielder 01/15/2015 at 06:51

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I remember your piece on the subject yes :)

At this time I didn't even know I would be moving to Japan yet.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 07:12

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S2000 has the same amount of trunk space.

Flavien Vidal > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/15/2015 at 07:19

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yeah, not interested in buying a s2000 either. It wasn't on the list of the cars I originally wanted to test drive... I would have gotten a cheap ass mx5 for the sake of removing the passenger seat to transport stuff and add a hard top for a roof rack, but I don't want to do that to a s2000. To a cheap ass miata, sure but to the s2000 :)

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 07:24

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The NSX has twice as many trunks as the other cars.

Flavien Vidal > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 01/15/2015 at 08:15

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If it had one trunk twice the size of the s2000 i would consider it... But i have not much use of two small trunks unfortunately. I need one big one.

Flavien Vidal > PG; the scalpel wielder 01/15/2015 at 09:19

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What's your name by the way (first name will do) so that I don't sound too racist when I say hi from you lol?

PG; the scalpel wielder > Flavien Vidal 01/15/2015 at 15:11

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Haha it's Preet