about 3 years ago - No comments
Continuing the declining trend of the big three American automakers, Ford is the latest victim overtaken by the unstoppable Japanese machine that is Toyota. The sales of Toyota vehicles already surpassed DiamlerChrysler last year and now stands roughly at 15%, increased from about 10% from five years ago, while Ford is still struggling after it’s
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
I went to the Petronas Gallery for the famous BMW Art Cars exhibition with the Snark over lunch time. Unfortunately, photography was not allowed, and all we got was a poster and a bookmark. According to the website: The BMW Art Car Collection is a series of BMW production models transformed from automobile to art
about 4 years ago - 2 comments
Video from Round two of GRA Autocross on 15th January, 2006 held at KLCC. This is Julian Pang with Proton Wira 1.6 doing a pretty good run and scored 3rd place with the best time of 42.47s. Just a tad slower than the no. 13 Honda CRX, and no. 39, a Civic EG6. It is
about 4 years ago - 5 comments
white MR2 attacking the corner After the success of the first GRA Autocross at KLCC on last November, the organiser followed up with the highly anticipated second installment of the same event. This time with more participants and slightly altered course. I was there again as a spectator snapping pictures, perhaps I might take the
about 4 years ago - 10 comments
The Toyota MR2 club organised a convoy to Ulu Yam at Selangor on the New Year’s day. Though most of us had partied the night before, about 13 cars and over 20 people still managed to show up for the fun drive on the first morning of 2006. There were 3 MRS, an MK1 MR2
about 4 years ago - 2 comments
A common problem that plagues the Toyota MR2 (SW20) is the leaky side mirror mounting that results in a lot of wind noise when cruising at high speed. This is rather annoying, especially when you try to have a decent conversation with your passenger, not to mention it dampens the sweet turbo spooling sound that
about 4 years ago - 3 comments
Video from the Drift Gateaway @ Port Dickson, Sunday 4th December, 2005. A great piece of driving showed by one of the drifters as he navigated his way through two spun out cars and avoided contact.
about 4 years ago - 5 comments
I finally went to the Toyota MR2 teh tarik session for the first time. Had to miss the last one as I went back to Penang for a friend’s wedding. I’m most likely not able to remember all the new names, but there’s always the next round. There were close to 10 cars that came
about 4 years ago - 3 comments
Results from the Grass Racing Autocross event at KLCC is out at the group mailing list at yahoo grassracingautosports group. Click on the link to join the group. View the entire post for all results. Class A: Below 1300cc 1st: Andy Kow, 42.35s 2nd: Chan Yau Koon, 42,47s 3rd: Faisal Asri (Ah Fai), 44.03s Click
about 4 years ago - 3 comments
Video from Autocross KLCC, 20th November 2005. This old school Datsun Fairlady Z had made an almost decent last run, until the last 360 whereby the inadvertently spun out. Instead of continuing the run to the last bend, the Fairlady decided to make a few more donuts and hit a cone before gong out in
