Friday, March 4, 2011

Lunchtime Ramblings #1: The R34, Taliban-mobile?

Not a real update per-say, but I'm going to try to post something everyday. (We'll see how long this lasts). Some technical points first. Rebel's profile is now up, check it out and be educated. He hasn't posted yet, but he will, once I get him set-up. We talk everyday, and a lot of what goes on here is said by him, just under my signature, as I often post when I'm free (Rebel might be the only person in the world with less free time than me, two guys working 5 full and part time jobs combined AND one of us trying to go to school full time doesn't leave much blogging time).

We also have a counter now! Whoo! So tell your friends and lets get that odometer spinning. Speaking of features I know I've promised a video discussing new cars, and I did film it, and its 90% edited, but I hate it. Most likely it'll be scrapped and replaced with a text post. We'll see.

Well reading up on my auto news for today during lunch, as I often do, I came across an Interesting story. Seems the Dept. of Homeland Security has declared R34 Nissan Skylines illegal and they have set about seizing them all. See pic here.....


Seeing as Nissan never actually sold the R34 here (or the R33 or R32 for that matter) its a relatively small number, but the fact is that people paid (a ton of) money for these and had to jump through all sorts of hoops and red tape to get them legal to import and several years later they find out it wasn't good enough and they have to turn over their keys and watch it be exported back to Tokyo (with you picking up the tab BTW). WTF? Free country my ass. Doesn't the government have anything better to do? Aren't we fighting two wars and deep in the red? But a couple of ricers wet-dreams are the real issue here. Riiiiiigggghhhtttt. Question is what will they use in the new Fast and the Furious? But seriously, this sets a dangerous precedent. Soon the government can declare any car illegal on any grounds (according to the feds the R34s can't pass emissions, big fucking deal) and make you get rid of it. Soon we will all be driving Priuses.......

Anyway, I realized I never actually showed you the new Boss Mustang yesterday, so here it is.


That is just pure car porn, frankly. It really reminds me of the old ones, with factory rev-limiters that ran in Trans-Am. Too bad we don't have a Trans-Am series anymore........
Anyway, that's today's post, more tomorrow (probably) and be sure to leave comments!

3 comments:

  1. I LOVE the Mustang...one of the coolest cars ever!

    Why are they declaring the R34 Nissan Skylines illegal AFTER allowing the cars to enter the county in the first place? That doesn't seem fair....

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  2. That is a shame about the R34 Skyline. Granted you know I am all for mustangs and American cars. The R-34 has such a neat exhaust note, not to mention it is a clean looking car. The white skyline you have pictures looks awesome, clean body kit, nice wheels. Makes absolutely no sense. A 1984 Dodge Caravan pollutes the air more than one of these cars.
    -Hollywood

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  3. Sadly, the government is using both the green initative and our own ill trade feelings with Asia to simply steal these cars in my opinion. Its quite sad, but not really surprising, given some of the stuff our government does.

    I'm reading that if you bought a G34, the legal Infiniti version that was sold in the US, and placed the R34 body kit and badges on it, they will be coming around to hassle you, although they can't actually do anything. Also, sources are claiming Mercedes-Benz is behind this as a protest of some MB product not being allowed in the US, but I can't confirm that yet.

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