End of Best Motoring

Another sad news from Japan and automotive scene... As you can read at Noriyaro, Best Motoring is cancelled after 24 years. World lost one of the best automotive shows these days and probably the only show you could watch all day although you don't understand anything they are talking about.

JDM scene wouldn't reach the level as it is today if it wasn't for Best Motoring.

Retrospective 1: Tsuchiya + R32 GTR

Oldchool JDM videos never get old. Gotta love old footages of Drift King in action. This drifting scene is cut out of Megalopolos Expressway Trial 2 DVD.

Tuner Skyline battle

Gotta love Orido and Tsuchiya in Best Motoring: Hot Version International. Check out tuner Skylines impressions by Japanese legends!

You can find it all on GTchannel Youtube.

Drifting with AE86 Hachiroku

Photos of Hachirokus are the best, when Hachis are caught in action. True oldschool monsters, who are just made to drift! It’s the most popular JDM hot-hatch tuner cars in US, and it is for a reason. Through years it became an icon of JDM drifting cars.

I’m sure you know who made Toyotas AE86 (and also whole JDM racing scene) so popular, of course it’s Keiichi Tsuchiya-san - the Drift King. Do you recognize him from this picture?

Oldschool photo shot :D

JDM vs EUDM CTR

Another comparison of JDM and EUDM Civic Type R. This time from Best Motoring, the real experts.

FN2 vs FD2, it you watched Fifth Gear comparison of that 2 cars, you know the winner already.

R34 vs AE86 @ Gunsai Touge

Battle of two giants, Keiichi DK Tsuchiya and Nobuteru Taniguchi. Battle of 2 legendary cars: Nissan Skyline R34 and Toyota Corolla AE86 Hachi-roku.

Can a little NA Hachi-roku keep it up with boosted monster Skyline R34? Battle on the ultimate racing area- Touge.

WRC Impreza performance on snow

Snow and racing. Wild combination, no grip and no traction (I know, I broke my front front rim a week ago:)

I posted a comparison video some time ago between stock Subaru Impreza STI and Impreza STI WRC version. It was something for imagine the difference, but what do the experts say about WRC Impreza performance? Here’s an old video of WRC champion Tommi Makinen as a guest in Touge Showdown Special, driving around Keiichi Tsuchiya, Nobuteru Taniguchi and Manabu Orido. See what they have to say about it.
This time with subs! Thanks to GTchannel

Espirit NSX Racing on track

Espirit NSX Turbo tested by Keiichi Tsuchiya for Best Motoring.
Power Output 520PS
Suspension: HKS
Tires: Bridgestone Potenza F: 235/40/R17 R: 265/35/R18

Techno Toy's Corolla AE86 with F20C Swap

Toyota Hachi-Roku with Honda's F20C engine? That's right, complete swap with all the accessories taken out from Honda S2000 and installed to AE86. Video from Hot Version: US Touge, Keiichi Tsuchiya and Manabu Orido are impressed. Car didn't make it to final because it has no LSD installed.

NA Cars Battle - 10000rpm @ Ebisu

Best Motoring: Battle at 10.000 rpm. Battle of NA cars.
Shinichi Yamaji: 1.3L 160hp G-force City
Shunei Kawasaki: 2.0L B18C spec-R 240hp SS Works CRX
Naoki Hattori: 2.0L 260hp Spoon S2000 Super Taikyu Model - group N
Nobuteru Taniguchi: 2.0L 250hp Redline Lexus Altezza Super Taikyu Model - group N
Manabu Orido: 2.1L b18c spec-R 246hp JUN auto EK Civic
Keiichi Tsuchiya: 3.2L 340hp Esprit NSX

Mine's R34 at Tsukuba Track

MINE'S is a auto tuning company in Yokosuka, Japan. They were one of the first Japan tuning companies that started selling re-maped ECU systems for Japan sport cars.
Their most famous products are tuned Nissans GT-R. Although the newest Nissan R35 GT was supposed to be untuneable because of locked ECU, Mine's started selling their tuned version of it with 100 more horsepowers only a week after R35 was available on market.
2002 MINE's R34 Skyline GT-R had 600ps, Best Motoring recorded a lap time of 57.7 seconds at Tsukuba with it. That's about 6 seconds faster than McLaren F1 on this track
Mine's stays away of the decorative styling part of modifying cars, they only focus on cars performance. Mine's founder Michizo Niikura answered on question in Best Motoring interview in 2002 why they left stock airboxes on R34 "We basically leave it up to each costumer how to modify some parts. If we try to do too many things, we will lose focus as a company" (I posted that video in another article) Simple and effective :)
This are videos of MINE'S R34 on Tsukuba track, drivers are Keiichi DK Tsuchiya and Tarzan Yamada, which drove best time of 57.7sec

Keiichi Tsuchiya breaking a Tsukuba lap record with JGTC Arta Honda NSX

a video of the legend Drift King, breaking a new time attack lap record in Tsukuba with JGTC Arta NSX in 2002. Setting a time 51.875 seconds and announcing his retirement. What a way to announce it, Drift King really is one and only.

Keiichi Tsuchiya the Drift King

Who is Keiichi Tsuchiya aka Drift King?

Born 30.1.1957, he is a professional racing driver known also as a Drift King because of his drifting skills and for making drift popular worldwide. He's also known for touge driving. He retired in 2004, he has a big career behind (Nascar, Le Mans, JGTC...) He is now a host of video magazine Best Motoring, where he tests new JDM cars, and a special magazine of tuned cars in a section called Hot Version.
Tsuchiya isn't like most of other racers which came from rich families with racing background and tradition, he gained his skills in underground street racing scene and made his way to the top.
He drives Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, known as Hachi-Roku in Japan.
Here are video of young Keiichi Tsuchiya, driving his Hachi-Roku in one of the first ever filmed touge and for this video Keiichi Tsuchiya got his driving license suspended in Japan back then. Enjoy the touge movie