GT6 Car & Track Wishlist (don't post a picture of every request)

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Just saw a Panamera about 30 min ago... took a picture (will upload soon). The thing that caught my eye was the word "Hybrid" written in cursive on the side... why!?!?!?!?! Just why!?! Why would Porsche make one?!

End of rant.

Anyway, what I would like to see is the following...

Morgan 3-Wheeler (and all the versions that come with it)
Lets make it simple.... all the cars from Morgan.

Reliant Robin (fun little car... in straight lines)

That's it for now... was expecting a bigger and more in depth list, but I'll elaborate on this post later on today.
 
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Just saw a Panamera about 30 min ago... took a picture (will upload soon). The thing that caught my eye was the word "Hybrid" written in cursive on the side... why!?!?!?!?! Just why!?! Why would Porsche make one?!

End of rant.

Anyway, what I would like to see is the following...

Morgan 3-Wheeler (and all the versions that come with it)
Lets make it simple.... all the cars from Morgan.

Reliant Robin (fun little car... in straight lines)

That's it for now... was expecting a bigger and more in depth list, but I'll elaborate on this post later on today.
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Some glorious drifting in the Morgan 3-Wheeler and some glorious rolling in the Reliant Robin
 
2013 Maserati Ghibli
maserati-ghibli-2_1-640x424.jpg


1967 Maserati Ghibli
1967_Maserati_Ghibli_Coupe_Rene_Staud_01.jpg
 
RIP Yatabe Test Course
yatabe1.jpg

For the past 10 years or so racing circuits like Tsukuba and Fuji have been the biggest proving grounds for both Japanese OEM performance and for the tuning industry. But it hasn't always been this way. There was a time when Japan's tuners yearned for flat-out speed alone, and at the center of this movement was the famous Yatabe test course.

Following the rapid growth of the Japanese auto industry in the '60s, the Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) facility at Yatabe (now part of Tsukuba city) was opened in 1964 as a high speed test facility for automakers and for the government to gather data on various automobiles. The 5km banked oval allowed maximum speeds to be achieved. Of course, the thought of a closed oval located a short distance outside of Tokyo also caused Japan's growing tuning industry to take notice.

Starting around the early 1980's, tuners from all over Japan would gather at Yatabe to try their machines on the massive banked course. Early tuning pioneers brought out their hopped up S30 and S130 Z's and SA22C RX7's to clock top speed and acceleration records. These exploits are chronicled in the excellent "Legend of Option" magazines.

In the 1990's the Yatabe speed trials drew top tuners like JUN, Top Secret, Waste Sports, Fuji Dynamics and Veilside who brought out their GT-R's to battle for supremacy in the 0-300km acceleration test.
These gatherings got a lot of exposure mid to late '90s Option videos.

Here is a an R32 sedan GT-R conversion from ATTKD running the course in 1997.

The early 2000's would see the growth of Tsukuba city and a new express rail line would be opened connecting Tsukuba to Tokyo. The route for the new line would cut directly through the Yatabe test course. Around the same time JARI opened it's new test facility in the more isolated location of Shirosato, a little north of Tsukuba.

This spelled the end of the historic Yatabe test area and the course was officially closed in 2005. With the addition of the Tsukuba Express the city has expanded and the former course area is now filled with a train station, shopping malls, apartment buildings and restraints.

For a while, parts of the old track remained and there are a few pictures of the abandoned banked sections on some Japanese blogs.

10118040079900010777_jc9s8uc8vw.jpg

In this picture you can see the vegetation that is already starting to reclaim the old track.

It's hard to imagine this was once a place where super cars blasted by at 300kph.

But by now it looks like all of the old track sections have been removed and the only signs left of its existence are some odd clearings in the trees.

2349491466_78e20da2e6.jpg

In this photo from Google Earth you can see the outline of the course and the new development including the rail line. Actually, there has been even more houses and buildings constructed since this photo was taken. The funny looking white building is JARI's crash test facility which is still being used.

A local racer-"It's hard to think that every time I hop on the train to Tokyo that I'm traveling through what once was an isolated high speed race track in the middle of nowhere. RIP Yatabe."
 
i like the old ghibli, the '96 looks cool at the back but i don't like the front. It looks a bit like the delta hf at the front. (although i do like the delta's front). the new one looks pretty good. I don't think either newer ones look like supercars though, they should've had a new name.

also, bring back fuji 80's!
 
ZedMan1996
RIP Yatabe Test Course
yatabe1.jpg

For the past 10 years or so racing circuits like Tsukuba and Fuji have been the biggest proving grounds for both Japanese OEM performance and for the tuning industry. But it hasn't always been this way. There was a time when Japan's tuners yearned for flat-out speed alone, and at the center of this movement was the famous Yatabe test course.

Following the rapid growth of the Japanese auto industry in the '60s, the Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) facility at Yatabe (now part of Tsukuba city) was opened in 1964 as a high speed test facility for automakers and for the government to gather data on various automobiles. The 5km banked oval allowed maximum speeds to be achieved. Of course, the thought of a closed oval located a short distance outside of Tokyo also caused Japan's growing tuning industry to take notice.

Starting around the early 1980's, tuners from all over Japan would gather at Yatabe to try their machines on the massive banked course. Early tuning pioneers brought out their hopped up S30 and S130 Z's and SA22C RX7's to clock top speed and acceleration records. These exploits are chronicled in the excellent "Legend of Option" magazines.

In the 1990's the Yatabe speed trials drew top tuners like JUN, Top Secret, Waste Sports, Fuji Dynamics and Veilside who brought out their GT-R's to battle for supremacy in the 0-300km acceleration test.
These gatherings got a lot of exposure mid to late '90s Option videos.

Here is a an R32 sedan GT-R conversion from ATTKD running the course in 1997.

The early 2000's would see the growth of Tsukuba city and a new express rail line would be opened connecting Tsukuba to Tokyo. The route for the new line would cut directly through the Yatabe test course. Around the same time JARI opened it's new test facility in the more isolated location of Shirosato, a little north of Tsukuba.

This spelled the end of the historic Yatabe test area and the course was officially closed in 2005. With the addition of the Tsukuba Express the city has expanded and the former course area is now filled with a train station, shopping malls, apartment buildings and restraints.

For a while, parts of the old track remained and there are a few pictures of the abandoned banked sections on some Japanese blogs.

10118040079900010777_jc9s8uc8vw.jpg

In this picture you can see the vegetation that is already starting to reclaim the old track.

It's hard to imagine this was once a place where super cars blasted by at 300kph.

But by now it looks like all of the old track sections have been removed and the only signs left of its existence are some odd clearings in the trees.

2349491466_78e20da2e6.jpg

In this photo from Google Earth you can see the outline of the course and the new development including the rail line. Actually, there has been even more houses and buildings constructed since this photo was taken. The funny looking white building is JARI's crash test facility which is still being used.

A local racer-"It's hard to think that every time I hop on the train to Tokyo that I'm traveling through what once was an isolated high speed race track in the middle of nowhere. RIP Yatabe."
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Why have you just copied this blog post?

http://www.auto-otaku.com/home/2008/03/rip-yatabe-test.html

In fact you seem to like doing that, your FR-S post above:

http://www.gtchannel.com/blog/monsters-monster-86-fr-s

This is a request thread, not a copy and paste stuff about the stuff you're requesting thread.
 
ZedMan1996
RIP Yatabe Test Course
yatabe1.jpg

For the past 10 years or so racing circuits like Tsukuba and Fuji have been the biggest proving grounds for both Japanese OEM performance and for the tuning industry. But it hasn't always been this way. There was a time when Japan's tuners yearned for flat-out speed alone, and at the center of this movement was the famous Yatabe test course.

Following the rapid growth of the Japanese auto industry in the '60s, the Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) facility at Yatabe (now part of Tsukuba city) was opened in 1964 as a high speed test facility for automakers and for the government to gather data on various automobiles. The 5km banked oval allowed maximum speeds to be achieved. Of course, the thought of a closed oval located a short distance outside of Tokyo also caused Japan's growing tuning industry to take notice.

Starting around the early 1980's, tuners from all over Japan would gather at Yatabe to try their machines on the massive banked course. Early tuning pioneers brought out their hopped up S30 and S130 Z's and SA22C RX7's to clock top speed and acceleration records. These exploits are chronicled in the excellent "Legend of Option" magazines.

In the 1990's the Yatabe speed trials drew top tuners like JUN, Top Secret, Waste Sports, Fuji Dynamics and Veilside who brought out their GT-R's to battle for supremacy in the 0-300km acceleration test.
These gatherings got a lot of exposure mid to late '90s Option videos.

Here is a an R32 sedan GT-R conversion from ATTKD running the course in 1997.

The early 2000's would see the growth of Tsukuba city and a new express rail line would be opened connecting Tsukuba to Tokyo. The route for the new line would cut directly through the Yatabe test course. Around the same time JARI opened it's new test facility in the more isolated location of Shirosato, a little north of Tsukuba.

This spelled the end of the historic Yatabe test area and the course was officially closed in 2005. With the addition of the Tsukuba Express the city has expanded and the former course area is now filled with a train station, shopping malls, apartment buildings and restraints.

For a while, parts of the old track remained and there are a few pictures of the abandoned banked sections on some Japanese blogs.

10118040079900010777_jc9s8uc8vw.jpg

In this picture you can see the vegetation that is already starting to reclaim the old track.

It's hard to imagine this was once a place where super cars blasted by at 300kph.

But by now it looks like all of the old track sections have been removed and the only signs left of its existence are some odd clearings in the trees.

2349491466_78e20da2e6.jpg

In this photo from Google Earth you can see the outline of the course and the new development including the rail line. Actually, there has been even more houses and buildings constructed since this photo was taken. The funny looking white building is JARI's crash test facility which is still being used.

A local racer-"It's hard to think that every time I hop on the train to Tokyo that I'm traveling through what once was an isolated high speed race track in the middle of nowhere. RIP Yatabe."
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The more I see this, the more I feel that Driving Park Test Course is inspired by Yatabe. 💡

Simon, what? Some infrigement thing? :rolleyes:
 
tankuroded
The more I see this, the more I feel that Driving Park Test Course is inspired by Yatabe. 💡

Simon, what? Some infrigement thing? :rolleyes:
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Yatabe was the track that brought tuners to fame in Japan. Thats where it first really started. Yatabe was the heart of it. Its a massive shame it got demolished. I saw that piece of track lying there when I was in Japan and it felt as if something was yearning to be resurrected. It sounds wierd but when we were at the piece of track I felt an odd presence as if something just wanted to play. I know it sounds weird. But the history of proper Japanese sports cars started here.
 
So, I'm guessing that Simonk once again decided to argue with zedman. Am I right?

Requests:

1998 Citroen Xsara (already on my GT6 big wishlist)
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/4/606/1309/39013154001_large.jpg

1998 Renault Laguna 2.0
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4629292827150366&pid=1.7

1988 Ford Probe GT
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4772066051_5a15b3c40f.jpg

1988 Peugeot 505 Turbo
http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/158060/505GTD_Turbo_1988_503TF45_1.jpg1..jpg

1985 Nissan Silvia S12
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/2/4695/3921/24236960001_large.jpg
 
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