No. 572010.2.10

Awake Excellent Car

When this article is posted, it’ll be the Christmas season on the streets.
Merry Christmas to all the players, this is Tetsuo, the eternal newcomer. I went to a game arcade in a certain part of Kanagawa the other day to clean up the ghost re-match list. Gosh, it was a bitter end, but there was a time when I could win when I was hanging out there.
All the players who hunted down Tetsuo’s trash-fish ghost and all the players who didn’t care about that kind of trash fish it was, it’s a little early, but thank you for loving Wangan Maxi this year as well.

AND, Maxi 3 Dela Pula (call it whatever way you want) will be released soon! No matter how you look at it, Tetsuo can’t wait for GT-R, which will be a new appearance.

Nissan GT-R (R35)?
No, no. The one I’m looking forward to is the so-called “Hakosuka,” the Skyline GT-R (KPGC10), which was born 40 years ago. The car from the representative class of classic cars in Japan finally appears. In the Opinion Box, it was one of the cars which was requested a lot for game appearances along with the GT-R (R35).

That car is like a super-cool European car and Japan-made, tuned monster. Fast cars and special cars have unique but terrific qualities or an aura of sorts. But classic cars have their own aura. I can say that they have withstood the baptism of time or have a brilliance which the modern age cannot produce any more. All in all, they emanate a unique atmosphere. Hakosuka is surely a car with such an aura.

First of all, the part that stands out the most in that car is its form. Many of the body designs in recent cars are wrapped around in “curved surfaces” and are in organic forms. Particularly, the basic form of sports cars is being streamlined, which move the air in a beautiful way because those cars demand a detailed aero designs. Their streaming curved surfaces and cutting edges. I can fall in love with those designs in their own ways, but I’m fascinated with the backwards angulations of classic cars. …Look at this rectangle shape. It’s a fair match with a lunch box!



So cool…so masculine...
…I, I’m sorry. I feel like saying this every time, but I can’t show you the model image yet for various reasons…
But you all know Hakosuka, I think. The fighter from an older generation has almost been rolled out to the Wangan Maxi world by the plant manager Fukusuke.
Oh, its exhaust sound is cool, too. You must listen to that sound.

I’m sure you’ll love it!

(Original article in Japanese released on 2009.12.24)