http://www.importjunkiez.com My Car, My Life Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:09:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Remember a couple years back a clip appeared online pointing to an upcoming animation series based around the cars we loved and the hero being a GT-R? Looks like another trailer has come out as a continuation of the first video that dropped. Still street racing and out running the cops, the bad dude thinks [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2012/01/14/ij-saturday-morning-who-is-the-driver/ Did all of you catch Acura's triple whammy yesterday? The RDX gets a cleaner design and ditches its turbo for a V6, the Civic matures into the all new ILX, and the 2nd generation NSX was announced. No one ever expected Honda/Acura to pull such an impressive 180 after such shortfalls of killing off the [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2012/01/10/next-gen-nsx-makes-its-way-to-gt5/ This has got to be one of the quirkier things to come out of Toyota's big marketing push for the Yaris - The "What The..?!" crew from Marvel and Toyota send Bruce Banner on a road trip with Dr. Strange to Cleveland, Ohio. For one thing I had no clue "What The..?!" made the jump [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/26/marvel-toyota-team-up/ Looks like Christmas came a little early for us! I took a quick stroll halfway up the California Coast and picked up a 9th generation Civic. Instead of waiting 3+ months for an allocation, it took us about two week to find this little guy, well maybe not so little as the Civics have grown [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/23/new-car-in-the-import-junkiez-garage/ One of the most packed displays at the 2011 LA Auto Show wasn't the new Honda CR-V or even the Toyobaru Twins. It was Mario & Luigi displaying their karts from the just released Mario Kart 7 on the Nintendo 3DS. These karts are the real deal go karts that top out at 35 mph. [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/22/2011-la-auto-show-mario-kart-7/ -infamousjj]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/19/subaru-brz-gt300/ Just thought I would put this here in reference to this post "The Next Hachi Roku (AE-86)?". What was that exactly? The Speedhunters got some footage of Formula DRIFT driver, Ken Gushi, testing out the drifting abilities of the Scion FR-S for the first time. So even though the vid has made it's way through [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/19/better-late-than-never-scion-fr-s%e2%80%99-first-drift/ Did a quick run through of the LA Auto Show that occurred last month during  Thanksgiving week. Pretty much if it was a hybrid, electric, or SUV vehicle it made a debut at this show. There was a small spattering of sporty compact cars though, so all in all it was an alright show. The [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/17/2011-la-auto-show-the-gallery/ The final touches are being put on the Nissan Juke-R, the fastest crossover vehicle in the world. and now some testing. -infamousjj]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/12/10/update-nissan-juke-r-almost-done/ Porsche plans to open a new test track for its Porsche Driving Experience at a facility to be built next summer in Carson, Calif., just down the freeway from downtown Los Angeles. Southern California is by far Porsche's biggest market, so this move makes sense. Potential Porsche pilots will test the limits of adhesion on [...]]]> http://www.importjunkiez.com/2011/11/22/wanna-test-drive-a-porsche/