Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Wild Speed 3: Tokyo Drift Girls


The Fast and the Furious is known as "Wild Speed" in Japan. Tokyo Drift is actually one of Potemkin's favorite movies because it is just so cheesily and wonderfully awful.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Will Drifting Ever Be The Same


For good or for bad, drifting may never be the same. The official release of the film The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift in theaters today will expose drifting to the masses. Just as the original The Fast and The Furious movie made the Japanese car culture widely popular among teenagers and young adults, the Tokyo Drift film will do the same for Drifting, but on a much larger scale.

Drifting is a racing technique that involves skidding through a corner sideways. It originated in the mountains of Japan more than 15 years ago and evolved into a competitive motor sport in that country before finding its way to the United States. Today, two organizations, D1 Grand Prix and Formula Drift, promote drift competitions for both amateur and professional drift drivers in the United States.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Tokyo Drift YO

Ok so it's not Tokyo - it's France.
Same location, corner even where we did the drifting XFR.
I prefer the drifting XFR shot, I think because it was shot early morning with softer natural light.
This shot, black car + midday sun = epic fail

Friday, March 2, 2007

“Tokyo Drift” Practice and Qualifying, Saturday

Thursday, March 1, 2007

GIRLS OF D1 TOKYO DRIFT


I know you guys enjoy seeing the ladies almost as much as you like the seeing the cars, so I have put together a small gallery of some of the race queens and flag girls from the D1GP Tokyo Drift event in Odaiba. While D1 is not known for its race queens like Super GT or Tokyo Auto Salon, there were still quite a few of them to be found in Odaiba.

I'm not going to spend the time to write captions for these as you probably won't even notice them. Hope you enjoy!

Friday, February 9, 2007

Tokyo Drift Widescreen

Mike Garrett Description: Hisashi Oginome's APP S15 becomes a blur as it slides past the camera during the June, 2008 D1GP Tokyo Drift exhibition match in Odaiba. Tokyo's famous Fuji TV building is seen looming in the background.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Honda S2000 Tokyo Drift

After re-seen the film I was taken by inspiration
Hope u like it

Monday, February 5, 2007

Watch The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the third film in Universal's street racing franchise, is revving up for a June 16th release. We've got an exclusive video from the forthcoming flick featuring interviews with cast members Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights, Jarhead), Bow Wow (Roll Bounce)and Nathalie Kelly as well as director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow). There's also video of the flick's stunt drivers (and drift racers) Tanner Foust and Rhys Millen. Here's the setup: The action centers around Black's character, Sean Boswell, who has always been a gaijin -- an outsider. He's a loner at school, and his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing - which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent out of the country to live with his military father in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo.

In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road, the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal, gravity-defying automotive challenge -- drift racing, a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart-stopping courses with hairpin turns and switchbacks. In his first unsuccessful foray into the world of drift racing, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," with ties to the Yakuza, the Japanese crime machine. The only way Sean can pay off the debt from his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld, where the stakes are life and death.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Tyrese is Still Fast, Still Furious

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Car of the Day: Han's S15

The Nissan Silvia you see here is one of the "less pretty" cars of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. In the movie, Bow Wow compares this car to the Mona Lisa. That is because Bow Wow (or the script writers) is crazy. Blue and orange, while opposites on the color wheel (and therefore complimentary colors), just don't look good together -- especially on a car. However, this is a Fast and Furious car we're talking about, so we can't be surprised to see a car in this movie that just isn't cool.

Well... this car is a S15, so it can't be all bad. Let's get a closer look at it...


This role this Silvia plays in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a bit odd, as it's an important car to the film, yet it gets trashed almost immediately. In the movie, this car is owned by the film's mentor-like character "Han". Yes, he just has one name, which makes him that much more of an enigma -- just like Prince. Anyway, Han lets the main guy -- Sean Boswell -- use this S15 in his first race against the Drift King. As we all know, Sean uses the RB-powered Mustang in his "big" race against DK, so we can comfortably say that Sean doesn't drive this car that well. In fact, Sean trashes this Nissan. This trashing of "the Mona Lisa" thoroughly upset Bow Wow... but we're sure he got over it.


As this car doesn't get a lot of screen time, the car builders at Universal really didn't spend too much time working on it. Its interior is gutted out, leaving a lone Recaro seat and a Takata harness for the driver. The rest of the interior was gutted, and custom-fabricated sheet metal was used to cover up the doors, rear package tray and more. You know, the odd shapes of factory-stamped metal just don't look good on film...

Though the shell of this S15 is the unfortunate recipient of an orange and blue paint job, it does have a few things going on for it on the outside. The coolest thing about this Silvia is the near stock-looking C-West DRFT aero kit. Other exterior touches include Modern Image graphics, a C-West-supplied GT wing and a set of Ganador mirrors. Of course the wheels get a visual upgrade in the form of some 19-inch Volk GT-7 rims wrapped in Toyo Proxes TR1 tires.


There's really not a whole lot to talk about as far as the engine is concerned. Don't let the picture fool you, we really doubt that Universal would spring for an Autch-tuned engine for a car that gets trashed. Hell, it looks like Universal didn't even spring for an S15 with the 250 horsepower SR20DET motor -- this looks to be the 165 horsepower naturally-aspirated SR20DE. This N/A SR20 looks as if it has a couple of mods, notably a tubular exhaust manifold and a N1-style exhaust, but those probably only add an additional 10 ponies at best. Still, it's not like this engine needs to be all buff because, as we already said, this car gets trashed. Besides, let's just say that, in the movie, this car's engine comes back to play a major role. What kind of role is that? Go see the movie and find out for yourself.

Before you head out to the movie theatre, be sure to check out our Media Page for more pics of this S15!

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Tokyo Drift Cars

1994 Mazda RX-7 with VeilSide Fortune wide body kit. In the movie, Han dies when the car flips and explodes after wrecking into a Mercedes Benz S-Class. VeilSide built three duplicate RX-7s for the film and the Tokyo Drift shop built three aditional visual clones.

1967 Ford Mustang Fastback driven by Sean Boswell. This Mustang is unique because the power plant for the Ford is a RB26DET Nissan Skyline engine. A trend with JDM enthusiasts is to take a classic Japanese car and transplant a new high performance engine like the RB26 or SR20DET. However it is virtually unheard of to swap a JDM engine into a classic American car, making this truly a unique whip. Another interesting note is that the studio decided to go with a single turbo instead of the stock twin turbo setup.

2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX GSR featuring APR graphics and body kit. Mitsubishi donated 10 new JDM EVOs to the film and eight were specially modified to rear wheel drive only using a kit developed by Rhys Millen Racing (RMR). The kit replaces the differential output assembly with one that leaves out the splines to drive the front wheels and the output holes in the transfer case are capped. The factory transverse mounted six-speed transmission and remaining drivetrain is left stock. Lancers come from the factory with an AWD transmission and rear wheel drive swaps are performed to improve drifting performance. Driven by Sean when he is learning how to drift.
2004 Volkswagen Touran modeled after the Hulk. Twinkie owns the car and Sean drives it in the movie.
1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Sean in the opening race scene. Wrecked during a race with Clay’s Dodge Viper and later scrapped by Pima County Sheriff Department following Sean’s arrest. Nine Monte Carlos were built for The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Two had big-blocks and the other seven had small-block V8s or were engine-less props.

The two big-block Chevys use Hooker headers, Flowmaster mufflers, Richmond T-10 four-speed manual transmissions, Wenco driveshafts and Moser-built 12-bolt rear-ends running 4.88:1 gears in a spool differential. Both ride on a chassis fitted with Global West front control arms and coil springs, KYB shocks, Speedway Engineering anti-sway bars, Global West weight jack plates and quick-ratio steering boxes. Wilwood disc brakes sit behind the Cragar 397 steel 15-inch wheels and the tires are Goodyear stock-car specials.


2005 Dodge Viper SRT10 driven by Clay and wrecked into a concrete pipe at high speed when racing Sean in the Monte Carlo.

1993 S13 Nissan Silvia with DRFT aeroparts (body kit).
1998 Toyota Chaser with 5-speed transmission, C-West rear wing, Volk Racing GT-V wheels, and Toyo Proxes tires. Little is modified from stock, as the Chaser is drift ready from the factory. The Chaser features a single turbo version of the Supra’s JZ engine.


2006 Mazda RX-8 with VeilSide body kit, driven by Neela. This right-hand-drive RX-8 is lowered using Tein springs and sits on Volk Racing GT-AV wheels wrapped in Toyo Proxes tires. Under the hood a GReddy single turbo system and a Tanabe cat-back exhaust system boost power.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Nissan 370z Tokyo Drift


My new work Nissan 370z.This car 23.BDS competition car.Tokyo drift 350z or 370z
I hope you like
And 370z on the air-brush my drawing.Orginal car see and drawing.