The guys are Noriyaro snapped this great photo of the Asayan in his gorgeous AE86 dirt dropping at the most recent MSC Drift event. The car is just inches in this photo from ripping off it’s side skirt. The driver/owner is from Osaka an goes by the nickname we used Asayan. He works in a body shop in Osaka called “Looking” who are apparently known for their great paint work.

Source: http://noriyaro.com/?p=3690

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We have some new wallpapers over in our “Wallpaper” tab. We even added some new sizes 1024×768, 1068×1050, 1140×900, 1250×800, 1680×1050, and 1920x 1200. We have some clips from MSC Drift, D1GP Japan, Formula D and more. Stay tuned as more wallpapers will be coming in the future as well. The sample wallpaper above is of “Mad” Mike Whiddett and his Mazda Rx-7 at the Redbull World Championship in late 2008.

No One Better (NOB) Taniguchi looks like he put this Aristo to quick work after the last round of MSC that we just photographed this car at. With the help of his sponsor Vertex it looks like he has slapped an updated front end on his old car. In America the front end comes from a GS series Lexus either a GS 300 or GS 430 which debuted in 2006 and is still in production to current time. This was an update for NOB from his second generation GS series Lexus front end was in production from 1998 to 2005. You can see in the third picture that Taniguchi is sporting the Lexus emblem as well on the new front end conversion. From what we know his amazingly tuned car is not going to change and we cannot wait to see him ripping up MSC in 2009! 

Source: http://jdmego.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/nobs-aristo/

Japan’s best Drifting magazine just dropped a new issue with a blue Silvia on the cover. Inside you will find the typical Drifting pieces that Drift Tengoku produces. They also visited SEMA 2008 and have some pieces of RMR Hyundai Genesis and Sam Hubinette’s Dodge Challenger. Swing by your local Japanese bookstore and pick this one up, it’s a great read.

MSC Drift from the Speedhunters

Finally a long video from these guys full of MSC coverage, our favorite Japanese Drifting series. MSC Honjo had some amazing triple tandem coverage and a great extended MSC video footage. A great Drifting production from the Speedhunters team.

Normally I use this space for a hard sell or a plea to check out the Drifting gallery we just spent our monthly dinner budget on but this time I think it takes no sell. MSC Drift invaded Odaiba over the weekend in a copy of D1GP’s summer Tokyo invasion. The sickest cars in Japan came out to rip it up and we love every still image of it….if you look through the gallery deep enough you will even find some Japanese girls and stormtroopers, what a complete weekend!

Check out the gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=81

Wrecked Magazine Issue 7 just came out and with the SEMA craze last week we want to spend some time now and tell you to go read this amazing issue. We covered Justin Pawlak’s great success as a rookie in the 2008 season. He is the first ever Pro Am driver to make a Formula D podium to date. We sat down with him for a great interview so don’t miss a second of it. Also, let’s not forget our Top 10 Wrecks of Formula D history which even includes some amazing crash videos we dug up out of the archives. An Industry Insider with Brian Crower, a full MSC Drift gallery, and a review of the Mad Skills DVD. Don’t miss all this and our new advertisement from AEM!

Don’t forget to browse the gallery from Round 9 of the MSC Drift series by clicking here!