Although notorious for producing the god-awful Orochi “supercar”, Japanese coachbuilding company Mitsuoka does occasionally get things right.

Take, for example, the newly-unveiled Himiko hardtop convertible. Yes, it’s yet another product of Mitsuoka’s peculiar fetish for retro-British styling, but unlike the ungainly Jag and Rolls clones that bulk out the rest of the Mitsuoka stable the Himiko [...]

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Transplanting entire front ends between cars is nothing new. For instance, the “Strawberry Face” S15-to-other-S-platform swap is a tried-and-true mod, and the nose of an R34 GT-R also seem to graft quite well onto a WGCN34 Stagea. However, one swap that we’ve never seen done before is a KPGC10 GT-R front end on a Suzuki [...]

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We here at JPCN have been keeping a close eye on the E-Vade twin-turbo mid-engined roadster, and designer/builder/owner David Walter recently invited us up to Winton Raceway in central Victoria to check out the circuit debut of the track-only E-Vade. I was especially keen to check out what this bad boy could do, so my [...]

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Tucked away in a far corner of the Melbourne Exhibition Centre was a pair of short, squat open topped cars. We’ve told you much about these cars before (like, here and here), but their designer/builder/owner David Walter has been keeping JPCN posted on how his creations are progressing in the lead up to their first [...]

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“Wait a minute”, you say. “I know my Japanese cars, and Bolwell ain’t one of them”. Good observation. So why are we covering it? Well, like the E-Vade, Bolwell’s Nagari fuses an Australian chassis, body and suspension with the brute force of a forced-induction Japanese powerplant. Nagari is a name that stretches way, way back [...]

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In our last article on the E-Vade, all the photos we had to hand were of the car sitting in a shed in a semi-completed state. Now, we can finally show you the home-built monster in all it’s glory. For a completely hand-built sports car, the E-Vade looks great. While some may think its slab [...]

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Bolwell have just released a teaser image of their all-new Nagari mid-engined sportscar, which will debut at the upcoming Melbourne International Motor Show. For the uninitiated, Bolwell is an Australian low-volume sportscar manufacturer, whose main model, the Nagari, was first produced in the 1970s. Past iterations of the Nagari have used Ford V8s mounted up [...]

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