What do you get when you cross a Volkswagen Polo with the engine from a Suzuki Hayabusa? You get a pint-sized pocket rocket that sounds like a disembowled banshee, that’s what.

We’ve little solid information on the precise specs of this half-breed, but we do know that it’s turbocharged, mid-engined and utlises a chain-driven rear axle [...]

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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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Remember that Suzuki Escudo in Gran Turismo 2 that was just about the most batshit-insane vehicle in the game? The man behind that machine (at least outside of virtual reality) was Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima, professional rally driver, workshop owner, hill climber and now, King of Pikes Peak.On Saturday, Tajima-san soared to the top of Pikes [...]

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If you’ve been reading JPCN regularly, you’ll in all likelihood know everything you need to know about the cars featured in this post. You won’t learn anything new (not much anyway) although you WILL find links to a whole bunch of sexy pictures of some nice n’ shiny Japanese cars.Starting with the NISMO 350Z, Autoblog [...]

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