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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
eatures SIDEWAYS SMILE Howa€ s this for something to shake up the Impreza tuning scene a€ a lairy drift project that struts its rear-wheel drive stuff with a smattering of S14 Nissan hardware MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE? Bisimoto Engineeringa€ s Civic Shuttle is the stuff of legend: a streetable retro Honda with in excess of 700 horses at the wheels. And all that from a single-cam D-series a€" how does this man do it? THE STRENGTH OF TENTH Japfest celebrated its tenth anniversary in style with a bumper show that brought thousands of enthusiasts flocking to Castle Combe circuit BLUE-SKY THINKING As the first iteration of Mazdaa€ s new design language and radical, all-encompassing SkyActiv technology, the CX-5 brings something genuinely exciting to the crossover market WHITE HEAT Clinically clean it may be but with a stroked and nitrousfuelled 718bhp monster under the bonnet, this Evo VIII RS gets down and dirty at every opportunity OUT ON A LIM Nissan never produced a GTi version of its second-gen Almera, so Darren Lim stepped in with his own interpretation of what that car might have been like PREMIUM CHOICE When HKS invites its best distributors to get together for a thrash around Fuji Speedway, ita€ s an event you definitely dona€ t mind piggybacking GREAT EXPECTATIONS With examples due to hit the road on 1 July, we test the keenly anticipated production Toyota GT86 on road and track to ascertain if ita€ s really as good as wea€ ve been led to believe GOOD THING, SMALL PACKAGE Now at the conclusion of his year with the car, editor Joe talks us through the highs and lows of modifying his little Mazda2 Sport
Article Snippets
In this issue of Banzai, we chart the early history of hot Nissans and how the chief development engineera€ s final sign-off with the DR30 Skyline 2000 RS-Turbo laid a firm foundation for the GT-RS we know today. We head to Japfest as it celebrated its tenth anniversary in style with a bumper show, bringing thousands of enthusiasts flocking to Castle Combe circuit. Editor, Joe Clifford, talks us through the highs and lows of modifying his little Mazda2 Sport over the past year. We test drive the Toyota GT86 on the road and track and see whether ita€ s really as good as wea€ ve been led to believe. Plus, we check out Darren Lima€ s answer to a GTi Almera that Nissan never produced, HKS invites its best distributors to get together for a thrash around its track and we happily tagged along for the ride.
