Here’s a little known fact about me - I don’t only like gadgets, I also like cars…a lot. I’m not going to give the full list of every car, SUV or truck that I have ever owned - sufficed to say that it would be lengthy and on some levels it would explain my propensity for having a lead foot. In any case, I will say that one of my recent favorites was the 2002 Mini Cooper S - which we later traded for a Corvette Z06, but that is another story.

The Mini was like a little go cart - utterly tight and fun to drive; I would have loved to have taken it to a track and seen what it could do, but I never took the opportunity.

That’s why when my new friend G-A told me that he goes to the track once a week to test drive cars for his site Nihon Car, I had to take a look.

Side note: G -A also happens to a fellow Mobian and is the mastermind behind Akihabara News and GeekStuff4U.

G-A recently purchased a very pricey high definition digital movie camera for the harrowing rides that he takes when testing the latest Japanese cars, and the Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version-R is his latest subject. He doesn’t just drive the cars around the track - he romps on them while talking about it! Ooooh, I want his job!

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