I’m coming up on 2 months since I installed my Car PC, and I have to say it’s been great. Stability has probably been the most impressive thing, I haven’t had any issues with it crashing, and restart it maybe once a week to flush to memory and generally keep Windows happy.

I also received the final piece of the dash puzzle, a spare ash tray. Since my stock ashtray was woodgrain, I didn’t want to ruin it and paint over it (a. because they are worth a fair bit of money and b. I want to be able to return the car to stock when I sell) so I bought a black one to matchup with my freshly painted dash.

The whole strip that runs down the middle of the car, from the vents to the cup holders, have all been painted a glossy black. It’s great that it all matches, instead of two shades of matte black and a woodgrain ash tray

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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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