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Nissan and Gran Turismo has announced the NISSAN CONCEPT 2020 Vision Gran Turismo.
This will be delivered by a free update of the PlayStation3 exclusive use software “Gran Turismo 6” in July 2014.
The development of NISSAN CONCEPT 2020 Vision Gran Turismo was started by the style that the young designers of Nissan Design in Europe and London freely designed a dream sports car.
Afterwards, they incorporated the technical feedback from engineers of the Nissan technical center who received the design.
The development was promoted by the repeated collaboration of the design and the technology.
They have finished the car that shows the directionality of the concept model of the next generation GT-R model.
The "Tokyo toy show 2014" is being held until June 15 at the Tokyo Big sight.
The “Tomica Police TOYOTA 86 patrol car” exhibited at the Takara Tommy booth was just one model in the world. (Tomica is the line of die-cast toy vehicles and related products produced by Takara Tomy Co. of Japan, formerly known as Tomy Kogyo Incorporated)
The design adopted in the product for the commemoration of Toyota "86" patrol car related product of Tomika was reproduced with a real car.
It is said that the enlightenment activity of the traffic safety was incorporated in cooperation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. I hear that this car will be exhibited at various events in the future.
Who is the most popular player among the Japan representatives of Soccer? It is “Ucha” having many young girl fans! Atsuto Uchida was born on March 27, 1988.
The participants of “Atsuto Uchida Schalke 04 official support tour” on February 26, 2011 belonging to the Bundesliga Schalke 04 came running, the popularity is such that the 90 persons of the total 95 persons were women, and the colleagues made a fun of him as “Japan’s Beckham”.
He is so popular that the women told him with bitter smile, “We had a wrong information that you are working as a model in your team in Japan”. When seeing from the Germans point of view he was rather childish and cute rather than saying as attractive.
The offensive ability is right side back. He is distinguished as he is young, and has accomplished the debut as the Japanese representative in his teens. He participated in the Asian preliminary contest of the South African World Cup as regular, and it contributed to this tournament performance, but he was unable to appear in the main stage due to the changes in the team policy and poor health condition. However, his talent was later recognized and transferred to Schalke 04.
He won the regular seat with the champion club of Germany, and is now an indispensable player.
The children are attracted by this truck but not able to ride this because they are yet to reach the age to get the driving license. They have made the “Decoration Bicycle” by decorating the bicycle to some extent. I searched the internet with this information.
This is quite a foolish concept, but I am introducing this because I like their determination to have seriously prepared the work, which is indeed useless.
I am quite absorbed in their foolish idea. They call it as hobby. Naturally, there are lot of good-for-nothing things among the people, but it will be happy only if they consider it as a hobby.
Aokigahara-jukai is the forest area that spreads out on the foot of Mt. Fuji
It is located on the way of Mt. Fuji mountain road, and being a famous tourist spot, this area is always busy with the tourists. There is very big parking lot.
There is a camping ground and a park near this place, and a walking trail has been provided to go through Aokigahara-jukai. This is one of the best places for leisure activities.
The scenery formed by the lake and Mt. Fuji is beautiful.
This place can be easily reached from Tokyo, and is a popular sightseeing spot. On the other hand, this is a deep forest with lot of trees and bushes, and hence even if you go little off from the walking trail it would be very difficult to return to the original spot.
The surface of the area other than the walking trail has uneven and rough dents of various sizes because it was created by the eruption of lava, and hence there is a chance of injury due to slippage.
There is a real saying from the past the “You cannot come out once you enter” and it also has another face of being a famous suicide spot. The chances of finding the remains of some of the corpses, not so far from the walking trail, is high.
The problem is when someone enters the forest by leaving the walking trail, and if they don’t see the walking trail or guide signboard, they will find that the area is surrounded by similar type of straight trees over 360 degrees, and the same scenery without any specific features to distinguish will continue. They will be trapped into the paralysis of direction sense because there is no prominent landmark either. Keeping the foothold steady becomes a problem, does not let to proceed straight, and makes it impossible to return to the original place. There are lot of cases of death due to the fact that they were unable to return to the original place after stepping out of the walking trail out of interest, and not with the intention of suicide. This place is so dangerous that the police used to patrol the parking lot to see if there are any cars parked in the parking lot without attention late in the evening.
Nissan announced that the production of the Japan domestic model of Fair lady Z Roadster (open body) will be stopped after completing the order received until September end of 2014.
There is no other option because the sales is only 800 cars in the five years after the sales start in 2009.
It was completely a loss and below the breakeven. Mitsubishi Motors will also stop the production of Lancer evolution in this autumn.
Lancer Evolution
On the other hand, For Toyota, the sales of TOYOTA86 is good, and it has announced the revival of SUPRA.
86 Rocket bunny
SUPRA
Subaru has BRZ and WRX.
BRZ STI
WRX STI
Honda has NSX and Civic type R.
NSX
CIVIC type-R
You can feel the power in these 3 companies. Then, why the Fair lady Z Roadster and Lancer evolution was withdrawn and stopped from production. The reason is simple. The brand image is very sluggish in the Japanese market.
Though all the automobile manufacturers have worked out big restructuring and reduction balance plan due to Lehman shock, and have now under revival. They came out with the vigor and energy. Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors also received the impact of Lehman shock in the year 2008, and have entered the state of shrinking. In marked contrast, their President spearheaded companies at the critical time like Toyota.
Only the Company with force and energy can produce a sports model, and the user is also responding to the enthusiasm of the automobile manufacturer. To say more this is not only limited to sports model. I wish a healthy manufacturer makes a high value added car (price, performance, and quality), and a brand with positive image. For this reason, I think that Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors did not catch up with the expansion of the market. This is the area that I would like them to work hard and put their best efforts.
