PetrolRazzi 
Not your Dad’s Nissan Pulsar(1)
Forget the Nissan Pulsar you remember from the 80s. That’s not this car. Not even close. This Pulsar, a GTi-R owned by J.C., was a WRC homogolation Special. That means Nissan had to build (and sell) 5,000 of these mean little boxes if they wanted to run them in the World Rally Championship of the [...]
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Pejero’s 1981 Toyota Starlet
You won’t see many of these on the street: Lito Pejoro’s 1981 Toyota Starlet. Toyota made these little monsters from 1981 through 1983. It’s rear-wheel drive, fast and light. Later cars moved to front-wheel drive and the Starlet eventually became the boring Tercel. That sick wide-body? Yeah, a Toyota option in Japan. Who knew the [...]
James King’s 2000 Subaru STI
The Driving Sports PetrolRazzi strikes again! This time we’ve cornered James King for the low-down on his custom 2000 Subaru STI. This car has a full swap from a special edition Japanese STI. But, what’s this? Mr. King has a RWD track-prepped Impreza too? We let Mr. King explain himself in his own words. Listen, [...]
Oshima’s 1977 Nissan Skyline 2000GT
We crashed a recent Cars and Coffee meet in Las Vegas to find a car worth featuring for our new series, PetrolRazzi! We’ll be finding our favorite cars and photographing them on the spot and interviewing their owners — wherever that happens to be. For this first installment we found John Oshima, a Las Vegas [...]
Leno Talks Japanese Classics
Driving Sports photographer Yujiro Otsuki made the trek to Irvine, Calif., for the 4th annual Japanese Classics Car Show. There, he hooked up with Jay Leno, who was standing in front of a 1964 Honda SM600 from his personal collection (blue convertible in the gallery) for a brief interview. Interview Transcript: Driving Sports: What do [...]
