2009 Tokyo Game Show....anyone going?

[Inazuma]

I guess that's why you call yourself hashiriya1. Do you actually race cars or are you just a fan?

[hashiriya1]

I guess that's why you call yourself hashiriya1. Do you actually race cars or are you just a fan?

I don't race professionally (oh, don't I wish). I just go to open track days at Ebisu Circuit, Sendai Hi-Land Raceway, Twin Ring Motegi...and if I am up for the drive and my friends bug me enough, Tsukuba Circuit. But we all do mountain runs every weekend in the twisty roads of Miyagi, Yamagata, and Iwate prefectures. Gunma prefecture is legendary for its mountain roads, but none of us are willing to drive that far.

[Inazuma]

I guess that's why you call yourself hashiriya1. Do you actually race cars or are you just a fan?

I don't race professionally (oh, don't I wish). I just go to open track days at Ebisu Circuit, Sendai Hi-Land Raceway, Twin Ring Motegi...and if I am up for the drive and my friends bug me enough, Tsukuba Circuit. But we all do mountain runs every weekend in the twisty roads of Miyagi, Yamagata, and Iwate prefectures. Gunma prefecture is legendary for its mountain roads, but none of us are willing to drive that far.

Cool stuff. Reminds me of Initial D with the twisty mountain roads. You may not be a true hashiriya, but you come close by being a pashiriya. I think it's so cool of you to drive around Japan to help foreigners get stuff they normally wouldn't be able to.

[Upsidedown Fuji]

Since the car show doesn't come around so often, you'd be better off going to that. Heck the way that Japanese are totally killing off their sports car lines for more 'eco friendly' models, there may not be another car show worth attending two years down the road.

If I end up staying here a few more years longer, which could be a big possiblity if I get married, I want to re buy a Toyota AW11 MR2 or SW20 MR2. I miss my old 85 MR2.

[hashiriya1]

Since the car show doesn't come around so often, you'd be better off going to that. Heck the way that Japanese are totally killing off their sports car lines for more 'eco friendly' models, there may not be another car show worth attending two years down the road.

If I end up staying here a few more years longer, which could be a big possiblity if I get married, I want to re buy a Toyota AW11 MR2 or SW20 MR2. I miss my old 85 MR2.

Yeah, for real. I have been here since 2002 and I went to the Tokyo Auto Salon every year since then. This will be my first Motor Show, though. I hate all of these new eco-friendly cars. I don't really have much interest in the preservation of the environment, which is evident in both of my cars lacking catalytic converters for the sake of better exhaust flow. No hybrid can match the sound of an open throttle RB26DETT exploding down the Tohoku Expressway. It gives me eargasms every time.

[Upsidedown Fuji]

Since the car show doesn't come around so often, you'd be better off going to that. Heck the way that Japanese are totally killing off their sports car lines for more 'eco friendly' models, there may not be another car show worth attending two years down the road.

If I end up staying here a few more years longer, which could be a big possiblity if I get married, I want to re buy a Toyota AW11 MR2 or SW20 MR2. I miss my old 85 MR2.

Yeah, for real. I have been here since 2002 and I went to the Tokyo Auto Salon every year since then. This will be my first Motor Show, though. I hate all of these new eco-friendly cars. I don't really have much interest in the preservation of the environment, which is evident in both of my cars lacking catalytic converters for the sake of better exhaust flow. No hybrid can match the sound of an open throttle RB26DETT exploding down the Tohoku Expressway. It gives me eargasms every time.

I know how you feel man. I'm not really falling for the whole eco friendly bs the world governments are shoving down our throats. I too eargasm anytime I hear a well tuned car pass me in my pitiful kei car.

[Upsidedown Fuji]

It looks like I'm going after all. The last person in the world I would have expected to go with me actually wants to go, my girlfriend. I was like YEAH!

Of course the only catch is that I'll have to drive her around Tokyo to some shopping spots of her own. But I think that's totally worth it. If any others are headed to the show this Saturday PM me. Maybe we can meet up. Sorry that I didn't have this info sooner, we might have been able to meet up.

But here's some more good news if you did want to meet up somwhere else. I am also driving my girlfriend to the Tokyo Motor Show next month. Back to back months of conventions. I'm so stoked.

[BoringSupreez]

I think I'll stay home this time because I don't understand a single word of their language and live on the other side of the planet from Tokyo.

[Upsidedown Fuji]

I think I'll stay home this time because I don't understand a single word of their language and live on the other side of the planet from Tokyo.

That would be a problem.

I hope I get some good free stuff or even just some game time with some newer games like Forza 3 or Bayonetta.