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Karuizawa 2016 Meeting : Jet Stream

I begin the coverage of demo cars from Karuizawa Meeting 2016 with Jet Stream as, in my opinion, they released the craziest demo car in the whole meeting this year. It was actually a VERY QUICK build that needed a lot of time, sweat, tears and patience. I met with the Jet Stream team in the morning at 4:00 AM and their demo car was not even close to be completed. That reminds me of all those car building shows we see at Discovery Channel, but it was in real life. What a thrill! Now, enough talk and let’s look at what they showed for Karuizawa:

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They made a really unique NA this year, with full Jet Stream NA22C Wide Body Kit as well as their Jet Stream Hardtop Extension. It is called NA22C, because it’s inspired from the old school RX-7 that had chassis name of SA22C. The kit consist in a Front Bumper (+ Front Lip), Fender Flares & Side Steps.

It is pretty nice seeing that they relocated the OEM headlights onto their front bumper, but also did relocate the fender turn signals out there, too!

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The car was rocking some extremely wide Work Meister S1 in 15×9 paired with spacers to give it some really low offset!

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The Jet Stream Hardtop Extension was one pretty awesome and unique design. It’s hard to see, but it’s made out of 3 pieces : 2 side pieces and 1 trunk extension. You basically keep your OEM hardtop and put these extensions on top of it to totally change the look of your NA!

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The car was also rocking a SUPER WIDE Jet Stream Rear Spoiler that was designed specially for their Hardtop Extension .

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Not only the build was inside on the outside, but the engine bay was also SUPER neat.

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And not to mention the super simplistic interior.

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Here is the team behind this crazy build:

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And here’s what it looked like at the end of the day… don’t forget that they worked pretty much non-stop for the past 48 hours and were already working at 2:00 AM that morning…

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This is the legend behind all the crazy Jet Stream parts, my friend Akio:

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And just for a final laugh, Engrish never gets old;

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I hope you enjoyed this blog post as more of them are coming for our Karuizawa Meeting 2016 Coverage!

Karuizawa Roadster Meeting 2016 Introduction

This year, I’ve attended Karuizawa Meeting (biggest Roadster/Miata/MX-5 meeting in the WORLD). This is my 3rd time to personally attend this meeting and I’m always impressed by the quality and uniqueness of the Roadsters that are exposing at the meeting. This year, we’ve beat the record of the most Roadsters at the same place (for Karuizawa) and we’ve had over 1300 cars!

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Statistics of the event:

NA: 555 units (41%)

NB: 324 units (24%)

NC: 237 units (17%)

ND: 247 units (18%)

It’s pretty crazy to see that after 1 year of being released in Japan, the ND owners/tuners already are surpassing the NC owners! This is also the reason why there are so many ND parts released recently.

Here are some pictures of the parking that I took, to give you an idea of how big it is (and this shows just 1/3 of the show area):

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During the show, Mazda Japan also unveiled the MX-5 RF which is going for sale during next week (and it’s also the first time we’ll see the 2.0L engine in Japan):

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During this legendary day, I’ve had the chance to sign the 1 millionth Roadster ever produced (and catch one hell of a sunburn…)! I’ve also heard that Mazda will ship the car to Australia, Europe and North America so other enthusiasts can also sign this very iconic car!

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In the following days, we’ll make blog posts about the shop cars that exposed at Karuizawa Meeting as well as some awesome cars we saw in the parking area! Check out this video I took and posted live, 2 weeks ago, on our Facebook Page: