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Karuizawa Meeting 2018 – NA Edition

Every May I make my annual journey to Japan to attend the Karuizawa Meeting. It’s my favorite time of the year!

The Karuizawa Meeting is by far the most popular Miata meet in Japan (and maybe the world). This car meet is a good opportunity to see what new in the Miata world as many vendors come out to display the new parts they have released. This blog will go over the NA shop cars and some of the awesome, unique, and craziest NA’s in attendance.

 

NA Shop Cars

Garage Hundred One is a regular at Karuizawa. This year they brought this beautiful NA sporting their new NA Front Lip and NA Ducktail Spoiler. Love the color scheme on this car with the bronze Rays CE28N 15″ Wheels.

Look how tall their duck tail spoiler is! If you closely, you can see the corners have a unique design to them. You can also spot their NA Aero Mirror.

KenAuto brought back their blue NA with Rays TE37v 15″ Wheels. I guess they were big fans of the royal wedding. Congrats Prince Harry and Meghan Markle! You can also see the Murakami Carbon Fiber Mirrors on this car~

Barchetta made an appearance with this yellow track car on 14” bronze MTE37’s.

Nakamae had this very clean silver roadster with steelies & Runabout M2 Mirror.

Jetstream always has the coolest shop cars at Karuizawa. For the NA, they showcased one of their customers cars. Love the custom integration of the NC rear diffuser and the custom CF uprights for the Arrive Devil GT Wing. You can also spot the Brightning Tail Light Covers, the Jet Stream Hardtop Spoiler & the rear section of the Jet Stream Fender Flares.

Garage Vary had a red shop car with so many of their parts. Most notably, the new low-profile NA Duck Tail Trunk Spoiler and NA Rear Diffuser. You can also see their beautiful DIY Tail Lights as well as the NA Fastback Hardtop.

Jet’s Integral Kobe also made an appearance to showcase a few of their parts. They are known for their sporty exhaust systems. They were showcasing their new NA Clubman Replacement Muffler. You could also spot the sexy Rays TE37 Sonic 15″ Wheels!

Wondering why there’s a steering column assembly on top of the car? Jet’s has developed an Electric Power Steering System for the NA. The price tag for this puppy…..$4,000 installed!

 

Awesome NA’s

Let’s check out the NA’s spotted in the massive parking lots at Karuizawa! There were so many to choose from, but these made it to our “awesome” list.

This red and blue NA with fender mirrors. Classic. Both are rocking the 100% custom NA Front Conversion by Shinkai.

Garage Hundred One customer car. All black accessories (showcasing beautiful Jet Stream Turn Signal Intakes) except for the classic Runabout M2 Mirrors!

It has the duck tail spoiler seen earlier.

NA with S2 Racing Front Bumper in merlot fashion (rocking beautiful Rays TE37V 15″ Wheels).

These guys stood out! I personally call them the Skittles~

Another sweet merlot with Enkei Big End Rodders & beautiful S2 Racing Tail Lights. The roll cage is by Saito!

Some deep dish steelies!

MTE37’S can transform the look of any car. Check out the wide front and rear fenders.

Love the Work wheels and BRIDE seats. The Project-G Bikini Top is spot-on and the OE-Style Rear Lip completes the car very nicely.

Love the dark green pin stripe all along the OEM groove of the car. Such a clever idea! Looks beautiful.

The RS Factory Stage Trunk Spoiler gives this NA a great look.

Barchetta Front Bumper with Hayashi Street CR 15″ Wheels looks great!

Finally, these two awesome Pitcrew’s. Sorry, no front shots. The green one has Pit Crew Rear End, RS Watanabe R-Type 16″ Wheels & SO many cool parts!

 

Unique NA’s

These NA’s are unique in many ways which is not necessarily a bad thing.

^^ This one has a very unique KG Works Rear Louvers that was discontinued LONG ago and made in very small quantities. Also, spot the beautiful Jet Stream Type-1 Spoiler!

Craziest NA’s

This category speaks for itself.

Any Hello Kitty fans?

You look dashing.

We hope you enjoyed the coverage at Karuizawa Meeting 2018!

REV9 Bangkok Meet (Most Expensive Roadsters!)

I’ve visited a lot of places in my life, but Bangkok caught my heart. The place has a lot of fun, feels quite safe and has all the craziness you’re looking for. In other terms of craziness, a ND MX-5 has a base price of 2.7 Million Baht (2,700,000B)!

It may not mean anything to you, but 30B = $1 USD. A rule of 3 makes a MX-5 price out of the showroom at a whooping USD $90,000! Now, that’s a high price to pay, but let me tell you that all owners really take care of their cars! A used NA car in Thailand costs about USD $20,000, so the value is still pretty good.

 

Why are they so expensive? The government put around 300% tax on specific import vehicles… and they don’t allow import of used cars!

 

During my visit to Thailand, I decided to do a small and informal REV9 Meeting. I decided the location very last minute, and the forecast was less than ideal, so I didn’t expect many people to show up.

 

Luckily, the meet ended up being pretty nice… now let’s show those pictures!

 

It was a beautiful and colorful event:

 

Many people who showed up are long time REV9 customers, I was so happy to put faces on names! Here’s a car who had parts mostly coming from us:

 

The car had a neat and rare RS Aizawa Front Bumper, RS Active Headlights, beautiful Jet Stream Turn Signals & ZOOM Fuel Lid :

The interior was also pretty crazy with a lot of awesomeness. It had a beautiful match of yellow Kevlar, carbon fiber & suede. Not to mention the super rare and cool Club-NA Swarovski Horn Button (bling bling!).

 

This car was built to perfection, the rear end was just as amazing as the rest of the car. He has the REV9 OE-Style Carbon Fiber Trunk that’s custom painted to fade to blue, it’s the first time I saw that and absolutely loved it. The Garage Vary Tail Lights also really complement the car!

 

The car was also rocking some beautiful special edition Work Equip 03 15” Wheels with AP Racing Big Brake Kit and the rear fender body work was exceptional:

 

Don’t get me wrong, usually, when doing meetings, I don’t post SO many pictures of one car, but you really do need to see the engine bay:

 

The car had a beautiful IRTB kit that ran perfectly fine (and was swapped with 2005 NB 1.8L engine), everything was just perfect. The REV9 OE-Style Carbon Radiator Panel also looked quite nice in there.

 

The owner told me he also has a Pit Crew NA as well as an Acura NSX… I was starting to get jealous there…

 

OK, now let’s check the other cars who attended the meeting;

 

A brand new $90,000 car!

 

A mildly modified ND with many parts from Blitz! I really like the Blitz ND Battery Holder! The car was also on beautiful Rays 57Transcend 17” Wheels!

 

Some more people showed up!

 

This ND had some interesting custom mods. Also, it’s actually very rare to get a Manual Transmission ND in Thailand… this one had to come through the grey market… at least he’s got the Recaro package!

 

The car had custom spoiler (KUHL inspired), custom dual exhaust and Advan RS 17” Wheels!

The event was going pretty well!

 

A last visitor came in, with a beautiful time capsule!

The car was rocking A LOT of super rare parts. He had beautiful RS Watanabe 14” B-Type Wheels, Garage Vary Tail Lights, Mazdaspeed Roll Bar, Runabout M2 Mirrors and something I never saw… NOPRO Triangle Window!

 

The exterior of this car was simple and beautiful, done with taste.

 

And now you can see the beauty of the Garage Vary Tail Lights for NA…

 

The interior was done really modestly, but with lot of taste, too. It had beautiful KG Works Crash Pad Integrated Meters,  a nice Motolita Steering Wheel, a cool & retro Denon Sound System & KG Works Ventilation Balls were featured:

 

The car also had super rare Mazdaspeed Bucket Seat:

 

This meeting was absolutely fantastic. I really enjoyed my time in Thailand (the land of smiles), made new friends and had great time checking all of those super cool cars!

 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post! Lots of pictures… I know! If you missed it, we also did a meeting in Taipei, showcasing the biggest Mazda dealership in Asia!

The Road(Ster) Trip – Key West & Tampa Meeting

Oh, it’s been a while we’ve done a blog post! This one is mainly about our meeting in Tampa during August of 2017! Yep, we’re almost 1 year late, but the blog post is pretty awesome.

I’m sorry about the time it took, we’ve been busy improving our service and shipping time lately! We’ll continue posting the other Road(Ster) Trip Blog Posts in the next few weeks~ LOTS of awesome pictures to show!

So, I first started by going to the Southernmost point of USA : Key West. It’s a beautiful drive that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys ocean views!

This shot shows the TK Style Front Lip and Odula Side Skirts (both in Carbon Fiber finish) pretty well :

Here are some more images of the photo shoot before showing the image from the Tampa Meeting:

My favorites…

Such a nice place….

 

But it was time to leave….

 

Key West to Tampa was a long drive. I was not so lucky on this one… it rained the whole time, but I also managed to hit a road reflector which flew off under my car and made by whole side skirt panel to fall off…

I did not notice until someone pointed at my car, and I knew something was wrong…

Unfortunately, it was too late…

 

 

Luckily, I had some stickers from many visit at breweries which I used to make the side skirt hold to the side of the car… temporarily.

 

Let’s move on to the Tampa Meet! I arrived and there were quite many people already! I had a good excuse to be late… haha! Here are the photos :

 

This NA was such a neat car. Working some (narrow) Work Equip 03 15” Wheels, KG Works Ducktail Spoiler and ZOOM Carbon Fiber Mirrors :

 

This was pretty awesome :

 

Gotta love this NA rocking the new Work Equip 40 Wheels, REV9 OE-Style Mirrors & Jubiride Fender Flares!

 

Here’s another nice car with Garage Vary Front Lip & Work Equip 01 Wheels!

 

Alex’s NB rocking NUE Front Wider Fender Flares & NUE Rear Wide Fender Flares was filthy!

 

Dope door panels by my friend at Spinnywoosh:

 

And then the rain came… (what’s up Tatiana?)

 

V6 ND!

 

Had to take a good shot of this beauty… the Jet Stream Type-2 Ducktail Spoiler for NA! So perfect.

 

Special mention for the NB with custom made rally lights with plexi glass cover!

 

And the lowest ND I ever saw joined the party (rocking 16×8 +0 wheels) :

 

 

Here are some photos of other cars I could take before rain became unbearable :

 

It was an awesome meeting! It’s a shame that the weather was not with us, but we’ve had an awesome time!

 

We ended up doing a party at Spinnywoosh’s place… it ended up being pretty Miataseque-epic!

 

We hope you enjoyed this very late post about our Road(Ster) Trip to Tampa! You can check the previous posts using this link and we’ll continue adding more posts in the coming weeks!