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Paul Guinness
Hardcover
175 pages
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Beasts from the East: Japan’s Ultimate Performance Cars
$39.95
Japanese car manufacturers have a long tradition of producing outstanding sports and performance cars. Sometimes they are extreme versions of core models, such as the Honda Civic Type-R and Nissan Sunny GTI-R, and sometimes out-and-out purpose-designed sporting classics, such as the Datsun 240Z and Mazda MX-5. There has been steadily growing interest in the Japanese car scene in recent years, with grey imports of performance models having become particularly popular, and a whole industry has grown up to support the interest in modifying Japanese cars. This extensively illustrated book, now available in paperback, will appeal to all fans of Japanese performance cars.
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