Sunday, December 30, 2007

Addicted to Wangan Midnight.

It just happened. I can't help it. After crazy enough with the Initial D (Mostly Third Stage & Fourth Stage), I thought I'll stopped. But unfortunately this series came to me. While doing my job, reviewing some technical specifications, it came across to my screen (i'm using dualview monitor). Wangan midnight. With a little bit viewing the series, I've already additected to it.

Seriously, this series is about the actual street racing that occurs on Tokyo`s Shuto Expressway, one stretch of which is known as the "Wangan", literally meaning "bay side" (although it is generally used to refer to the freeway), the longest, straightest road in the entire country. Of course, there`s also lots of traffic to contend with, including a fair number of heavy trucks.

One day, Akio Asakura, a third year high school student, is driving his Fairlady Z (Z31) and is challenged by Tatsuya Shima, a doctor, in his black Porsche 964 Turbo (nicknamed the "BlackBird"). With a friend in the passenger seat and two girls in the back, Akio pitifully tries to win, but is defeated. Determined to become faster, he goes to the junkyard to buy parts for his car, when he sees a pristine, unscratched midnight blue Fairlady Z (S30) in the junkyard. Intrigued as to why such a machine is about to be junked, he buys it. He soon finds that the car is unnaturally fast due to a tuned L28 engine, bored and stroked to 3.1 liters combined with twin turbos, which produces 620bhp. He also finds that all of the car`s previous owners had unfortunate accidents in it, starting with the first owner`s death.

2 comments:

  1. I wish you a good end of 2007 and a good year of 2008.

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  2. thanx. good luck to you too and may the force be with you.

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