Japanese Performance Magazine *we want you guys*

[JPMatt]

Hi guys,
My name\'s Matt Shaw and I write for Japanese Performance Magazine. During the past 6 months we have hopefully turned a corner with the mag by trying to bring it bang up to date and trying not to alienate people as much as was probably the case in the past. We are trying to get away from Evo and Scooby heavy issues and giving everyone in the scene a chance to get there chosen model/marque into the limelight. We also want to get heavily involved in meets, maybe getting them into a regular slot in the front of the magazine. We know that you guys are knocking out some great cars at the moment but you probably know better than I do as to who deserves to represent the Rotaries with a feature. Please let me know direct of any potential feature cars, meet ideas or anything you think may be relative to get you guys some coverage. If a mod could sticky this too so you have somewhere to chuck your ideas that\'d be great!
Thanks!
Matt :Typing

My direct email is: japaneseperformance@hotmail.co.uk

[Ada7]

Nik da Greek is a worthy feature car

Adam

[JPMatt]

Thanks for the heads up Ada I\'ll check it out!
Matt

[Mir]

Nik da Greek is a worthy feature car

Adam

:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin

[Arnie_O]

hmm the car belonging to the above Mir would definatly be on my list, Its an awesome beast.

[Mir]

My post is removed!!! Mod what did I do???

[Mir]

hmm the car belonging to the above Mir would definatly be on my list, Its an awesome beast.

Cheers Mate :Thumbs-up

Much appreciated.

Mir

[clive]

Hello Matt and welcome to Mazdarotaryclub, the club founded for Cosmo\'s to RX-8 plus everything in the middle and beyond :driving

Real good idea to get the clubs to put cars in a thread for you to see as not all the cars actually go to shows where I now mags get most of there feature cars from.

Hopefully people will put their cars up on here for you to see orrrrrrrrrr, maybe we can get some cars together for a club write up as a feature for you,

p.s. I was warned when Martin, the founder of Jap Performance left a while back that the mag would be maybe not as diverse as it was------------ see that sounded much better than saying, "be warned its going to turn into a Subaru/Evo mag" -------------- :rollin

[clive]

My post is removed!!! Mod what did I do???

Sied the reason is stated

All of our cars are special to each of us, be they full of rust or pristeen, so I have always viewed criticising another members car on par with kicking a mans dog, i.e. "you just don\'t do it".

Laughing because a members car was sugested was really not nice.

[Wombat-007]

Another vote for Nik\'s car too.
Adam, yours is also a damn fine looking beast, get your piccies up, would like to see a feature on all the work put into yours

Nik da Greek is a worthy feature car

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

Thanks for the comliments, guys. Funnily enough, in reference to the OP, a reporter and photographer actually came down to me almost exactly a year ago and spent the entire day with me and the car, taking pics, writing a feature, took the guy out for a run in it and showed him what proper rotary righteousness is all about. This was after I got in contact with the previous editor to Dan Sherwood after he wrote an editorial about wanting to feature more road daily driven cars and get away from irrelevant track stuff. We agreed that my daily driven commuter spec single turbo 400+ bhp car was a worthwhile candidate, hence the inestimable Carolgees and Matt Richardson (I think) spent the day with us.

Needless to say, the feature never appeared, though you printed some pics I\'d sent in in the "Readers Cars" section. It was a bit annoying because my tuner had burst a gut to get the car finished in time (it was literally finished mapping the day before the photoshoot) and Adam very kindly gave up an entire day to help me get it sorted (we finished cleaning and polishing half an hour before the journos turned up.)

I\'ve since emailed the editor several times but he hasn\'t even had the courtesy to reply, which I consider just plain rude, really. I would have expected a reply even to say "actually, we thought your car is rubbish after all, thanks but no thanks." The photographer said he would send me a disc of photos but never did, either.

Adam had a load of pics on his photobucket he took of the photoshoot, but I can\'t find the link now. I didn\'t take any because I was busy doing the "interview" so its almost like I dreamed the whole thing. Carolgees will probably remember it though, we nearly got rear-ended on the "test run" by a pensioner. It helped him understand why I\'m called Lucky lol.

The only pic I can find now is one of Adam\'s that I retouched. Good job I didn\'t get all excited and tell all my mates "oooooh, I\'m gonna have a mag feature on my car", I\'d have looked a right idiot then, wouldn\'t I? :mad: Wish I\'d gone to Banzai now :rolleyes: All in all, a very embittering experience that led me to stop buying JP altogether after repeated attempts to get a reply to my emails (I just flip through it in Smiths now lol). Like I say, I don\'t mind the car being passed over because it wasn\'t good enough (which it is) but to simply ignore me is just rude.

[Nik da Greek]

In fact, I found the link to Ada\'s pics from the day. Here, if anyone\'s interested http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq83/Adam-Blackshaw/Niks%20Jap%20Performance%20Photo%20shoot/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20

Some edited highlights lol












Glad I didn\'t dream it all after all. Thanks to Adam for the use of his pictures

While I\'m at it, Adam\'s car is every bit as deserving of a full feature. It\'s been in the mag before in a group test, be nice to see it get a full slot for itself

[Nik da Greek]

Ada7\'s car....









Plenty of good stuff on there, genuine MazdaSpeed GTC nose, Scoot bonnet, KnighSports lights, \'99 spec base, T04R hybrid, top bombing.

Right, I\'ll stop spamming and go to bed now. Much love :Thumbs-up

[steve garbutt]

Ada7\'s car....









Plenty of good stuff on there, genuine MazdaSpeed GTC nose, Scoot bonnet, KnighSports lights, \'99 spec base, T04R hybrid, top bombing.

Right, I\'ll stop spamming and go to bed now. Much love :Thumbs-up

ya just one of many  
i vote blitz :rollin

[Lacey]

I vote for Tony (ExiledViking) :Laugh