{"id":9674,"date":"2017-04-01T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2017-04-01T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:58:18","slug":"first-hawaiian-auto-show-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/first-hawaiian-auto-show-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hawaiian Auto Show 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A little late blogging about this, last weekend I participated in SCCA’s display at the First Hawaiian Auto Show. I put the rally FX on display. I get a kick out of people seeing this unassuming unglamouros vehicle among all the shiny ginamormous turbo and sleek cars. I didn’t even have time to wash it, it still had a coating of steel dust and weld splatter from the rust patches I was working on. Propped the hood open mainly so people could see the cool airbox art courtesy of Scat and Risu. Only Toyota 4AGE geeks would recognize that the engine was something a little out of ordinary. It did have my concession to bling with polished valve cover, but aside from that and the air intake box and tube it looks pretty normal.<\/p>\n

Aside from the booth, I spent a couple hours checking out the rest of the show. Not\u00c2\u00a0 whole lot I was interested in. Only car that really got my interest was the Mazda MX-5 and comparing it with the Fiat Spyder. The Fiat looks a little nicer, but I really liked the hardtop MX-5. Neat watching it do it’s transformer action, although it’s a lot of monkey motion for what ends up being a targa top, not a complete convertible top. Ergonomically identical and quite nice. When you sit in it, you are firmly in there, not much room for anything else, your body is rooted in there, legs right up against the sides. Other cars I checked out was the Toyota iM, pretty nice. Hopped in the Hyunda Veloster for SnG, at least it didn’t creak like when I sat in one 2 years ago. The interior still has weird sci-fi spaceship handles. The accelerator pedal is bottom swung and makes\u00c2\u00a0positioning for heel toe\u00c2\u00a0quite difficult. The MX-5 and Fiat 124 pedals are in excellent position for heel toe, although I have yet to get skilled in that.\u00c2\u00a0I’ve noticed that in comparison\u00c2\u00a0to the FR-S, these cars have high hood lines.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was interesting to be in the show again.<\/p>\n

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