Yeah the Luce and the cosmo at the end aren’t something that was out at the same time, they did a Luce in the HB it was like the cosmo just 4 doors and maybe no pop up lights. HC (big boy) was out the same time as the FC and the JC
@@spacetoaster7 close - MZ3 had narrow 18s, base RX-8s had wider 18s, and then the R3 (North America)/RS (Japan) and Spirit R got the 19" forged BBS version.
These are by far the best videos a car guy can enjoy. Sharing stuff that's going on in a different part of the planet, getting an insider view and knowledge, makes you feel like you're right there experiencing it. Thank you, Alexi, for sharing this content with us. Greets from Slovenia.
That Shohei guy with the blue RX7 used to actually take photos and stuff for Queensland street car magazine. They used to publish Japanese car meets in it.
Love seeing the Initial D replicas! White FCs really do look the best, and yellow FDs are hard to beat, too, though I might be a bit biased 😅 FBs look so good with a clean paintjob, and that slitted hood is a cherry on top! I drive a 30yr old golf and the clearcoat is still holding up, shame to see it peeling on RX-8s already...
20 years after seeing an FC in a junkyard and getting talked out of making that my first car, I still haven't been able to scratch that rotary itch. It's never been the "right" time to get into a rotary, but one day I'll find it in me.
Now is the time to hop on the FC train. They can still be had for cheap compared to other similar cars. Nice examples are going for bigger and bigger money on BaT and C&B.
Wasnt able to convince my mother to let me buy an FD when I was barely over 20, and sale fell through, back in 2019. FDs are now triple the price that one was up for, itll be a struggle to ever own one now.
@@tokirak yeah those hard top FC arent sitting complete in a junkyard like that one did so many years ago. Ive considered a cabrio one from time to time but thats hard settling
Sohei is an absolute legend, every time I visit Japan he always comes out to meet me and show me car things and meet people. I would call him a very good friend. Absolutely beautiful sight seeing all those rotaries and there brave owners. They cannot be cheap to continue running them In Japan
nerd fact on the suzuki re5, notice the exhaust headers have an opening in the pipe near the rear of the front tyre? That's because the whole exhaust is double skinned to allow cool air into the the pipe which flow over the inner exhaust pipe to help control the heat put out by the engine so you didn't burn your bell bottoms of flares....
The white RX-7 at 3:47 is beautiful. No crazy front aero, no ground effects, no super wing... Just perfection from the factory, with some tasteful wheels... PURE. 👌
Just got my first rotary a few weeks ago! 82 FB Base model with a 12a streeported on Holley Sniper EFI. Very very fun car. I’ve ported and stacked a couple REW motors but nothing on my own car! Excited.
So many awesome cars the Aramija kits look fantastic in the blue and the design reminds me of TVR cars. Awesome chill vlog. So many cool cars. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
11:27 those wheels are exclusively to the R3 trim of the RX-8. They look great but are kind of heavy iirc. It also comes with other goodies like Recaro seats
Not a hooligan rotary fan here, but always liked the ReAmemiya kit, the one with the headlights on the front bumper, 935 style. Think suits the car and makes the front more personal. The rear of an FD is almost perfect and full of personality. Great video!
9:42. these wheels were actually the stock wheels from the face lift. they came standard with the rx8 r3 and they came on a few gen 1 rx8 40th anniversary cars. they look like little rotars so they really wanted you to know they’re rotary powered😂
I think the peak FD colour scheme is either pink (9:09), green (10:13), or sky blue (13:01). I guess the FD is just the type of car that looks great with a fluro colour scheme.
Those wheels on the two RX8's at 11:26 and 14:01 are factory wheels for the RX8. They come on the R3 and the Spirit R models. The first car your pointed out was a actually Spirit R which I believe was limited to only 1000 units in Japan.
FDs really do look great in just about any colour. Agree on yellow being a top choice, but I also love the gray silver on the Spirit R. Those old Cosmos at the end were fantastic too, never seen anything like them where I live, but I adore the shape and 80s-ness of them!
High contrast colours look so nice on the FD. Pinks, yellows, light blues. White and black always look good too. Hmm... actually they just look great in every colour.
Alexi! This wheels you saw on some of the facelifted RX-8s are original for RX-8. This is forged BBS wheels made for versions: R3 in europe, Spirt-R and Type-RS (i`m not sure, but for Spirt-R for suer). And yes, similiar but not forged you can saw on Mazda6 :D And yes -i have R3 version with original BBS forged wheels :D
Yay I literally love your videos wish I could be there but the way you show the cars and talk to the people is enough for now :) I need to learn to speak the language for sure need to start taking classes I’m trying to come out to Japan for a few car shows and races next year :)
Alexi, you absolute bastard! I can't believe you're dropping a rotary meet video literally just two days after a really good condition FC popped up in our local marketplace but I was too late to message the guy and missed my opportunity ´_>`
didn't read all comments, but in fact, the wheels on them RX-8s are the forged BBS 19" wheels of the facelift R3 model and were also present on the Spirit R
This gotta be my favourite episode so far for this year. LOVE THE ROTARIES ❤ I remember back in January 2020 I was accompanying my girlfriend at a random event and there was a canopy with a Sunrise Red Mazda RX-7 FD. I do love the FD RX-7s as always but that was my first time seeing it with my own eyes which made me love it even more. I remember just staring at it for an hour while letting my girlfriend enjoy her lunch 😂 The car is very beautiful. When I saw the price these days it's just insane. I could buy a two-storey house with that price 💀
That convertible fd is by far the craziest car there but still loads of nice rotary powered cars here i would love to go to one of these events one day on MT Haruna
I was driving today and I saw a really nice S4 FC. I got home and saw this video - I feel like I won the lottery! Also those RX8 wheels you keep seeing, I think they're the RX8 Spirit R wheels. The fork in the spoke makes the shape of a rotor.
Those wheels are off the Mazda 3 Speed In the usa. Another good video Alexi! It would be cool if ya did more sportbike content. That's definitely something we don't see from Japan much.
Alexi deciding if the yellow FD has a hot-rod look is channeling the energy of everyone who thinks the C5 Corvette looks like an FD 😂 I think Innocent Blue Mica as per some of the later cars is the best colour still, but I'm not sure theres a bad one really. Fully with the idea there's no bodykit that improves the FD's look either.
One car that I find interesting that works well with rotary... is the Suzuki Cappuccino. I've seen a few of them online and it turns out to be a popular swap.
02:17 Goodness! GT750 Rotary! Yes the big radiator, but the exhaust itself is also air cooled. Note the exhaust intakes underneath the radiator! It's to stop the soles of your boots melting 😁
Thanks for speaking the truth to black wheels. As a previous owner it was always such a drag that I couldn't prove how good they looked from any photo.
My favorite is the RE AMEMIYA BODY KIT with the Porsche lights and weird rear end. One of my favorites I remember that kit from a PlayStation 2 game called Tokyo Xtreme racer Edit: Found the kit It’s called the Greddy 7 kit th-cam.com/video/kcZ4QXN9yts/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8P9qQ1HpXL9gRO2b
> doesn't like the rocket bunny kit > thinks the darker yellow is the peak fd color > also has pink high on the list > white five spokes also preferred as if it wasn't clear already, alexi is clearly a man of Supreme Culture I like the titanium gray metallic color on later fd's a lot (in fact, it's the _only_ car I like in silver, and the only silver I like at all) but yellow is definitely peak the simpler fd's are always my favorites, but those 90s cosmos... I lust for them more every day
You can really tell I didn't pull out my phone to fact-check anything in this episode.
I don't know about that, although for sure did not wake up in the best mood
@@camarol88 no u
Yeah the Luce and the cosmo at the end aren’t something that was out at the same time, they did a Luce in the HB it was like the cosmo just 4 doors and maybe no pop up lights. HC (big boy) was out the same time as the FC and the JC
The wheels you mention around 11.30 are off a 2nd gen Mazda speed 3
Those RX8 with that rims? It is actually the facelift model factory wheels.
Alexi casually dropping some lightning mcqueen lore probably made my day
The fact he know's it should be chrome made me laugh quite a bit.
"They never get it right" he says after filming one which was done right just moments ago...
Did you wake up today with "Lightning McQueen Lore" on your mind?
“Oh no… ok… alright” 💀
8=D---
😂😂
I was all, what is this comment? Then i see it I n the preview and I'm all, Oh no...ok...alright.
Bro left his pimped out cosmo, windows down, keys in the ignition. Must be nice.
couldn't do that in america, or many other places tbh lol
I guess he'd hear it if someone went to start it up plus probably flood it haha
People don’t steal cars in Japan.
@@kevinmenard6792 that's very untrue lol, but i think at car meets generally the people are a loooot more respectful than at western car meets
@@skynet1.044 I've done that in america at many car shows lol. In Las Vegas mostly.
7:32 dont worry, the whole point of ncs music is no copyright goodness. still wasn't expecting to hear deaf kev - invincible on a noriyaro video
The 2015 version of me smiled when I heard it
So my quickscope compilation comment was accurate? 😅
@@noriyaro pretty much hahaha
@@noriyaro pretty much yup
@@noriyaromade me chuckle hard lol
Btw those wheels you mentioned a couple of times in the video are just the stock wheels for the final revision of the RX-8, the R3
Was wondering, since I saw the rotary motif in them.
bit late but was gonna say the same thing, I miss my rx8
Also were the stock wheels for the 2nd gen Mazdaspeed 3 too!
Magnesium BBS wheels at that.
@@spacetoaster7 close - MZ3 had narrow 18s, base RX-8s had wider 18s, and then the R3 (North America)/RS (Japan) and Spirit R got the 19" forged BBS version.
THE ROTORS ARE BACK BOISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
These are by far the best videos a car guy can enjoy. Sharing stuff that's going on in a different part of the planet, getting an insider view and knowledge, makes you feel like you're right there experiencing it. Thank you, Alexi, for sharing this content with us. Greets from Slovenia.
That Shohei guy with the blue RX7 used to actually take photos and stuff for Queensland street car magazine. They used to publish Japanese car meets in it.
Love seeing the Initial D replicas! White FCs really do look the best, and yellow FDs are hard to beat, too, though I might be a bit biased 😅
FBs look so good with a clean paintjob, and that slitted hood is a cherry on top!
I drive a 30yr old golf and the clearcoat is still holding up, shame to see it peeling on RX-8s already...
I'm there with you, I see a wide Black RX7 and I'm immediately thinking Kyoko.
D A R L I N G momento
20 years after seeing an FC in a junkyard and getting talked out of making that my first car, I still haven't been able to scratch that rotary itch. It's never been the "right" time to get into a rotary, but one day I'll find it in me.
Now is the time to hop on the FC train. They can still be had for cheap compared to other similar cars. Nice examples are going for bigger and bigger money on BaT and C&B.
Wasnt able to convince my mother to let me buy an FD when I was barely over 20, and sale fell through, back in 2019.
FDs are now triple the price that one was up for, itll be a struggle to ever own one now.
what’d you end up with?
@@tokirak yeah those hard top FC arent sitting complete in a junkyard like that one did so many years ago. Ive considered a cabrio one from time to time but thats hard settling
love the red cosmo at 20:00 , its looking so clean
Sohei is an absolute legend, every time I visit Japan he always comes out to meet me and show me car things and meet people.
I would call him a very good friend.
Absolutely beautiful sight seeing all those rotaries and there brave owners. They cannot be cheap to continue running them In Japan
those rims you thought where from a Mazda 6 are stock RX8 series 2 rims
also came on a couple of 40th anniversary cars iirc
It's so nice to see so many keeping rotaries alive.
353 views in 16 seconds. Noriyaro truly did NOT fall off
356 views in 1 minute, Noriyaro has fallen off 😔
Who ever said he fell off??
THIS MAN WILL NEVER FALL OFF. He is Pure Essence for JDM you tube.
bro never fell off
u mean like rekieta? :D oof
0:45 love this guy. "NO JOY IN LIFE WITHOUT PORTED ROTARY"
Not nearly as many sa22’s as I expected to see but the red one with budhas is one of my favorite cars of all time. goals for mine
Sohei is da man 👍🏽👍🏽
nerd fact on the suzuki re5, notice the exhaust headers have an opening in the pipe near the rear of the front tyre? That's because the whole exhaust is double skinned to allow cool air into the the pipe which flow over the inner exhaust pipe to help control the heat put out by the engine so you didn't burn your bell bottoms of flares....
What better than spinning triangles at 10am eastern, ily 💞
Edit: thanks for spoiling us with so many videos recently!
The Luce feels like a 90s Lincoln that got its nose chopped off and then squished a bit back to front in order to make it more compact.
I love it 😂
The white RX-7 at 3:47 is beautiful. No crazy front aero, no ground effects, no super wing... Just perfection from the factory, with some tasteful wheels... PURE. 👌
Just got my first rotary a few weeks ago! 82 FB Base model with a 12a streeported on Holley Sniper EFI. Very very fun car. I’ve ported and stacked a couple REW motors but nothing on my own car! Excited.
Rotary video lets gooooooo his rotary videos are my absolute favorites ......i love some First and second gen Rx7 love me to see some Rx8s
15:42 THE WHEELS ARE ALL ROTARS 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Best noriyaro video that drops each year just dropped again :)))
19:30 coolest 80s car there
I love it. Kind of looks like an early group B rally car in tarmac spec.
Alexi's 'oh no...okay...alright' is his version of Clarkson's 'nothing to see here...' 🤣
I've fallen in love with the sa22c's after seeing Run Rotary's drawings of them. His black and gold one perfectly fits my car style preferences.
@13:22 CYM with White Regamaster Marquis Promada goes so hard!
As much as I like the rotaries...
Cresta content when?
So many awesome cars the Aramija kits look fantastic in the blue and the design reminds me of TVR cars. Awesome chill vlog. So many cool cars. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
11:27 those wheels are exclusively to the R3 trim of the RX-8. They look great but are kind of heavy iirc. It also comes with other goodies like Recaro seats
16:12 I looooove boxy cars, I don't really know what it is about them but I just love how they look. I'd love to have one.
Not a hooligan rotary fan here, but always liked the ReAmemiya kit, the one with the headlights on the front bumper, 935 style. Think suits the car and makes the front more personal. The rear of an FD is almost perfect and full of personality. Great video!
11:26 I remember this is stock wheel of later version of RX-8. isn't it?
9:05 and what is this body kit? looks nice
your videos never fail to entertain us looking forward for future vids ❤
I love how you say "Near Tokyo" when you're closer to the Sea of Japan than Tokyo Harbor. Goes to show just how spread out Tokyo is
They really blast music to loudly at these events lol
9:42. these wheels were actually the stock wheels from the face lift. they came standard with the rx8 r3 and they came on a few gen 1 rx8 40th anniversary cars. they look like little rotars so they really wanted you to know they’re rotary powered😂
3:20 ive been saying this for years the factory styling is perfect
I think the peak FD colour scheme is either pink (9:09), green (10:13), or sky blue (13:01).
I guess the FD is just the type of car that looks great with a fluro colour scheme.
I always love your rotary coverage. Also very much agree on the Rocket Bunny kit. Peak color of the FD to me is Innocent Blue mica.
Thank You of another epic video Alexi, love ya!
10:33 the colour combo reminds me of the MazdaSpeed Protegé's "Spicy Orange", I'd sometimes see those with white rims when they were still new :)
The FC has always been my favourite RX-7 shape for reasons i can't quite explain
16:19 Luces are AMAZING, I wish we had them in the U.S.
The older LA series was sold in the us as the rx-4. Good luck finding one though
@@eightyd2554 Oh, cool. I knew about the RX4s, but I didn't know they were Luces in Japan. That's good to know :D
I’m a simple man. I see "Noriyaro" "Rotary", i click.
Those wheels on the two RX8's at 11:26 and 14:01 are factory wheels for the RX8. They come on the R3 and the Spirit R models. The first car your pointed out was a actually Spirit R which I believe was limited to only 1000 units in Japan.
I love the Lightning McQueen RX-8 with the "Piston Cup" sticker 😂
FDs really do look great in just about any colour.
Agree on yellow being a top choice, but I also love the gray silver on the Spirit R.
Those old Cosmos at the end were fantastic too, never seen anything like them where I live, but I adore the shape and 80s-ness of them!
@19:15 we call it the bunnings aircon style vents 😂
Loved this Vid and the best color FD is the Blue one right next to the yellow at 4:58 of the vid
I was so happy when i saw the JC Cosmo. I LOVE them. its my Dream car because of you showing it on one of the other Rotary meet videos.
High contrast colours look so nice on the FD. Pinks, yellows, light blues. White and black always look good too. Hmm... actually they just look great in every colour.
Alexi! This wheels you saw on some of the facelifted RX-8s are original for RX-8. This is forged BBS wheels made for versions: R3 in europe, Spirt-R and Type-RS (i`m not sure, but for Spirt-R for suer). And yes, similiar but not forged you can saw on Mazda6 :D
And yes -i have R3 version with original BBS forged wheels :D
The wheels at 11:27 min mk are the rx8R3 model , I worked at Mazda and got to prep & test drive that car
NO JOY IN LIFE WITHOUT PORTED ROTARY
Yay I literally love your videos wish I could be there but the way you show the cars and talk to the people is enough for now :) I need to learn to speak the language for sure need to start taking classes I’m trying to come out to Japan for a few car shows and races next year :)
Alexi, you absolute bastard! I can't believe you're dropping a rotary meet video literally just two days after a really good condition FC popped up in our local marketplace but I was too late to message the guy and missed my opportunity ´_>`
didn't read all comments, but in fact, the wheels on them RX-8s are the forged BBS 19" wheels of the facelift R3 model and were also present on the Spirit R
Are all the rx-3s in NZ or something? I never see them in your videos.
I wouldn't have expected them to be playing melodic dubstep there. I like it.
This gotta be my favourite episode so far for this year. LOVE THE ROTARIES ❤
I remember back in January 2020 I was accompanying my girlfriend at a random event and there was a canopy with a Sunrise Red Mazda RX-7 FD. I do love the FD RX-7s as always but that was my first time seeing it with my own eyes which made me love it even more. I remember just staring at it for an hour while letting my girlfriend enjoy her lunch 😂
The car is very beautiful. When I saw the price these days it's just insane. I could buy a two-storey house with that price 💀
Great footage!! Your comments are spot on!!
ok the rx8 at 8:00 min takes the cake i LOVE IT.
edit : nvm many cool rx8 down the line
These car show / parking place videos are nice to watch.
warms my soul to see so many healthy rotary's still in the homeland
Lets goooo I love Rx8 and Rx7... Lets goooo
The car in the thumbnail (blue with vented hood, shohei's car) had a speedhunters feature from Toby Thyer. Excellent build, happy to see it here.
The wheels at 11:26 are stock RX-8 Spirit R wheels found in the later models.
(Edit: You can even see the rotary shape in the spokes)
That convertible fd is by far the craziest car there but still loads of nice rotary powered cars here i would love to go to one of these events one day on MT Haruna
I was driving today and I saw a really nice S4 FC. I got home and saw this video - I feel like I won the lottery! Also those RX8 wheels you keep seeing, I think they're the RX8 Spirit R wheels. The fork in the spoke makes the shape of a rotor.
Every time he uploads I’m like there ain’t no way he just uploaded another one
Those wheels are off the Mazda 3 Speed In the usa. Another good video Alexi! It would be cool if ya did more sportbike content. That's definitely something we don't see from Japan much.
The Mazda Luce is GROWING on me, also the RX8 wheels you mentioned in the video are factory series 2 RX8 R3 wheels but i digress.
There's just something about the FC that pushes it ahead of every other RX. Although they are all beautiful, FC is just epic.
Montego Blue Pearl is my favorite FD factory color, yellow close second.. Love the Sohei Kakuta crossover!
Nothing kewler then the Rx7!!! Had about 7 of em and one was a FD RZ model, super rare, should of kept it.
18:28 I just bought a clean fc vert last week for 7k CAD/ 5100 USD. For reference I bought one ten years ago for 1700 CAD/ 1240 USD lol.
17:01 “Park Bench” is the term I’ve seen more as a nickname for the 5mph bumpers on 70s/80s Malaise era American barges.
Set a Luce free and it's a Luce Libré
huehuehue
that grey Luce with mesh wheels is hot. RX7 is a dream car but man, if i could take one home from that lot, that would be it.
Alexi deciding if the yellow FD has a hot-rod look is channeling the energy of everyone who thinks the C5 Corvette looks like an FD 😂 I think Innocent Blue Mica as per some of the later cars is the best colour still, but I'm not sure theres a bad one really. Fully with the idea there's no bodykit that improves the FD's look either.
great vid, personally liked yellow FD with black highlights the most in this meeting
This is incredible. I miss you bro!!
That meet is the complete opposite of what a rotary meet in New Zealand would be like 😅
I wasn't always, but I have become obsessed with the boxy 80s/Japanese look. I need boxy cars in my life.
I need Honda N-Boxs.
One car that I find interesting that works well with rotary... is the Suzuki Cappuccino. I've seen a few of them online and it turns out to be a popular swap.
02:17 Goodness! GT750 Rotary! Yes the big radiator, but the exhaust itself is also air cooled. Note the exhaust intakes underneath the radiator! It's to stop the soles of your boots melting 😁
8:17, pretty sure they are MSP or Mazda speed wheels. Pretty rare and sought after
9:10 my favorite Rx8s ❤❤❤
14:01 these wheels come from the Mazda 3 sport then they came on the RX8 👍👍
No joy in life without ported rotary!!
Thanks for speaking the truth to black wheels. As a previous owner it was always such a drag that I couldn't prove how good they looked from any photo.
I agree with you about the rocket Bunny I don't like the look of it on a fd rx7 but it a whole different story on the fc it looks pretty awesome!
I have to hard agree with that.
My favorite is the RE AMEMIYA BODY KIT with the Porsche lights and weird rear end.
One of my favorites I remember that kit from a PlayStation 2 game called Tokyo Xtreme racer
Edit:
Found the kit
It’s called the Greddy 7 kit
th-cam.com/video/kcZ4QXN9yts/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8P9qQ1HpXL9gRO2b
> doesn't like the rocket bunny kit
> thinks the darker yellow is the peak fd color
> also has pink high on the list
> white five spokes also preferred
as if it wasn't clear already, alexi is clearly a man of Supreme Culture
I like the titanium gray metallic color on later fd's a lot (in fact, it's the _only_ car I like in silver, and the only silver I like at all) but yellow is definitely peak
the simpler fd's are always my favorites, but those 90s cosmos... I lust for them more every day
>greentexting on TH-cam
14:00 They are stock s2 rx8 wheels if i'm not mistaken.
@11:29 - R3/Spirit R RX8 have this 19" rims. S2 have similar 18" I think