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Bosozoku Volkswagen Golf 3 Chasing Slantnose Mazda MX-5 Makes No Sense

Today, we're going to imagine a world where the Volkswagen Golf is made in Japan and the Mazda MX-5 comes from Germany. Also, they've been tuned and are racing down a tunnel at high speed.
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German and Japan - two of the biggest countries in the car-making business. Each brings something to the table, like the mass-market appeal of the Golf or the cheap sports car formula of the Miata. Of course, Germany also made cheap sports cars, like the Porsche 924 and the VW Scirocco. Meanwhile, the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla do the same job as the Golf (sometimes better).

Cultural appropriation is not something the automotive world should take very seriously. Tuning projects would be pretty boring if you couldn't mix and match elements, but this set of renderings takes things to the extreme by first cooking up a Bosozoku Golf 3.

Bosozoku is a tuning style from Japan where builders try to create a race car look in a crude style. We think Japanese teens just wanted to be rebellious and came up with a style that's finding new fans every day. The JDM-style Golf thus receives large skirts and spoilers to go with its bamboo spear exhaust and oversized wheels. Something like this is sure to get you in trouble with the German periodic technical inspection while also standing out at the Worthersee GTI meets.

The Miata takes the same approach by borrowing a tuning style from a German automaker. This time, it's the Porsche-like "Slantnose", which technically isn't tuning. However, we've seen plenty of people do this to their 911.

The Slantnose started with the 935 race car, but aftermarket specialists soon started offering conversions for regular 911s. These were probably more common in America than Germany and are now riding the coattails of the 993's rise in popularity. The Porsche nose is one cool way to upgrade a Miata.


 
 
 
 
 
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Love it or hate it -Figured I never did any Bosozoku MK3 so here is one :D rendered in blender Awesome hdri by @domebleltd , check them out if you are into CGI and in need of some fresh environments! To those who didn't know, bosozoku is kind of a traditional tuning style and my thinking has lead to the conclusion that back in the 70's 80's when televisons where still quite small, it wasn't possible to tell too much detail from the tv and guys tried to replicate what they saw, in a way you could tell from very far distance he has some racecar parts on his car #ricermods #mk3 #3d #render #bosozokustyle #bosozoku #slammed #camber #static #modifiedsociety #vw #vwmk3 #vwgolf3 #golf3 #golfmk3 #vwgolfmk3 #volkswagen #volkswagengolf #vdub #dubbed #dubbing #dub #internetbreaking #viral #racecar #riceornice #ricer #japanese #japan #japanesecars

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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