Daikoku Futo PA (Parking Area) is a popular place for night meetups by car enthusiasts. Located about 40 minutes drive from central Tokyo, every weekend (and some weeknights) see’s this place packed with wall to wall hot cars.

This Friday night (16th May) saw an unexpectedly huge showing of R35 GT-Rs with some 32 of them turning up! Tokyo channel 12 coincidentally were at Daikoku PA for other reasons but ended up filming the meet and will air a story on June 1st.

Checkout some more photos of the meet after the jump.

So the show is in full flight today with the general public finally allowed in to witness the latest models on display. The GT-R models are numerous and we’ve seen a lot of them already. Here we’ll get a look inside the show itself and checkout the Tamiya booth. We’ll also head over to Aoshima’s booth and check out their and Fujimi’s progress with their GT-R models. Lastly we’ll see what else is cooking that we haven’t seen before until now.

Click through the pages below because there’s a lot to cover here!

XS Engineering in California have had a new Nissan GT-R on their dyno recently. Eric Hsu has posted up a picture and a dyno graph of the run on his blog as well as a few choice quotes from the guys who have driven it. The GT-R made 412.1 hp @ 6527 RPM and 388.7 lb-ft of torque at all wheels in fourth gear.

Great power for a standard car. Now to see some US made exhausts on them and further testing.

Source: JDM-Insider via NAGTROC

5ZIGEN have launched a new range of exhausts for the Nissan R35 GT-R recently, the 5ZIGEN SP Spec Street and the Spec Tune. They have also release specs on their new front pipes offering too.

The Spec Street exhaust is made up of a 304 stainless steel main pipe section and an inconel rear muffler section for a weight saving of 7.8kg overall. The sound levels come in at 90dB wearing standard front pipes or 98dB with optional aftermarket front pipes. The Spec Street costs 290,000 yen.

Follow the jump for more details on the Spec Tune exhaust and the front pipes as well as loads more photos.

Source: 5ZIGEN via GTR Register UK (Thanks Richard for the tip)

Tamiya have launched their Nissan GT-R mini site today to co-incide with the Shizuoka Hobby Show 2008 which also kicked off today. On the site you can see the extreme detail of the latest Tamiya 1/24th scale Nissan R35 GT-R model. This one is painted up in Super Silver Black Edition colours.

Follow the jump for the rest of the photos!

And the news about GT-R models has not abated just yet! Expect even more over the coming few days as news from Shizuoka Hobby Show leaks out.

Nissan are launching their own range of GT-R models at the show starting with a 1/64th die-cast model, a 1/43rd die-cast model and a premium 1/24th scale die cast model. Available in 6 colours each (Silver, Titanium, White, Red, Gray and Black) they are priced at 2,200 yen ($22) 3,400 yen ($34) and 42,000 yen ($420) each… youch. The 1/24th model is hand painted but for $420 it had better be damn good.

Expect these to go on sale at Nissan’s online store on the 16th of June. We’ll let you know when we get some better photos of these ones.

Source: Nissan Press

Apologies if it seems like we’re turning into a toy blog these days. It’s just that time of the year, loads of new toys are out or coming out soon. These little チョロQ mini cars are great and I always end up with a bunch of them every time I’m in Japan. Not sure if Tomy are planning a Q-Steer RC version or what at this stage but that would definitely be a bag filler if they were.

Expect to see these out soon or you can pre-order online now at Amazon.co.jp.

Link: Choro-Q Website
Video: Choro-Q’s in action at the track

Better late than never, this event was held in Singapore last month and attracted not one but a few of Singapore’s Nissan GT-Rs as well as a truckload of other hot cars and women. ZerotoHundred.com have no problems when it comes to providing the goods here. We have put together a collection of the Nissan GT-R photos from their site here but head on over at the link below to view the whole lot as well as to get the full story!

Link: ZerotoHundred.com: MPT Supersprint April 2008 Singapore
Link: ZerotoHundred.com: Part 2: MPT Super Sprint - Pics Galore