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Written by Stephen Dobie
Welcome to Daikoku PA. By day, an unassuming service station car park on the outskirts of Yokohama, Japan. A place where drivers and truckers stop for some ramen and a rest.But by night, it"s one of the most fascinating places in the whole automotive world. It"s home to a car meet bigger, wilder, and more most diverse than you"d dare imagine. It"s a world we had the pleasure of visiting recently.A world where little pockets of MX-5s, Impreza, AE86s and Toyota Crowns naturally collect together, with non-compliant cars happily vacating their space to keep the car park neatly categorised.A world where a Lambo Aventador SV or Ferrari F430 Scuderia slips around unnoticed, and almost unheard. Where a quad-rotor naturally aspirated Mazda RX-7 is what you really need to get heard. Or a twin-turbo Supra-engined Rolls Phantom.A world where both noises are only topped by the police siren as Japanese plod drives round to keep the fun under control around 10pm. They needn"t; the odd cheeky burnout aside, this is all mildly mannered and well behaved. Staggering when there are hundreds of cars and potentially hundreds of thousands of horsepower confined into a public space.
Date written: 24 Nov 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10072
Welcome to Daikoku PA. By day, an unassuming service station car park on the outskirts of Yokohama, Japan. A place where drivers and truckers stop for some ramen and a rest.But by night, it"s one of the most fascinating places in the whole automotive world. It"s home to a car meet bigger, wilder, and more most diverse than you"d dare imagine. It"s a world we had the pleasure of visiting recently.A world where little pockets of MX-5s, Impreza, AE86s and Toyota Crowns naturally collect together, with non-compliant cars happily vacating their space to keep the car park neatly categorised.A world where a Lambo Aventador SV or Ferrari F430 Scuderia slips around unnoticed, and almost unheard. Where a quad-rotor naturally aspirated Mazda RX-7 is what you really need to get heard. Or a twin-turbo Supra-engined Rolls Phantom.A world where both noises are only topped by the police siren as Japanese plod drives round to keep the fun under control around 10pm. They needn"t; the odd cheeky burnout aside, this is all mildly mannered and well behaved. Staggering when there are hundreds of cars and potentially hundreds of thousands of horsepower confined into a public space.
Date written: 24 Nov 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10072
