When we approached Mr. Miwa, the owner of a Fiat 500L, who was attending "Italian Job 2024," a gathering of Italian cars, he told us that he had driven a variety of cars, including European cars. When we asked him about his current car, he told us that he first heard of this car through the movie "Lupin III: Cagliostro's Castle. We asked him about the details of his Cinquecento life.

This year marks the 20th "Italian Job 2024". This is the eighth time Aiko Harada has participated in this meeting where Italian cars gather, and her car is a Fiat 600D. We asked her to introduce her beloved car, which the dexterous owner finished as a DIY project.

The "Sera" was launched by Toyota at the end of the bubble era, and although it was a mass-market car, it had glass-top butterfly doors ("gull wing" in the official catalog of the time) like a supercar. It was a model that radiated a futuristic and one-of-a-kind individuality. Mr. Mizuguchi, who has loved the Serra for many years and has driven approximately 30 of them, spent 10 years restoring the Ikebukuro "Amlux" limited edition car, which few people know about today, and recently completed the restoration. Here is the full story of the fantastic Serra.

Junko Adachi had longed to own a Fiat 850 Berliner, but was put off by the difficulty of maintaining an old car and gave up after looking at miniature cars. However, her boyfriend pushed her to take the plunge. What kind of Fiat life does Ms. Adachi enjoy now that she has her dream car, which she says she felt was her destiny?

Pickup trucks are popular in the United States and can be used for hobbies such as off-road biking and surfing. Mr. Takato Nakazono, owner of a Nissan 620 Datsun Truck King Cab, who was interviewed for the “Se-no Hon Grand Prix 2024,” enjoys this American lifestyle with his vehicle.

Needless to say, it was Honda's success in its second phase of F1 participation that triggered the F1 craze in Japan for about 10 years from the mid-1980s. The first-generation “NSX” was developed to promote Honda's F1 technology to the world during the golden age of F1, and was called the Japanese-made supercar. It has already been 34 years since its appearance. We asked Mr. “shinchiyan3740” to share with us the secret to realistically enjoy the latest super sports car of that time, which stepped into the genre called “neo-classic.

Among the many wheel manufacturers, RAYS holds off-line meetings (appreciation events) to connect the makers and fans. The "RAYS Fan Meeting" held at Fuji Speedway in 2024, the third year of the event, was again filled with cars and owners wearing new and old RAYS wheels from all over Japan. Among the approximately 700 cars that participated, we would like to introduce a rare final limited edition Nissan R34 "Skyline GT-R".

The “RETRA JAM (Retractable Car Jamboree) Vol. 2” was attended by an increasing number of foreign car users. Among the Ferrari 328GTS, F355 Berlinetta, and Chevrolet C5 Corvette, the Lotus Esprit stood out in particular. We interviewed the 67-year-old owner, “Offboy.