JAPAN: Lamborghini Gallardo, BMW M5 and a Lancia Stratos turned into manga cars

by Thami Masemola
November 14, 2008 11:21 PM
Filed Under: Entertainment, European, Japanese, Movies, Video Games, Weird

See these cars right on these pictures? They are owned by one man, a matured gentleman by the name of Yoshida San. Yoshida is an avid gamer, in fact he is President of AGE SOFT, a videogame software house. Note the three customised cars; Lamborghini Gallardo, BMW M5 and Lancia Stratos are decorated Japan manga style. Manga is a cartoon method modernized and popularised in Japan from the 1950s. The cars are adorned with characters from manga and erotic video games. They were exhibited at an itasha event last weekend (itasha is the art of beautifying cars with anime or manga characters)

Yoshida San's cars have some international exposure already having been featured on Bloomberg.com and famitsu.com. The man is said to drive his Lambo on a daily basis, and even to business meetings as it doubles as a promotional mobile billboard during events.

Thanks to Frankie from Tokyo for this colourfully fast tip.

 

Source: hobbymedia.it
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Nooo, poor Stratos... why couldn't they do a skyline instead?

by joe_limon | November 14, 2008 11:26 PM
Just what I thought ^^ Still it's just a painting...

by lelu | November 14, 2008 11:49 PM
Not a fan of Anime, but looks cool. You know those crazy Japanese guys. ;)

by Tuner_Mad | November 15, 2008 12:07 AM
nahh this doesnt float my boat

by BabyMilo | November 15, 2008 12:26 AM
Cool cars man, u won't see to many of these pain jobs in europe.

by Motor_Yakuza | November 15, 2008 1:09 AM
paint jobs* , damn we need an edit button

by Motor_Yakuza | November 15, 2008 2:14 AM
good call we do need edit buttons lol

by carcrazy1234 | November 15, 2008 3:02 AM
i do think u got it right the first time! 'pain jobs'!

by effington | November 15, 2008 4:34 AM
Stop being a a wise guy, It's an interesting theme.

by Motor_Yakuza | November 15, 2008 2:34 PM
Hopefully not, mazdas and hondas are enough, thanks - pain-job indeed!

by alessandro | November 15, 2008 6:39 PM
I'll be the first to say- WASTE of Lambo!

by wickedated | November 15, 2008 1:37 AM
That better not be a real Stratos...

by bristol411s3 | November 15, 2008 2:40 AM
Soooo how long until we start seeing this new trend over the states, done tastelessly in every 'mah-car'soo-jdm-yo' vehicle out there ;)

by skulinex | November 15, 2008 3:54 AM
They better wash off under the rain, cool to do it on a crappy car, not on the Lambo!

by kevoluetion | November 15, 2008 7:41 AM
waste of 3 good cars

by MTC | November 15, 2008 8:11 AM
Stick mazdas pleeeease or do better, hi!

by alessandro | November 15, 2008 6:36 PM
These aint paint jobs, remember the movie "Taxi" for Queen Latifa when the Russian girls removed the sticker from the BMW 7s? they are doing the same thing. Even here in UAE many cars are foiled with these sticker (of course not anime) but you can foil your car with any color you want without re-painting it. it's a good thing, prety expensive but it'll protect the paint.

by GRAVE | November 15, 2008 8:57 PM
A friend of mine did that to his 911 Turbo, which turned the 911 from white to black. Not sure how much it cost exactly, but it did cost some fortune, it does protect the paint really well tho.

by nardow12 | November 16, 2008 9:12 AM
good pain the bmw M5 very nice

by hilalth | November 17, 2008 8:19 AM
New design culture is a glueing or painting over everithing which can stay still for the 30 sec and suck up everything which cant.

by alessandro | November 17, 2008 4:23 PM

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