V35 350GT on 20inch Work Varianza T1S wheels.
I’ve got a lot of Best Motoring DVD’s and last night I went through them to see if I could dig up some footage of the V35 350GT in action. I dug up one DVD from 2006/08 and they had a section on it called the Kakeyoro Ranking.
Kakeyoro (aka The Gunsai Touge) is their test touge track (Touge is a Japanese word literally meaning “pass.” It refers to a mountain pass or any of the narrow, winding roads that can be found in and around the mountains of Japan) and the Kakeyoro Ranking is a big board with a massive triangle on it, the cars at the pointy end are the ones which the test drivers favour on the touge (in this case, The Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya).
They ranked the V35 Skyline (05/06 model) at the very top, just under the S2000. In this particular test (they rank different cars each DVD) Keiichi thought the V35 skyline was better than the Porsche Cayman and BMW Z4.
Here’s a snap I took of the ranking board. You can see the S2000 is at the very top of the ranking board and the V35 Skyline is 2nd. There are some absolutely awesome cars further down the ranking too.
Needless to say the footage and ranking impressed me and it’s made me think twice about killing funtion for form (ie: putting on 20’s just for looks is going to kill performance and handling).
I’ve already put $100 down as a deposit to hold some 20inch wheels and tyres but I’d rather loose the $100 than pay up $4k for wheels I’m not 100% on. My head is buzzing but it’s OK, my naturopath calls this good stress not bad stress!