2009-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

5ZIGEN TSX in-car videos @ Fontana

Our 2009 is only one more lap to go! Less than 30 hours remains to 2010 from now. We like to express our appreciation for your continuous support to us. 5ZIGEN will try to keep developing the best quality products with affordable price. In…

Allstars Drift MX-5 goes to San Diego

How was your Christmas? Hope everyone had good time. International Allstars who help our promotional activities are working hard even the holidays because they have a big event during New Year holiday. The Ultimate Ridez Expo in the San Di…

5ZIGEN TSX Buttonwillow in-car video 2

Marry Christmas to people who are already in 25th!! For others still in 24th, wishing you the brightest, happiest and merriest Christmas Eve. But, always remember, don't drink and drive!!OK, I like to present you some more pictures and the…

5ZIGEN TSX Buttonwillow in-car video 1

Merry Christmas!! Thank you for watching this blog always! Wishing you a wonderful holiday season with your family, friends and rides.I like to share in-car videos of 5ZIGEN TSX in this Christmas time. Today's video is the 1st attack of 20…

Frederic finished 3rd in DMCC East

We got pictures from a 5ZIGEN user in Canadian drift competition series. Frederic Girard, one of top drifter from Montreal, QC, had good season of 2009 with 5ZIGEN wheels. He and the Team Kumho Drift finished 3rd to the DMCC (Drift Mania C…

Ultimate Ridez Expo in San Diego

Ultimate Ridez Expo is back to San Diego!! This car and life-style show is held as a part of San Diego International Auto Show. December 30, 2009 to January 3, 2010. (open New Year's Day!!) 5ZIGEN USA has been participated in this show sin…

PRI SHOW 2009

Perfomance Racing Industry Show was held from December 10 to 12 at Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. I flew Orlando as an attendant for our CEO Mr. Kinoshita and Team 5ZIGEN chief engineer Mr. Sakuma.As you see following P…

5ZIGEN Accord @ Tsukuba Super Battle

Team 5ZIGEN participated in "Tsukuba Super Battle" December 9.5ZIGEN TSX went back to Japan now. So, I call the car Accord Euro-R which was given originally. Our engineers and mechanics worked hard to prepare the car for the Tsukuba attack…

We are the champions!!

We did it!! As I briefly reported, Team 5ZIGEN won both two heats at Twin Ring Motegi. By this victory, Team 5ZIGEN acquired the ST3 class champion!!I am sorry but I haven’t updated this blog because I was out of office for the PRI show. D…

5ZIGEN TSX backed to Osaka

We thankfully got 55555th hit in last weekend!! Thank you for your support to 5ZIGEN always! By the way, we got pictures of the 5ZIGEN Time Attack TSX from Japan. The TSX has returned right after the Redline Time Attack to compete in Tsuku…

Who’s 55555th viewer?

Thank you for checking GO-ZIGEN USA blog always. I just noticed we got more than 50,000 people viewed this blog since late 2006. I think we will have the 55555th viewer very soon. Please tell us, if you saw the counter “55554”, “55555” or …

ARD Roadmaster Ride on sale!

Good news!! 5ZIGEN NSX won the season finale of Super Taikyu at Motegi last weekend!! By these victories (it was 2-heat event), Team 5ZIGEN obtained series championship of ST3 Class. I will make report for the race later on this blog as so…

Henry Schelley Drift Class 09 Champ!!

I got another good race report from one the FN01R-C users in time attack. Henry Schelley of HPS Racing got 3rd place in the drift class at Redline Time Attack final round. By this result, Henry became 2009 RTA Drift Class Season Champion!!…

OctaneReport won Evo as STI Shootout

Editor in chief of Octane Report, Joey Leh sent me good news! Octane Report Evo won at the '09 Import Tuner Evo vs STI Shootout, November 10 (a day before SLB). Do you remember this car? This Evo-IX was the one displayed at SEMA together w…

5ZIGEN TSX’s last day in the USA

5ZIGEN TSX version 09 stayed only 18 days in the USA. The car had participated in one convention, SEMA and two time attack events - SLB and RTA. We usually keep the car for a while and promote the car in local events. However, 5ZIGEN Japan…

Charles Ng got Formula DRIFT Pro license!

We got good news from a drifter who is using FN01R-C. 5ZIGEN USA support racing driver, Charles Ng obtained Formula Drift Pro License by qualifying as top 16 drivers at the Formula Drift Pro Am National Championship November 21 at Toyota S…

Race report from Croiset Racing

Croiset Racing takes on Super Lap Battle Finale and Redline Time Attack Finale.There are several 5ZIGEN users in these time attack events. One of royal 5ZIGEN users, the owner and driver of the Croiset Racing, Jeremy Croiset sent us some p…

5ZIGEN at 2009 SEMA

November has been passing very fast for us. It has been two weeks after SEMA. I have been out of office for time attacks, etc, etc. So, I had no time to review SEMA pictures. Finally, I like to introduce cars with 5ZIGEN products at SEMA t…

2nd place at RTA Fontana

Redline Time Attack season finale, round 8 was taken place at Auto Club Speedway. Car #50, Team 5ZIGEN TSX piloted Katsuyuki Hiranaka obtained 2nd place in Unlimited FF class. Thank you for your continued support to us. Because of your all…

Redline Time Attack Test Day

Team 5ZIGEN is going to cpmpete in Unlimited FWD class in the Redline Time Attack. Today is the test/plactice day for the round 8. We tested the time attack TSX at Auto Club Speedway today. 5ZIGEN TSX on the pit road of the Speedway. The f…

Ready for Redline Time Attack!!

Team 5ZIGEN is ready to compete in Redline Time Attack Rd.8. Team mechanics prepared the car for Fontana yesterday and today. We are all hoping we could get better result because the Nitrous Injection System is prohibited in Redline. Mecha…

5ZIGEN TSX finished in 3rd at SLB

Team 5ZIGEN participated in the Super Lap Battle with 5ZIGEN Time Attack TSX 09 Version yesterday, November 11 at Buttonwillow Raceway. The finished in 3rd place in the Unlimited FF class with 1:53.422. We could shaved about one and half s…

TSX goes SEMA

5ZIGEN Time Attack TSX 09 Version has just arrived last Thursday, October 28. Now the car is in Las Vegas for SEMA show which started today. 5ZIGEN TSX is displayed at motormusicmag.com booth (#10459) in North Hall. http://www.motormusicma…

5ZIGEN NSX pit-stop video

Hi everyone! I like to share a cool video footage I found in You Tube. A race fan in Japan, "takgrd"-san uploaded his or her video captured the pit-stop of 5ZIGEN NSX at Super Taikyu Round 5, Fuji Speedway. The round 5 was the first winnin…

CARBOY photoshoot at Osaka Factory

In a rainy day in Osaka, a photographer and an editor from CARBOY magazine visited 5ZIGEN Osaka factory for a photoshoot. The photographs taken in the day will be used for a special article about exhaust systems. The article sounds like to…

Sport your Cubic Cube

Nissan's newest car for the US market is Cube. You might have seen some already. Our first Cube - chassis code Z12 - is actually 3rd gen. for people in Japan. The design concept of the Z12 Cube is "peaceful". It was said that the French bu…

GN+ on Suzusho Spasse-V

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009 had just opened. (Press day 10/21-23, open to the public 10/24-11/4) This is the biggest festival of cars in Japan that many new cars and concept cars are displayed. It is very important event for automobile …

5ZIGEN NSX pole to win at Sendai

Super taikyu Round 7 was held October 11 at Sendai Highland Circuit. 5ZIGEN NSX obtained another victory of ST-3 class with pole to win finish. This is the 2nd win for us since Round 5 at Fuji Speedway in the rain. At the present, Team 5ZI…

Charles Ng won Pro-Am drift Irwindale

We got another race report from one of FN01R-C users in drift scene. 5ZIGEN USA support racing driver, Charles Ng won Pro-Am drift championship series, Irwindale round October 18 which was held together with Formula-D season finale. Follow…

APM Racing’s challenge at Laguna Seca

I like to introduce a big challenge by one of the 5ZIGEN users today. As I mentioned in this blog before, Tommy Chen of SpeedTrialUSA entered SCCA Speed World Challenge TC2 class from AMP Racing sponsored by AutoWorld. It sounded bit tough…