I’ve been waiting to see this for a while now!  Joon Maengfinally released some video from his first test session in the FullTiltPoker.com/Burgenholtz Racing Mazda RX-8 drift car.  I think the question of if Joon can handle all the extra power and the radically different set up has been answered.  From the looks of the video you’d think Joon had been drifting RX-8s all his life!  Check it out below.

I love twitter!  Just found out @GReddy_Power is working on a update for the SE exhaust.  Not sure what they’ll do as part of the update but I can’t wait to find out.  Hopefully they’ll keep us updated.

I just found out today that the Mazda Furai will be a part of a new jalopnik.com DLC pack that will be available on the 9th.  There is another way to get the Furai if you follow the instructions HERE.  I would love to drive the Furai as soon as its available but unfortunately I am going to be late to the party since my Xbox 360 recently red-ringed!  Bogus!!

Ever since Sevenstock in ‘09 BMI Racing’s RX-8 has been making a pretty big splash on the Internet and within the Mazda community.  That kind of thing happens when you’ve got the only RX-8 in the world with super rare hand built four-rotor engine.  So far all this car has had to do is park somewhere and start the engine and hundreds of car nuts and rotor heads will come running to get an earful of the violent symphony that comes from underneath this beast’s hood.  While most were content with that, a recent article on Mazda’s website revealed that BMI Racing intends to bring their one of a kind creation to Formula Drift for the 2010 season with Pro-AM graduate Charles Ng as their driver. 

Word has it that the car is going out for its first drift test session pretty soon, so we’ll try to crash that event and get some footage of this thing sideways.

Ok, this is my new favorite video of the day!  Someone from the Mazdas247.com forums managed to get themselves over to Japan for the Osaka Automesse and capture footage of this FRESH example of a Mazda2 (called the “Demio” in Japan) built by Trial.  I thought the 2Evil was awesome but this thing is sweet!  Who thought it was possible to make such a small car look so bruitish!?
 

 

I have no idea where or how to get this but major props to any Mazda RX-8 stateside that is rocking this Knight Sports muffler right now.  Those “rotor” shaped titainium tips are fire!!

When I attended the grand debut of the Mazda2 at the LA Auto Show all the windows were limo tinted but it looks like today at the Canadian Auto Show they pulled the tint off and showed the interior to the world.  It looks pretty sporty for a B-Segment car doesn’t it?  Kind of reminds me of the RX-8 interior.  Nice!

Earlier today in downtown Long Beach Bergenholtz racing made the announcement that Full Tilt Poker.com will be their team title sponsor for the 2010 Formula Drift season.  This is the first non-energy drink/non-endemic sponsor to enter the series in a while which makes me feel better about the progression of the sport.  For a while I thought drifting might have reached a tipping point but it looks like its still on the rise.  Congrats to the Bergenholtz team and a big welcome to Full Tilt Poker to drifting!

It looks like HKS has developed a Legamax Premium exhaust for the new Mazdaspeed3 and it sounds pretty darn good, but as you can clearly see in the video below this is only for the Japanese market so far.   Hopefully they’ll offer this in the states soon for all the Mazdaspeed owners in the good ol’ USA!

You may not have heard of Drop Engineering before but these guys make super bushings which are made from a material called “Ultra High Molecular Weight Urethane”.  This substancecan like, beat up regular old Polyurethane.  Their stuff is already on Kyle Mohan’s drift RX-8 so you know it can take a beating!  The set up you see above is made for the old school Mazda FC3S (’86-’92) RX-7.  I could make an Initial D joke here but we’re not that lame..