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VIDEO: Japanese Bososoku parade lap [WARNING: Laughter-induced weeping may occur]
The event is a Bososoku parade, and the goal is to break laws and piss off "The Man" in Japan. This has got to be the craziest, most hilarious video we've seen in a long time. It has all the elements of a Godzilla flick: crazy-looking monsters, lots of noises that sound like alien creatures (at one point we thought we heard dueling light sabers), and a lot of very excited people.
The common theme of many of the cars on display in this video is a highly-pronounced exhaust fetish. Some of the pipes coming out of these mods are up to 10 feet long, none of them look very practical, and the car in the image above isn't even the craziest in the battle for big-pipe supremacy. There's also a character in there whose foreground dancing for much of the six-odd minutes of video makes for a second, very entertaining side-show. We can't hear the tunes he's cutting a rug to, though -- just the tinny whine of blown engines with displacements under two liters.
Sometimes, Japanese and Western cultures clash, and the mods in this video are like a plaid blazer and checkered pants. Yikes! We implore you to follow the jump to watch this one, but if you're at work, you may want to get a conference room to muffle the laughter.
[Source: YouTube]
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uncle john 5:09PM (5/03/2007)
JEEEESUS!!!!! Sounds like a hornets nest. Pathetic.
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Mondo 5:20PM (5/03/2007)
I can never get that 5 minutes of my life back.
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MrMorix 5:30PM (5/03/2007)
LOL!!!! they sound like my electric weed-wacker!!!
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lol_internet 5:31PM (5/03/2007)
My Eyes and ears are bleeding!
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Brett Kelley 5:32PM (5/03/2007)
Like it or not, the sad part is that us Americans are responsible for this sort of thing... we are the ones who "invented" automobile customization, all the Japanese did was take it one step further. I am glad though that they don't have that baggy pants crooked baseball cap thumpin subwoofer bass rant rhyme "music" crap blaring such that their cars are rattling apart.
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Todd 5:32PM (5/03/2007)
With sound turned off, I cannot tell the difference between this video and the Year One "Bandit Edition" video.
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jnostalgics 5:36PM (5/03/2007)
Where did you get that all the engines are 2.0L or less? Many of the cars there, MS60 Crown, Soarer, etc. have larger displacements than that.
http://www.japanesenostalgiccar.com
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Seabass 5:51PM (5/03/2007)
I think I got AIDS from watching that video.
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harumph 5:52PM (5/03/2007)
japan is truly the silliest place on earth, even when they are being serious.
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rodri 6:02PM (5/03/2007)
that video has nothing to laugh about. it's just sad.
also sad is the way americans in general costumize cars. exceptions to this sadness are rare.
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MDS 7:22PM (5/03/2007)
@harumph: I think you mean "especially" when they are being serious. It's like lolcats -- it wouldn't be funny if they weren't so deadly serious.
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egs 6:09PM (5/03/2007)
i think that this is great. they are having serious fun with their cars. besides, whats an engineer to do after a 12 hour day at the office?
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WNG 6:14PM (5/03/2007)
I don't think it's just Japanese who have a few lugnuts too tight. Can't be so simple as basic car modding on a budget.
Look at the cars, specific models, specific body mods, and several cars having similar paint themes.
Like the AE86 being patterned after the popular Initial-D series...perhaps these odd cars are a pop culture fanboy salute to some old anime series.
Just like our Star Trek conventions and the fans who dress up like Klingons.
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ViktorVaughan 6:45PM (5/03/2007)
Worst vehicle modification trend EVER
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Jay 6:52PM (5/03/2007)
I see they don't have speed bumps in Japan...but apparently they've got lotsa shrooms and weed...
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MrMorix 6:52PM (5/03/2007)
5. Like it or not, the sad part is that us Americans are responsible for this sort of thing... we are the ones who "invented" automobile customization, all the Japanese did was take it one step further. I am glad though that they don't have that baggy pants crooked baseball cap thumpin subwoofer bass rant rhyme "music" crap blaring such that their cars are rattling apart.
Sorry but I haven't seen any "customized" cars rolling around here in the USA like that. Some people will blame America for everything. Hey the Queen of England has hemorrhoids, America is to blame... story at 11.
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DiedFamous 8:03PM (5/03/2007)
HAHAHA! I love the absurd exhaust pipes, protruding from the front grille like antennae and straight up through the hood on another. Its amazing how %100 appalling the cars on a whole where. Sure, in an American car show you'll get some rubbish stuff, but at least there is always a few decent jobs among the trash. This is just awful hack jobs as far as the eye can see.
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MikeW 7:15PM (5/03/2007)
They need to learn to pair match cylinders of 4 cylinder engines.
If the firing order is A B C D, A&C and B&D get together first, then you match the output of those.
http://www.nissannews.com/multimedia/nissan2007/800px/07-MY07Sentra-29.jpg
It wasn't any worse than V8 rice, the lack of mufflers still causes deafness.
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Rocket Punch 7:18PM (5/03/2007)
Nothing new.
In the past Bososoku had a very close tie to the Yakusa's (Japanese mafia). It had since been evolved into a very distinct "style" of fashion, and for cars, these types of modifications.
It is a form of Japanese sub-culture (another form would be cosplay)that is very native to Japan and is not expect to be understood by "gaijin".
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el dorko 10:40PM (5/03/2007)
looks more like milpitas than japan!!
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