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Video break: 10,000rpm battle

Warning: contains VTEC. And an Altezza.
Maurice Malone
Maurice Malone
@MaloneMaurice

Published on November 24, 2017

No-one can obsess over cars like the Japanese. Their culture has reached legendary status among Irish enthusiasts, as is evidenced by the huge amounts of performance imports on our roads. This video features lots of VTEC and even an Altezza, so JDM fans will be all over it.

Best Motoring was a Japanese institution, its reviews thorough and nerdy enough to sate the appetite of even the most hardcore Wangan wannabe. This particular video features a load of professional racing drivers thrashing some highly-tuned naturally-aspirated motors in an aptly-titled '10,000rpm battle'. Not surprisingly, Hondas feature prominently, though maybe not the ones you'd expect. Watch that City go!

Of course, this is just one of hundreds of Best Motoring clips available on YouTube. We like this one because it's not dubbed and most of the comments are in Japanese, which merely adds to the authenticity. A word of caution though; it's very easy to fall into a Best Motoring hole and emerge semi-conscious some hours later, with a spreadsheet of Man Maths detailing how buying a crashed AE86 sight unseen from a Japanese auction is actually a good idea. You have been warned.