TOMMY KAIRA ZZ2 (the greatest)

[jsb88]

Oh yes!!!

[NSX]

yah, www.tommykaira.com or if you can read Japanese:
www.tommykaira.co.jp

[jsb88]

Thank you!

[Gonthrax]

Wow, this thread is back

ANywho, I think I was talking about noticing that it was LHD.

[gigatron]

Somehow it reminds me of a mclaren f1 ;P

[NSX]

Originally posted by gigatron
Somehow it reminds me of a mclaren f1 ;P

Except turbo!

[skylinegtr34]

The ZZ2 is out; we cant find anything on the ZZ2 because they changed the name to Garaiya. The car is also an AUTOBACS model ( yes the company that sponcers JGTC. If you notice on the back of the car there is a ASL that stands for AUTOBACS Sports car Lab. They destroyed the car its ugly now and its about 300 hp.

Need proof check here:

http://www.autobax.info/garaiya.html

Today is a sad day in the sports car world...

[skylinegtr34]

I hope im wrong but this is just too close to not be ture. This is why the concept didnt have the Karia grapes on it and had the upside down mitsubushi. The car cost $120,000 USD.

[skylinegtr34]

This car was designed with the help of Tommy Karia. ( This is the ZZ2)

[Dan S]

skylinegtr34
we're all glad you're wrong!

the ZZII is not the garaiya and vice-versa

The ASL garaiya is a lightweight 2 seat Mid-Rwd aimed to compete with the lotus elise
Similar to the ZZII, it is Nissan powered, the garaiya packs an sr20ve (no turbo) so about 150 kW (not sure but like 210hp)
imagine packing an s15 sr20det in there sounds like fun
Garaiya is gonna cost $40-50k US, but i think it's going to england and Japan only... is it worth $10k more than a Lotus Elise??


they have a race version called the Gt300 Arta Garaiya
it's going to cost 20 million yen ($170K US) so nobody is really going to own one
carbon fiber all around, turbo charged!! scissor doors!! looks great
I saw it first in Super Street when they went to the Tokyo Autoshow
I was convinced it was a Lotus Elise
but the Super Autobacs painted on the hood
clearly meant this was going to be their new car of choice for the 2003 season


I'll give ya some credit though,
on one website, they called the car
the Autobacs Garaiya Rs-01
but that's just confusing

anyway we've established the ZZII is now called the Autobacs Rs-01
but nobody ever carried over the name
Tommy Kaira obviously doesnt make it anymore,so why ask for their site?


Don't let that picture fool you, there are definitely TWO (2) seats!

and here ya go, 9 quality pictures of the ZZII

http://www.fast-autos.net/tommykaira/zztwopics.html

the e-brake is engaged, so it's looks farther away
but it's still within arm's reach
duh where else would it be?


go here to see the Rs-01, and you can download a short movie of the
car going like 180 mph
of course it's all in japanese, but if you click on car info again, the pictures are proof

there are 3 separate cars


check out the performance numbers of th ZZII
the first is obviously top speed, which is 300kph
the second number is a 2.18, i wish that was the 0-100kph time!!! (anyone who can read japanese, correct me please)
(but on another site i saw the time was 3.3 seconds, which seems more feasible)

insane fast

Okay, so i've seen for this car for

200,000 AUd http://www.importdriver.com.au/News7.htm
or
60,000 pounds

but the LHD still confuses me!!!
I guess it's coming to America, and for $100K it's not a bad deal compared to it's rivals, the ferrari f50 and the mclaren f1

hope that clears some things up

[skylinegtr34]

Ok glad to hear I’m wrong but what this is telling me then is that the ZZ2 is cancelled. Autobac bought Tommy Karia out is my understanding. I checked Tommy Karia's, Autobacs', and Autobacs Sport-car Lab's (ASL) Japanese text pages and translated them to English and found nothing on the ZZ2. The only information on the car is pre 2001. This leads me to believe that they canceled the ZZ2 or put it on the shelf indefinitely. Plus like I was saying before the ZZ2 is not a Tommy Karia model it is an Autobacs (ASL on the back and license plate Autobacs Sports-car Laboratory)

[skylinegtr34]

If you give me a Japanese Site with new info on the car I can translate it for you.

[frozen_Joth]

O.K., I know this isn't to important but, Tommy Kaira isn't a person, the name came from two tuners: Yoshikazu Tomita and Kikuo Kaira. Their tuning company has been around for years, Since 1987. They tune alot of Japanese cars. I know they designed F1 cars too.

[Dan S]

ha, i'm so dumb i mentioned the website but forgot the URL

www.asl.info

go ahead and check it out

looks like there is one article about the rs-01 that was written on 5/20/2003

if you can translate what it says, good deal!

later

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

that car is damn ugly