Best Motoring International

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title = Best Motoring ベストモータリング


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firstdate = 1987
country = Japan
language = Japanese
website = http://www.bestmotoring.jp/
issn = nihongo|"Best Motoring"|ベストモータリング|Besuto Mōtaringu is Japan's preeminent automobile magazine, video, and DVD series. Alongside "Best Motoring" are "Hot Version" and "Video Special." With the first edition debuting in 1995, the videos are marked by non traditional races and challenges such as the Tōuge battles, in which one car tries to outrun another on a twisty mountain pass. The drivers are the premier racers of the various Japanese racing series, including JGTC, the D1 Grand Prix, and Formula Nippon. Some of the regular hosts/drivers include the 'Drift King' Keiichi Tsuchiya, Manabu Orido, and Juichi Wakisaka.

"Best Motoring, Hot Version" and "Video Special" are all produced by Kodansha/2&4 Motoring.

"Best Motoring International"

In April 2000, Taro Koki founded Zigzag Asia and took international distribution rights for "Best Motoring", creating "Best Motoring International". Initial releases were dubbed entirely in English, and some might say suffered from poor voice acting/editing. From volume 3 onwards they settled on having an English narrator and retained the original Japanese audio for the presenters, using subtitles for translation instead of dubbing.

The Japanese version of "Best Motoring" is a monthly video series covering mainly non-tuned factory cars, whereas "Hot Version" (ホットバージョン) is the bi-monthly video series testing mainly tuned cars. "Video Special" is another video series that is released irregularly and usually focuses on a particular car model.

The other differences between the two are that the English version does not refer its series by volume number

Other spinoffs series includes the Hot Version specials, "AE86 Club" and "VTEC Club" which is dedicated only to the Toyota AE86 and Honda VTEC engined cars respectively and the quarter-yearly "Racing History", released in 2005, is dedicated to the historical aspect of Japanese motorsport.

"Best Motoring International" is an English compilation of various video clips from all three of the Japanese video magazines, "Best Motoring, Hot Version" and "Video Special".

External links

* [http://www.bestmotoringvideo.com/ Best Motoring International]
* [http://www.bestmotoring.jp/ Best Motoring (Japanese page)]
* [http://www.fastestlaps.com/ Collection of the fastest lap times on various tracks, some performed by Best Motoring]
* [http://www.bestmotoringvideo.com/blog/list.html BMI Blog]
* [http://www.zigzagasia.com/ Zigzag Asia]
* [http://jdmracer.blogspot.com/ JDM Journal by Taro Koki]