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Old 09-17-2011, 12:03 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

Thanks Ryu, awesome pics!
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Old 09-17-2011, 01:48 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

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Thanks for posting these photos!
Those BBS wheels are fantastic! Can anyone tell me what they are and if they were / are available in North America?
They are the BBS stock rims from the S4 JDM Alcyone. Never available in any other maket.
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Old 09-17-2011, 01:50 PM
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Thanks for posting these photos!
Those BBS wheels are fantastic! Can anyone tell me what they are and if they were / are available in North America?
Not sure but it's BBS RG 16in? Very 90s.. SVX S3 and S4 came with this wheel. It'd be better if it was at least 17in.... but 16 was the largest that time I believe.
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Old 09-17-2011, 01:53 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

In that BBS rim photo, I was also trying to show that lovely original Potenza tire that has only 200 mi on....
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Old 09-17-2011, 02:03 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

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In that BBS rim photo, I was also trying to show that lovely original Potenza tire that has only 200 mi on....
Yes... the RE71. It came on the SVX summer tire package in Japan (maybe here also). I love seeing cars with the OEM tires as originally delivered.

The standard tire is the RE95 which Bridgestone developed for the SVX.

Very cool, great job!
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Old 09-18-2011, 12:00 AM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

Oh I also have very short movie of that 200mi SVX. I'll upload to youtube later...and post to the separate thread!
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Old 09-21-2011, 09:18 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

Or just put the link to the vid here.... very short clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSv-P8EyII
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

drool.......
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Old 10-08-2011, 04:14 AM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

That silver S4 is amazing... What's 399,000 yen in USD?
http://www.k-staff.net/docs/SVX/s4/S4-27125/27125.html
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Old 10-08-2011, 08:17 AM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

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That silver S4 is amazing... What's 399,000 yen in USD?
http://www.k-staff.net/docs/SVX/s4/S4-27125/27125.html

$5201.41

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD



But the price is listed on the K-staff site at 399 MILLION yen (not thousand) check it out through translate)
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD

That's only $5.2 million dollars



I believe there is a typo in their ad and the actual price is 3,900,000 yen, which is a much more reasonable price of only

$51,000 dollars

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD


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Old 10-09-2011, 08:12 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

Today the exchange rate is like 1 USD = 75 JPY so the 3990000JPY translates something like 53000USD. But don't worry, he won't sell it to anybody anyways. He just put it on the list for fun. You can visit the K-staff and see it and smell it though! He himself wouldn't even drive this one as it'd add more miles. Whenever he wanted to move this SVX more than couple blocks, he would put it on to the flatbed truck and move it..

Downside. You can never buy that lowest mi SVX S4 in the pic.
Upside. There are tons of other mint S4 like that that you can actually buy at the K-Staff.
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Old 10-09-2011, 08:13 PM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

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$5201.41

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD



But the price is listed on the K-staff site at 399 MILLION yen (not thousand) check it out through translate)
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD

That's only $5.2 million dollars



I believe there is a typo in their ad and the actual price is 3,900,000 yen, which is a much more reasonable price of only

$51,000 dollars

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amoun...rom=JPY&To=USD


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ah no typo in the ad.. it actually says 3990000 yen in Japanese..
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

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ah no typo in the ad.. it actually says 3990000 yen in Japanese..
Maybe no typo in the ad, but the translation leaves a lot to be desired. I just converted what was advertised in the translated page, which was 399 million yen.

Maybe I am understanding this incorrectly...





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Old 10-11-2011, 11:28 AM
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Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

haha...that's why you don't wanna rely on that auto translation so much...Trust me, most of the time the translation doesn't do a good job. Sometimes comepletely wrong...

The chinese charactor right next to the number 399 says "MAN". 1 MAN = 10,000. So that translation didn't do a good job...

So 399MAN yen = 3,990,000 yen.
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Cool Re: Visiting K-Staff in Japan

on the K-staff web site it shows a great "YELLOW" SVX -under the VL range
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