The Road Rat Issue 17 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Edition 17 — aka ‘Tales from Japan’ — is the latest Road Rat special to devote its entirety to getting under the skin of one subject. Across well over 200 pages our writers, photographers and illustrators dissect Japanese culture, technology and design and their symbiotic relationship with Japanese automobiles with a focus on the Skyline GT-R and Lexus LFA. The cover star is the delicate and beautiful Toyota 2000GT and it’s joined inside by a study of the Kei car phenomena, Mazda’s rotary-engine endurance cars, the very different Toyotas Century and Land Cruiser plus your guide to subcultures from cosplaying itasha to street-racing kanjozoku.
The Road Rat Magazine is the world’s most beautiful car magazine. The Road Rat is a new kind of car magazine. Not overly obsessed with the detail of old cars nor over-impressed with the performance of new; the Road Rat instead firmly believes there are good stories — real stories, stories to consume with relish — in both old and new and in racing too. But above all The Road Rat believes in the glory of magazines; lush, beautiful, valuable, collectable and exquisitely crafted magazines. Think of us as a carefully-curated bookshop or an horizon-widening record store. We are proudly analogue and believe some things – but mostly beautiful cars – just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obesssive need to climb. For us an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
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244 pages, English, 29 x 23 cm
