Like most good experiences, often there isn't a carefully thought out plan in place on the lead up, and this is exactly how this day out with my friend Nick, and his recently acquired evo V came to be.
Now there's no denying that men of a certain vintage, who also carry cars as a passion since they were younger, usually tend to favour a car that was manufactured within two particular decades.
I am of course talking of cars from the 80's and 90's.
By Nick's own admission, and mine too I'll add, there's just something that draws us to cars from these time periods, cars that are now deemed retro or modern classics (yeesh that's a rough pill to swallow).
For me, no other country captured the essence of car culture in the late 80's early 90's quite like those from the Japanese domestic market.
The cars coming from Japan at that time, and often still to this day, manage to deliver and sustain a sense of being built with driving as a form of pleasure in mind, something that I think is being slowly forgotten by manufacturers these days, and also something that governments seem keen to stamp out.
myself and nick sadly didn't have a huge amount of time to play with on our ride out to the windy roads of the Brecon Beacons, but in the few hours that we did have, we absolutely filled our boots.
Towing the line between being respectful of other road users, but also managing to have a little sensible fun.. with the occasional childish use of the anti lag, which never failed to reduce two men in their late 30's into a pair of giggling teenagers.
