About this episode

This episode explores the incredible journey of HKS from a dairy farm shed to becoming a leader in building Japan's fastest cars.

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People in this episode

Host: Donut Media

Topics covered

• Japanese automotive history
• car manufacturing
• motorsport
• turbo technology
• JDM culture

Keywords

• HKS
• Japan
• fast cars
• automotive history
• turbo
• Celica
• motorsport
• JDM

Sponsors

Allstate, Hankook, Aura Frames

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HKS

Books & works: Celica, Zero-R

Places: Mount Fuji

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