All the products born from race scenes. Those sounds intents and make us feel self conscious about entering spoon.
However, they have very casual side as well. they do some little maintenance and diagnosis too. But they have the aura that made us hesitate to go in to the shop.
For my first time I went to Spoon with Masuda-san(owner of a Fit), I was listing Type One manager(in that time):Jomoto-san and Masuda-san talking.
Then I realized that I was wrong for the whole time. They listen and understand how each customer drives and what condition each car is in before they get work on customers’ cars.
The distance between type one and customers are like friends, even family. Time changes and there are many honda tuners out there but I think “If you drive a honda, Spoon is the best choice” never change.
■Cool JDM culture featured by overseas medias such as Chronicles etc..
are have strong influence here in Japan. However, its still little by little but the trend in Japan have been starting to change from “super lowerd Hellaflush is cool” to “a car actually can going fast is cool”.
I felt a message from The “center handle civic” which spoon brought it form the US just for the party is the ulutimate answer form Spoon after 30years. I really with to see it does TSUKUBA time attack but they are not planning to do any track event at this point.
■Ichishima-ism.
Just developing a new product, and going to car show makes you lose yourself in aftermarket parts industry sometimes. Having a party like this and meets people in different industry, different generation, different taste of car modify in real life. It gives stimulate each other, show new possibility and pass culture to next generation. You can not get them from checking Instagram or facebook photo. Having a old school real life “Party” may be an important factor in this social network days.
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