I survived Import Alliance this weekend...

[Promise Land]

It was packed on Saturday. I’m guessing about 1000 cars. It took us 1.5 hours to get in to the track with 4 lanes of cars. It was great to see so many cars, even if 70% seemed like they were Hondas. I hung out with the Micro Image crew in the morning. I got into Nashville at 11:15 Friday night and they were downtown at the Hard Rock Café hanging out. I dropped by and picked up Paul (chompsticks on Nico) and we headed to the hotel. We met up with everyone Saturday morning at 7:15 and headed to the track. After a few hours I took my car over to the Nico area. I was there about 2 hours (I fell asleep in a chair, so maybe it was longer) and then the Nico crew headed down to BW3 (a wings place) for dinner in Murfreesboro. After eating with everyone I went down to see some friends for the night. I drove home Sunday, leaving at 9am and getting home a little after 4pm. The weather coming and going to Nashville was terrible with downpours, but the weatehr at the track was overcast most of the day and 80's.

There were 3 Versas there and 2 Cubes. My V, Anthony870 off Nico, and one stock blue one. TBrack (off Nico with the black Cube) and Chompsticks (also from NICO) had their Cubes there. TBrack has Q45 headlights fit into his and Chomps has his Cube lowered with 17s and a new radio. Anthony’s Versa has tint on the windows and vinyl film on the headlights and tails. We were hidden when I was at the MI tent, but people really had to stop and look at my car when I had it at the NICO area. They had prime real estate for people walking by. I can't wait for next year. There were a lot of quality cars here, but there were also some terrible cars there. Some of the poor Civic guys had to push their cars 2 miles to get in the track. They had taken their cooling fans out and couldn't idle in the lines waiting to get in.

I'll get some pictures up this week of the show. For now, here's some of the drifitng from Saturday morning:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgYNgjVGn2A[/youtube]

Somebody else's report:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPECNHaAPKk&NR=1[/youtube]

Somebody else too: (chompsticks cube at 0:32, 0:39)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpfjz30rX8[/youtube]

[carlos15]

dang i wish i could of gone but just to far away lol i live in texas/california (over the summer) did you do anything on the track or did you just go to chill and admire the nice cars?

[Promise Land]

I just chilled, looked at cars, and talked with people.

[chompsticks]

On saturday cars were parking on the actually speedway... Crammed 3 other guys in my cube and drove on the speedway.

Sunday after a break in the time attack, everyone that wanted to was able to take a quick lap around the track. Did not realize what time that was at so I missed it...

There was another Omaris cube on sunday and another cube from NCL, also saw another blue versa with an Ed hardy like interior.

I just sat around all day sunday and watched the race. WAY to hot

[carlos15]

yeah must of been pretty fun and chill chompsticks i know nothing about cubes but do they have the six speed manual and if so wat kind of transmission you got

[chompsticks]

They do have 6speed manual trannies for the base and S models as optional (really really hard to find)

SL and krom models get the CVT only which is what I have

[carlos15]

ohh cvt is good they should do thjat with versas in stead of 4 speed auto

[Promise Land]

they have the CVT, auto ,and manual available in the Versa.

[iluvmyVersa08]

ohh cvt is good they should do thjat with versas in stead of 4 speed auto

Yes as Promise Land said, we have CVT available to us on the Versa.

That's what my baby has!

[anthony870]

It definitely was a good time. I went Sunday also. Got there earlier at 6:50 so the line wasn't so big and they didn't open the gate till after 9. So I waited longer to get in then i did Saturday. We did have a great spot. Hopefully next year we can get rid of the Hondas and just have Nissans parked there like it was supposed to be. Can't wait till next year. Hope to see some more Versas

[carlos15]

yeah i kno they have cvt for the vs im meant they should make it standard for s models instead of 4spd auto

[carlos15]

nsx's are rlly nice

[biggie]

...Just way overpriced.

[carlos15]

why do you say that? is cvt not that good?

[biggie]

why do you say that? is cvt not that good?

Was that to me? cvt? Just saying that NSXs are overpriced. They costs too much for the performance you get, both when new and now when used.

[wingFeather]

Hondas. Yuck.

[carlos15]

why do you say that? is cvt not that good?

Was that to me? cvt? Just saying that NSXs are overpriced. They costs too much for the performance you get, both when new and now when used.

yeah they are over priced.
srry i thought you were talking about cvt

[biggie]

Apparently though the CVT is going through some changes that should imrpove it though, we'll see.

[carlos15]

hope so

[iluvmyVersa08]

Apparently though the CVT is going through some changes that should imrpove it though, we'll see.

Improve it how?

At least we have the extra warranty on it now ... 10 years or 200K (in Canada)

[carlos15]

ohh and congratz ashley! i saw ur car in the magazine looks great

[biggie]

Apparently though the CVT is going through some changes that should imrpove it though, we'll see.

Improve it how?

At least we have the extra warranty on it now ... 10 years or 200K (in Canada)

Believe they are trying to improve its efficency and therefore greater mpg.

[carlos15]

they should try to improve the perfromance and the fuel mileage

[ME18VERSA]

i wish they would put a factory tuner in it like Honda did with the CR-Z that was a great idea

[wingFeather]

Jut fake it by putting a rubber band on your gas pedal tied to the steering column to create resistance. When you want "tuner mode" just take the band off. LOL