Modified “speed bump”, why I love Rocket Rabbit alone

Around 2010, modified cars around the world began to see a craze for wide-body modifications. By extending and splicing to widen the original body width, and installing exaggeratedly wide high-performance tires and rims into the car, it is the most traditional and simplest wide-body modification.

Among the many wide-body modification cases, Rocket Bunny from Japan is definitely a brand with unique style and extremely refined texture. I believe that many Chinese car fans, like me, first met Rocket Bunny in a Rocket Bunny Sicon FRS (American Sicon-badged version of Toyota 86) video posted by American video blogger Luke Huxham on the Fatlace website 10 years ago. .

In the Crazy Ken Band’s typical Japanese rock song “Tiger and Dragon”, Kei Miura driving the Sicon FRS in the video and the Rocket Bunny wide body he created Since then, it has become popular among car fans around the world.

What is the charm of Miura Kei and his Rocket Bunny? The story begins in the 1980s. Like many passionate young people on the streets of Japan, Miura Kei was also keen on driving his car on Osaka's ring road to express his passion. But unfortunately, Miura Kei's driver's license was revoked for 8 years.

For ordinary people, being unable to drive for 8 years would easily make people forget about this expensive and dangerous hobby, but Kei Miura, who loves racing, did not give up because of this. Since he can't actually race a car, he helps others modify their racing cars. Thanks to his modification skills and talent in designing body kits, Miura Kei began to design and develop unique modified body kits for many customers at the age of 20. These include Japanese performance cars as well as expensive imported sports cars like the Ferrari Dino.

The reason why people like Miura Kei’s works is more because Miura Kei can always add his own understanding of racing car exterior modifications to various models of various eras, so you always You can see the shadow of American NASCAR, WRC and DTM racing cars in the 1980s in Miura Kei's early wide-body modification cases.

Miura Kei compares the business development and growth in Japan during the same period with Nakai San, the current manager of RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF. Although they are different in the style of their works, The craftsmanship is very similar, both are traditional rivet wide-body kits, but Miura Kei is completely different from Nakai Kei in terms of style.

Nakai Kei has always insisted on traditional drawing and model cutting to design wide bodies, while Miura Kei began to rely on the advanced method of CAD drawing to complete works more than thirty years ago. From the perspective of business operations, Kei Miura founded TRA (Top Racing Arts) Kyoto in Kyoto, Japan as early as 1995, and the Rocket Bunny that we are familiar with later is one of the product series of TRA Kyoto.

Why is its wide-body kit series named after Rocket Bunny? The name was originally inspired by the words on an ordinary coffee cup, and Rocket Bunny was originally the nickname of a Kei Car van that Kei Miura modified in the early 1990s. Because friends liked the name very much, Rocket Bunny was later used by Kei Miura as the name of the subsequent wide-body modification product line. Rocket Bunny’s rabbit-like gesture logo was inspired by a very famous Japanese rubber latex product. Brand—Okamoto. ?

As for Pandem, the other name of Rocket Bunny that everyone is familiar with today, it was the name changed by Rocket Bunny to enter the US market due to local copyright issues. After understanding the background of these stories, coupled with the booming global modification industry and modification culture after 2010, Miura Keiyoshi became the man who promoted Japanese wide-body modification culture to the world. Today’s Rocket Bunny has also become a symbol of various types of modifications around the world. Numerous wide-body modification kits have been launched for such new cars and classic cars.

The blue Subaru BRZ you are seeing now is equipped with the BRZ V3.5 wide-body kit produced by Rocket Bunny. Compared with Rocket Bunny’s previous BRZ wide-body kit , BRZ V3.5 incorporates track racing and rally racing styles in this wide-body modification kit.

In fact, looking at the global modification brands, Subaru BRZ has a wealth of wide-body options. The owner Dongzi chose the BRZ V3.5 wide-body kit and was not only satisfied with the wide-body kit itself. In addition, the personality of the Rocket Bunny brand and the richness and exquisiteness of the products surrounding the brand culture are also the reasons why Dongzi chose Rocket Bunny. ?

Even privately, Toko and Mr. Miura Kei are very good friends. As boys who also love cars, they will exchange details about car modifications and discuss the current situation. , how future cars should incorporate retro racing elements, and even the future of modification.

As a modification method that once existed simply and crudely to improve vehicle stability in order to carry more power, the significance of wide-body modification today is more about style, Personality and heritage. Obviously, Dongzi’s BRZ well carries the meaning and soul of Rocket Bunny’s existence today from these three aspects. ?

As China’s intangible cultural heritage, Dongzi is also the fifth-generation inheritor of carved lacquer, one of the eight wonders of Yanjing. The modified car embodies another dimension of inheritance. The four tie rods of the tail wing are replaced with exquisite carved paint, and a large number of traditional Chinese cultural elements are integrated into the interior. Although the BRZ V3.5 wide-body kit produced by Rocket Bunny has errors No more than 1 millimeter, but they can all show the different styles and attitudes of different car owners after being installed in the car. This may be the reason why Rocket Bunny is so exquisite and why we all like it. (Photography: Xia Ji Ba Pai)

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