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Rising Sun Imports specialise in briniging in from Japan the very best of Japanese vehicles, from 4x4's, MPV's to high performance sports cars such as the formidable Nissan Skyline GT-R.

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Rising Sun Imports arrange the shipping of your car, the import duties applicable to the vehicle, UK conversions and tests, the registration of your car, road fund licence and number plates.

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Drifting is now becoming very popular in the UK with the formation of the D1GP UK, below is how it all started!

History of Drifting

The Japanese towns of Rokkosan, Hakone, Irohazaka, and various hill climbs in Nagano are all steeped in legends of the origins of drifting. No one can really pinpoint drifting's actual birthplace but the movement started in the mid 1960s. Like many forms of professional racing today, the modern interpretation of drifting evolved from a form of illegal street racing held on windy mountain roads called touge (pronounced toe-geh). Touge was practiced by extremely dedicated enthusiasts known as rolling zoku (pronounced zoe-koo) whose only goal was to trim precious milliseconds off their time between two points. Eventually, some of these rolling zoku began to adopt driving techniques used by rally drivers, techniques to clear a corner quickly without sacrificing too much momentum. As touge drivers started to emulate the rally racers techniques, they discovered that not only did their driving performance and times improve, the rush was much more intense. From touge, drifting was born.