“All monsters are bad (at least that’s how we think of them), but Kaiju to me has a bit of a different meaning. The movie monster is dark grey with blue eyes and blue features,” Yoshi points out. It’s a Category 5 (hence the KAIJU5 vanity plate), and is derived from a hammerhead shark. “Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra and the Loch Ness Monster are all examples of a Kaiju, but it’s the movie Pacific Rim that helped me figure out what kind of Kaiju my car is. With some thought and a couple of hours surfing online, I stumbled upon Kaiju, which in Japanese refers to a strange beast or unknown amphibious creature.” “I wish I could have called it Godzilla, but that name was taken by a Nissan Skyline. “I wanted to build a monster of a car,” he explains. He has combined societal and parental conditioning with his own vivid imagination, and paired it with a healthy dose of Hollywood magic to envision a new monster. That is your automotive dream? To go faster than anyone else? To go lower, or make sparks fly from your undercarriage? To win trophies at shows, or garner massive amounts of Internet praise? Whatever the case, we sincerely hope you follow it with the same level of devotion that Las Vegas resident Yoshi Nebril has in pursuit of his dream.įor Yoshi, it’s taken a perfect storm of influences coming together to help him create “Project Kaiju,” an effectively modified 2013 Scion FR-S Series 10 limited edition coupe. The Monstrous Product of Vivid Imagination.
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