Tokyo Auto Salon isn’t Tokyo Auto Salon without all of the hype of a Liberty Walk automobile reveal, and for 2024, Wataru Kato and his team delivered all of the energy with one other ’80s supercar icon at the middle of all of it.
We’ll get to the LB-Works Lamborghini Countach in a moment, because that was just one in every of a lot of Liberty Walk cars on display on the Makuhari Messe last weekend.
Liberty Walk shared space with Tag, Bullet, and Sphere Light brands, with a complete of 100 staff working across the large booth over the course of the three-day event.
Nobody does it greater at Tokyo Auto Salon than Kato-san, and are available 2:00pm on Friday afternoon when the covers got here off Liberty Walk’s two TAS 2024 headliners, there was a rock concert vibe.
Let’s start with the Countach, which encompasses a brand recent LB-Works body kit that adds 40mm of additional width to all sides of the this ’80s poster automobile. On top of the fenders, which in fact require the unique bodywork to be cut to suit, the entire kit encompasses a recent front bumper with diffuser and canards, side skirts and side diffusers, and out back a rear diffuser, rear wing and roof air intake.
Pricing has yet to released, but given the complete kit features more pieces than the LB-Works Ferrari F40 equivalent, it’s unlikely to be any cheaper than that, which runs US$127,600 in FRP and US$160,600 in CFRP, plus fitting in fact and the opposite necessities – air suspension and custom wheels.
The query is though, if you had a Countach, would you concentrate on the LB-Works conversion?
Speaking of F40s, probably the most talked about automobile of Tokyo Auto Salon 2023 was back, this time with a brand new Metallic Blueberry exterior courtesy of Inoztech. It’s, in fact, not the primary F40 that’s been given the Inoztech wrap treatment, but we’re loving the blue vinyl and contrasting white livery from Blackfish Graphics.
Should you dream of owning and driving a Liberty Walk-enhanced supercar but only have a kei automobile budget, don’t worry, Kato-san has something special for you. This sweet little machine was unveiled by the LB Kids. No, it’s not the electrical ride-on, although that does look cool…
It’s this – the LB-Works LB40.
Should you can get your hands on an Autozam (Mazda) AZ-1, LB-Works can turn it right into a micro F40 replica. And even higher, the conversion doesn’t include a full-size price tag; the complete kit, which is a mix of FRP and dry carbon, runs just US$22,660 plus fitting.
The Fiat Abarth 595 is just not quite as small as a kei automobile but remains to be compact by modern standards, and it too now has a Liberty Walk solution. LB-Works teamed up Abas Works for this demo automobile, and it wears the complete kit – front bumper with canards, hood, side skirts, rear diffuser and wing, and naturally wide body fenders in any respect 4 corners.
Kato-san is likely to be best known for his shock supercar-widening antics, but his roots are squarely in shakotan. So it was cool to see his old Kenmeri Skyline back at Tokyo Auto Salon – albeit this time with The Smurfs collaboration we didn’t know we wanted. And the way cool is the C10 Skyline parked alongside?!
Blurring the lines between contemporary automobile design and shakotan style is the LB-Works Nissan Fairlady Z/400Z, which Kato-san unveiled on the SEMA Show last 12 months.
One other 2023 release was this – the LB-Works McLaren 720S. The entire body kit adds a front diffuser, front canards, hood, side diffusers and door panels, a rear diffuser, rear wing and wide fenders. The black on black scheme looks sinister.
The ultimate automobile we wish to point out you is a collaboration between Liberty Walk, Alpharex USA and Likewise. This GR86 is hard!
One other 12 months of Liberty Walk at Tokyo Auto Salon has us asking the identical query as at all times – how will Kato-san top this? I assume we’ll all discover 12 months from now.
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