Autosalon returned to Perth on the 24th and 25th of July to the Perth Car Show scene after a year’s absence. With crowds in excess of 20,000 over the 2 days, the event proved to be a great success.

The Tech 9 Tyres crew once again put an amazing display on which ‘Wowed” spectators and cleaned up multiple awards including King of Autosalon for Luke’s HI PSI 2JZ power 180SX. Fabcar teamed up with the Tech 9 crew to supply a number of vehicles including David’s JAP CRAP R34 GTR, which won the Tough as Nails award, as well as a US-styled V36 Sedan.

Check out this video wrap by Mighty Car Mods

Fabcar also took the Best Mitsubishi award with Steve Jones LF23R on display. The Fabcar team would like the thank Scott and Rob from Tech 9 Tyres for supplying all the rims and tyres for all our vehicles on display and the opportunity to join the great display.

Fabcar proudly sponsor Chassis Build No.1 of the LF Performance built MItsubishi Evolution – designed in conjunction with Steve Jones.

The LF23R Evolution is a purpose built Tarmac Rally/Hillclimb/Time Attack/Motorkhana car, designed and built in-house from a standard Mitsubishi Evo 9 road car for use in racing events around Australia.

After years of development and racing, the experienced team at LF Performance Products in conjunction with Steve Jones have built the ultimate Evo.

This product is available as a package or a complete vehicle ‘ready-to-race’ primarily for Tarmac Rally in Australia. The package requires purchase or delivery of a Mitsubishi Evo 9 (with an un-damaged body history as a minimum requirement) prior to further assessment by the team at LFP.

Click here to download the LF23R Evolution brochure.

2010 will be the 6th consecutive year that the Fabcar Automotive Group will support the Targa West event. Fabcar have supported the event since it inception in 2005, providing up to 18 support vehicles that will shuffle some of the hundreds of volunteers that the event requires each year to run. Fabcar is proud to assist in this way and also thrilled that they have had some great success with competing in the event, taking out Modern Competition wins with Steve Jones behind the wheel in both 2008 and 2009.

The support vehicles have varied year to year but are made up of an eclectic mix of the best that Japan has to offer. Mitsubishi Delica’s have for the most part been the people mover of choice, and again this year we will see approximatley 12 Delicas moving around Perth and surrounding areas bearing the Targa West livery. Delica’s are the perfect choice for such events as they allow lots of space for both people and equipment.

This year will will see the all new Skyline V36 on the roads  with some officials showcasing the vehicles.

Fabcar are proud to announce that they have confirmed their 2010 racing team.

Steve Jones, Ross Hamilton and Mark Conacher will be teaming up with Fabcar, LF Engineering and other sponsors  for Targa West 2010 (August 26-29 2010)

Steve is yet to confirm which vehicle he will be using in an attempt to pull off a third consecutive Modern Competition win, backing up hugely successful 2008 and 2009 campaigns. Targa West will form as a prequel to Steve possibly heading to Japan to compete in some local racing behind the wheel of a Nissan GT-R racing prototype vehicle currently being built by a successful Japanese tuning/development company. Stay tuned for more information. (Steve is also about to launch his own website stevejonesracing.com that will feature lots of information on Steves racing endeavours.) Either way Fabcar will be supporting Steve in his attempt to show off his skills in Japan.

Ross Hamilton with co-driver Tony Robson will take part behind the wheel of the very competitive Mitsubishi Evolution 8 MR. The boys have competed in the last two years of  Targa West, and were making some impact in 2009 before a small error cost the boys  by the end of the event.

2009 Modern Challenge Competition winner, Mr Mark Conacher of McDonalds will be heading the third car (Nissan GT-R). Mark has been an influential help in setting up planning for 2010, in particular assisting with sponsorship for Steve’s Japanese campaign.

Fabcar will support the team with the help of their technical partners LF Engineering. LF Engineering have long supported Fabcar and are the chosen partners when it comes to Motor Racing.

In addition to LF Engineering, Fabcar are also partnering with McDonalds, Northside Nissan, GT Graphics, Live Fitness, Greenline MotorSports, and Caffi Logistics. (Other sponsors are also soon to be announced)

Thank you to all these partners, as we look forward to a successful 2010 campaign.

2008 Modern Competition Winner

‘drive something different!

After further development Steve Jones in the LF Fabcar sponsored RX-7 has completed a very successful round, winning all three heats. Additionally Steve posted a record time for the RX-7 of 59.37 pinching Kerry Wades long standing record of 60.03.

Steve now leads the Sports Sedans Championship, taking over first place from Cade Bell who unfortunately was not able to finish the round after belting into another competitor in Race 2……

This is a great lead up to Steve’s preparation for the upcoming Targa West, in which he hopes to take home a 3rd consecutive title.

POINTS STANDING

Steve Jones 220 points

Cade Bell 195 points

Thanks to Josh Gray www.sixfour.com.au for photographs

Fabcar are set to announce their Targa West team for 2010, including new sponsorship partners for the event. In addition Fabcar will again support Motor Sport in WA by offering support vehicles – this will be the 6th year running that Fabcar will offer CAMS and officials cars for Targa West.

At this stage it is not confirmed as to what vehicles will represent Fabcar, but the team are keen to bring home a 3rd successive Outright title. Whether this will be headed by 2008/2009 champion Steve Jones remains to be seen, as it is rumored that Steve will head back to Japan for some testing with a prominent Japanese development house on or around Targa West time.

Stay tuned.

To all existing customers please note that Fabcar has relocated its Burswood dealership to Cannington. Our original Cannington location now houses all our services and staff, offering sales, service, compliance, parts, finance insurance services all in the one location. All existing phone numbers and emails stay exactly the same. We look forward to continuing our business from Cannington where we can offer our clients a great experience in purchasing their new vehicle. We remain the number one retailer in Australia for imported vehicles and have three exciting new models about to join our line-up.

Regards
The Fabcar team

After six gruelling days of competition, WA driver Steve Jones with co-driver Ben Searcy have completed a successful campaign in the modern section to add 4th place at this years Targa Tasmania to his growing collection of Targa results. Jones drove a standard specification GT-R in only his second outing to the classic Tasmanian event.

Tasmanian local Jason White, drriving his Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo Strada, led from start to finish to claim a 63 second win ahead of Queenslander Ray Vandersee in a Skelta G-Force, with Tony Quinn third in a Nissan GT-R two minutes 30 seconds further back.

Congratulations goes to the pair of Liddle and Lloyd in a colourful 2003 Subaru Impreza WRX STi Wagon, as they took a podium in the Modern Rookie event …. well done Stewy!

Check out the cool Infiniti Visualizers.

We will load up some new visualizers each week.

We can’t wait to get our hands on the all new 370GT Cabriolet. To wet your taste-buds here is the ‘mock’ video release from Europe.

NOW AVAILABLE – Skyline 370GT – Sedans and Coupe’s

Stay tuned.