Pacific Coast Auto

10/07/2025

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24/04/2025

Does anyone want to buy my personal car?

2010 Lotus Elise S2 Club Racer Edition
Final year
Special Light Weight edition - one of 36 made, likely about 10 in this colour
Special light weight rigid seats
Special light weight perforated floor panels
Special smaller steering wheel
Reduced sound deadening
Manual steering, non-powered brakes
Believed to be 30kg lighter at 860kg only
Unique colour for this model - Old English White
Unique interior colour scheme and badging
Unique coloured - light weight wheels
Aftermarket Saclam exhaust (
147,000 km - 5 speed manual - Toyota engine (1ZZ)

It's not an official Pacific Coast Auto sale, just want to give people a chance before sending the car to auction. I don't have time to clean it up and properly prep for sale.
3,300,000 yen plus tax in Japan, no tax for export-sales and all export costs are included, shipping is extra.

I bought the car at auction 2.5 years ago and put 2,000 kms on it.

I spent -
70,000 yen on body coating
150,000 yen on rear brakes
Proper service of fluids 2,000 kms ago

The car runs and drives very well. The body is generally good. The interior is generally good.

Problems -
Paint has several colour matched touchup areas
Left front signal doesn't work (problem with socket)
Engine mount is a little worn (car vibrates at idle)
AC sometimes works, sometimes doesn't (problem with switch panel I think)
Soft top has some thread pulled out but seals normally
Front license plate mount area has cracks

The car is scheduled to go to auction just after Golden week. This will be available for about another 10 days.

20/04/2025

Today we took a drive in the mountains for a special video on we will post on the Drive’s Japan YouTube channel.

This is the last drive for the Elise. The guys are driving it to get the impressions before selling it. As much as I love the car, the Corolla also needs some love and I feel like that’s where my heart lies.

What a great shot!

17/04/2025

Max took some excellent shots of my new car and edited them into a beautiful video revealing the car for the first time.

I have been dreaming of owning one of these for more than 20 years. The dream has become reality.

Derek had one car that he wanted to own for decades. After 20 years, he finally was able to buy it. This is the first video of a trilogy, showcasing the TE27...

14/03/2025

This is the most eventful race we have taken part in so far and I'm really happy how the video turned out.

https://youtu.be/gFX6cdnow0s

04/02/2025

We’re bringing back the live streams! After 4.5 years, we’re finally going live tomorrow at 5 PM JST.
We’ll have a Q&A session too. If you can’t make it to the live stream, don’t worry! Just drop a comment here and we’ll do our best to answer your questions during the live stream.

16/01/2025

It's been a while since I posted here but I wanted to jump in to tell everyone about our new YouTube Channel "Drives Japan". Moving forward will now have two channels - Our regular one will stay roughly the same. Our new channel will be more fun. The channel trailer is short and worth watching to see what kinds of videos you can expect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfNMGRO3--Q

02/12/2024

It's been a while since our last post. It's been BUSY.

I just stumbled on this today. Can you believe there's only 15 years difference between these two cars. It's no wonder why 90s Japanese cars were regarded so well.

09/08/2024

For those that claim they have never seen both cars at the same time.

18/06/2024

22/04/2024

After plenty of time we finally made it to 100,000 subscribers on our Youtube channel.

I feel like we have become a staple in our tiny little corner of the internet and I'm very happy to have dipped my toes into this "new medium" back in 2011.

Now hopefully it doesn't take another 13 years to get to 200,000 subs.

https://www.youtube.com/