Tokyo Auto Salon isn’t Tokyo Auto Salon with out the entire hype of a Liberty Stroll automotive divulge, and for 2024, Wataru Kato and his crew delivered the entire power with every other ’80s supercar icon on the heart of all of it.

We’ll get to the LB-Works Lamborghini Countach in a second, as a result of that used to be simply one among a lot of Liberty Stroll vehicles on show on the Makuhari Messe remaining weekend.

Liberty Stroll shared area with Tag, Bullet, and Sphere Gentle manufacturers, with a complete of 100 workforce running around the large sales space over the process the three-day tournament.

Nobody does it larger at Tokyo Auto Salon than Kato-san, and are available 2:00pm on Friday afternoon when the covers got here off Liberty Stroll’s two TAS 2024 headliners, there used to be a rock live performance vibe.

Let’s get started with the Countach, which options a brand spanking new LB-Works frame equipment that provides 40mm of additional width to each and every facet of the this ’80s poster automotive. On most sensible of the fenders, which in fact require the unique bodywork to be reduce to suit, the entire equipment includes a new entrance bumper with diffuser and canards, facet skirts and facet diffusers, and out again a rear diffuser, rear wing and roof air consumption.

Pricing has but to launched, however given the total equipment options extra items than the LB-Works Ferrari F40 identical, it’s not going to be any inexpensive than that, which runs US$127,600 in FRP and US$160,600 in CFRP, plus becoming in fact and the opposite must haves – air suspension and customized wheels.

The query is regardless that, if you had a Countach, would you imagine the LB-Works conversion?

Talking of F40s, essentially the most mentioned automotive of Tokyo Auto Salon 2023 used to be again, this time with a brand new Metal Blueberry external courtesy of Inoztech. It’s, in fact, no longer the primary F40 that’s been given the Inoztech wrap remedy, however we’re loving the blue vinyl and contrasting white livery from Blackfish Graphics.

Should you dream of proudly owning and using a Liberty Stroll-enhanced supercar however simplest have a kei automotive price range, don’t fear, Kato-san has one thing particular for you. This candy little gadget used to be unveiled via the LB Children. No, it’s no longer the electrical ride-on, despite the fact that that does glance cool…

It’s this – the LB-Works LB40.

If you’ll get your arms on an Autozam (Mazda) AZ-1, LB-Works can flip it right into a micro F40 copy. Or even higher, the conversion doesn’t include a full-size price ticket; the total equipment, which is a mix of FRP and dry carbon, runs simply US$22,660 plus becoming.

The Fiat Abarth 595 isn’t reasonably as small as a kei automotive however remains to be compact via fashionable requirements, and it too now has a Liberty Stroll resolution. LB-Works teamed up Abas Works for this demo automotive, and it wears the total equipment – entrance bumper with canards, hood, facet skirts, rear diffuser and wing, and naturally vast frame fenders in any respect 4 corners.

Kato-san may well be best possible identified for his surprise supercar-widening antics, however his roots are squarely in shakotan. So it used to be cool to look his outdated Kenmeri Skyline again at Tokyo Auto Salon – albeit this time with The Smurfs collaboration we didn’t know we would have liked. And the way cool is the C10 Skyline parked along?!

Blurring the strains between recent automotive design and shakotan taste is the LB-Works Nissan Fairlady Z/400Z, which Kato-san unveiled on the SEMA Display remaining yr.

Some other 2023 free up used to be this – the LB-Works McLaren 720S. Your entire frame equipment provides a entrance diffuser, entrance canards, hood, facet diffusers and door panels, a rear diffuser, rear wing and vast fenders. The black on black scheme seems to be sinister.

The overall automotive we need to display you is a collaboration between Liberty Stroll, Alpharex USA and Likewise. This GR86 is hard!

Some other yr of Liberty Stroll at Tokyo Auto Salon has us asking the similar query as all the time – how will Kato-san most sensible this? I suppose we’ll all in finding out twelve months from now.

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