Author: CryptoHoppers

It’s easy to become desensitised to a lot of the events I get to go to here in Japan, but every now and then I catch myself being completely blown away. This is one of those rare times. First let’s set the scene. Dori Dore happens just few times a year, but only once at the iconic Okuibuki Motor Park. This year it happened to be the day after Wekfest Japan, which is just a few hours’ drive away. I always see post-event coverage and wish I went, so while I was in Nagoya for Wekfest, I didn’t hesitate to splash out on…

“There are four of us in the household and both my sons are approaching six-foot. I’m way over six-foot and there’s plenty of space for us all to sit comfortably in the car without anyone being cramped or squashed up. We’ve dropped the seats a few times to move larger bits of furniture. I do some work for a charity, so I use it to move the gazebo and other items about. If we still want to have four separate seats, we can flip down part of the back seats and put longer items in there, so there’s a bit…

When it comes to styling, VinFast didn’t mess around. The exterior comes from the Italian design house Pininfarina, which we think explains the European feel of the front end. According to Vinfast, it uses the “dynamic curves of sports cars, with the oblong features often found in luxury sedans, along with the height and powerful, sharp cut of SUVs.”It’s distinctive enough to turn heads, and every other driver we spoke to throughout the day was asked about the car at least once. A light bar stretches across the front between the headlights, which come standard with auto-leveling. A nice touch…