CUSCO soups Proton Satria Neo with an Itasha treatment

[Kevin Lee]

While Malaysians are bashing the Proton's for being inferior and all, the Japanese are actually in love with us and decided to decorate their car with some Japanese designs. Watch how CUSCO beautifies our local car and makes it all nice!

Itasha (痛車?), literally "painmobile", is a Japanese term for an otaku fad of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo game or eroge). These characters are predominately "cute" female. The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers. Automobiles are called Itasha, while similar motorcycles and bicycles are called itansha (痛単車?) and itachari (痛チャリ?), respectively.

The cars are seen prominently in places such as Akihibara (Tokyo), Nipponbashi (Osaka), or Ōsu (Nagoya). Itasha also appears in customizable video games, such as Forza Motorsport 2.[1] Itasha have also participated in various real motorsport events.

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Thanks: J Yap Han Yung http://www.facebook.com/Kuroichibanz

 

[achelone]

errrr oookaaaayyyy

 

[ekinomae]

cool!

 

[tofu_manic]

very neat hehe

go go Neo go go

 

[heavyfoot]

Still stock standard bodykit?

 

[LittleWhiteWagon]

Whats under the hood?

 

[turbolover]

Whats under the hood?

Pikachu!

 

[skazareth]

yea...finally.

ok..same question.. what might be under the hood.. and, is it legal to do itasha in our country? pdrm n jpj kacau at roadblock or not?

 

[har1th7]

should it be in 'Pimp My Ride' section?....

 

[turbolover]

yea...finally.

ok..same question.. what might be under the hood.. and, is it legal to do itasha in our country? pdrm n jpj kacau at roadblock or not?

I think JPJ's 75% rule still applies meaning you can have 25% of surface area in other colours.

 

[ixeo]

makes the R3 look oh so tame.