Miata Mailing List: May 1992, Message #12
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Subject: car clubs in Japan
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> Welcome to the list!  Would you have any information on the Eunos Roadster
> club?  It would be interesting for me (and the others in my club) to
> see your club's magazine.  I'm sure we could find someone in our club
> to translate and at least we could look at the pictures and ads.

	I used to be a member of "Eunos Roadster Fan Club by NAVI"( NAVI
	is one of the most popular car magazine here ).  But I no longer 
	belong to any car club right now.  And one thing I have to say 
	is that club's magazines are mostly like high school newspaper.
	The quality of them are definitely low.  The reasons might be ...
	    1. As car clubs don't have long tradition here, peaple
	       know little about how to organize such a club.
	    2. Owners of Eunos Roadsters are rather young here ( so
	       they don't spend so much money on club activities).
	    3. Main purposes of car clubs are holding meetings or tourings.
	    4. DTP is not yet so popular.
	    5. Clubs are mostly very domestic(?).  Maybe each prefecture
	       has more than one club, but there is no famous nation-wide
	       club. 
 
	I think it's a better idea to subscribe Japanese car magazines 
	( some of them have long term test reports on each issue ).   
	
	One Topic.
	    In May, there held a "Eunos Roadster going-home-meeting"
	    in Hiroshima (where the Headquarter and the main plants of
	    MAZDA locate).  Numbers of Miatas gathered at their birthplace.
	     ... But I couldn't make it.  :<

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