Moto Miwa: First batch of BRZ's and FRS left Japan for Long Beach, CA - Page 5 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

dori. · 04-24-2012, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ikaros

Man all the Japanese ships have awesome names, I hope it's coming on Altair cause the FRS is awesome and so are eagles.

I hope it's coming on the Pleiades one because they're Subarus.

RRnold · 04-24-2012, 10:27 PM

What a great thread! Some of you have your gumshoe clockwork down! :happy0180:

hNt · 04-24-2012, 10:45 PM

+1 to all of you

definitely the most interesting thread on the site

bestwheelbase · 04-24-2012, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Spaceywilly

Just to prevent any confusion, this is not a live image of BRZs being loaded onto a boat

Great stuff!

NYC BRZ · 04-24-2012, 11:18 PM

This makes me smile! Sweet! My birthday is May 17th I'm hoping I get it then that would be awesome.

Lighting Red · 04-24-2012, 11:20 PM

I used to work for DHS HQ as a Knowledge Management Officer. Some of that work entailed data mining and analysis using commercial off the shelf (COTS) and government off the shelf (GOTS) H/W and S/W working together on a common enterprise. It was a lot of whiz-bangery in order to paint a picture of the current state of affairs in support of first-responders addressing an emergency. I was one of the better KMOs at my job. Why? I utilized my not-so-secret weapon: open source information. It truly is amazing how much useful and contextual information one can obtain just by poking around the 1nt4rweb5 for a while. Perhaps that is why I have yet to get an FB account.

Long story short: some of you guys would be paid handsomely just by doing what you are doing right now. You think I am kidding...?

That said, nice work in providing situational awareness

Spaceywilly · 04-24-2012, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GMU-BRZ

It's not a live image, just an older pic of the location. Basically he posted this to show that this location is indeed used to load Subarus onto the boat.

I took a look at the last location the Altair Leader was at and it looks like it is also a car loading location.

I looked at the street view around this area and I don't recognize the cars in these lots, but it looks like it might be the kei cars that were manufactured at the BRZ plant before they switched to BRZ production.

http://g.co/maps/2aah2

So based on this and Moto's post, I am guessing that this location is where the BRZ/FRSs were loaded, and now it is picking up some other cars at the Yokohama port. Now I feel like I am stalking this boat...

feedbag · 04-24-2012, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lighting Red

Long story short: some of you guys would be paid handsomely just by doing what you are doing right now. You think I am kidding...?

Hook me up :P

edit: Spaceywilly - Tokyo is closer to Gunma than Kobe is, also it seems the the Altair Leader parked on the south end of that inlet which is tooled for containers rather than cars (notice all of the cranes / containers). Though I could be wrong and they could have always changed the tooling since the photos were taken (2009). I'm having a hard time digging up information on the area and bing doesn't have imagery at the same level of detail they did for the Tokyo harbor.

ayau · 04-25-2012, 12:23 AM

i thought i was going nuts over this; feedbag is just on another level lol.

feedbag · 04-25-2012, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ayau

i thought i was going nuts over this; feedbag is just on another level lol.

The two months it's been since I submitted my order have been the longest months of my life, especially after I got to drive one. I want to go to there again

Mango22 · 04-25-2012, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Turbowned

Jeez, you guys are so good at tracking down this info; we should all go to work hunting criminals and terrorists after the BRZ/FR-S's reach our driveways and we have nothing else to look forward to!

I can see it now: The FT86 International Crime Unit

I like the way your brain works.

86design · 04-25-2012, 01:01 AM

woo hoo

NESW20 · 04-25-2012, 01:12 AM

why do i feel like a stalker after having read this thread?

Enemies · 04-25-2012, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by feedbag

I'm definitely going to be clicking on this link an awful lot for the next two weeks

Very sweet. If you click on that link, go to street review, and pan to the right nice big Subaru logo again.

04-24-2012, 10:27 PM	#58
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04-24-2012, 11:20 PM	#62
Lighting Red Habitual Line Crosser. Join Date: Mar 2012 Drives: ^ Two of my favorite things. Location: Woodbridge, VA Posts: 327 Thanks: 115 Thanked 166 Times in 55 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I used to work for DHS HQ as a Knowledge Management Officer. Some of that work entailed data mining and analysis using commercial off the shelf (COTS) and government off the shelf (GOTS) H/W and S/W working together on a common enterprise. It was a lot of whiz-bangery in order to paint a picture of the current state of affairs in support of first-responders addressing an emergency. I was one of the better KMOs at my job. Why? I utilized my not-so-secret weapon: open source information. It truly is amazing how much useful and contextual information one can obtain just by poking around the 1nt4rweb5 for a while. Perhaps that is why I have yet to get an FB account. Long story short: some of you guys would be paid handsomely just by doing what you are doing right now. You think I am kidding...? That said, nice work in providing situational awareness __________________ But, but, but... It's only 200 hp?!

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