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Thai car
owners live
by the phrase
‘nothing is
impossible’
- more than
any other
nation
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As well as Brexit, the F1 season and Midge’s fashion
sense, there’s another heavily debated topic we’ve been
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for many, many months now: just why exactly is the
Thailand car tuning scene blowing up at the moment?
You see, it might be a relatively small country not
known for manufacturing many of its own particularly
memorable cars. But this hasn’t stopped us from
witnessing some of the most satisfyingly accomplished
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It was only when images of this tasty Bangkok-based
Ford Fiesta of young Kampol Hasoontree arrived in
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together the answer. And it revolves around this: Thai
car owners really do like to live by the phrase ‘nothing is
impossible’ – more, perhaps, than any other nation...STANCED OUT
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why Kampol decided to settle on this rather unlikely
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Thailand is best known for its JDM offerings when
it comes to stanced-out street stonkers and their
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see, the country actually built this car to its very own
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popular here than you might imagine.
It also means Kampol was able to snap up his hatch
with the fairly pokey and boosted 1.5-litre Ti-VCT motor,
as well as a celebrated PowerShift dual-clutch ‘boxstraight from the factory, making it the perfect base
car for a young person looking to begin their debut
build with.
Sure, it isn’t a Nissan Silvia or a Toyota Supra, but
thankfully this didn’t do anything to deter Kampol from
beginning to express his well-thought-out style on his
latest purchase straight away. He’s applied the same
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The humble Fiesta might be a popular car for people
like your mum to nip to Asda in, but it’s worth
reminding ourselves – just like Kampol did – that it’s
also gained some pretty impressive street cred in
recent years. As well as smashing the Rallycross stages
in the hands of drivers such as a certain Mr Block it’s028 http://www.fastcar.co.ukHOT RIDE
Super-rare WORK-built Modex Deerfi eld splitsShotgun-style exhaust system? Tick!