グ Besuto Mōtaringu? )was Japan's preeminent automobile magazine,video, and DVD series. Alongside Best Motoringwere Hot Versionand Video Special. [edit] History With the first edition debuting in 1987 and the last in 2011, the videos were marked by non traditional races and challenges such as Tōgebattles, in which one car tries to outrun another on a twisty mountain pass. The drivers were the premier racers of the various Japanese racing series, including JGTC (now Super GT), the D1 Grand Prix,and Formula Nippon. Some of the regular hosts/drivers included the "Drift King" Keiichi Tsuchiya,Manabu Orido,and Juichi Wakisaka. Best Motoring,Hot Versionand Video Specialwere all produced by Kodansha/2&4 Motoring. The Japanese version of Best Motoringwas a monthly video series covering mainly non-tuned factory cars, whereas Hot Version(ホットバージョン) was the bi-monthly video series testing mainly tuned cars. Video Specialwas yet another video series that was released irregularly and usually focused on a particular car model. The final installments are Best Motoring of April 2011's. Other spinoffs series included quarter-yearly Racing History, released in 2005, was dedicated to the historical aspect of Japanese motorsport. [edit] Best Motoring International In April 2000, Taro Koki founded Zigzag Asia and took international distribution rights for Best Motoring,creating Best Motoring International(BMI). Best Motoring Internationalwas an English compilation of various video clips from all three of the Japanese video magazines, Best Motoring,Hot Versionand Video Special. Initial releases were dubbed entirely in English, and some might say suffered from poor voice acting/editing. From volume 3 onwards they settled on having an English narrator and retained the original Japanese audio for the presenters, using subtitles for translation instead of dubbing. International automotive editor Sam Mitanihas also appeared on the series. The other differences between the two are that the English version did not refer its series by volume number. [edit] External links Best Motoring (Japanese page) Collection of the fastest lap times on various tracks, some performed by Best Motoring BMI Blog Zigzag Asia JDM Journal by Taro Koki v t e Best Motoring Presenters (past and present) Ara Hattori Iida Ito Katsura Kazama Kinoshita M. Kurosawa T. Kurosawa Michigami Nakaya Obata Orido Shimizu Taniguchi Tanaka Tsuchiya Wakisaka