This week was a very sad week for the Japanese automotive tuning community as one of the most talented, hard working and respected icons passed away. Power House Amuse's president and founder Hideki Tanabe died of cancer on September 20th (Sat).



Sad day in deed.

Just wanna put it out there, specially for those rocking original Power House Amuse parts. Much respect to the founder of such innovative parts of our cars.

 

didn't they just go bankrupt too?

 

Geezus, Santi...

 

No Santi that is Trust / Greddy.

 

Correction Santi, TRUST filed Chapter 11, GReddy(Which is their US based sister company)their US subsidiary will remain in bussiness in the US from what is said. It will be a long while before TRUST completely goes from the industry. APEXi filed 2yrs ago and are still in the market. TRUST will most likely sell or reconstruct like APEXi did.

As for the original post it is sad to lose a Pioneer in the JDM world. His legacy will surely be long lived in their products and race car building

RIP Hideki Tanabe aka Mr.Amuse

 

sorry im not JDM.

im EDM bitches!

 

Its ok, no ones perfect

 

Wow sad, will the parts go up in price now? j/k.

 

I doubt it

 

There is an article written by Ben from Bulletproof Automotive a good read, if you are interested in finding out about the life of this very influential man in the tuning industry visit:

http://www.bespokeventures.com/blog/?m=20080922


He states the following regarding the future of the company:
"To those who have asked: Amuse/Ericsson continues on with Tanabe-san