Mitsuoka has opened a dedicated teaser site for the open-top sports car it has been teasing since June, and the site carries a designation: "LA1." Per Car Watch and Response, the full reveal is …
AUTO MESSE WEB has profiled a 2000 Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR34) V-spec that has been through five turbocharger changes on its way to a reported 827 PS — and the owner is clear that the number was …
AUTO MESSE WEB has profiled an owner who showed two separately modified 71-series Toyota Mark IIs at a classic car event in Shimonoseki — one built around a later Toyota gearbox, the other around a …
Two Japanese homologation specials crossed the block at UK auctions this summer, and Auto Messe Web has now reported both results. Together they offer a snapshot — not a market trend — of how two …
Motor Fan has published a feature on an FD3S Mazda RX-7 that has been with the same owner for more than twenty years, and has spent most of that time being changed a little at a time rather than …
Toyota Gazoo Racing clinched its sixth consecutive WRC manufacturers' championship at Rally Chile Biobío on September 13, with two rounds remaining. The crown is Toyota's tenth overall, tying …
Eligibility runs from the month the individual car was built — always check the specific car, not the model year. Under 49 USC §30112(b)(9), a vehicle is exempt from FMVSS once it is at least 25 years old, counted from its manufacture date on the manufacturer's data plate — on a Japanese-market car typically in the engine bay rather than the driver's door jamb, since that door-jamb layout belongs to the US-market FMVSS certification label a JDM car never carried — not from its Japanese model-year or grade name.
Daikoku Parking Area sits on an artificial island in Yokohama Bay, inside the Shutoko expressway network — and that single fact shapes everything about visiting it. The PA can only be entered from …
If you're buying a used car out of Japan, the auction sheet is one of the most important documents you'll see — often more useful than the listing photos or a sales description, though it should …
Good 2JZ and RB26 cores are not getting younger. GReddy Performance Products, the California arm of the Japanese tuning brand, has an unusually direct answer: brand-new, fully assembled long blocks, …
Every JDM comment section eventually turns into a vocabulary fight. Someone calls a clapped-out Civic "JDM," someone else says that's not what JDM means, and twenty replies later nobody remembers the …
Few JDM cars carry more weight with US enthusiasts than the R34 Skyline GT-R, and the V-Spec II is the trim most people picture when they say "R34." But "R34s are legal now" is not quite true, and it …
The Nissan Silvia S15 — the last Silvia generation, built only for the Japanese domestic market — is one of the more straightforward cars to track through the US 25-year import rule, because Nissan …