English

Few Japanese vehicles have achieved quite the level of genuine, near-universal international enthusiast respect that the...

Somewhere in the vast Toyota back catalog covered throughout this guide series sits a genuinely obscure entry that dwarf...

In the late 1980s, at a moment when much of Nissan's mainstream lineup had settled into safe, conservative design, the c...

The Toyota HiAce, covered in the previous guide, isn't the only Japanese van that's earned genuine cult status among ove...

Ask a serious overlander in New Zealand, Australia, or across parts of Europe what platform they'd genuinely trust to re...

Two earlier guides in this series covered the Toyota Century and Nissan President, Japan's dedicated chauffeur-driven fl...

The Toyota Century, covered elsewhere in this guide series, wasn't the only Japanese manufacturer building a bespoke, ch...

While Toyota's global reputation rests heavily on mass-market reliability icons like the Corolla and Camry, the company ...

Long before a JDM enthusiast can afford, import, or even legally drive the car of their dreams, there's a genuine chance...

Walk down almost any block in a Japanese city and you'll spot them: small, unattended parking lots with a payment machin...

Winter driving in Japan's snowier regions comes with a genuinely layered system of tire and chain requirements that can ...

Reach into the glove box of virtually any registered car in Japan and you'll find a folded paper document that most owne...

Drive Japan's expressways today and you'll notice something genuinely different from many other countries' toll roads: m...

To most overseas visitors, a Japanese license plate is just a jumble of unfamiliar characters and numbers. To someone wh...

Few pieces of Japanese car media have shaped international perceptions of Tokyo street racing quite like Wangan Midnight...

Two guides in this series have already covered VIP style's luxury-sedan restraint and kaido racer style's race-car extre...

Long before internet car culture made every subculture globally visible overnight, a generation of Japanese street enthu...

Walk through certain neighborhoods of Osaka or Tokyo after dark and you might spot it: a full-size luxury sedan riding l...

An earlier guide in this series covered the All-Japan Rally Championship, Japan's long-running domestic rally series — b...

While this guide series has already covered Honda's landmark 1964 F1 debut and the dramatic Senna-Prost Suzuka collision...