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Japanese domestic market cars occupy a peculiar place in the enthusiast world: technically brilliant, often quietly strange, and frequently more interesting than anything their manufacturers officially sold in the West. Cars & Code covers JDM culture — the legends, the engineering quirks, and the stories that explain why the rest of the world has been trying to import these cars ever since.
16 articles about JDM
At some point in the mid-1980s, a group of Mazda engineers in a room in California got into an argument about where to put the engine. This was not a minor technical discussion. It was a philosophical dispute about what…
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In 1989, Ayrton Senna was the best racing driver in the world and everyone knew it. He had…
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The average new car transaction price in the United States in 2026 is just over $48,000. That is…
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Every enthusiast has had this conversation, usually in a car park, usually at 10pm, usually while leaning on…
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In the early 1970s, the automotive world briefly went mad for the Wankel rotary engine. Mercedes-Benz investigated it.…
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Toyota's marketing department has spent the last fortnight watching its rivals admit defeat. Lotus said the EV future…
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Every car show in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia has at least one of them: a Honda…
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