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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.
7 articles about JDM
When Toyota revealed the GR Supra in January 2019, seventeen years after the previous generation ended production, the reception was divided. The car looked correct — low, purposeful, clearly descended from the Supra lineage. The performance numbers were strong. The…
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There is a particular species of regret that only car enthusiasts understand. It is not the regret of…
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Somewhere in Kyushu, on a mountain road that rises 700 metres above sea level into a national park,…
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The Toyota 2000GT is the car that proved Japan could build a world-class sports car. Launched in 1967,…
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The Automotive Council in Tokyo, which celebrated its 10th year in 2026, operates on a different principle entirely.…
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The car in question is the R32 Skyline GT-R, known to those who grew up on Gran Turismo…
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And it drove differently when it got there. In 2008, Nissan launched the R35 GT-R with a claim…
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