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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.
13 articles about JDM
Every enthusiast has had this conversation, usually in a car park, usually at 10pm, usually while leaning on something inappropriate. The question is always the same: if you had to pick one car — one car to drive every day,…
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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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The rotary engine drinks too much fuel? We will engineer a thermal reactor and make it more efficient.…
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The first Japanese car officially imported and sold in the United States was a 1967 Honda N600, serial…
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When Toyota revealed the GR Supra in January 2019, seventeen years after the previous generation ended production, the…
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