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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
There is a particular species of regret that only car enthusiasts understand. It is not the regret of the one you sold — that is simple, everyday grief. It is the regret of the one you looked at, squinted at…
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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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