JDM

Dream cars and exotics of all shapes and sizes often stop by Jay Leno's Garage for a spin. During this particular visit, Leno left his usual collection of supercars standing still as he welcomed a chance to drive this bright blue 1971 Datsun 510 in the latest episode of his show. This Japanese ...

One of the perks for car guys living here in Canada is our 15 year rule for importing cars not available to this market. If a make or model was never offered here, we are exempt from numerous requirements if the imported car has a build date of at least 15 years ago. The law is well-used by ...

Honda Japan has dropped all of the savory details about its new Kei car, the cute 'n cuddly N-One. The N-One builds on the JDM-only N line for the automaker, which already produces an N Box and N Box+ for Japanese consumers. The boxy Kei car will offer two powerplants displacing 660cc each, one ...

As another model year approaches for the Nissan GT-R, another round of improvements are being made. Rather than simply bumping up the horsepower, Nissan has decided to make refining changes to its supercar, which was recently unveiled in JDM spec for the 2013 model year. Rather than milking more ...

Honda Japan has dropped all of the savoury details about its new Kei car, the cute 'n cuddly N-One. The N-One builds on the JDM-only N line for the automaker, which already produces an N Box and N Box+ for Japanese consumers. The boxy Kei car will offer two powerplants displacing 660cc each, one ...

In the past decade, we have seen an explosion of cars being imported to North America from Japan for the purposes of stripping them, ripping them and drifting them. There has always seemed to be an aversion to purchasing cars that were readily available on our shores. Why buy domestic when you ...

Upon its introduction for 2008, we couldn't help but feel that the third-generation Forester was perhaps Subaru's most attractive design effort in many, many years. While there was little that was groundbreaking about the design, its simple two-box shape was – and is – clean and free ...

How would you translate a flipbook animation from paper to the Internet? The Nissan Note has an idea. To promote features like the new hatchback's fuel economy, roominess, and bird's-eye view camera, the car's Japanese website has a four-page digital flipbook that animates when you scroll down ...

"I bought it to drive it. I bought it to enjoy it." Those are the sentiments of Eric Bauer, the subject of the latest in Josh Clason's Depth of Speed series, and owner of this classic Nissan Skyline. Bauer says he dreamed of owning this car for 12 years and finally, when the time was right, it ...

It was on this day in 1934 that the "Jidosha-Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha" (translated to Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd.) took on the name we now know it as - Nissan. The name comes from a shortened form of Nihon Sangyo, the company that became the 100% investor at a stockholder's meeting. Just a ...