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Import One of the Best Little Things On Four Wheels: A Japanese Kei Van

I had to borrow my friend’s Japanese Kei van the other day to haul some things that my car couldn’t carry. (Since my car is a Miata, there are many things it can’t carry.) I got to thinking again about the all […]

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Since our last look at the The Crisis (the car shortage, that is, see here) things have not gotten any better: Russia and Ukraine are still punching each other, everybody and his brother are splashing sanctions all over the shop, the European motor industry is looking ever gloomier, and prices of good (if you can […]

O.K., guys, yeah, there’s a car shortage. A shortage of both new and used cars.

The Ukraine crisis has made things worse, but the trouble didn’t start there. Various supply chain disruptions, due in part to government Covid restrictions, have added to problems like the shortage of semiconductors (the “Chip Crisis”), to make things difficult for […]

So what do you think you’re going to meet with when you take your dog for a walk up one of the Mount Fuji forest hiking trails close to my house? Think you might meet a herd of Japanese Shika deer?

Yeah, you might do. You’ll meet them quite often, actually.
How about a troop of wild […]

Cars as accessories? Is it possible? Cars that are sort of like the cute pink and pastel-blue smart phone cases that nearly all of the (amazingly) cute Japanese girls here always seem to have? I can’t relate to this. I’m a guy. I’m into cars for guys. I drive cars for guys. I write about […]

Living in Japan, I see many really nice classic British sports on the roads here (and German, Italian, and Japanese classics, too), especially on the weekends on the beautiful mountain roads near my house, like the Fuji-san Skyline and the Hakone Skyline.
On the fine, clear, autumn days that we are having now, the motoring fans […]

So I deal with used cars, and as I get older I’m more and more attracted to the classics. And, as I get older, maybe I’m slowly becoming a classic myself!
We export a lot of good classic cars from Japan (both European and Japanese cars) and the other day, on some of the lovely twisty […]