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Thousands! That’s how many. We’ve exported thousands of good used cars from Japan.
And we’ve gone from obscure to a leader in this business because those thousands of cars went to thousands of guys who scored good deals. They have become our biggest treasure: our satisfied customers, our Winnermen. We’ve even been featured in a Japanese […]

In our previous talk with Scott he told us a bit about why it is a wise move to import a good used car direct from Japan rather than dragging ourselves down to the local car dealers in town. Let me summarize what he told us:
1. Because Japanese car buyers tend to buy a new […]

Why have so many guys imported a used car from Japan via us here at JCD? For 15 years now we’ve been exporting good second hand JDM cars to the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and many other countries.

It’s our job and our pleasure to do three simple things: to help […]

The best cars come from the best times….But as soon as I say it, I know it’s not strictly true, and I can think right away of a half dozen great cars that were designed in hard times; and I’m sure that the readers of our Japan Car Direct blog can think of many more.
But […]

If you want to import a Japanese luxury sports car you’ve got to put the Toyota Soarer (Lexus SC) at the very top of your list. These cars are well built, well designed, and very good looking vehicles; with the Z30 Soarer (Lexus SC300 and SC400) being ravishingly beautiful.

It’s long nose and muscular curves remind […]

What a privilege it was for me to actually watch the Toyota Century G50 being built! Right there in the “Century Shop” of the F201 factory at Kanto Autoworks Higashi Fuji Plant; right before my eyes, the best Japanese luxury car took shape.

And it all happened in near silence! The Century shop was more like […]

The Toyota Crown Athlete: Toyo’s Heavy Cruiser on the Drift Track
A lot of guys these days are looking to import a drift car from Japan. Some guys go for the “light stuff,” like the classic Toyota Levin (AE86) that dances around the drift track. Some guys go for the bigger units like the Nissan Silvia […]

The Toyota Crown Majesta
A clean used Toyota Crown Majesta from Japan gives such good value when you are looking to import a secondhand luxury car from Japan that we are going to give it its own post here in our blog series on the Best Toyota Luxury Cars. Let me start with a funny story.
A […]

The Car I Was Not Supposed To Have
So I told you at the end of our previous post on the Best Toyota Luxury Cars to import from Japan here how one day the design team leader for my 1997 S150 series, fender mirror, Crown came over to me in the company parking lot one day […]