JCD BLOG

Buy Your Open-Top Sports Car in the Middle of Winter?!?
Yes.
And no, I’m not crazy.
It’s the middle of winter in Japan now. So why am I writing to you about the great, low mileage, good condition sports cars that are available in Japan for you to import to the USA, the UK, Canada, and the EU […]

The True Go Anywhere Car
So one day I took my SJ10 Suzuki Jimny to one of those off road parks where you can go wild and bang around in your 4WD, doing all the extreme (and stupid) off road things that you would never do in the real wild country for fear of wrecking your […]

There is so much happening now in the world of direct car export from Japan, especially when it comes to performance and sporting machines like drift cars, that we are going to use our blog here at Japan Car Direct to tell you more about it.
Mark-II Tourer-V Exported Japan to UK
The first one that I’ve […]

When I was a young, carless guy dreaming of what car I’d finally get when I was old enough, rich enough, and, more importantly, licensed to drive, I used to pour over car books and car magazines; studying data tables, reading driving reviews, looking at pictures, and just….dreaming about cars. (My parents thought I was […]

There’s something about Ferraris that no other cars can match. Exquisite, exclusive and lightning fast, they make life more exciting in the world of motoring.
New Ferraris are fantastic
The current Ferrari lineup includes the F8 Tributo, 488 Pista and 812 Superfast, which are all stunning automotive achievements. One glance at their curvaceous bodies makes your heart […]

The Japanese mini van is a great concept: Practical and economic, these small but highly capable vehicles are so useful. You can get in and out of very tight spots, as I have done many a time, and you can carry quite a load. If you’ve got the 4WD package, you can do pretty nearly […]

The next couple of years should be exciting for BMW M enthusiasts because a number of new M models will be released. These models will likely include the BMW M8, M3, X4 M and X3 M in 2019 and the X6 M, X5 M and M2 CS in 2020. That’s a lot to look forward […]

In Part 1 of our two-part series, we introduced air-cooled Porsche 911s from the 70s and 80s. This second article leaps forward to the water-cooled 2000s before concluding with a pair of air-cooled models from the 90s that Japan Car Direct sourced at Japanese used car auctions and exported to enthusiasts abroad at highly reasonable […]

Now let’s look at the
Mini / Kei Campers
This kei class, the mini campers, is the fourth main category of camper cars in Japan, and creativity runs wild here. Look at this Suzuki Every van conversion:

or this Suzuki Carry truck conversion:

And I’ve seen kei camper conversions even wilder than these.
Now, on a technical point, these kei-based […]