Japanese cars, WARNING! TONS OF PICS!!!! Options

[cheela]

Here are some pics I took while i was in Japan.


lol







drift kit?

















me next to a garbage truck for scale













OMG! This drove right past me!







Inside a toyota car show in Odaiba!












oldskool


here's my girlfriend next to one for scale. She's only like 5'0"




whooo!











concept cars






More goodies



















and the funky










WHOA! I'd drive that


WHAT?!! 4DR Skyline?





droolllssss




This post has been edited by cheela: Mar 1, 2010 - 1:33 AM

[Random_Stranger]

I am so glad to see that there are GT-Fours being used still til this day out there. Isn't it funny how USA is all "JDM! JDM!" When Japan has more rice than us, since they don't really want to be driving around "Stock" looking cars? Yet to us it is important? LOL Was that a friggin' Cobra that I seen out there as well? Or am I CARtarded?

[Hanyo]

I am so glad to see that there are GT-Fours being used still til this day out there. Isn't it funny how USA is all "JDM! JDM!" When Japan has more rice than us, since they don't really want to be driving around "Stock" looking cars? Yet to us it is important? LOL Was that a friggin' Cobra that I seen out there as well? Or am I CARtarded?

well your looking at completely different cultures here. The japanese car culture is designed to be super futuristic styling (gundam wing?), that is why you see over the top wings and exaggerated body kits. Where-as here in the states, we have colliding culture of raised off road truck , low-riders, japanese sport compact, muscle cars. With all these different car cultures in one locatoin, there is bound to hate between them. So anyone who ever modify asian cars are seen in a negative light as ricers. Americans try to make our cars look as JDM as possible to avoid the hated term ricer, because JDM screams unique and tastefully modified at the same time. After all its pretty hard to get everyone to agree that a factory jdm car is a ricer.

Just the way i see it.

This post has been edited by Hanyo: Mar 1, 2010 - 5:38 AM

[Random_Stranger]

I am so glad to see that there are GT-Fours being used still til this day out there. Isn't it funny how USA is all "JDM! JDM!" When Japan has more rice than us, since they don't really want to be driving around "Stock" looking cars? Yet to us it is important? LOL Was that a friggin' Cobra that I seen out there as well? Or am I CARtarded?

well your looking at completely different cultures here. The japanese car culture is designed to be super futuristic styling (gundam wing?), that is why you see over the top wings and exaggerated body kits. Where-as here in the states, we have colliding culture of raised off road truck , low-riders, japanese sport compact, muscle cars. With all these different car cultures in one locatoin, there is bound to hate between them. So anyone who ever modify asian cars are seen in a negative light as ricers. Americans try to make our cars look as JDM as possible to avoid the hated term ricer, because JDM screams unique and tastefully modified at the same time. After all its pretty hard to get everyone to agree that a factory jdm car is a ricer.

Just the way i see it.

A really good point you have just made there.