For a term with such outsized importance in car culture, "JDM" is an acronym for a fairly boring phrase: Japanese Domestic Market. It refers to items built and intended for sale and use within ...

However, considering that we can use JDM to refer to basically any car built by a Japanese brand, it can be confusing to differentiate between a regular U.S.-Honda and the JDM version.

With this in mind, we've compiled a list of the eight wildest and most unique JDM car features that we didn't get in America or had to wait years or even decades to get.

Updated: Apr 18, 2022 / 10:31 AM EDT (iSeeCars) – From the perspective of USA-based car enthusiasts, performance-oriented Japanese cars have gone from obscure to mainstream over the past 30 years.

He said the typical Japanese car will be driven 3,000 to 4,000 miles per year, meaning you can get a 20-year-old car with 80,000 miles on it compared to the U.S. typical annual mileage at 15,000 ...

What really made the Japanese Car Cruise In special was the vast amounts of classic and true JDM cars on display. Cars that you normally don’t see in the US included two Mitsubishi Pajeros (one ...

“One car owner had 30 vehicles, but just to spread the love, we just had to mix and mingle with our other options.” When patrons weren’t busy soaking in the rows of JDM perfection and ...

Not really, because it’s one of the coolest JDM models you can import to the United States and it’s clearly more usable than kei cars such as the Autozam AZ-1.

The featured JDM Mazda RX-7, a.k.a RotoCop, belongs to Jesse of Oishi Imports. He’s a car dealer with more than 500 car imports from Japan. The RotoCop RX-7 was his first import.