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4WD Meeting at the Trailhead

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 […]

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Car Café Day (Part 3)

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 […]

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8 Vehicle Relocation Tips To Make Your Life Easier

Relocating your car is an easy and stress-free task when done the right way. The question often is, how is the right way to relocate your vehicle? While many have answers or tips to this process, some vary or can be misleading.

Relocating your car is an easy and stress-free task when done the right way. […]

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Car Café Day (Part 2)

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 […]

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Car Café Day (Part 1)

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 […]

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The Guy Who Started It All (Part 3)

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 […]

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The Guy Who Started It All (Part 2)

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 […]

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Founder Scott at the auction lot

The Guy Who Started It All (Part 1)

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 […]

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The Best Toyota Luxury Cars, Part 8

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 […]

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