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BMW announced the sale of its compact coupé Mini “John Cooper Works” starting from December in Japan. 3 Models will be available:  Cooper Coupe, Cooper S Coupe and the John Cooper Works Coupe. The very style 2 seater is also the fastest factory Mini ever.  A 1.6L four cylinder engine paired with a 6 speed… Continue reading John Cooper Works Mini Coupe on sale in Japan from Dec.

Now this is a car I have had a personal relationship with, both the diesel and the petrol.  If you are a family man with one more child than the law allows you to have with a normal car (most cars are 5 seaters!)  you might have had a brush with this car/van/people mover /… Continue reading Nissan Serena 4 generations

Now this is something to excite the JPDM.  A new Toyota (that is enough excitement in itself).  Also a new Toyota that pushes the “E” or “ecologically friendly” extremes by making new in-roads into fuel efficiency. Toyota’s sports conversion series has a new addition, the Vitz G Sports.  Renamed from the RS.  Evolution has brought… Continue reading Toyota Vitz G Sports to be released in October 2011

Some vehicles you have absolutely no idea of their market value.  Today this vehicle appeared in the Japanese used car auctions.  My customers purchase price seemed reasonable and perhaps buyable in my opinion, I mean it was a 1990, simple 4WD.  It had a few modern looking cons, like push start (nowadays that is hardly… Continue reading How much is the value of a name? More than you think!

This truck was made for export to any country in the world.  After use in Japan, buyers from any country would want to purchase this truck, whether their country was left hand drive or right hand drive.  The incredible thoughtfulness of the maker.  Not only thinking of its first sale in Japan, but then its… Continue reading These trucks were made for international export

Anyone who doesn’t know now that there was a major earthquake, one of a magnitude not seen in modern history before, that hit Japan must be quite disconnected from information sources that flow around our globe!  If this little blog here is your news source for this earthquake, then there was a very big earthquake… Continue reading Japan’s massive earthquake impact on exporting used cars

The winning countries this month for the number of used vehicles exported out of Japan: 1.  UAE   4,710 cars 2.  South Africa  4,588 cars 3.  Russia  4,112 cars 4.  New Zealand 3.429 cars 5.  Chile  2,608 cars 6.  Sri Lanka  2,491 cars 7.  Kenya  1,577 cars 8.  Thailand  1,492 cars 9.  Mongolia  1,303 cars 10. … Continue reading Export results for January 2011

Results are in for 2010.  Russia again has come in as number one, Dubai as number two, Chile as number three and New Zealand as number four. A more detailed report: 1.  Russia   105,478 used vehicles 2. U.A.E  86,625 3.  Chile  79,430 4.  New Zealand  68,952 5.  South Africa   66,575 6.  Kenya  50,749 7.  Bangladesh … Continue reading Export Data … how did your country do?

For some reason I have had a couple of people ask me independently over the last few days whether we could help them get authentic Japanese license plates for their cars to give them that real JDM look. Anyway, I thought this would be of interest to others, so this is the story: You can… Continue reading Japanese license plates / registration plates

Well, that is what I think at least. These pics don’t really show it so clearly, but take a look at an S15 Nissan Silvia in the flesh, and the front end / light cluster “frowning mono-brow” look is remarkably similar to the face of the new Ferrari 458 Italia. The Ferrari looks meaner, as… Continue reading Borrows from Nissan Silvia S15