Vehicles · Cars
JDM first, everything else welcome
The crew's centre of gravity is Japanese, front-drive, high-revving and slightly rusty. But there's a Pontiac and an MG in the ledger, so nobody's a purist.
From the garage
The ones we've lived with
Integra Type R
DC2. The benchmark for front-wheel drive, and the reason the crew has owned three Integras.
WRX, 2.5RS, STI
Four Subarus so far: a Forester, a bugeye WRX, a GC8 coupe and a VA STI. The boxer rumble is a personality trait.
Land Cruiser 40-series
An FJ40 out of Ottawa and a BJ40 diesel out of a lockdown. Slow, loud, indestructible, worth it.
MG Midget
Fourteen years of ownership. Tiny, honest, and the car that started the whole habit.
Pontiac Grand Prix
A G-body traded for a boat. Kept the crew honest about torque and transmission mounts.
Civics and the SiR
Three Civics, including a B16 SiR. Placeholders, parts runners, and one that someone lived in.
In the ledgerHall of JDM
Cars worth crossing a border for
Fifteen-year import rule in Canada, twenty-five in the States. The list keeps getting better every January.
Civic Type R EK9
B16B, 185 hp from 1.6 litres, 1,050 kg. The purest Type R and the one the DC2 owner secretly wants.
Skyline GT-R R34
RB26, ATTESA, the video game car. Now legal and priced like it.
Supra RZ
2JZ-GTE, six-speed Getrag, and an aftermarket that will build you a thousand horsepower by Friday.
RX-7 FD Type R
Twin-turbo 13B rotary in the prettiest body of the decade. Apex seals are a lifestyle.
Impreza 22B STI
Four hundred built, widebody, 2.2 litres. The GC8 the crew's GC8 dreams of being.
Lancer Evolution VI TME
Tommi Mäkinen Edition. 4G63, AYC, and the most rally per dollar ever sold.
NSX
Aluminum chassis, titanium rods, Senna's fingerprints. The everyday supercar.
Corolla AE86
4A-GE, rear drive, 950 kg. The touge car. Everything you need and nothing else.
Land Cruiser 80 (HDJ81)
1HD-FT turbo diesel, triple locked. What the BJ40 grows up into.
Pao and Figaro
Pike Factory oddballs. Slow, adorable, and the best thing you can park in an underground.
AZ-1
Gullwing kei car with a turbo 660. The Countach for people who own Integras.
Integra Type R DB8
The four-door DC2 Type R Japan kept to itself. Same engine, room for the crew.
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