

Japanese cars from the ’90s are brilliant: styling, build quality, power, practicality, reliability, and more. So what years are generally the best for used Japanese cars?Įasy to answer in my experience: Put your index finger bang on the year 1995 and then walk your fingers in either direction, forward or backward in time, for about ten years or so. The Best Years of Japanese Cars for Self Import Now the dates I’m talking about are manufacturing dates.

GREAT 90S JDM CARS SERIES
(But if you’re more into Euro power, then have a look at our series on European Supercars from Japan here, here, and here.) These are the Toyota luxury cars we’ll be talking about in these posts now on our Japan Car Direct blog. (I’ve had a good look around the shop where these gems are made, by hand to a large degree and by some of Toyota’s best craftsmen, and I’ll tell you about what I saw there in a later post in this series.) (Here’s one of the newer ones that we exported, the UZZ40 chassis Soarer, called the SC430 here, that I have watched being built at my factory, Higashi Fuji, here in my town in Japan.) or a Century. (Like this very handsome fellow here that we recently exported to the USA.) or a beautiful Soarer (the Lexus SC300 / SC400), (We recently exported a nice clean Majesta that you can see on our main Japan Car Direct site here.) or a “bad boy” Crown Athlete like this one that it was our pleasure to handle, And I don’t mean the dates with the babes that you are hoping to get when you have a cool, smooth, powerful, and high quality set of wheels, like a Crown I’ve got some stories to tell you about my experience with Toyota luxury cars and about the feedback and info that some of my car fan friends here in Japan have shared with me, but first, let’s do a quick survey of the cars that we are looking at when we start talking direct import from Japan the Toyota luxury machines that should be on your list when you are thinking: “I want to import a used luxury Toyota from Japan.”Īnd even before we talk machines, we’ve got to talk dates. Stay in the ’90s (or close) for the Best of Toyota’s Luxury Iron to Import from Japan Today
