It’s still a car, not an investment, but things will probably change. The prices all over the world are very different, but keep in mind that the most expensive stock 300ZX in the world sold for just 50K at a recent auction. Rob Kingĭespite all this, it hasn’t become yet part of the JDM dream for the new generation of enthusiasts, but this makes it cheaper and easier to buy one. Car and Driver for 7 consequent years has included it into its “car of the year” list, while Motor Trend classified it as the best import car in the 1990s. It’s CV is also interesting: in 1990, a limited edition 300ZX became the 3 rd fastest production car in the world, and in 1994 it won in its class at the 24H of Le Mans, being banned after that because the twin turbo made it too powerful. The premise, however, is good: a 3.0 V6, available naturally aspirated or with a Garret twin turbo, which moves a coupe with futuristic lines. It happens for example to the second generation of the Nissan 300ZX, sports car, if not supercar, that was very overlooked in the 90’s, but now it’s been forgotten. So, while the “ stars” from the street racing era of the most famous car franchise in the world are being sold for astonishing prices, other brilliant cars of the same type are being auctioned for discount prices. Nissan 300ZX (Z32) Rob KingĪ JDM car can be considered cool even if it wasn’t featured in one of the first three chapters of the Fast and Furious saga, but not everyone has realized it yet. It’s got the same V-Tec as the 1.6Vt, but it’s got 10 extra hp, and is only available RHD. THE REAL JDM: for the Japanese Domestic Market, Honda made a “spicier” version of the CRX, calling it the “SiR”. Maintenance has to be done in order to keep those machines on the road, but thanks to its success, it’s not hard to find eventual spare parts. wasn’t just faster: it was also better looking, because while the other hot hatches of the period were boxy and rude, the CRX looked like an aerodynamic coupe, even if they were all based on the same type of cars.ĬRXs are available all over the world at quite low prices, because it hasn’t become (yet) a “ youngtimer “ as the BMW M3 E30 or the Lancia Delta Integrale. This car, in 1987, was able to overtake the hot hatches that were populating European roads in that period: the Ford Fiesta RS and the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9 both had 130 hp, while the CRX had 150. The first V-Tec-engined vehicle was a motorbike, the Honda CBR400, but luckily since 1987 this technology has been applied also on the car world, giving birth to a great hot hatch, the 1.6, 150hp Honda Civic, and it’s coupe version, the brilliant CRX 1.6Vt. But, can it exist a sports car that doesn’t spit too rapidly all your money out of the exhaust when you go to the groceries, and also capable of great performance? 1983, Honda engineers came up with an idea: an engine with variable valve control system, that thanks to two different camshafts, of which the first comes into action at low revs, while the second begins to work when the car approaches the redline, making the valves to remain opened for a longer time, thus to allow more fuel to enter the combustion chamber, increasing performance. So, other than performances, we have to think about fuel economy, and that’s why many of us give up before buying their dream car. Honda CRX all dream about driving a sports car, flooring the gas pedal to the ground while the head is pushed hardly on the seat and the ears are deafened by the exhaust’s roar, but in everyday life, we aren’t on a paradisiac highway without speed limits, and “mpg” are often more important than “mph” (for metric system enthusiasts, they are km/l and km/h). This implies that prices of this type of cars, which became famous because they were cheaper than European sports cars, have now skyrocketed, reaching astonishing sums.ġ00K Supras or 200K Skylines aren’t nightmares anymore: they are real, and they are sold at the same auction as Aston Martins, Porsches and Bentleys.īut, is it still possible to buy a JDM car for a reasonable price? Let’s find out. In the latest years, we literally saw an explosion of the “JDM culture”, which now isn’t related anymore just to petrol-smelling meets in some supermarket’s parking lots, but has become one of the trends in the modern car culture, thanks to the influence of YouTube and of the now legendary (remember when everyone hated it?) Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.īecause of that, many modern petrolheads have left behind supercars or hot hatches: all they want now is a Bomex Toyota Supra, a Z-Tune Skyiline GTR R34 or a Veilside Mazda RX7.
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