In 1989, an American Honda dealer named Gary Duncan won a trip to Japan and the Tokyo Motor Show. It was there that he…

Japanese carmakers never brought their great kei cars of the 1980s to America, and for years we’ve always assumed that…

The 1980s were the Jurassic Park of Japanese car design. Engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could…

Ever since the cars of the Bubble Era aged into legality under America’s draconian 25 Year Import Rule, we have become…

It’s once more time to bless your timeline with a Retro Car Bot, a bot that tweets out retro cars and information about…

Underneath a quiet office building in even-quieter Irvine, California, there rests some of the loudest, strangest, most…

In 1991, little Mazda stood at the top of the world. It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B…

It’s hard to put the success of the Mazda Miata into perspective, a unbelievably huge hit from a rather small company.…

I can hear you from all the way over here. “That’s not a real car, Raph,” you shout at your computer screen. “You made…

The Subaru SVX is one of the looniest cars ever put into production: a flat-six luxury coupe with a fighter jet canopy…

Today’s carmakers are thrilled with all of the new features they can integrate into their digital dashboards but all I…

Back in the 1980s, Japan’s carmakers were on a tear to make the most advanced, well-engineered mass produced cars the…

Toyota called it its “finest engine,” ambitious, technologically advanced and, from a modern perspective, impossibly…

When it debuted, Mazda’s K-series engine was the smallest V6 ever put into production. While it was quickly overtaken…

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In these dark times, I find it is helpful to submerge myself in a bath of liquid car-nostalgia. I forget my pain and my…

I’m currently working on a project about the “Bubble Era” of the Japanese auto industry the period from the mid-1980s…

In early 1980s, Nissan was on a mission. It was fighting Toyota for supremacy in the Japanese market, trying to prove…

I’ve been wanting a Nissan Pao ever since I learned that they exist, and for many years the idea of owning one just…

You’ve probably seen a Nissan Pulsar NX Sportbak before, maybe on the weird side of town with half of its clear coat…