Vintage Japanese Motor Union co-founder Savant Young in the Boyle Heights clubhouse. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) As Savant Young carefully wipes down his charcoal gray 1973 Mazda RX-3 inside ...
Talk to anyone at the Japanese Classic Car Show and the first thing they’ll tell you is when they got their car and what they’ve done to it since. JCCS, as it’s better known, remains a grassroots ...
Prior to my trip to Tokyo to watch Nissan unveil the 2024 GT-R at the Tokyo Auto Salon, I had never been to Japan before. From everything I’ve seen online for the past 20-plus years, the locals take ...
Car buyers once balked at paying $40,000 for a Japanese vehicle. Now the country’s cars are at the forefront of consumer trends. By Stephen Williams Out of the ashes of World War II, the Japanese for ...
When one thinks of Japanese automobiles, the word “reliability” often comes to mind. However, even in the land of the rising sun, there have been instances of vehicles that fell short of the ...
Japanese automakers have long built cars in America, by Americans, for Americans. Does that make them American or Japanese? A ...