My brother managed to wreck his Supra, my parent’s Neon, and my S13 all within two years. I can relate.

That phrase seems to often come from SN95 owners with their 215hp V8's.

If the name were any longer, it would be a JDM Kei-Van.

If you do that, they win.

The best part is, the stock Evo VIII taillights ended up going altezza style, and so many owners hated them (myself included) that they were often replaced with VII (red lens) or IX (black housing) taillights. Most people seeing 2F2F after the Evo VIII came out just assumed the movie car had stock taillights.

Oh trust me, as a designer, many of us would have rolled our eyes at this too.

It wouldn’t surprise me. Wasn’t a hotel worker shortage managed in exactly this way?

I’ve been researching for like half an hour, and can’t find a single car that has every feature you want for the price you want. The best candidates I can find are the Prius Prime, Honda Clarity, and Chevy Volt, if you’re willing to forgo the sunroof and a/c seats.

The matte black plastic wheel arches really seem to indicate that.

Yeah, I have no idea where this lands on the car/crossover/SUV scale.

There was also a significant influx of Korean students into design schools from the early 2000's on, due to a K-drama where the main character was a car designer. When a profession is spotlighted in a K-drama, the Korean people tend to follow. When I went to ArtCenter, 70-80% of the transportation design students were…

It’s still a very important car for the Korean people, as it really got the country on wheels. It’s looked upon very fondly by most Koreans, and is one of the few Korean cars to have classic car clubs built up around it.

I legit hope they call it “Pony” in production.

Intentional wall taps are when drifting started to jump the shark imo. I like my drift car to come home in the same shape I showed up, unless I badly messed up. 

A German Opel Astra cabrio group was using kaltoffenfahren, so I assumed it was the proper term.

It’s “kaltoffenfahren.”;)

As someone who grew up in Germany, you could have just asked me.

I plan on using my vacation next year to fly from California to Virginia, buy a 25-30yo JDM Kei car, then drive it to California by way of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

It works better than you think though. My wife works with lots of wealthy people at an investment firm, and they always rib her for driving the “really nice Audi” while I “slum it in a cheap Subaru.” They all think that I sacrifice so much to keep her happy when in reality her base model Q5 and my BRZ tS cost the same…