At ~5'11" I am very comfortable and have room for a helmet. A common mod, even in Japan, is to allow the seat to move back another inch or so. Additionally, I am told that the seat is actually quite comfortable if you remove the bottom cushion entirely. And a smaller steering wheel would be nice regardless of driver…

All of that work for a centrifugal supercharger and not a turbo or even a real supercharger? Man, I want to like this but why?

Ooh boy, you're in luck! Remember my Eclipse? It ran for a few weeks then blew the transmission, so I'm picking up another transmission next weekend. I'd love to have you over again and see what kind of damage we can do! The Jimny is gone but the Sambar is pretty awesome!

My Autozam. Nothing could make me sell this car. I take it everywhere. It was everything that I wanted it to be and I’ll never part with it.

Even contractors and fleet sales are stuck with a long cab and short bed here in the US. It's baffling.

Neither the Ranger nor the Colorado come in standard cab. Nor does the Tacoma or any other truck in this class. You get extended or crew cab. Period. I've gone through this once already, hoping they'd give me a standard cab truck with a full bed. Everyone failed to deliver so I imported a truck from Asia. Jokes on…

That's not an unattractive truck, especially when you put it next to GM's inbred cesspools, but it still has two too many doors and lacks a useable bed so why bother?

I hold that it’s displacement per cylinder. 500cc per cylinder is ideal and grants the nominal Medium moniker. 2.0L four cylinder, 3.0L six, 6.0L V12, etc. Below 400cc/cyl is small and above about 625cc/cyl is large. Since it gets kind of nonlinear at the extremes I’d say that 7.0L is gargantuan and 550cc is…

The situation is so dire here that I spent months looking for an affordable manual standard cab pickup to no avail. I gave up and imported one from Japan for less than half the price of what is available around here and still haven’t found anything worth mentioning three months later after mine arrived on the slow boat…

I had done the whole “sit on dad’s lap and hold the wheel” thing a few times before, but my first time in complete control of a car was around my 13th birthday. My dad grew up in Indiana and his hometown put on a festival every year. He took the family every year essentially just to have beers with the bands, which…

I imported my Jimny myself and will be doing the Sambar myself as well, but I made the mistake of paying a company to handle my Autozam. The Jimny was 45 minutes and $30 in duty and it was mine. The Autozam was only $300 more to have someone else do it but they took two days while I was staying in a hotel at port.…

Regular people who want a small truck for random domestic things who don’t want the hassle of importing a mini truck or can’t justify dropping four digits on a 20 year old USDM compact truck. But a back seat is just as useless as a short bed in this endeavor so I'm pickimg up my Subaru Sambar from port at the end of…

My mom was dead set on a six speed R8 but they dropped the manual option before she could find a buyer for her car. Then the C7 came out and now my mom drives a GM product. Shudder.

I said I would buy a 4C. Then it was announced in autotragic only. I said I would buy a 124 Abarth until they announced it with the same engine as the base model and not even a tune update for the US. Now I’m saying that I will buy a Supra if it comes with the appropriate number of pedals. I have the money but auto…

Can confirm. This car has zero trunk. I was very interested until I saw one in person. Especially since I saw in right next to a Honda Fit which is nothing more than a gigantic trunk that has the unfortunate distinction of being inside a Honda Fit.

I daily drove a RHD Jimny in Indiana for a few months this year. My husband learned to RHD by picking it up from the port and driving it 600 miles home. As others have said, it takes about 20 minutes to get used to shifting with your left hand and that’s it.

So this is supposed to be the small one? It looks on par with the 80s and 90s F150 Bronco and is a far cry from the 60s Bronco that I was expecting. I was certain that this would be the large one with the “Baby” one actually competing with a Wrangler 2D. I guess I’ll put my money back in my pocket. Again. Now back to…

Oh, this is too easy. How about a mid engined two seater. Make it turbocharged. Add gullwing doors. The engine is bulletproof even at double the factory output. Did I mention that it’s 1500 lbs? Also its MSRP is close to $15k and it regularly goes 48 miles on a gallon of gas.

Faster, absolutely. Nicer? Maybe. Better? Hell no!

“Unsexy cacophony of fart noises” is being a bit generous. I wish the turbo three in my Autozam could muster anything that could be descrulibed as such. Instead it sounds like a sewing machine had unholy intercourse with a vacuum cleaner and the parents attempted to eradicate their abomination by bashing its head in…