I feel like this video coulda been named “a guide to cars that should be worth $10,000 but sell for $150,000”

Been trying to get into JDM for quite some time and this video helped me get some of the basics down! Great content! ( Instant like as soon as I heard Kira's theme lol )

me: downloads a drift game also me: has a intense addiction to jdm cars

My dream car is the R33 Skyline. Owned mine for just over a year and since I learned quite a bit about it I will say it's a joy to drive and it does get it's fair share of attention. However the unfortunate reality is owning these cars are not all sunshine and rainbows and the reason is because it's going to take time and money to make it more reliable. If you ever buy a JDM with any RB engine you better keep an eye on your timing belt as these are interference type engines. And please for the love of God don't buy one unless you have the funds and time to put into it. Last thing you want is a car just sitting around and doing nothing to it. It's frustrating but chances are you may need to replace the timing kit including water pump, oiling system and adding a head drain adapter with a return line and recommend running it down to the pan or the sump, head restrictors to limit the flow of oil getting sucked up into the head (common issue with RBs), crank and cam seals, extended crank collar, and upgrade to a better oil pump like the N1. In order to do all of this you will need to pull out your whole engine which is exactly what I am going to do next year. A diy will take about 4 months and better to do it yourself than spend $1,000s of dollars on professionals to do it as long as you have a friend or know someone who knows exactly what they are doing. This kind of build is for bone stock reliability and it's highly recommended to do that first before upgrading the engine with aftermarket modifications for more power.

Such a great video! For those who are new to the culture, please make sure to appreciate the inner part of jdms rather than the popular ones. Should do a part 2 for sub communities within the cultures

This video does indeed miss out a lot of details. JDM as we know it really traces its roots back to late 1960s to early 1970s with cars like the Honda S500, Toyota 2000GT and Crown, Nissan Skyline GTR KPGC10 and Fairlady Z, Datsun Bluebird and Mazda RX-3. There are arguably more important figures in the JDM scene but except for the 1990s tuner houses a lot of their identities are so obscure and not much information on them can be found in English language. The PS1 and PS2 era saw a slew of games focused on actual Japanese Street Racing, namely Shutokou Battle (Later imported to Western markets as Tokyo Xtreme Racer), Kaidou Battle (Known as TXR Drift in Western markets), Touge series, Battle Gear (Formerly Side By Side), Option Tuning Car Battle, Racing Lagoon, Wangan Midnight R(Pre-MaxiTune game based on Shutokou Battle). All of these are arguably more realistic than any Need For Speed game has ever come to JDM culture since Need For Speed is literally just based on glorified Hollywood movies. Initial D Arcade Stage and Wangan MaxiTune series are well known enough, I suppose. A side note, eurobeat was considered mainstream EDM in late 1990s, Wikipedia has a pretty accurate summary of it's influences and how it became popular so I will leave it at that. It was not generally associated with racing prior to Initial D's first release and in fact, the go to car music genre back then was rock and roll which is why you will find a lot of rock music in Japanese street racing movies from 1980s and 1990s.

And remember guys not every Japanese car is Jdm = Jdm is when the car is right hand drive and has the Japanese specs/is literally from Japan/import. If it’s left hand drive from factory 🏭 and has your country specs and not Japans specs it’s not Jdm, it’s just a Japanese car👍✨

Forgot to mention Mid Night car club. Also rx7 was a little higher than mid tier, so little sold in US bc of price, roughly around same price as a Porsche, and after having both a porsche and both a rx7 i can say they are both worth every penny. Pretty good video, love how you get a little bit of everything.

I was into JDM cars in the mid to late 90s as a teen going into my early 20s. You know how it goes. Life takes its turns, things change, blah blah blah. But in some way, I found my way back and I’m enjoying every minute of it.

For me the GR86 and the Subaru BRZ are the new kind of JDM cars with the energy of the old JDM cars. Engine has enough power, but not to much, rear wheel drive and much more. im happy Subaru/Toyota brought us such nice cars

Even though there are some mistakes, as a car fan I'm sure car enthusiasts will appreciate the spirit and enthusiasm put in this video. Plus, you did a good job summarising and spreading the culture. (though im sure some people will get mad at you for putting the supra as a mid tier 90's JDM car)

hell yeah, ALBO is such a great creator, been watching him for a min, also honorable mention of midnight club wouldve been a good addition, they were a huge influence in terms of modifying your car to be the fastest there is.

i love this video. it's so easy to understand, especially for beginners.

Ngl, I've never been into cars up until asserto corsa is on sale, and I started to watch initial d. This video helps me to get into the culture of JDM and cars in general. Great content :D

Such production quality, really liked the sponsor break!

This helped cause I do really want to learn about jdm and this literally opened new doors so 🤝

I love JDM culture and I'm glad you make a video for newbies xD

Cool video! JDM is such a cool subculture of car culture and I’d say it’s my favorite one!

I can see why this is for beginners, it's simple but leaves info to be discovered for later

my lil bro got me into wangan midnight recently and now im hooked onto jdm action been watching noriyaro and hes awesome i love the r32 btw

I didn't expect trash taste on this video, that was quite a surprisw tbh awesome video btw

Hey nice video, just to point out, Mitsubishi in the 90s had Evos and in top category it got the 3000GT VR-4 as well standing next to the Supra and NSX.

this was easy to understand tysm!! I'm trying to learn about JDM and Japanese car culture because my boyfriend is a huge fan and I've never been a car enthusiast so this is all really new to me lmao

Really do admire this JDM Culture!

Jdm is what got me into cars. This video is the perfect walkthrough of jdm. I wish i watched this when i first got into jdm/cars in general.

My boyfriend is a big fan of japanese cars and owns a japanese Supra! Now I got a good overview on what he is talking about all the time and gonna check out the games and youtubers! Thank you for helping me improve my conversational skills on his favourite topic and I think I have some of the games in my gallery... By any chance, are there big JDM car events every hardcore fan should know about and should attend if they have the time and resources?

This helped me a lot to enter the jdm culture

hey class_shift, im just starting to get into cars and JDM seems very cool. thihs video really helped clear things out and taught me the basics of JDM, but could you make a newer version as it is 2022 and i want to the 2022 JDM cars and a more advanced guide. Thanks!

Kelisa legend 🔥🔥🔥Appreciate the content sir, been trying to learn more about jdm car do not know where to start. Thanks for the video

Sad that JDM Masters quit youtube, his reviews were the most in depth and enjoyable!

Great video, I just wanted to correct one thing in the start: The Japanese economy was great in the *80s*, and was terrible in the 90s. What happened was car companies started development on all these super cool cars in the 80s expecting a lot of wealthy young buyers. But come around to when those developing cars could finally be released. Well, the bubble burst and the terrible 90s kicked in. Few are employed, even fewer are making bank, no one could buy those legends. It's why so many of the cool 90s JDM cars had such short lifespans. Which is why the AE86, which was around since the 80s was such a legend. Working class guys could buy it new in the 80s, and the same now poorer working class guys could buy it used in the 90s and participate with the rich guys in the car scene.

very good very nice and quick begginers guide

Btw I am a Eurobeat fanatic and own over a hundred old Eurobeat CDs ranging from Mahajara, Eurobeat Flash, Super Eurobeat, etc to Odyssey U eurobeat. The history of Eurobeat is so fascinating and it could legitimately take an hour to two hours to explain the basics lmao

starting with city lover city rider, thats amazing

I know somewhat about JDM culture but I knew this was a good video the second the eurobeat intensified

Lol really enjoyed ur vid, it has got that funny vibe uk..😂😂

Great video, not into jdm really (had to look up what JDM stands for since you didn't spell it out for me) but I learnt and enjoyed it a lot! Best way of asking subs i ever seen. PS. I think I might be into JDM by now...

if you’re more into speed than sliding, a really great jdm anime is wangan midnight! it’s the reason the 240z is my dream car haha

Automodelista Is a game that came out on the GameCube, Xbox, and PS2. It is 100% drawing from the golden era and is an absolute blast to play. Very cool soundtrack. It takes a professional yet playful approach to cars I would highly recommend it!

Loved it

I recommend playing old Tokyo Extreme racing game series, TED2 is my favorite! One other channel I also would recommend watching is Juicebox which is owned by an Irish lad that goes to a garage with his friends and finds cars all around Ireland and learn about the origins of the cars and past life of JDM cars before they we're imported from Japan. He's restoring an AE86 and visits japan from time to time. Its so much fun to listen to them talk about what we're JDM cars and what they used them for back in the 90s and earlier.

hey for a small channel you have some of the most amazing stuff so, keep it up

Thanks for the Eurobeat ❤

my man driving a 90's automatic talking about the JDM lifestyle is the quintessential JDM fan. Much love.

love this !!!

For teen as starter i think Honda Civic EF,EG and EK is great choice. I start with EG hatch for collage drive. Love it, if more budget i prefer MR2-Silvia s14-s15 or Impreza GC8.

Perfect guide

Happy with my ae86, my dream an A80 supra and a Toyota pickup like the one in back to the future 😎🤙

AWESOME! ありがとう!

I'm learning because of my best friend wanna make our conversation interesting

We need a part two, that mentions Phonk, the LFA, Mitsubishi 3000 gt, and more.

That sponsor made me insta follow🤣🤣 Great Kontant man

Nice video! Thanks!

great vid

Great video! I wish you mentioned the Toyota Celica or Toyota MR2 (that's a big one to miss, the MR-S and the Celica are probably the ONLY affordable old JDM cars left, apart from the MX-5 Miata), and mentioned that the drift king was a professional racing driver and not just some guy who drifts

outrun 2sp got me hooked on muscle cars and JDM

I felt like this video kinda shot through the years pretty fast without expanding on the individual cars which would be great an actual COMPLETE beginners guide

Great video

I’m saving up to buy a 86 hopefully next year

i finally understand what jdm is thank u senpai

Going to meet Akira Nakai san soon, very excited!

Interesting good video ill look more into it :)))

Well done video, I expected more views 🤙🏽

As a ke70 owner I highly recommend buying it if you are on a budget

Well i got myself a panda tureno and I'm pretty happy about it 😌

wasn’t expecting to hear mitsu in this vid pleasantly surprised

Sick video. Thanks!

I watched a restoration video of 1997 Honda civic on brotomotive yt channel and I get to know about these cool cars which existed and heard the term (j d m )and now I m watching ur video ...

cant forget the 400z coming out 😸😁 i am so excited yayyy

That eurobeat intro was beautiful

is that kelisa bro? awesome video !

Thanks now I can be JDM pro

the video is for those who are very ignorant of the topic of JDM and cars in general, or even for those who do not understand cars and use them without thinking about aggregates and resources, but the idea itself is good

enlightening

I hope to get a nice 90's jdm car in my life, they are so damn funky and neat

instantly subscribed after the intro

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, time to spend $350 on a racing setup so I can live my drifting dream

Very W video but i feel like wangan midnight is 100% worth mentioning

Good stuff

Woof, slept on the S2000

akira the RWB GOD🤩he makes one of the most insane looking porsche cars in the world. This famus singer/music producer in norway called Mio flew him form japan to norway to build him and rwb Porsche its awesome🤩

Definitely give the Altezza some love in a future video

Top tier sponsor

The driver you showed as the drift king driving the trash taste crew isn’t Keiichi Tsuchiya, it’s a D1GP drifter for Team Orange

Best video

Ty for my first JDM vid

i am a car professional, and this vid is definetly good (u forgot sammit as a youtuber definetly) it helps with the basics, but mybe make the vid a bit longer and explain stufflike the rotary in the mazda rx series or something like that.

i bought a 1990 celica gts because of initial d lmao its my first and only car and she barely runs :) im so good at making life decisions

My favorite JDM car predates the eras in this video quite a bit: the 1966-67 Prince Gloria. One of the coolest, though, is the Mazda RX3.

3:24 it was also called scion frs

Its a cool video, but somehow i was expecting a little bit of more depth to it. Like: summing the whole S chassy to "Silvias", ignoring the Aristo, Altezza, JZX100, the Kei cars... Maybe a complete beginner guide needs to acknewledge more than the "appear in every show" cars. For a video about JDM cars, I feel like there's not that much talk about cars 😂 Nice YT recommendations tho. I recently rediscovered Dino DC from Speedhunters and now makes yt videos, so much interesting content. Keep it up!

The integras have been around for a long time. Around the early 90s all the way up to the early 2000s. I currently own a 1997 JDM DB6 integra

Even though nothing was new info to me except a few channels I didn't know about and influential people that I didn't know much of or their names. But still, interesting video.

nice

I know about jrm car but still watched!

I really recommend watching THE SQUIDD. He posts really good documentary type videos, he’s a good talker and he words it so it isn’t boring. He’s also done videos on some of the cars mentioned in this video and others as well as some of the people mentioned in this video.

Kaido Battle: Touge no Densetsu/Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 is also a great jdm game, where u race with rivals in different mountain passes, much like initial d however it's a ps2 game not a pc game so u may need an emulator

You said a lot of small things and connections I would’ve never gotten together alone Like how the brz is the successor to ae86 Good vids

What a nice Op

Finaly!