The bad thing is, many of the REAL interesting or awesome cars for most young people nowadays are the one from the nineties, where you could get a car that was in Europe or US just a boring FWD Family car with small NA engine as a big AWD Turbocharged monster (like the Nissan Skyline GT-R, or for me personally the Starlet GT Turbo, Glanza V, EPx5 AWD Models). The Golf got more variations (FWD or AWD, Inline 4, VR6 or VR5, some kind of wonky AWD and so on) and interesting cars from Japanese markets are released for “export” outside of Japan, like the GT-R. The basic variations are the engine output and a tiny bit of styling if it’s a GTI or not.īut luckily, since the late nineties or early 2000’s, this is beginning to change. Just one example of this: In Germany we have the VW Golf.
But it’s the same the other way round, with the one very important exception, that Japanese carmakers tend to make way more variations of a single car (by name or general platform) then other carmakers around the world, as (as far as I know) japanese people are seeing/focusing smaller details way more, than the rest of the world does. This need to approve everything to slightly-different-than-japanese Standards and the a bit lower reputation tend to lower the variations outside of Japan. And the more variations of a car you want to introduce on a market, the more parts you have to stock in that country and the more different variations have to be approved by the state for road safety (here in Germany at least, every single major variant and every important part of a car has to be approved, like drivetrain, exhaust, mirrors, fenders, lights, bumpers, engine etc). Mostly, Japanese Carmakers tend to release fewer and not so special models for (from their standpoint) export markets, as they feel they can’t compete with the local carmakers on that markets. Toyota Vellfire: Basically same car as Alphard, would be seen as cannibalizing Alphards sales (but, in my opinion, it looks way better, want one as family car in the future)Īlso, it’s mostly special deriverates like the Starlet Glanza V (which has a Turbocharged engine doubling the power of the 1.3l), Starlet EP95 (wihich is the stock 75PS Starlet with AWD), Toyota Cressida/Mark 2 after ‘92 (when the JZ-engines, which also were found in Mark4 Supras, were introduced together with AWD).Toyota Caldina (second gen, GT-T): Same as the GT-R.Nissan Skyline GT-R (regardless of generation): People would be staggered by a supposed family car that looks “riced” and is rather sporty.
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