MX5 - not popular in Japan?

[12v3pot]

I've been here in Tokyo and I haven't seen a single Eunos Roadster. Not a one.

Don't they read PH?

Also, no Aygos (but they have other more interesting kei cars).

[HorneyMX5]

I think most of the Eunos Roadsters ended up being exported here. Prices for good ones at the jap auctions these days are quite high and fresh imports here are few and far between.

Nick

[Bear Phils]

Pistonheads has bought almost the entirety of Japan's Eunos'.

[RDR 838]

I didn't see many interesting cars when I was there last year. The interest isn't there anymore.

Not just cars though. It's part of a much wider issue.

[Guvernator]

Nah, thats because they've always exported all the crap, underpowered cars and kept all the good stuff for themselves

[Twincam16]

RDR 838 said:

I didn't see many interesting cars when I was there last year. The interest isn't there anymore.

Not just cars though. It's part of a much wider issue.

I've heard that. Apparently odd things are happening with the young people out there. They're not 'into' cars, and of those that are 90% of them are getting auto-only licences, and they seem to be falling completely for the helpless techno-connected megacity-citizen lifestyle that seems to be infecting London and New York as well.

The more I read about these far-Eastern 'megacities' and their associated culture, the more I want to go and live in a windowless shack on the Isle of Arran.

[Loplop]

Daikoku PA.

You'll see a LOT of metal if you visit there.

[Krikkit]

Twincam16 said:

RDR 838 said:

I didn't see many interesting cars when I was there last year. The interest isn't there anymore.

Not just cars though. It's part of a much wider issue.

I've heard that. Apparently odd things are happening with the young people out there. They're not 'into' cars, and of those that are 90% of them are getting auto-only licences, and they seem to be falling completely for the helpless techno-connected megacity-citizen lifestyle that seems to be infecting London and New York as well.

The more I read about these far-Eastern 'megacities' and their associated culture, the more I want to go and live in a windowless shack on the Isle of Arran.

It's part of a bigger problem in Japanese society as a whole - their sexual and emotional issues are, if anything, more worrisome than their long-dead love of motors.

[g3org3y]

RDR 838 said:

I didn't see many interesting cars when I was there last year. The interest isn't there anymore.

Not just cars though. It's part of a much wider issue.

I didn't notice many interesting cars either. Typically the cars there were small boxy Japanese city car type things.

I think I saw one or two Nissan GTRs druing my entire stay. European cars such as BMW and Mercedes were limited almost exclusively to inner cities and even then they were short on the ground compared to the UK.

[dtmpower]

Loplop said:

Daikoku PA.

You'll see a LOT of metal if you visit there.

This ^^^ - go at the right time, enjoy a BOSS Coffee and some plastic fries and watch the proper cars come and go.

[Twincam16]

Krikkit said:

Twincam16 said:

RDR 838 said:

I didn't see many interesting cars when I was there last year. The interest isn't there anymore.

Not just cars though. It's part of a much wider issue.

I've heard that. Apparently odd things are happening with the young people out there. They're not 'into' cars, and of those that are 90% of them are getting auto-only licences, and they seem to be falling completely for the helpless techno-connected megacity-citizen lifestyle that seems to be infecting London and New York as well.

The more I read about these far-Eastern 'megacities' and their associated culture, the more I want to go and live in a windowless shack on the Isle of Arran.

It's part of a bigger problem in Japanese society as a whole - their sexual and emotional issues are, if anything, more worrisome than their long-dead love of motors.

Go on...?

[anonymous-user]

I think their MOT equivalent is very strict so cars are scrapped or exported much younger than here.

[st4]

Sadly young folk are more into CO2 this and that than wanting a nice fast car. Shame. Many young folk at my work seem disinterested in motors. Some love them, others are like, why would you buy that.

My answer: to drive somewhere in something I like driving

[itz_baseline]

A lot of them seem to have a deep love for arcade machines....to the extent where they all have memory cards to save game progress and spend endless hours sat at machines feeding horses, training them, racing them etc. It was impressive to see....

This was the maddest thing I could find out there....I was hoping for some kind of Fast and Furious Tokyo drift action, but nothing....apart from 'NOS'ed up scooters with drift-style spoilers on!

[12v3pot]

I knew about the MOT rules and exporting thing, but I haven't seen any new MX5 models, either. In a whole week.

V few interesting cars at all - a 360, one R34, one Evo, a few LHD Mercedes. But squillions of kei cars and larger-than-we-get-here four door saloons. There's even a 320bhp Toyota saloon. Most interesting thing I saw (and heard) was a V6 motorbike in Akiharbara. Didn't see what it was.

Disappointingly, there wasn't an LFA at Toyota MegaWeb. Just lots of hybrids and a sad little GT86 display with little interest

Will see if I can get over to Diakoku on the way to Nara.

[Joedarkness]

12v3pot said:

I knew about the MOT rules and exporting thing, but I haven't seen any new MX5 models, either. In a whole week.

V few interesting cars at all - a 360, one R34, one Evo, a few LHD Mercedes. But squillions of kei cars and larger-than-we-get-here four door saloons. There's even a 320bhp Toyota saloon. Most interesting thing I saw (and heard) was a V6 motorbike in Akiharbara. Didn't see what it was.

Disappointingly, there wasn't an LFA at Toyota MegaWeb. Just lots of hybrids and a sad little GT86 display with little interest

Will see if I can get over to Diakoku on the way to Nara.

The Shaken is a major pain in the ass, It's basically a way for getting the 10 year plus cars off the road so people will buy new cars

My last one cost me 78,000 JPY about 550 UKP so it basically out prices all the older cars off the road
If you can you should have a look at the Twin ring motegi it's got a great Honda history display with a lot of Honda bikes cars (they have a big plant about there)

LHD cars here a bit of a poser thing .. oh look at me I'm so retarded that i bought a LHD !!! sad ..

There's one MX5 in our parking Garage but it got a inch layer of dust on it so I don't think it's used much

[excel monkey]

Twincam16 said:

I've heard that. Apparently odd things are happening with the young people out there. They're not 'into' cars, and of those that are 90% of them are getting auto-only licences...

There's more to Japan than the big cities.

Plenty of kids still into cars in the mountainous areas, where there are twisty roads like the Ujigawa Line.