What is the obsession with Jap cars?

[r5gttgaz]

Now let me just don the flame suit! Ahh thats better, now this is in no way meant to rile the Jap car owners or cause trouble and being posted on PH I can be confident it will stay pretty stable once the posts come in. (I hope)

We have a lot of Jap car owners on our local forums and all they talk about is Jap Jap Jap, any discussion is always "Jap is best" "Jap is fastest" "Jap is the most powerful" So like the best supercar will be a Supra TT and the best hot hatch will be a Pulsar etc. When mentioning any other alternatives you are immediately shot down or they dont even know what car you are talking about because they have their Jap blinkers on and to hell with you if you suggest their car may have flaws or that you dont like it. Another thing is all this drift stuff, if you get a 200SX you are instantly elevated to Dori Master as you own a RWD car it means you can instantly go and win at D1, doesnt look like the case on here as the members seem more educated and mature but it sure as hell is pi$$ing me off. Arguments in a latest hot hatch post is that one Jap car had EFi before another car so that makes it great.

So is it a case watching Fast And The Furious on repeat for 8 Hrs a day or what?









>> Edited by r5gttgaz on Tuesday 9th May 09:12

>> Edited by r5gttgaz on Tuesday 9th May 09:16

[r5gttgaz]

I have absolutley no problem with Jap cars, I even had a Starlet GTT for a bit and a friend has a Supra TT great cars in their own right, our meets are organised for Jap cars only and any trips out to places will be to go to Jap only meets, posts about Euro cars are ignored and you are encouraged to purchase Jap or you are not part of the "in crowd" its all very sad. I'd love to abandon this forum but we are a bit stuck in Lincolnshire for local car clubs and we dont have a section on PH either. Looking at the members map it looks like there arnt many of us anyway .

>> Edited by r5gttgaz on Tuesday 9th May 09:48

[r5gttgaz]

DieselJohn said:

r5gttgaz said: I have absolutley no problem with Jap cars, I even had a Starlet GTT for a bit and a friend has a Supra TT great cars in their own right, our meets are organised for Jap cars only and any trips out to places will be to go to Jap only meets, posts about Euro cars are ignored and you are encouraged to purchase Jap or you are not part of the "in crowd" its all very sad. I'd love to abandon this forum but we are a bit stuck in Lincolnshire for local car clubs and we dont have a section on PH either. Looking at the members map it looks like there arnt many of us anyway . >> Edited by r5gttgaz on Tuesday 9th May 09:48 Sorry, are you claiming there is a large Jap biase on PH? I can't see it at all to be honest. I just went into general gassing and the first thread which mentions a japanese car in the title was on page 4.

No its on my local car forum as stated in the 1st post.

[r5gttgaz]

Are those Lexus pedals Drift Spec?

[r5gttgaz]

Please do not take this as a Jap bashing thread.

[r5gttgaz]

rawstrona said:

Back to r5gttgaz original post before we get into a 20+ page thread slating jap plastics. I think Pistonheads defo has a more level headed, mature membership (equal in passion about there cars though) in comparison with the local forums you may have experienced which probably consists of a younger generation on their first cars which are Jap cars affordable for power v cost v reliability thus the blinkered view that they are the only cars that exist, did it myself when i was 18, best car in the world was my mk11 escort with big bore exhaust !!!! nothing else came close. As for Jap cars i have owned the following in the last 4 years. Lexus IS 200 Sport (nice sound from 6 pot, bit under powered but great build quality) Saab 93 Aero (fast mid range, handled great, interior plastics quite poor) Mercedes C220 CDI sport (great build quality, great mpg, great mway car) TVR Chim 4.0 (V8 sound, weekend car for me, divorce forced sale) Nissan 350z (sound, power, reliability, day to day live with, decent plastics too) Dont knock em till you have tried em. I bought TVR despite everybody going about reliability - loved it, never let me down. Ive currently got a 350z - and its alot of car for the money.

Thankyou.