We've compiled 10 great Japanese Kei sports cars that are smaller than the 2025 Mazda MX-5 Miata and ordered them from oldest to newest. Suzuki Alto Works First Model Year: (1987) ...

Nissan's First Global Sports Car Was A Love Letter To America . The Datsun 240Z, also known as the Fairlady Z, was the brainchild of Yutaka Katayama (affectionately known as 'Mr. K'), who ...

Here are the Top 10 Japanese Sports Cars of the 1990s that were actually sold in North America. ... Thirty years later the 240SX lives on as a darling of the drifter world for its small, ...

The Honda Beat was launched in 1991 as an exclusively Japanese-market (JDM) car, with styling designed by Pininfarina. It proved to be the most successful kei sports car of its era, with 33,635 ...

It’s joined in the ranks by a large swath of excellent sports cars to come off of the small island though. The Mazda RX-7, perhaps the brand’s last serious sports car, ended production in 2002.

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It’s been a long time since a new Japanese sports car gave executives at Porsche, BMW or Ferrari cause for concern. The golden era came at the tail end of Japan’s economic miracle in the 1980s ...

Multimillionaire sports car CEO Christian Von Koenigsegg drives to work in a Toyota hatchback. ... small, turbocharged Japanese models like the GR Yaris are still appealing to even the wealthiest ...

That doesn’t mean Japanese cars were all about practicality. A 1971 Datsun 240Z and a 1970 Nissan Fairlady Z JDM on display exemplify some of the classic sports cars from that era. Fast, and yes ...