#blogpost Why I don't adore the JDM culture at all.
Here’s an age-old question.
“One day, you got a 10 million dollars from someone. That guy said use this cash to buy a car of your choice. What car did you buy?”
You can buy any car. Yes. ANY car.
Most of the CT be like: “I WILL BUY A (insert overrated JDM car here) AND TUNE IT TO 1000+HP!!!” But as for me, no. Instead of buying a Skyline or a Supra and tune it, when I got that money, I rather immediately rush to the nearest Ferrari or Lamborghini dealer, and buy an Italian V12 supercar. That makes a better deal than buying a JDM car ever if you want to get to 600+ hp.
Well, even the truth that the Ferrari F12tdf costs $500,000 while a used Supra starts from $6,000 now, but, nah. I’m never a JDM fan. Which makes some reasons why.
Japan is the country who gives us anime, J-Pop and obviously, JDM car culture. The car culture who gave us stance, RB engines and “VTEC kicked in yo!” In my area, many people did adore the Japanese pop culture (there’s more adoring the Korean pop culture) but, I’m more asccoiated with the (unpopular) Western culture. (it’s another reason why I’m posting Australian cars here)
In fact, my dislike of overrated popular Asian culture had caused me that had a (a bit of) dislike to JDM cars. This situation have also exists on music (I rather listen to metal for 10 hours than J-Pop for 10 hours) and others too. Also, if you know about history, you may know that the Japanese have occupied parts of Asia cruelly due to the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” plan and fasicm. And the Japanese government didn’t show apologies to their wrongdoings they made (unlike the Germans), so even it’s decades ago, I still don’t really trust it even I still treat them fairly. (BTW, I’m from Malaysia, not Italy, geddit?)
Another reason is, I don’t really believe the “built not bought” culture. Tuned cars are nice, but think it again. Try daily a stanced 1000hp Civic or a NSX everyday. You found that isn’t usable. It can’t drive slow easily, it can’t really drive in rough roads, and it’s too low that you can’t even drive over a speedbump outside a Giant (for those who don’t live in Malaysia or Singapore, it’s the place that we buy our rice and cooking oil) carpark. You will find that you got a useless tuned car. Also, the term is actually irony that the fact is you must BUY a car in order to tune it.
The hype of JDM cars online is also a reason why I don’t like JDM. These fanboysim have made places in Facebook and YouTube, notably. Well, what I meant is something like “OMG DA GTR IS DE BEST” or “MY SUPRA CAN KILL YOUR LAMBORGHINI” things, or either psoting cars in the wrong name. (eg. an idiot posted a Skyline and said it’s a Supra)
These haven’t really make me really like JDM culture at all.
If I had to get a RHD-only cars (Japan is RHD), I would get AUDM ones over JDM ones. That’s because the whole AUDM car culture is wholly underrated. Back to the main point, actually, JDM culture isn’t bad but there’s more better choices outside Japanese cars. Not saying JDM cars is bad, but please, everyone, can you also bother the others that is underrated?
JDM car culture isn’t s*, but however, the truth is JDM car culture is way too overrated and most other cars, especially American and Aussie car culture is underrated IMO.
Comments
I believe there is exageration in this post
But also truth
Lots of good points on this article. I’m completely agree with the whole JDM culture is overrated, and also even though i like to tune my cars, i always see cars on the internet that usually have like 1000 hp or something like that only to be used as a cruiser or something to showoff, especially if the exhaust is spitting flames like a flamethrower. And to be honest, i usually got annoyed by those kind of stuff. If i made a 1000 hp car, i’ll put some Hoosiers or a Goodyear Eagle on it and take it drag racing, perhaps smashing some records as well. Greetings from the country next door
You from where? Singapore?
EDIT: Sorry, just realized that you are from Indonesia. Never mind.
Lol, i’d never buy a Skyline if I was millionaire. I’d buy a Testarossa, or a Bugatti EB110. Although I like JDM, i’m not an actual fan of the Skyline, Supra or GTR. There are a lot of great cars out there better than those. I like your opinion about this theme, cheers and great blog :D
And i hate j-pop lol
Well everyone can have their own opinion but just so you know jdm culture isnt all stance and useless overpowered turbo engines.
Actually, many japanese cars were famous for outperforming their more powerful american and euro counterparts with great handling, lightweight chassis, and clever engineering. The whole extreme camber and useless stance is just an exaggeration of what jdm culture really is ( in my humble opinion of course).
And with your kind of arguments i could also say american cars are only good for drag races and nothing else. Not saying there isnt some truth to what youre saying but it seems to me like youre only looking at a small part of jdm culture and assuming thats what its all about. But please correct me if im wrong.
I know what are you saying. I don’t adore JDM, but that doesn’t mean that I hate JDM. There’s some JDM cars I really adore, and also there’s bad points of other ‘DMs.
Good points, i love me some JDM cars but they’re not on the first or second place at all
Even though I like a few JDM cars, I 100% agree with this post. If
*if I got 10 million dollars, I’d most definitely buy a Zonda Cinque, not a freaking 80K$ Supra that needs work
You wrote amine instead of anime
Fixed it. Thanks for reminding me.
What I admire about the JDM cars is that they are an exceptional representation of a less is more approach. You can have the same fun as you would in a Ferrari, so it makes enjoying driving and racing much more accessible for those with smaller budgets. Personally I think that Supercars are overrated, where you are mostly paying for a badge - more of a social status statement. Nice article though
the less is more thing could also apply to muscle cars. You don’t need 100,000 dollars to buy a 470 horsepower car, you can buy a 40,000 dollar scat pack challenger for that…
“I’d rather listen to metal for 10 hours than j-pop for 10 hours”
Listening to J-pop for 10 hours would be torture. just plain old torture
Thats fine and all but I don’t see the point in blaming subcultures of a country just because bad things have happened in the past that’s completely unrelated to them. (And I quite like J-Pop actually. ;-;)