What's old is new in Japan.

"carcrasher88" (carcrasher88)
11/21/2015 at 11:17 • Filed to: Japan, Google Street View, Street View Road Trip

Well, not always literally, but you’ll get the point looking above.

I came across this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and thought it might be interesting.

In Japan, this seems to be very common place: a small showroom with a really small lot and a little garage in the back.

Some might be just selling used cars and haven’t gotten rid of the old brand signage, some actually still offer new models, most of the time with only 3 or less new cars on site.

In the showroom, you’ll see a Pleo Plus, Subaru’s version of the Daihatsu Mira.

It has a yellow/black kei car plate, which tells me this is a used car, as most of the time, new cars at dealers either have a plate with the car’s model name on it, or none at all.

On the left, two more used Subaru Kei cars, including a blue second generation Stella on the left.

It seems like many of the times you see a really cool car in Japan, it’s when it’s sitting at a service station, like this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! at an Eneos station.

And check out this modern !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! with the old school hubcaps!

In the same parking lot as the Fiat, this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that’s been modified...and it’s front and rear wheels don’t match. Welp.

When it comes to American made cars in Japan, it may not be of an American brand, but it’s still something to be proud of: the third generation !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Essentially, it was a rebadged Acura TL, and was built in Marysville, Ohio and exported to Japan from 1998 to 2003, the only generation of the Inspire that was produced as such, every one before and after were domestically sourced.

Remember what I said about service stations and cool cars? Well, here’s a tastefully modified !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! at, yet again, an Eneos station.

So, there’s a bit of Japan for ya in the morning, I’ll post up some more later on.