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Silver Daihatsu Hijet kei truck parked at a dockside, ready for import

Kei Trucks to the UK Today (Summer 2024). What Do You Say?

What is a “Kei Truck,” anyway?

It’s a brilliant little piece of equipment, that’s what it is. Check out this used kei truck that we are exporting this summer (July, 2024) direct from Japan to the UK:

These small pickup trucks are often called “mini trucks” or “Japanese minitrucks” or “tiny trucks,” but here in Japan everyone […]

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Isuzu Elf / GMC Forward truck, front view, for sale from Japan

Isuzu Elf / GMC Forward – the “Good Truck”

The Isuzu Elf / GMC Forward Has Been a Leader in the 2 to 7 Ton Medium Truck Category for Years and Years.

I Finally Get the Good Truck

I loved the Isuzu Elf I drove back in the 1980s in Toronto, Canada. That was when these excellent straight trucks, badged as GMC Forward, first came […]

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Cute Subaru Sambar kei truck, a compact 4WD mini truck ideal as an affordable load hauler

Kei Truck Cutie

My neighbor up here in the hills recently bought herself a used Japanese kei truck at auction. She’s not the type of person that I normally think of as owning a 4WD kei truck. Now I’m not saying that I think kei truck owners are all landscapers, hunters, independent building contractors, or hard core off […]

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Red Nissan Safari-based Japanese fire truck with pump equipment and Japanese lettering

Used Fire Trucks from Japan

From the Big Pumpers to the Pint-Sized Squirters, They’ll Dowse the Blaze.

I’ve never driven a fire truck, but I’ve watched my father-in-law’s one hundred year old Japanese farm house burn down. There were a lot of factors in that disastrous day but I still think that, if we’d had something like this Kei fire truck […]

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Import used R34 Skyline from Japan via Japan Car Direct

R34 Skylines to the USA. Let’s Rock!

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🚗 The R34 Skyline GT-R: A JDM Icon “Godzilla” Now Within Reach
The Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R, one of the most celebrated performance cars ever built, is now eligible for legal import to the U.S. under the 25-Year Rule. With its legendary RB26DETT engine, advanced ATTESA all-wheel-drive […]

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The Top End: Used Supercars… Part 1

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Yes. Very much so. I was talking this out recently with Matt and the crew here at Japan Car Direct and I was saying that some of the deals on […]

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Beat the Crisis. Beat the Car Shortage. Part 4

Import One of the Best Little Things On Four Wheels: A Japanese Kei Van

I had to borrow my friend’s Japanese Kei van the other day to haul some things that my car couldn’t carry. (Since my car is a Miata, there are many things it can’t carry.) I got to thinking again about the all […]

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Beat the Crisis. Beat the Car Shortage. Part 3

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Teal Toyota Caldina station wagon parked outside a garage, import to USA

Beat the Crisis. Beat the Car Shortage. Part 2

Since our last look at the The Crisis (the car shortage, that is, see here) things have not gotten any better: Russia and Ukraine are still punching each other, everybody and his brother are splashing sanctions all over the shop, the European motor industry is looking ever gloomier, and prices of good (if you can […]

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