​Providing photos and specifications on Japanese performance cars during the Japanese manufacturers' golden era. All the cars selected are from every region of the world that were manufactured between 1990-2000. In comparison cars that have the same significance today consist of the Honda Civic Si, Honda CRZ, Lexus IS-F, Lexus LFA, Mazda MX-5, Mazdaspeed 3, Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, Nissan 370Z, Nissan GTR, Subaru BRZ, Subaru Impreza WRX STI, Subaru Legacy 2.0GT DIT, Suzuki Swift Sport, and the Toyota GT 86.

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Why Japanese cars?
*Affordable relative to European manufacturers
*More emphasis on driving dynamics relative to American manufacturers
*Tunable engines with many aftermarket parts at reasonable prices
*Unique powerful engines such as straight-6, flat-4, and the rotary engines.
*The performance cars were more for car enthusiasts rather than for people of Hollywood
*Some cars had similar performances than cars with up to twice or three times the displacement

Why the 90’s era?
*Unique powerful engines such as 2JZ-GTE, RB26DET, 3S-GTE, SR20DET, 1JZ-GTE, 13B-REW, and F20C
*Due to the Japanese manufacturers’ gentleman’s agreement, it meant that cars were limited to 276 horsepower. This also meant that Japanese car manufacturers couldn’t use horsepower as a crutch and they had to improve their cars in different ways such as suspension systems.
*Sleek, unique, and clean design that majority of manufacturers of today seem to lack
*Sports coupes, hatchbacks, and wagons were abundant unlike today’s crossover SUV
*Many cars used turbo-charging terms of performance or used high revving naturally aspirated engines
*Manual transmission were more abundant to enhance the driving experience

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Future updates/modifications:

*Possibly adding Honda Beat, Isuzu Piazza, Mazda AZ-1, and the Mitsubishi Starion.

*More photos

*Update JDM engines page.

*Reasons why each car is great

*Reference page