#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.