I consider myself to have quite a good car knowledge. Most things on the road I've got a good idea of what speed, reliability, likely drivers etc are for that car. But older Japanese cars I've no idea.

Most common one I see (and almost the only one I know the name of!) is the Supra. I don't have a liking for these type of cars, infact I hate them. Most of them look like they belong in the junkyard and the one's that do looked well cared for, look horrible.

But what are the most common one's? I'm guessing they're popular because they come from the same sort of era as the old Evo's and Scoobies.

Toyota made some corkers. The celica gt4 was a championship winning rally car. The supra was big in Japan touring cars and was another £25k sportscar with supercar power.

Not sure which ones you're seeing that look like sheds. Must be abused examples.

I guess you are talking about the last iteration of the Supra?

It has always been quite a popular car for tuners with the twin tirbo straight six engines. But Supra has been around for ages (until it was killed off), it originally stemmed out from the Celica XX.

I guess they are popular because at the time Honda brought out the NSX (1989 or 1990) and Nissan the Fairlady and Skyline (well the R32) and Toyota just responded by having a literally fat-a$$ car (these cars have giant butts).

any jap car will be popular because of there reliablilty. plus a lot of the older ones have massive tune ability.

i own a Octavia vRS. i condsider this to be a great car with reasonable power. good comfort and pratical.

but i have owned a few jap cars. performance and standard road cars. all have been amazingly reliable. and although not the most modern inside as the german rivals they just keep on going. my wife had a 1.4 honda civic 1994 M reg. this car had 138,000 miles on it. all i ever did was oil changes and it never once broke down. all the electrics work and i still sat on the motorway at 70 with ease.

i have owned a 380bhp scooby and even pushing that power it started every time with no issues. and never let me down.

as long you do regular oil changes and services jap cars keep on going.

but i think this is the same for any car unless its french. but i dont think anybody can say anything bad about jap cars. they are as good if not more reliable than german cars.

but having said that i do drive a german car a the moment.

Mkiv supra in uk was 93-96 with twin turbo, standard with 326bhp and cost very little to make it near 400bhp, second value is very cheap ( around £5000 for a decent one) check mkivsupra.net as they have a massive following and good knowledge on that forum, i had one about 10years ago and it turn heads and great fun