There are different types of styles and modifications in Japanese cars, these are some of them. What's your favorite?


BOSOZOKU also called SHAKOTAN style should best be described as the cars driven by the Japanese gangs. Popular styling elements often include radical spoilers, front splitters that stick far out past the front of the car,crazy body kits and the outlandishly long exhaust pipes that are one of the hallmarks of Bōsōzoku Style



Illegal street racers who perform late night, flat-out runs in mainly Hondas, taunting the police and concealing their identity with masks. The cars usually are themed and modified to look and perform like race cars



DORIFUTO or DORIFTO driving style in which the driver uses the throttle, brakes, clutch, gear shifting and steering input to keep a RWD car in a state of oversteer while manoeuvring from turn to turn.


KYUSHA refers to old Japanese cars with a minimal amount of modification. Usually these cars aren’t too outrageous or too low, but they are well kept and look stylistically accurate to their era


ZOKUSHA also known as Kaido Racer take a great deal of inspiration from the old Silhouette racers of the late seventies and early to mid eighties, usually have big spoilers and wide overfenders that attempted to contain the aggressive offset of the Watanabe rims and the wildly stretched rubber they were shod in


Japanese term related to a fad where Otaku decorate their automobiles with decals and/or paint jobs of anime, manga, or video game characters.


BIPPU or VIP Style is the art of modifying Japanese luxury automobiles to make them lower in stance and wider looking with wide aggressive wheels and suspension. The majority of this are big cars


This is a Hillclimb racer style named like this in honor to Nobuhiro Tajima nicknamed "Monster", In this style the car's body is modified to achieve better aerodynamics during the race


Style name given to Japanese rally cars in honor of The Rally Hokkaido that is an international rally racing event held on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan.



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