Okinawa

[93_Accord_EX]

So I've been in japan for 5 months and haven't spotted one single cb7!!! which i think is outrageous and I have one of maybe 6 sir-t accords around, This place is ass backwards with hondas, there is less here than in the states?!?. well if you couldn't tell I'm pretty bored if any one has any questions about the whips here (every Nissan imaginable turboed lol) post it

[EJX_Michael]

So I've been in japan for 5 months and haven't spotted one single cb7!!! which i think is outrageous and I have one of maybe 6 sir-t accords around, This place is ass backwards with hondas, there is less here than in the states?!?. well if you couldn't tell I'm pretty bored if any one has any questions about the whips here (every Nissan imaginable turboed lol) post it

Its because most Japanese people buy new cars like every 2-3 years due to the registration techniques. Every 2 years (excluding new cars which is 3 years) Japanese people are required to get a "shaken" (sha-ken not shake-en) inspection on their cars which covers exhaust emissions, speedometer calibration, tires, lights and indicators, oil leaks, brakes etc. Everything on the car has to be basically in like new shape. The inspection its self is like $300 for the first 2 years and the price increases as the car gets older. If anything is wrong and it fails the inspection, the repairs must be made and it must be retested to be driven. This is the reason many Japanese get new cars and you won't see many old cars. Also the reason why we get awesome imported motors that have like 30k miles on them.

I went to Japan about 3 years ago. There are Hondas, just not the ones you are used to seeing. Examples are the City, ACTY, Jazz, Stepwgn, Vamos, Zest, Inspire, ect. They have many different models than us!

For example, the Life.

Not a hybrid, but gets nearly 50 MPG (21 km/l)
Also, It can come with 4WD
Price is about $12,000

Why not here in America? Probably because it only makes a whopping 51.29 Horsepower and 44.25 ft-lbs of Torque. Also the size... I don't think it would market well over here.


http://www.honda.co.jp/auto-lineup/ IDK if you can read Japanese, but if you hover over the pictures of the different cars you will see the name in english.

[ExplodingCake]

...and they have to comply with the US Emissions and Safety regulations. Also their Kei cars are made to go through those pesky alley roadways where regular vehicles mostly have to squeeze through.

That Honda Crossraod looks good , they should bring that to replace the nasty looking Honda Pilot.

[sow3r]

I NEED SOME PICS OF JDM CARS!!!!!!

[EJX_Michael]

I NEED SOME PICS OF JDM CARS!!!!!!

http://www.honda.co.jp/auto-lineup/

Holy schnit!

The JDM civic hybrid MXB gets 31-23 km/l which converts to 72.92-54.1 MPG! Why do our cars get significantly less? My only guess would be the emissions standards, but that almost doesn't make sense...

Civic Hybrid Specs

...and they have to comply with the US Emissions and Safety regulations. Also their Kei cars are made to go through those pesky alley roadways where regular vehicles mostly have to squeeze through.

That Honda Crossraod looks good , they should bring that to replace the nasty looking Honda Pilot.

Who knows. They may replace the element with it. It seems they put the new designs out in Japan first...

[HardInThePaint]

Its because most Japanese people buy new cars like every 2-3 years due to the registration techniques.

Damn if thats the case then I bet their car financing there is extremely lenient. I couldn't imagine them really trippin on a whole lot of shit to get u into a car if ur buying them every couple of years of so. I wonder what they do with all of those used cars? Ship them to other countries? I bet they have like almost no used car lots there.

[EJX_Michael]

Damn if thats the case then I bet their car financing there is extremely lenient. I couldn't imagine them really trippin on a whole lot of shit to get u into a car if ur buying them every couple of years of so. I wonder what they do with all of those used cars? Ship them to other countries? I bet they have like almost no used car lots there.

I guess part them out for motors and schnit, then crush them and recycle them...

[tommi]

cars like the cb mostly are gone from existance over there. the importers cant even find cb parts anymore to import from over there driving up prices of jdm parts. we're feeling the pain over here on the other side of the pond...

[deevergote]

They also don't have the CB7 in Japan

They got the other CB models. CB3, CB4, etc...

[JDMDriver]

As mentioned above, they have a very high turn over of cars (Im betting its probably the highest - higher than Europe).

The turn over of cars is so high that a 4 year old car is considered getting long in the tooth too difficult and expensive to maintain (not passing registration tests - for us its equivalent to maintaining a 40 year old car).

So CB7's being 20 years (or near) is near impossible to still be in existence. I suspect they would have started to scrap the first CB7 as early as 1996.

Bear in mind that the last year of the CB7 in Japan does not co-inside with the final year of production in the US (It would ceased production in Japan a year before it even ceased in the US).

CB7's (or the CB platform - used also for the Ascot, Innova & Aspires at the time) are pretty much ancient history (ages ago) by their standards (maybe as early as late 90's and early 2000's most if not all gone).

[tommi]

pic of said cars

[P5ylance]

i saw an ascot on the road in japan this year :3 it was the greatest sight of my whole two-week trip, the one that made me freak out in excitement in the car, and my host family couldn't understand why

[wed3k]

when i was in Hong Kong, they only had a couple of 5th gens. most people who could afford a car wouldnt opt for a cb7.