In the States, “pimping out” your vehicle generally involves adding oversized subwoofers, gaudy rims and stupid- looking ground effects kits and spoilers. It’s a masculine, masturbatory affair that I ...

Pink Tentacle has posted a great gallery of extreme Japanese custom vans, many of which look more like warp-speed capable Winnebagos than vans proper. These pictures have made me consider tricking out ...

Japan has carved out more than its fair share of unique automotive niches, but this one might just take the cake. As it turns out, there’s a subculture of Japanese tuners who spend their time building ...

What happens when a bunch of crazy motorcycle racers start hot rodding their Dodge vans and go racing? If you say Dajiban out loud, you can hear the translation to Dodge van, and they're essentially ...

Who knew that custom American vans of the 1970s would be so fashionable in Japan that some guys would actually replicate the looks of Dodge and Chevy models on their mini-sized Japanese models! These ...

Talk to anyone at the Japanese Classic Car Show and the first thing they’ll tell you is when they got their car and what they’ve done to it since. JCCS, as it’s better known, remains a grassroots ...

Steve Pelletier recently sold his vintage Porsche 911 in order to spend more time on something not as fast, and not as pretty, but arguably more interesting: a 1994 Toyota Hiace van. The Nike employee ...