There are a lot of weird and crazy cultures in our wonderful automotive community. Maybe you like wearing dirty vests and singing in loud, big cars with your weird country friends. Maybe you are a sad loser who collects model cars. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll be inspired to take a look at vintage cars that, for the most part, look alike and evoke nostalgia for the “good old days”.
Or maybe you like JDM.
Now as we know I am very inclusive, I never think about judging people on their interests or opinions or whether they support their country EVEN though they literally come from the greatest hells on earth.
…
Not.
Never.
Not me anyway.
But, unfortunately, my acceptance only extends to the normality of people. And people who love JDM are frankly weirder than Prince Andrew’s thoughts on a Pizza Express chain. I hate JDM. I don’t know if saying that every five minutes gets the point across well enough, but JDM sucks. Sarah if you are reading this you are an lmfao exception. Anyway, I want to complain today because I feel like I’m going soft and it would be an international disaster. So here’s everything I hate about it:
The destruction and ugliness of big cars:
Yes yes. Financially, the JDM scene is predictably a big hit for the creators of iconic JDM classics like the Skyline GTR, Supra and so on. You could say its presence in today’s society is the result of a predominately subculture, but if you take this lovable and spunky AE86 Trueno……
And then JDM-ify, the result for some of you will be inspiring. But my inspiration in this case involves great anger and possibly an outrageous act of violence in said vehicle.
Horrible wheels, plastic trash galore everywhere, horrible stickers, stupid lights, crazy exhausts and stupid noise. Now, that top image is, in my opinion, looking for a (admittedly quite limited) idea of JDM’s overview, “modest” work. The idolized image according to half of the internet seems to go along these lines:
Oops bad photo, I thought so.
Is this the kind of thing you like JDM fans? I don’t know, it’s just that kind of thing that’s extremely popular online.
Here is a small gallery of beautiful “standard” cars being “non-standard” in the name of uglifica – I mean JDM or “Japanese domestic market” I guess? Some before and after the massacres.
I consider this a downgrade.
In fact, that’s pretty much the only reason really. This subculture encourages young people to kill innocent prams as we have adopted them. It’s so corny, and in hopes of finding as much absolute damage as possible to discourage anyone from getting out of this nightmarish circus, I went online, which brightened up my night a lot.
It’s very awful. Of course, I agree that’s definitely the extreme side of the JDM scene. But I think my displeasure with the whole thing is entirely justified by this:
They arrived at Kia.
I think on the scale of all the terrible things in the world, it’s somewhere between mushroom meals and Labor MP Diane Abbott.
Which is clearly very bad.
Anyway, there’s just one other main thing I hate about JDM.
The Storm Poser:
The biggest problem for car enthusiasts right now (apart from the development of electric vehicles probably) is the installers. It’s a complaint I love to discuss with top Drivetribers. By “poseurs” I mean those fake car enthusiasts who dress dirty and pose next to Huracans and Supras and the like just for the likes of Instagram. It’s not a serious crime, of course, but it often gives a bad image to cars like those mentioned above, for example. Suffice it to say about it, it’s just a little extra.
In short, yes, that’s enough JDM for me. Thanks for reading and whatever the view, I hope you had a good laugh.