What happened to all of the Japanese performance cars from the 80s/90s to early 00s, the cars without any worthy successors, like Supra, RX7, 240/200/180SX, Integra, Celica, Eclipse, WRX STI, EVO, etc? I understand the need for safety measures and increasing fuel prices but still.
Why did all the Japanese performance cars disappear?
Benjamin Adams
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Matthew White
People buy sports cars when the economy is booming. Companies tighten belts and cancel sports car lines when there's a downturn. The Japanese crash in 89, dotcom in 00, and subprime in 08 hit auto companies hard. All three of those crashes marked the last generation of a lot of sports cars worldwide not just in Japan.
Juan Clark
The RX-9 is coming
The Toyota Supra is also coming with a BMW engine
The WRX STI is still being made and is getting a new engine
The EVO is dead
We have the Nissan GT-R
Also we have the Civic Type R, which owns 5 drive records at European Tracks, including the Burger King.
So, stop being an over dramatic faggot.
Robert Ross
emissions also had a part to do with why companies scaled back their sporty car production
at the time when these cool cars were being built was at a time when companies could afford to be able to design and sell cars not so much for profit, but for building the companies image. such as nissan entering the WRC with their GTiR in the early 90s.
as soon as this economic bubble burst in the early 2000s the companies put a lot less money into their image building cars and more into the ones that made them money
Asher Jackson
>Integra, Celica, Eclipse
>performance cars
Nicholas Butler
>emissions also had a part to do with why companies scaled back their sporty car production
Why do japs make v8 SUVs and trucks?
Blake Powell
Well the top trim at least. The Celica and Eclipse ones got both AWD and turbo.
Caleb Harris
What is an ST205 GT4?
What is a Type R?
Camden Wood
kek
First car was a 1990 na celica. Great beater but... yeh shitbox.
Easton Gonzalez
Sporty affordable coupes are a dead segment except for the toyota 86, and a few others but blame safety standards before emissions. Blaming emissions doesnt make sense