Super hip patina or just a car that’s been sitting out in the Southern California sun for too long? You be the judge. This guy is sporting a slammed stance with OEM wheel covers and what look to be some massive spacers… With so many similar cars gathered in one place, people do some pretty strange things to make their car stand out. It doesn’t scream for your attention like some cars at Eibach, but captures it nonetheless with a tasteful exterior. Once again this really opens up the modification possibilities, whether it’s an extreme build or something more mild like this one.įor some reason Honda decided to design a unique front end for the US market eight generation Civic, but judging on the popularity of the JDM conversion I think they should have left it alone… The Acura RSX is another one of those cars that’s dipping in price range on the used market. The different interpretations of JDM can be argued forever, but for now let’s move on to my remaining coverage from the Eibach Meet. I also got to thinking that these days with the explosion of USDM style in Japan, the lines between “US JDM” and “real” JDM are getting blurred more and more. Part of me asks what exactly stickerbombing and roof racks on a US-built Civic have to do with Japan, but that’s what makes events like the Eibach Meet such a mind trip. Then there’s cars like this Civic Coupe which apparently also falls under someone’s definition of “JDM”. You also have literal JDM cars – like the Honda City I posted the other day, or this bone stock four-door Integra Type R that someone was lucky enough to source from Japan. Of course you still have “JDM” modified cars in the traditional sense – like this Integra that lost its US market front end in favor of the popular JDM face. It was a question that I was trying to answer for myself as I made my way around the Eibach Meet on Sunday as I counted dozens of “I Love JDM” stickers and license plate frames. Today if you ask five people what JDM is to them you’ll probably get five different answers. At one point I even saw someone trying to sell a “JDM” Hyundai Tiburon of all things. These days I’ll pop on to my local Craigslist site where I see people applying the term “JDM” to any Honda that’s been modified whatsoever. People would (and still do) swap out their factory parts for their Japanese home market counterparts – be it a steering wheel, a set headlights, or even an complete engine. As Japanese cars were built and sold cross the world, different options would be offered for different markets. As the abbreviation suggests, JDM meant Japanese Domestic Market. Today the word “JDM” is probably one of the most overused and ambiguous terms in the automotive world – particularly when it comes to Hondas.
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