@@sebihere3459American fast food is shockingly good everywhere else but America, I have extensive experience. KFC is actually a viable meal. McDonald’s tunes their food for local tastes, it’s spicier and more savoury. Subway bread is less fake, Burger King actually tastes like food. Taco Bell is legendary and actually mildly spicy for once
On the other hand, the Big Mac is - or was, until recently - really favourable in Japan. McDonalds' prices are about three-fifths what they are in the US.
@tomgnyc same way how CARB did the "bidding" of corporate interests by being sued and gutted for mandating 5% of any brand's new car sales being ZEV by 2005
Horse hockey! If it was, pirates wouldn't have stolen our samples from Europe! 😁 (Look it up, it's true: America didn't convert because our weight and measure samples were stolen by pirates.)
My dept has a little Ford Transit Connect. Sluggish, with a gas pedal that seems attached to the throttle by telegraph. But it's a big multipurpose shape (a box) that handles a lot like a car. I like it. It may represent the lower limit of what will fly with US buyers, and it's, like, two of these kei cars, and Ford is discontinuing it, citing "decreased demand for the compact van segment." Indeed, sales peaked at 52k units in 2015 and have declined by about 65% through 2023. It's a shame. I live in a very small city crammed with comically overgrown urban assault trucks. Drivers are just throwing money and effort down a bottomless pit of inefficiency at this point.
When I listen to drivers of pickup trucks it seems that every single one of them has to tow a three ton concrete block for thousands of miles every day and that is why they absolutely have to have a pickup truck the size of the USS Nimitz.
One of our field service vehicles is a transit connect and I love how work trucky it feels. And it fits our cargo racking better than the newer-ish Caravans we typically usefor service.
Japan resident here. Driving a kei car anywhere but the dense city, where the maneuverability is awesome, generally sucks. Unless it's a keitora in the inaka. Having said that, the NBox interior is awesome, like a Fit/Jazz on steroids
I had a lot of fun driving my 94 Acty SDX 8 hours to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The elevation changes were a challenge to be sure, but it's so sparsely populated the further north you go it didn't really matter, I had maybe half a dozen people pass me.
Ironically snobs in Tokyo rarely drive a kei, and old second hand keis still dominate most rural streets, because using public transit is shittier and expensive. Like seriously places like Isahaya, Nagasaki has 1 bus per hour and averages 500 yen (around USD $3.25) per one-way trip. At that point might as well get any car; not just a truck (usually 1 per adult in the family). Also modern keis aren't that bad. They have better features than their older counter parts (i.e. Slideshifting doors, top-down cameras, etc.).
@ToniBabelony I don't mind it. Unless you mean the freeway? I wouldn't attempt to drive on the freeway. But the US has tons of 55mph state highways that suit a kei car just fine.
@@nicoliedolpot7213the price for a kei truck vs a f150 of the same year, the f150 tends to be cheaper and the sister vehicle the expedition is even cheaper with the ability to tow 4 or 5 kei trucks
I think people should know they're essentially riding a motorcycle in kei cars, safety wise. But I daily a Honda Acty in the midwest and I have for several years. It's very useful and the most reliable vehicle I've owned. If I go to Valhalla at the mercy of a cybercuck I shall do so shiny and chrome.
I hauled 1600 lbs of bagged topsoil in my 1999 Subaru Legacy L wagon, and the shop truck at my old job (a tiny 1991 Chevy S10) regularly hauled 2800 lbs of cast iron brake rotors to the salvage yard. Huge 20 foot long, 8,000 lb curb weight V8 trucks aren’t needed as often as people think
@Marklin15 that's about 2.5 times what they were designed for and almost certainly more than the tires are safe at. I hauled about 1500lbs of concrete in my ranger once and it was enough to induce severe brake fade when slowing down.
Quite the surreal feeling: watching RCR for a nearly a decade from across the world, to present day where Mr Regular is filming in one of my favourite parks in outer north eastern Melbourne. Such a shame I couldn’t come to the Melbourne meet :(
@@raphaelrodrigues1645 I mean, it is a smaller car engine. European superminis aren't all that different. My Smart has 71 hp and 91 Nm - from a 999cc engine though, which means a turbo isn't necessary.
It's not, there's a lot different going on that makes a small car engine different than an equivalent bike engine. A bike doesn't have to worry about g-forces messing with how the fluids slosh around since you lean them into turns.
Speaking as someone that’s had a lot of seat time in a 2nd gen N-box, it proves the U.S. domestic auto market’s offering is done for. Everything a 9th gen civic does, this does better. Practicality and fuel economy are top tier, and power is enough 90% of the time. I’d rock one of these in the U.S. any day. Especially if you’re in a place like Boston, or rural Hawaii. But somewhere like Dallas or Houston might not be so ideal.
The cars that are like one step above keis, "mini MPVs", are so nice. Tons of space, genuinely comfortable, super nice to drive on the highway, all the creature comforts, 50+ mpg and only 150" long, which is still like over a foot longer than a kei but smaller than a Mirage. All the things people say make keis bad for the Western market about engine power and comfort which are already half truths wouldn't apply at all. We rented a Suzuki Solio in Japan and I still dream about it and it's only $14k new for that damn car. USDM is such ass.
I'd kill for one here in Pittsburgh. Anyone who says the US has wide roads , I can show you tons of roads here that are two way, physically not big enough for two cars, and loaded with blind turns
@RodoMallard It is not just the burgh itself, but all the outlying communities. I live in a small steel/coal town just outside of Pittsburgh, and our roads are awful with 2 way traffic. You have to pull into empty spaces to let other vehicles coming the opposite way pass, and pray to God if you are cresting a hill or coming around a bend that there is no one coming the other way. Its why, despite going to a midsize i REALLY prioritized how narrow the vehicle was in a world where cars keep getting fatter, even sedans.
@@bigchief939 Yes, but you are not the target audience for a K-van, which are the very opposite of sporty. Any engineer who even suggested sportiness during the development phase was likely forced to commit seppuku. One fact that RCR didn't mention in this video is that the 63 hp version is the most powerful option for this car. There's also a 58 hp base model, which is probably chosen by a healthy portion of the customer base.
My HRV has the same flip up rear seats, as do most Honda SUV’s now. Honda calls them Magic Seats. They’re really handy. I’ve used them for hauling tall plants before.
Used to take a 65PS car on the German Autobahn. 15 second 0-100. Know what, perfectly fine. You watch out for space behind you much like you'd adapt to a larger turning circle. Cruised at 155 km/h or 95 mph as well. And scared everyone else in the process.
Yaris P1? Took that thing on a 3000km holiday. No problems keeping up at all. Some very steep hills need +10km/h at the bottom to keep up but otherwise very good. The lack of weight and ESP 😋
Same with my 71 hp smart (which needs over 17 seconds to 100 kph). Not once have I been unable to keep up with traffic, despite what shocked Americans suggest any time I bring this car's performance or lack thereof up. Most of the time, I'm driving this thing at 2000 rpm, barely using the engine at all.
Face it, 95% of people importing any 25 year old Kei car are getting it as a 2nd or 3rd vehicle, not as a daily. It doesn't matter if its slow, struggles on Americans roads, has no crash protection, and is hard to get parts for. Its a project vehicle.
The Yaris/Echo Verso (or FunCargo for some) is a unique one for sure. The looks are an acquired taste, but it is basically kind of this but through an Echo indeed lol
Have an N WGN. Good city cars. Cheap to run, unique, spacious. Tiring to drive long distances and parts has challenges. It's not for everyone especially when trucks are more popular. You have to be quite comfortable in your ego to really own one.
That fuel efficiency is impressive for something shaped like a brick and fairly spacious. This goes to show that if you just want something to get you from A to B and are willing to make some concessions there are still options.
Watching this video has made me glad I ended up going for a 14th-gen Crown over the N Box. Yes I was cross-shopping mid-size luxury sedan with a Kei car - it's our second car so we were after something fun! Having driven home today in Melbourne traffic in complete comfort but with plenty of power when I wanted it though, I'm glad I went for big-engine luxo sedan fun rather than silly Kei fun. Not sure if you're still in Aus but happy for you to come and have a look at it, it's the GRS214 3.5 - the generation that replaced the grs204 you drove in NZ (that video partly inspired my obsession with Crowns and JDM imports)
Holy shit the madlads actually made it there and didn't fall off the face of the earth because they forgot to pack ground harnesses! Looking forward to the weird AUDM vehicles we don't get over here! Also, 3:57 some things never change lol
Cars like these are why the SUV became so popular here in the states. If your oone vehicle can do like 95% of the tasks you ask of it and is mostly reliable, you're unlikely to ever really need anything else.
Fake gears as default?! I have a euro spec Honda Fit (Jazz), and it has that as an option turned on from the steering wheel, and it always resets to default cvt.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a setting that can be changed, but the owner simply never figured out how to. Japanese cars can be like that. Fun fact: Toyota Germany has one of very few LHD Toyota Centuries in their possession, built exclusively for Japanese embassies in LHD countries. They still haven't figured out how some of the complex electronic gizmos of this car work, but at least they got the engine running again after many years, after having had difficulties to find parts - and it sounds amazing.
Surely we need to be doing a wiper count for the Australia vids hahaha, cant wait to see if he drives a euro car with the blinkers on the wrong side (left not right)
As a little city car it probably is fine. I might be wrong but I understand that Australia originally approved the import of the car but then this approval was removed recently.
I want it. I need it. I CRAVE it. Edit: This car is PERFECT for NYC.I wish these Japanese companies would do limited imports to the urban markets.This shit makes no sense outside a densely populated city where space and parking is scarce.
I had an '84 CRX HF. With a burned out clutch. That used more oil than fuel. I laughed at the hill climb bit as every pull from a stop in that car was a hill climb.
Hearing someone say Melbourne has a good public transport system made me spit take my craft beer. What?? Maybe in the CB D everywhere else it's tragic 😢
I get we’re spoiled powerwise nowadays, but geez. I drove a 55hp 1970 overloaded mercedes diesel sedan around north & south america and it was fine. Not fast, but also not too slow. 60mph cruising was perfectly comfortable. Only issue was steep inclines at high altitudes, but this would do that way better with its cvt and turbo.
I'm impressed you could fit 5 people in this weird ass box vehicle. Damn thing is the size if a golf cart?! also, why are you mad about the lack of manual transmission? This is a city vehicle with barely enough power to go up a decent sized hill so a manual would be a massive pain in the ass.
The federal government decides what cars can be on that list and they have to be uber-special highly limited production cars. You can't just import a car and declare it Show & Display. Also, Show & Display cars are limited to 2500 miles per year.
9:30 Australia may be the size of the lower 48 US States but the actual usable land that can support large population centers is actually quite small in comparison to the useable land in the USA.
As a black man, i cannot drive the N box
We can rebadge it as a "cracker box" !
Maybe they will rename it AfAm Box one day.
Literal Lol. You got me.
Honestly, we were all thinking it.
We'll get you a pass.
Getting a JDM car with a CVT and fake gears is like going to Japan and just eating at American fast food places.
I had the teriyaki mcburger at mcdonalds whilst I was there earlier this year
@@mikehall3976how was it?
@@sebihere3459American fast food is shockingly good everywhere else but America, I have extensive experience. KFC is actually a viable meal. McDonald’s tunes their food for local tastes, it’s spicier and more savoury. Subway bread is less fake, Burger King actually tastes like food. Taco Bell is legendary and actually mildly spicy for once
On the other hand, the Big Mac is - or was, until recently - really favourable in Japan. McDonalds' prices are about three-fifths what they are in the US.
@@mikehall3976 I mean thats the best thing about it, that and the samurai borgar.
Ohh look warm dry scenery in an RCR Video..... wait is that gum trees. Oh gawd that's here. Hope you guys had fun down under.
I wish truely small cars were still a thing for western city dwellers instead of all the city "SUV"s that are on the market
You can thank the epa for that
@@infernoking7504EPA doing the bidding of the automakers.
And trams
@tomgnyc same way how CARB did the "bidding" of corporate interests by being sued and gutted for mandating 5% of any brand's new car sales being ZEV by 2005
The american mind simply cannot comprehend having enough.
Goal: make my xB last until 2036
JDM BBs are legal in 2025. All autos though. Open Deck BBs are June 2026
@@96st206 brother keep the ODBB under wraps ive been waiting years
The owner looks like the Car Wizard's Australian cousin
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this
* Clarkson voice * he's not the Car Wizard... but he is the Car Wizards Australian cousin
@@TheyCallMeMrMaybe I honestly thought it was him for a second.
I’ll be damned! You’re right!
the Upside down car wizard~!
Falcon wagon as a camera car ❤
Yeah buddy!
THE METRIC SYSTEM IS YOUR FRIEND
EMBRACE IT
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
Horse hockey! If it was, pirates wouldn't have stolen our samples from Europe! 😁
(Look it up, it's true: America didn't convert because our weight and measure samples were stolen by pirates.)
...NEVERRR!
-Marv, Home Alone II, 1992
We're trying 😭
Prepare to be colonized by the imperial empire. You'll measure things in barley corns and like it.
Horrible day turned great because i can watch RCR while the world burns around me.
My dept has a little Ford Transit Connect. Sluggish, with a gas pedal that seems attached to the throttle by telegraph. But it's a big multipurpose shape (a box) that handles a lot like a car. I like it. It may represent the lower limit of what will fly with US buyers, and it's, like, two of these kei cars, and Ford is discontinuing it, citing "decreased demand for the compact van segment." Indeed, sales peaked at 52k units in 2015 and have declined by about 65% through 2023. It's a shame. I live in a very small city crammed with comically overgrown urban assault trucks. Drivers are just throwing money and effort down a bottomless pit of inefficiency at this point.
noisepuppet! fancy seeing you here! was just showing my workmate some of your turds earlier. hope all is well mate
When I listen to drivers of pickup trucks it seems that every single one of them has to tow a three ton concrete block for thousands of miles every day and that is why they absolutely have to have a pickup truck the size of the USS Nimitz.
One of our field service vehicles is a transit connect and I love how work trucky it feels. And it fits our cargo racking better than the newer-ish Caravans we typically usefor service.
RCR Australia coming out swinging for the fences!
Bringin the fun Down Under.
Japan resident here. Driving a kei car anywhere but the dense city, where the maneuverability is awesome, generally sucks. Unless it's a keitora in the inaka. Having said that, the NBox interior is awesome, like a Fit/Jazz on steroids
I had a lot of fun driving my 94 Acty SDX 8 hours to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The elevation changes were a challenge to be sure, but it's so sparsely populated the further north you go it didn't really matter, I had maybe half a dozen people pass me.
As an American, we appreciate your love of racing Dodge vans. Japanese car culture is ridiculous, but it’s awesome.
Ironically snobs in Tokyo rarely drive a kei, and old second hand keis still dominate most rural streets, because using public transit is shittier and expensive. Like seriously places like Isahaya, Nagasaki has 1 bus per hour and averages 500 yen (around USD $3.25) per one-way trip. At that point might as well get any car; not just a truck (usually 1 per adult in the family).
Also modern keis aren't that bad. They have better features than their older counter parts (i.e. Slideshifting doors, top-down cameras, etc.).
Driving a kei on the highway sucks real bad, but in the city it's chef's kiss 🤌
@ToniBabelony I don't mind it. Unless you mean the freeway? I wouldn't attempt to drive on the freeway. But the US has tons of 55mph state highways that suit a kei car just fine.
"WATCH ME GROWWWW" *paws smashing like button*
Cae puppy more like Kei puppy
You can also locally import Kei cars and hybrids!
Was good having you.
Texas is saying f that. It is working to allow Kei cars to be driven on roads without having to use antique cars.
the kei trucks having the same bed size as a new full size f150 really says a lot about truck design these days
@@nicoliedolpot7213the price for a kei truck vs a f150 of the same year, the f150 tends to be cheaper and the sister vehicle the expedition is even cheaper with the ability to tow 4 or 5 kei trucks
A w for Texas. Pleasant surprise.
What? Please tell me that this is legit. Where did you hear this? Is this for cars less than 25 years old?
Texas of all places???
I think people should know they're essentially riding a motorcycle in kei cars, safety wise. But I daily a Honda Acty in the midwest and I have for several years. It's very useful and the most reliable vehicle I've owned. If I go to Valhalla at the mercy of a cybercuck I shall do so shiny and chrome.
Oh yeah, I forgot you were in Australia. It was about time you went down under.
And then went to Australia.
People say they need a huge SUV to be able to haul a bunch of stuff but you can do all that in something like this lol
My buddy always used to side-eye me when I'd put only like 400lbs in the back of my 93 Ranger. Brother I could haul the world in that thing.
I hauled 1600 lbs of bagged topsoil in my 1999 Subaru Legacy L wagon, and the shop truck at my old job (a tiny 1991 Chevy S10) regularly hauled 2800 lbs of cast iron brake rotors to the salvage yard.
Huge 20 foot long, 8,000 lb curb weight V8 trucks aren’t needed as often as people think
You can always carry less in a big car but it's really hard to carry more in a small car.
@@300DBenz2,800 lbs in the bed of an S10 was probably way over the payload rating.
@Marklin15 that's about 2.5 times what they were designed for and almost certainly more than the tires are safe at. I hauled about 1500lbs of concrete in my ranger once and it was enough to induce severe brake fade when slowing down.
Cromulent? That embiggens my vocabulary.
a Dankpods favourite word
my vocabulary is so borked from watching that channel
10:09 3x faster confirmed
11:36 australian youtuber almost mentioned
oh man it would rock to have rcr and dankpods geek out about cars together
My ears pricked up when he said cromulant. This is such a dankpods garbage time car. 😅
RCR x Garbage Time crossover?? I'd be all about that. 😊
WHERE'S THE VFIN?! WHERE?
Quite the surreal feeling: watching RCR for a nearly a decade from across the world, to present day where Mr Regular is filming in one of my favourite parks in outer north eastern Melbourne. Such a shame I couldn’t come to the Melbourne meet :(
Same here. Would have loved to get Mr Regular to drive my Aristo
"Scrape the road like cold butter on untoasted bread"
Gah. That phrase actually made me grimace.
Get in the Nbox, Shinji.
That's a motorcycle engine.
And that's not a bad thing.
nearly 100Nm of torque from a 660cc is pretty neat. 600 supersports barely hit 55, although they aren't turbo'd.
@jackmiller8851 Even the NA 660cc Key car engines have 80/90 Nm of torque. So its closer to a smaller car engine than a Motorcycle engine
@@raphaelrodrigues1645 I mean, it is a smaller car engine. European superminis aren't all that different. My Smart has 71 hp and 91 Nm - from a 999cc engine though, which means a turbo isn't necessary.
It's not, there's a lot different going on that makes a small car engine different than an equivalent bike engine. A bike doesn't have to worry about g-forces messing with how the fluids slosh around since you lean them into turns.
You had me at "cromulent".
THC in the number plate, Legend
Even better than that. THC 801. aka. THC BOI
Imagine if Doug Demuro is on e621
lol its funny because i found about doug through mr regular's early videos
Very interesting.
The Gen 1 will be available to import to Canada in 2026 (15 year delay for Canada).
Speaking as someone that’s had a lot of seat time in a 2nd gen N-box, it proves the U.S. domestic auto market’s offering is done for. Everything a 9th gen civic does, this does better. Practicality and fuel economy are top tier, and power is enough 90% of the time.
I’d rock one of these in the U.S. any day. Especially if you’re in a place like Boston, or rural Hawaii. But somewhere like Dallas or Houston might not be so ideal.
This body style, tall box with sliding doors, on an civic/corolla chassis would be extremely practical
The cars that are like one step above keis, "mini MPVs", are so nice. Tons of space, genuinely comfortable, super nice to drive on the highway, all the creature comforts, 50+ mpg and only 150" long, which is still like over a foot longer than a kei but smaller than a Mirage. All the things people say make keis bad for the Western market about engine power and comfort which are already half truths wouldn't apply at all. We rented a Suzuki Solio in Japan and I still dream about it and it's only $14k new for that damn car. USDM is such ass.
I'd kill for one here in Pittsburgh. Anyone who says the US has wide roads , I can show you tons of roads here that are two way, physically not big enough for two cars, and loaded with blind turns
@@RodoMallardYeah, Pittsburgh is an anachronistic throwback to when America was the world's factory.
@RodoMallard It is not just the burgh itself, but all the outlying communities.
I live in a small steel/coal town just outside of Pittsburgh, and our roads are awful with 2 way traffic. You have to pull into empty spaces to let other vehicles coming the opposite way pass, and pray to God if you are cresting a hill or coming around a bend that there is no one coming the other way. Its why, despite going to a midsize i REALLY prioritized how narrow the vehicle was in a world where cars keep getting fatter, even sedans.
Ditch the CVT, tighten up that suspension and swap in a CBR1000RR drivetrain. Make it a flying brick.
cvt is a feature not a bug
We'll have to agree to disagree. Manual transmissions are my preference
@@carlosandleonI think people just don’t understand how to drive with them. “Automatic” =/= “thoughtless” ya know?
@@bigchief939 Yes, but you are not the target audience for a K-van, which are the very opposite of sporty. Any engineer who even suggested sportiness during the development phase was likely forced to commit seppuku.
One fact that RCR didn't mention in this video is that the 63 hp version is the most powerful option for this car. There's also a 58 hp base model, which is probably chosen by a healthy portion of the customer base.
My HRV has the same flip up rear seats, as do most Honda SUV’s now. Honda calls them Magic Seats. They’re really handy. I’ve used them for hauling tall plants before.
Uh-huh...."tall" "plants"... 😉🙊
@ haha very funny, it was a couple of ponytail palm trees.
Used to take a 65PS car on the German Autobahn. 15 second 0-100. Know what, perfectly fine. You watch out for space behind you much like you'd adapt to a larger turning circle. Cruised at 155 km/h or 95 mph as well. And scared everyone else in the process.
Yaris P1? Took that thing on a 3000km holiday. No problems keeping up at all. Some very steep hills need +10km/h at the bottom to keep up but otherwise very good.
The lack of weight and ESP 😋
Same with my 71 hp smart (which needs over 17 seconds to 100 kph). Not once have I been unable to keep up with traffic, despite what shocked Americans suggest any time I bring this car's performance or lack thereof up. Most of the time, I'm driving this thing at 2000 rpm, barely using the engine at all.
I am glad that I own a Honda Fit (2020) . I had 5 people asking me to sell it, 4 years after it was discontinued in the USA.
Face it, 95% of people importing any 25 year old Kei car are getting it as a 2nd or 3rd vehicle, not as a daily. It doesn't matter if its slow, struggles on Americans roads, has no crash protection, and is hard to get parts for. Its a project vehicle.
When I lived in Japan I liked these. JDM cars were always fun to drive
a guy calling his channel "regular car reviews" appreciates the name "cars from japan" ...yep, that checks out xD
Suzuki Carry has entered the chat.
The best import alternative to this for US enthusiast is the Yaris Verso, because it's an Echo paired to the practicallity of a kei car
Doesn't have the cool rear seats though and it looks the way it looks.
The Yaris/Echo Verso (or FunCargo for some) is a unique one for sure. The looks are an acquired taste, but it is basically kind of this but through an Echo indeed lol
@no1DdC yeah but in japan it was available with awd and a spare tire inside the trunk door
The N-Box is pretty cool. I got to ride in one this past summer during my trip in Japan. Great camper, great commuter, and a elegantly simple car.
Looking forward to the XE Falcon review, did any of the door handles work?
Edit, XF, and only one broken door handle... quality!
Canadian here. I want one, and we don't have the same import restrictions here as you do in the US... I WANT A LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE BOX
You got The Car Wizard to appear in one of your videos? I'm impressed!
Anyone know what that red car in the parking lot is at @1:10?
2017 Honda nbox
Looks like a Volvo 122 / Amazon
god the ground clearance on this makes my head hurt
4:47 casual classic thunderbird passing
I just spotted it!
This is sold here in Singapore but as a van so regular people that don't own a business can't purchase one
Have an N WGN. Good city cars. Cheap to run, unique, spacious. Tiring to drive long distances and parts has challenges. It's not for everyone especially when trucks are more popular. You have to be quite comfortable in your ego to really own one.
Anyone else think this car looks neat? Like a micro-minivan.
You can take it to the maxi-mini-mall!
That fuel efficiency is impressive for something shaped like a brick and fairly spacious. This goes to show that if you just want something to get you from A to B and are willing to make some concessions there are still options.
This car would be the last nail in the coffin for anyone still keeping their Geo Metros alive.
You generally can chip tune these (or swap ECU) and bump up the power to around 100 hp.
Was a great vehicle to witness, props to the owner for driving down from Sydney too!
Watching this video has made me glad I ended up going for a 14th-gen Crown over the N Box. Yes I was cross-shopping mid-size luxury sedan with a Kei car - it's our second car so we were after something fun! Having driven home today in Melbourne traffic in complete comfort but with plenty of power when I wanted it though, I'm glad I went for big-engine luxo sedan fun rather than silly Kei fun. Not sure if you're still in Aus but happy for you to come and have a look at it, it's the GRS214 3.5 - the generation that replaced the grs204 you drove in NZ (that video partly inspired my obsession with Crowns and JDM imports)
As an Australian owner of a Suzuki Every Wagon, I was hoping you guys would review a Kei
When's the review of that Falcon coming?
Nice shots from Sugarloaf. Was great to have you guys here in Melbourne
What a perfectly cromulent video. 🎉
Holy shit the madlads actually made it there and didn't fall off the face of the earth because they forgot to pack ground harnesses! Looking forward to the weird AUDM vehicles we don't get over here!
Also, 3:57 some things never change lol
Cars like these are why the SUV became so popular here in the states. If your oone vehicle can do like 95% of the tasks you ask of it and is mostly reliable, you're unlikely to ever really need anything else.
If I can only have one car, it should do it all. Commuting comfortably, road trips, going to the hardware store. Kei cars are too small.
your entire "united world where everyone can import new cars" bit is true basically everywhere except the US, Canada, australia and new zealand
11:36 HE SAID IT, THE NUGG IS CROMULENT CERTIFIED! DANGIT FRANK.
Fake gears as default?! I have a euro spec Honda Fit (Jazz), and it has that as an option turned on from the steering wheel, and it always resets to default cvt.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a setting that can be changed, but the owner simply never figured out how to. Japanese cars can be like that.
Fun fact: Toyota Germany has one of very few LHD Toyota Centuries in their possession, built exclusively for Japanese embassies in LHD countries. They still haven't figured out how some of the complex electronic gizmos of this car work, but at least they got the engine running again after many years, after having had difficulties to find parts - and it sounds amazing.
Surely we need to be doing a wiper count for the Australia vids hahaha, cant wait to see if he drives a euro car with the blinkers on the wrong side (left not right)
Space in Japan, in general, is at a premium, so cars like this work very well over there.
I'd love one of these, especially for my commute. I'd have to top the tank off once every 2 months, and it would cost $30~ a tank.
Ah, the eye-searing, weirdly grey midday light of Australia. I avoid the outdoors until the sun's about halfway to the horizon.
I feel like the answer for practical kei car imports is always to just get a fit.
FINALLY A KEI CAR
Just come to Japan already
I spend all my time visiting Japan oogling these things. N Box, N Van, N Wgn. They are all incredible. There's an EV variant now, too!
N Box & Suzuki Hustler (grille has FJ40 overtones) are so popular in Japan now.
Tried to pack one in my luggage for 🇺🇸
13:10 same man, same 😔
Do a review of that yellow Falcon wagon! Great vehicles too, made in Vic.
I keep thinking my video aspect ratio is off
N-Box Best Box! Though I'd also like the Honda N-One, or the rival Suzuki Spacia.
like a boy toy who will only eat at the seasons 52 at the KOP mall is exactly the oddly specific reference i came here for
That yellow 505 wagon in the background is such a tease pleaseeeeee tell me that is also getting a review
I'm so feckin dirty that I missed you guys tripping down here.
As a little city car it probably is fine. I might be wrong but I understand that Australia originally approved the import of the car but then this approval was removed recently.
I want it.
I need it.
I CRAVE it.
Edit: This car is PERFECT for NYC.I wish these Japanese companies would do limited imports to the urban markets.This shit makes no sense outside a densely populated city where space and parking is scarce.
I had an '84 CRX HF. With a burned out clutch. That used more oil than fuel.
I laughed at the hill climb bit as every pull from a stop in that car was a hill climb.
Hearing someone say Melbourne has a good public transport system made me spit take my craft beer. What?? Maybe in the CB D everywhere else it's tragic 😢
Hoping you guys got to get a go in a GR Yaris.
I get we’re spoiled powerwise nowadays, but geez. I drove a 55hp 1970 overloaded mercedes diesel sedan around north & south america and it was fine. Not fast, but also not too slow. 60mph cruising was perfectly comfortable. Only issue was steep inclines at high altitudes, but this would do that way better with its cvt and turbo.
So it's basically a 1st gen scion xb
Hard R edition?
I'm impressed you could fit 5 people in this weird ass box vehicle. Damn thing is the size if a golf cart?! also, why are you mad about the lack of manual transmission? This is a city vehicle with barely enough power to go up a decent sized hill so a manual would be a massive pain in the ass.
Honda N-van (a van and spartan version of this) have manual version
THC 420 would be the ideal reg plate
I have ahonda box but its not moveing went i press the gas
Is that Thicc Boi license plate real?
So basically the geo metro still exists in different form... noice
That would be the Suzuki Swift, the new one is really sweet too
my biggest complaint about this gen nbox is that it does not have telescopic steering. except that, nice car all around
Great to see another kei car on the channel. *inflates you making you big and round*
Hey congrats on the new camera setup!
10:21 交通安全 寒川神社 'Drive safely - Samukawa Shrine' that's cool, did it came with the vehicle?
Who left a Scion xB in the drier too long?
you don't have to wait that long, just import one under the Show & Display rule and you are good.
More than 500 were made, won't work.
The federal government decides what cars can be on that list and they have to be uber-special highly limited production cars. You can't just import a car and declare it Show & Display. Also, Show & Display cars are limited to 2500 miles per year.
I had to watch it twice, great upload
9:30 Australia may be the size of the lower 48 US States but the actual usable land that can support large population centers is actually quite small in comparison to the useable land in the USA.
It has an E pillar.
This sounds like it would work really well as a city-limited day rental car.