JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) refers to Japan's home market for Vehicles and vehicle parts.
JDM cars are also know as drift cars or Japanese street cars. JDM cars were used for Toge or Touge which is a race on a mountain pass.
JDMs started to become popular in the U.S. in the 1980s as sporty two-door coupes like the Honda Prelude, Mazda RX-7, Nissan 240SX, and Toyota Supra and Celica joined the Nissan 300ZX in U.S. showrooms. But the real pivot toward JDM vehicles came in the 1990s, when magazines like Sport Compact Car and Super Street focused on the growing enthusiasm for Japanese “tuner cars” and the enthusiast culture forming around them. The Acura Integra, Honda Civic, Mitsubishi Eclipse, and Nissan 240SX were among the most common models featured in these magazines.
Touge
Touge, or Tōge, means “Pass” in Japanese, with these mountain roads being created with various S bends so the mountainous terrain could be conquered in Japan.
Originally routes created for the simplicity of moving for commercial vehicles and commuters, the motoring community has taken a serious interest.
Touge is higly illegal street racing but that doesn't stop motor heads from doing it.
Touge races, sometimes called Battles, are typically run at night between 2 cars in either "Cat and mouse" or Initial D rules.
A series of matches are run with a lead and a chase driver starting either side by side or bumper to bumper at the starting point.
Some touge racers take the turns lightly while others drift around the corner to maintain speed.
Drift King
Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver.
He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.
Keiichi Tsuchiya is credited with inspiring and popularising the sport of drift globally, starting with a late-1970s video of Tsuchiya-san skilfully drifting his Toyota AE86.
Keiichi Tsuchiya does touge and thats why hen lost his license because he recored himself doing a touge streetrace.
