9 Things You Should Never Say To A JDM Fanboy

JDM fanboys can be very defensive over their cars, so we asked you: what is the worst thing you could say to a JDM car lover? Here are the best suggestions!

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

9 Things You Should Never Say To A JDM Fanboy

1. I like Hondas. Mine does a great job of mowing the lawn

Putting a lawnmower at the same level as an S2000 or a Civic Type R is a good way to upset a JDM fanboy.

2. When does V-Tec kick in?

Making sarcastic remarks about one of their favourite engine features is not the best way to start a friendship with a Japanese car lover.

3. All Japanese cars are rice

Just because there tends to be a number of wings on spoilers on Japanese cars doesn’t mean they’re riced - JDM car lovers will quickly defend themselves at such accusations.

Answer to this suggestion by CTzen Erik Swanson!

4. Jokes like this:

Do not laugh at their engine’s size - they feel proud of extracting great performance, fuel efficiency and reliability from smaller engines, and besides, no one likes to hear they have a small anything…

5. When will you put tribals on your car?

For a proper JDM fanboy that works on the heart of his car instead of the body style it must be frustrating to have people assume they’re purely motivated by aesthetics.

6. The GTR is not the best car ever created

True or not, would you like to be told that your dream car isn’t the best in the world?

7. Walk up to their S2k and say: “Nice Miata, bro”

This is probably more annoying for the Honda owner, but either way, fans of both of these cars are borderline fanatical, so recognising their car for what it is will ensure no facepalms are endured.

8. Have you seen the new Datsuns?

It’s been Nissan for a while now! This joke has been around since Datsun died out in the 80s, so you’re not being original, either…

9. The Nissan GT-R drives by itself

In particular, our very own Neil Winn will hate to hear this one!

Comments

my favorite - Your Nissan is made in France, your honda has been designed and built in England and your Toyota is has been built in Turkey.
Japanese built quality is great.

I’m sure the French and English can give a quality build if instructed. They might be built to Japanese standards. But I’m confident the engines wouldn’t of been designed outside Japan.

Ummm. Not right. For example there is soma honda cars made with “Rover” but i personally drive civic EF which was made in Japan and America only. Mine is jap.

There are some civics from england but still most of them are made in japan (EU market)

Bmw are also made in russia

For honda fanboys its so annoying to say nice hyundai

well they’re Korean so…

There isn’t a best car is there? If there is a GT-R is an affordable contender. Personally I think I’d get a 911.

3000$ a month for insurance though?

This is more a Honda fanboy post.. :/ and yes most of the Honda’s in the world are riced out soo

Yes because the most of the people who rice cars arent car guys

If the toyota supra has a rep for being very fast only because someone customized it to that level of performance then why shouldn’t hondas have the rep of being ricey cars?

Cause anyone can rice any car anytime but not every engine can be tuned to make 1000hp+

Nissan GTR - called a car that drives itself by people that haven’t driven one, and the best car ever made by… people that haven’t driven one.

I’ve driven one but the thing is that it does hold a few world records. So, if you’re saying the GTR is the best car in the world my question would be at what?