These tiny JDM designs deliver big on style and fun, despite their affordable price and pint-size proportions.

In Japan, parking garages are storing aging kei cars, essentially on standby until they hit the 25-year mark, ready to be shipped and on the road in the U.S. 1 in 5 new car buyers take on $1K ...

A kei car isn't going to be the perfect car for everyone, but how can you not at least love the idea? They're tiny, practical ...

Cars in this segment, the smallest road-legal cars available. Kei cars cannot have engines larger than 660 cc, can be no longer than 11.2 feet, should have a maximum width of 4.2 feet and cannot ...

Once you start talking cool car names, you'll inevitably end up talking kei cars, because they really do have the best names ...

Designed to skirt Japanese taxes, Kei Cars are ultra-compact cars, SUVs, and pickups no longer than 11.2 feet, and no wider than 4.9 feet. Engine size is capped at 660 cc.

Kei Cars Must Be Classics The broadest limitation shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who lusts after JDM or European forbidden fruit. To register a kei car in Colorado, it must either comply ...

In Canada, where kei cars are frequently imported, they're great in town but sketchy on the freeway. Not so in Japan—they're wildly, wildly popular.

Still, not every car is made with US shoppers in mind. In major cities overseas, where streets are narrower, parking is tighter, and efficiency is key, small cars make far more sense. That's where ...

Kei-cars are low price. It is easy to find under $10,000 USD of used or new Kei-cars. The tuning parts for Kei-cars are cheaper than the tuning parts for over 1.6-liter cars.

Japan does small cars like no other country on earth--mainly because they have to. The nation's Kei-jidosha car class was set up to make a class of car that was cheaper to run, easier to own and ...

But the RMV didn’t bother figuring out what a kei car even is before advancing the AAMVA’s agenda, and began swatting down registrations of JDM cars wholesale.