Nowadays, it is almost hard to believe that, at a certain point, Japanese cars were not popular in the States. Considering the decades of unchallenged global domination of Japanese brands such as ...

A boy growing up in Japan in the 1980s would have been tickled pink to get his hands on a Choro-Q toy car, also known as Penny Racers. The magic was in revving the rear wheels backward to wind up ...