There is, after all, no shame in being provocative.

Naturally, every entry here can be debated that's the reason behind these lists. The mere knowledge that the GT-R existed was enough for it to rock our world, even if we weren't allowed to buy one from Nissan until 2009. That doesn't mean there aren't any cars on this list that were sold only in Japan (there's no way we'd leave off Nissan's mighty Skyline GT-Rs, for instance) but we considered all the cars primarily in the context of our market. But we admit we're biased in favor of cars that have had a significant impact here in North America - either in sales or in defining the car culture. These are the 100 greatest Japanese cars of all time. By the 1990s, they were building many of their cars here in the United States. Throw in a couple of traumatic fuel shortages caused by OPEC oil embargoes, and by 1980 Japanese carmakers were entrenched in America. By the 1970s Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota were pushing the product envelope with machines that dared to be entertaining alongside the now well-known virtues of Japanese cars. So the Japanese industry had to fight to prove itself in this country, and it did so by turning out affordable products that, even if they lacked excitement, were durable and economical to operate. But going into the 1960s, practically no American wanted or trusted Japanese products outside of the transistor radio and Honda Cub 50 motorcycle. Today, the Japanese car industry is so tightly interwoven with the fabric of American automotive culture that it's almost impossible to separate it.

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