Join Captbradford as he visits the 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon, the biggest and most important aftermarket, tuning and motorsport exhibition in Japan and all things JDM. After a one year hiatus due to Covid, the popular auto salon returns to Makuhari Messe With careful restrictions on visitor numbers. It is unfortunate that foreign visitors cannot visit Japan for this show. Therefore we take you around the best and most important locations for the sports car category from manufacturers and big aftermarket brands.

In this four part series, the first takes a look at Toyota’s Gazoo Racing booth. Taking centre stage is the return of the highest new special grade GRMN for the GR Yaris. As an ongoing development of their compact Raleigh Road car, extensive modifications done to the body shell and aerodynamics is exciting for the future of sport confidence. We also check out Toyotas winning streak of race vehicles. Group 4 GR Yaris Japan rally. Dakar Land Cruiser 200. Yaris WRC. LeMans Race car. GT500 TOM’s GR Supra. Also on show us some road cars like a full option GR86, Lexus NX PHEV, Toyota bZ4x GR concept and Corolla Sport hydrogen Super Taikyu 24 hours race car prototype driven by “Morizo” Akio Toyoda.

The announcement of the GR GT3 race car concept is also shown, With its long bonnet and low-slung GT style that hints of true supercar potential. 

JDM Masters crew: @captbradford @aonaminnie