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Old Jun 14, 2017 | 12:30 am
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Originally Posted by gnaget
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It's pretty high status in Japan to buy high end tuner Mercedes, Porsche models and whatnot that is exclusively available in LHD. Even the in-house models like AMG seem to be LHD in Japan. I saw lots of rare tuner cars like Brabus, Lorinser (Mercedes), RUF (Porsche) in Japan, whereas never spotted one anywhere else in the world. Of course, the most notorious Porsche tuner is actually in Chiba: Rauh-Welt Begriff (sic). I took a young visitor from Germany to this bodyshop (what it actually is) in 2013. RWB is hated among Porsche purists for its cartoon-like body kits.

There was a lady in my old neighborhood who tooled around in an older Rolls Royce. I often spotted her car down the road illegally parked outside Tokyu Honten in Shibuya while she did her shopping. Remarkably, it was a LHD model!
This is very interesting...just this past weekend I was sitting on the 96 bus and low and behold, right beside us was a LHD Mercedes and beside her, a LHD Ferrari. I know driving RHD in Japan is challenging enough for a westerner, but driving LHD on the left side in Japan must be equally challenging for a local, especially with a car you really don't want to wreck.
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