C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

| 23 Mar 2023
Classic & Sports Car – C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

If your heart beats that little bit faster at the sight of a Japanese classic car, don’t miss the brand-new C&SC presents… Japanese Legends, on sale now.

This is the latest in our series of special-edition magazines which has also featured Porsche Legends, Sports Car LegendsSupercar Legends and Jaguar Legends.

For our fifth edition, we are casting the spotlight on classics from the land of the rising sun, via stories from the past 20 years of Classic & Sports Car, starring Datsun and Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Subaru and Toyota.

It is on sale now and you can get your copy in shops, or buy it online and have it delivered to you.

Happy reading – and keep scrolling for a preview.

Classic & Sports Car – C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

From p80 of C&SC presents… Japanese Legends, we are charming the residents of Carmel in the tiny but triumphant Mazda R360.

This was the marque’s first road car and became a big-seller.

Classic & Sports Car – C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

We are also at Le Mans in this special-edition magazine, three decades after Mazda claimed its unexpected but much-loved win at the 24-hour enduro with the 787B.

Paul Fearnley has the story and hears from the protagonists from p106.

Classic & Sports Car – C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

We couldn’t honour Japanese classics without celebrating this seminal sports car, the Mazda MX-5.

Aboard standard and special-edition variants of the NA, Greg MacLeman explores how the roadster inspired by British classic cars became the benchmark in affordable, drop-top fun.

Classic & Sports Car – C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now

One of four Toyota-focused features in this issue stars this Corolla AE86 on an after-dark run through the British capital.

Discover its backstory, sheer drivability and understated magic when you turn to p182.


With 196 pages of classic Japanese goodness to get stuck into, you won’t want to miss this special magazine.

C&SC presents… Japanese Legends is on sale now at newsagents and supermarkets, and you can also buy a copy online, here, and have it delivered to wherever you live in the world.

We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed compiling it.


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