Funny Car Names
In Japan, most people seem to own Japanese cars. Not too surprising, right? You see Hondas, Nissans and Toyotas the most, I'd say. Not too many BMW's, but some. And no Fords.

At first glance, cars are obviously different than in America since we drive on the left side of the road in Japan. But Japanese cars also tend to be much smaller than American cars since Japanese streets are narrow and the neighborhoods are crowded. (In fact, our car barely fits into our driveway. We share a driveway with 3 other houses and back into a tiny spot with concrete walls on either side. If our $900 car hadn't already come with scratches, we would've put some there, for sure!)

But the most amusing difference is that the Japanese tend to have the weirdest English names for their cars! You can get your standard Honda Civic, CRV or Odyssey or a Toyota RAV4, (all of which, by the way, are slightly different cars than in the U.S.) But these are basically the only familiar models we've seen here.

The rest of the Japan-only cars you see on the road have very unfamiliar--and funny--model names! Here are some of the funniest names we've come across:

• Daihatsu Move
• Daihatsu Naked
• Honda Life Dunk
• Mitsubishi Delica
• Nissan Cube (These are the Base Taxis)
• Nissan Homy
• Nissan Largo
• Nissan Prairie Joy (Our family car, pictured above)
• Nissan Sunny
• Toyota Luxury Emina (My personal favorite, it makes me laugh out loud...say it 10 times fast!)
• Toyota Toyopet
• Toyota WingRoad