What is RHD (Right-Hand Drive)?
A car with the steering wheel on the right side, standard in Japan and the UK and a hallmark of genuine JDM imports.
RHD stands for right-hand drive, meaning the steering wheel is on the right side of the cabin. It is the standard configuration in Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and a number of other markets, and it pairs with driving on the left side of the road.
In import culture RHD carries specific weight. Because cars built for the Japanese domestic market are right-hand drive, an RHD car in a left-hand-drive country is usually a genuine import rather than a locally sold model. It is one of the fastest visual confirmations that a car is a real JDM car rather than a domestic-market version with imported parts.
Driving an RHD car in a left-hand-drive country is legal in most places and mostly a matter of adaptation, though overtaking and drive-through windows take some getting used to.