Nissan Skyline

JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market: vehicles and parts built for sale in Japan, to Japanese specifications, for Japanese buyers. A car is JDM because of where it was sold, not where it was made, which means the term gets misused constantly. The Civic your neighbor bought at an American Honda dealer is a Japanese car, but it is not a JDM car.

Short answer: yes, usually. Facelifted cars tend to hold value better than the pre-facelift version of the same model, sometimes significantly better, and the reason has less to do with what changed under the hood and more to do with how the car looks. Research by EurotaxGlass's comparing used car values before and after mid-life facelifts found that updated exterior styling can improve residual values by up to 15 percent during the first year of ownership. The premium is highest for prestige brands where even subtle visual updates carry significant perceived value...

No car in the history of American automotive obsession has been wanted this badly by this many people who never had a legal way to get one. The Nissan Skyline GT-R spent twenty-five years as forbidden fruit, visible in every corner of car culture, unattainable on public roads, and somehow more desirable for being both of those things simultaneously. The story of why that happened, and what finally changed, is one of the stranger chapters in the relationship between American car enthusiasm and government regulation.