Circle Kei Motors logoCIRCLE KEI MOTORS

A small team in Nagoya that buys cars for people overseas.

Circle Kei Motors was created as the international sales and export division of THREE JAM to help overseas customers source vehicles directly from Japan. Our founder grew up between Japan and Hawaiʻi and is bilingual in both languages. That is the whole reason this business works: the auction sheets, the dealer calls, the export office and the customer are not all in the same language, and someone has to sit in the middle of that.

THREE JAM

Registered business in Japan

CIRCLE KEI MOTORS

International Sales & Export Division

Circle Kei Motors is the international sales and export division of THREE JAM, our registered business in Japan.

Why it exists

Buyers across the U.S. kept purchasing Japan-market vehicles from listing sites, sight unseen, based on a copied auction sheet and someone else's photos. Sometimes it works. Sometimes a truck lands with rust nobody mentioned.

We are already here. Being in Japan means we can read the sheet properly, ask the dealer a direct question, and go and look at the vehicle before anyone spends money.

How sourcing works

Japanese dealer auctions run weekly and move enormous volume, which is why Kei trucks and vans that are hard to find abroad are ordinary here. We search against your criteria, translate the auction sheet grade and defect map, inspect where we can, and send you the candidate with our notes.

We do not hold a lot of stock. Most of what we ship is bought against a specific customer's brief, which is why the site lists one or two vehicles at a time rather than a showroom.

Where we ship

Hawaiʻi is where we started and a route we still run often, so the Honolulu process is the one we know down to which window to walk up to. Farms, landscapers, resort maintenance crews and small businesses there have real use for a vehicle this size.

The same service works to any major US port, and to Canada, the UK and Ireland. The shipping leg changes, the sourcing does not.

How we work

  • · We disclose defects before purchase, including the ones that cost us the sale.
  • · We do not buy anything until you have seen it and approved it.
  • · You purchase in Japan and import in your own name, which keeps the cost down.
  • · We say when something is outside what we handle, such as customs entry and registration.
  • · Japanese and English are both fine.
Vehicles lined up on the floor of a Japanese dealer auctionEvening street in Nagoya, Japan, where the team is based

Tell us what you are looking for

No obligation. We will tell you honestly whether it is findable and roughly what it costs landed.