Pocket Bunnies, Okinawa Plates and a Kaido Racer: JDM at SEMA 2026

The Skyline was the most copied face at SEMA 2026, and the two smallest copies were not Skylines at all. Pandem's (founder Kei Miura, @trakyoto) Rocket Bunny "Pocket Bunny" kit turns a Suzuki Twin kei car into a pocket-size R32 GT-R; it debuted at Tokyo Auto Salon in January with Hardcore Tokyo (@hardcoretokyo) involved, and Pandem also offers an R34 version, according to TopGear Philippines. On Thursday, Nov. 5, both sat in a lobby display on Japanese plates: a gray R32 with HARDCORE graphics and an R34 in yellow and black No. 1 livery.

Full-size Skylines were everywhere too. Outside, a color-shift R34 on Okinawa plates sat with its hood up over cam covers labeled RB26, even though the body is a non-GT-R R34 with the GT-T style front. A white R34 sedan with a GT-R style nose and an @ayyepaulyy decal was at Lionhart Tires, and R33 GT-Rs turned up at Konig (@konigwheelsusa) and on a display with a purple tube bumper.

Then the older stuff. At NRG Innovations (@getnrg), what looks like a C210 Skyline wore full kaido racer kit: orange metalflake over silver, bolt-on flares, a long chin spoiler and an oil cooler hung out front. Team Hybrid (@teamhybrid_95) brought a red Evo III. And for drift fans there was a six-cylinder GR86 at Mamba Turbochargers, a MAHLE and Pichau liveried GR Supra, a black S13 at Kinetic wearing driver Matt Coffman's name (@coffmanracing) and a widebody FD in the outdoor lot.

The Pocket Bunnies

Skylines, full size

Old school

Sideways and widebody

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