The Abandoned Car Problem in Japan 

That 560 benz is rare, worth rescuing

Austin rover was a British car company and the symbol is a Viking long boat 🇬🇧

Sammit "you like ghosts" Daiki "yeah I like girls" 😂

that old rover 400 would be a VERY rare sight in england in 2024 , to see one in japan is mind blowing , it must have been imported from england in the 90's , shame someone destroyed it

I think seeing that rover 400 tourer is even more painful as i have been looking for one for a couple of years now. They are just beautiful cars

i love it when sammit does abandoned cars videos, i rewatch them all the time

Rover are an old English car the one you've seen is basically a Honda from when they owned Rover

Sam, you may not have had the coolest computer back in school, but you definitely have the coolest cars now.

I literally got a PS1 when friends got a PS2. Found out later in life my older siblings bought me it because my parents couldn't afford it. Love the nostalgia Sam!!!

It's sad to see these cars just rotting away

I’m surprised Sam hasn’t heard of Rover. It was one of the best known British manufacturers for almost 150 years. Originally making bicycles but then moved into motorcycles and automobiles. Eventually becoming Rover, Land Rover and the short lived Alvis brand. Later merged into British Layland and eventually purchased and absorbed into BMW.

Rovers in that era were from when they had a tie up with Honda. Basically the cars were Honda Civics and Accords mechanicals but with their own K series engines.

Them Mercedes need saving, what a crying shame.

As an Aussie, it is hard to believe that Sammit wasn't aware of the Rover brand!

that Mercedes 560S AMG Coupe was insanely rare. probably a 100K car current market

its funny how unfamiliar sammit is to a lot of cars especially when hes australian and does this stuff for a living lmao especially that corolla and rover

Those mercedes had to be someone's collection that had been dumped.

Hey @Sammit, Rover used to be an English brand, back in the end of the nineties they were OEM rebranding Honda Civics and Accords. (Before Tatra took over, and it been rebranded to Rowe when a Chinese brand took over) The 560 Mercedes was indeed a gem. It would mean that it was a 5.6 liter engines. What was more interesting though, was that it was AMG badged. This more or less is the Mercedes version of BMW M sports.

It's a Rover, the engine wont turn over. It's a Rover

The Rover Sam is British made and were very popular on the roads in the 80's. So strange to find one in Japan. So sad to car's just abandoned like this.

It's actually pretty common for cars to be left with houses of the previously deceased in Japan; usually papers are stored in a safe somewhere in a deposit box or the first of kin/immediate family doesnt want to reregister the car anymore and do not want to spend any money for storage fees. Cars are usually dumped this way because of the peculair law they have

Sammit enjoy these vids of you and Daiki exploring your guys excitement gets me excited but it's a shame to see all these priceless cars going to waste though 😢

it seems so strange a country with such strong documentational behavior culture that abandoned cars would be tolerated to this degree, compared to other places

Is that a Seafoam S13? mega sad

That AE100 is actually a dream spec for me. So sad to see one absolutely destroyed

That 560 doesn’t need a JZ swap, it’s a v8. You put a pair of turbos and it’s perfect

Mate, in the UK those Rovers are sought after

Someone please Save the mercs, that pre merger amg is a rare bird in any part of the world the rover wagon isn’t something you see everyday especially on that market an that poor old sil CA I mean c’mon 🙌🏽💯

The weird mirror on the wheelarch instead of on the door is actually a factory solution for the A pillar blocking the mirror on the passenger side when they tried putting it on the door.

New drinking game... take a shot everytime Sammit says "CRAZY".

It baffles me how someone can make car content for a living but has never heard of a Rover before.

The laws in the US are very different. With a knowledgeable lawyer, you can basically possess a car that has parked on your property for long enough. I almost had to do this when I bought a house that someone left a car on, but legally, I believe they have to inform them, and in my case the owner came within a couple days and rolled the car away.

Odd seeing a British 🇬🇧 Rover in Japan must be rare

Sammit, you are correct. Japan needs to fix some laws so these cars can be disposed of or "adopted" if abandoned. I cannot pay the automobile tax on behalf of a friend's vehicle unless I have the actual tax bill slip. I call the tax office and they say the actual owner needs to appear. They didn't even want to accept a power of attorney.

Those words at the end of the video is like my reality. We love you Sammit. Also, rover is an English manufacturer that made luxurious family cars and sedans back in the day. Here in Greece we have some of them. Also, the most popular ones are those that came after the honda collab with the mb civics and some integras and accords. Those may be the only reliable rovers tho, they had d16 engines and stuff

That very first Mercedes is not only a Mercedes. It is a 6.0L AMG V8 also very rare car .

This looks like a job for Daniel O'Grady. 🚗🧑‍🔧🚐

Broooo I'm dead you're like The Steve Erwin of finding cars in the wild

The headlights on those Mercedes R107 coupes are worth $2k in the US. The small Euro bumpers another $1-2k. That's $6-8k USD in parts alone between just those two. The headlights on the W108/109 sedan are probably $500-800.

Sammit, see if you can locate the owner and do a deal on the cars you want. I don’t know how it is in Japan with titles, but you should be able to run the vin numbers off them and see which ones are stolen or not and also see if your allowed to do rebuilt title like in the US. It’s a shame that cars are abandoned all over the world!!!

A car guy and have never heard of Rover is insane.. they made alot of Honda Rovers Like 2,4,5,- series cars.. 220Turbo and 620Turbo ect.. awsome performance cars when Honda and Rover worked togheter old days. That Rover looks like a E30 wagon and is extremly super rare. Great video 👍

The Kei van is a Subaru Sambar. it was sold in Europe as a Subaru Libero. a friend here in the Netherlands owned 3 at some point.

Looks like the album said "freestyle fellowship"

That album cover is FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP old rap group from the early 90s so that definitely belongs to that toyota

Another sad thing everyone of those cars has a long complicated and likely very sad story attached to all of them 😢

My 96 Honda accord lxi manual has a rover 600 interior because that and the engine bay is exactly the same. The parts are interchangeable. Rover was a British company that no longer exists. Alot of vehicle manufacturers outsourced parts which is my Mazda Eunos presso mx3 v6 had so many Ford and Mitsubishi parts on it. The Ford suspension components were the same but of a higher quality and the Ecu and distributor from Mitsubishi were alot more efficient and reliable. That's the beautiful thing about cars, not one is exactly the same especially as they get older.

For them people that are selling cars without paperwork if it's not stolen. Could you just drift it legally and keep it off the roadway?

No, who would do that to the little Red K11 Micra ;.; absolute gem of a Kei Car as a Daily

Sooooo.....no one was hyped when they seen that Freestyle Fellowship record at 20:34 !? That was sick!

Loving these video topics

the 2 tones s13 makes me so sad, im glad I have mine in the garage

Yo Sam your my favourite RU-vid. I've been watching you for 3 years now

Seeing those sweet old Mercedes like that was heartbreaking 😢

You definitely should go wasabi hunting with Daniel /wasabi cars

Natsuki will tell ya that all older Japanese men love Mercedes Benz cars

Thanks for the free Windows 98 product key lol 😂 Edit: Hey it's working!

Picked the cedric straight up from the front badge another one that would be awesome to rebuild but as mentioned its near impossible unfortunately

1:45 I dont get it, how is it stolen tail lights if the car is literally abandoned. If i adopt an abandoned dog on the street, did i steal it? The tail lights got adopted by someone :)

These are my favorite type of videos

Yes !!!!! A abandoned video!!!!!!

The SL looks like a amg, if its a genuine amg its extremelly rare and worth a lot, its so sad seeing It like that

That sl560 is worth a house today. And it doesnt even look that bad

I was born in 81. Begged my parents for the og NES. They got me an Atari 2600 instead. I was sad. Now I wish I still had it. 25:22

Great to hear Malaysia 🇲🇾 has given you some interest in old Benzes Sam! 😁😁

That cute little camper is sad to see going to ruin . Those old mercs are a tragedy too .

the first benz that you showed is worth a LOT i mean A LOT of money ,i know it hard but you gotta get that car

I love you're video's SAMMIT

Ooof seeing that Cedric hurt, NZ got lots of them as well as the Laurels/Cefiros/Luces but the 90s gobbled most of them up.

The abandoned car content is a nice look into the past.

Awesome video as always Sammit. The only ghosts that Daiki likes are ghost girls.

theres a mk4 supra in this kind of condition in my home town in New Zealand. overgrown and abandoned

Could possibly something along the lines of people abandoning their project cars at a dealership or car repair shop, then the shop catching on and eventually just dropping it in this random lot? That kind of sounds like the only logical explanation in my mind. Then again, when you talked about the laws regarding other people's cars and how they can't be moved after they are abandoned I don't know why a dealership would dump a car here randomly.

had to check out that innercity record and its is pretty fire if you into old school hiphop!

There's couple of pretty expensive mercedes there. Might been some yakuza cars and the owner "went missing"

Awesome video

original ownership of rover car brand ( the one in your video ) was bmw ( germany ) SAIC (china) and Tata motors which was later broken up in 2000 when ford aquired the land rover devisision with the rover and MG devisions which continued until 2005.

Love the abandon car content

I simply, can’t get over this song. Even my neighbor started to like it.

Buy know SAM ..great content

7:21 Bob marley used to own one of those cars, which is now owned by his son Ziggy marley

Rover was common in the UK a long time ago

Yooooo the old school vintage computers lolol ❤

Is that a pre-merger AMG? The rims sure look it.

I need so many parts off that s13 😭

I used to live in Osaka and there was a patch of land where there was some very old vintage cool trucks and vans rotting away , they got all moved and scrapped eventually.

So, do other people apart from the yakuza drive Mercs in Japan? :D Those cars would have stories to tell

That 560 Merc has the 20 INCH AMG RIMS which js worth a lot alone

Rover 216 estate!!!! Rare AF! Did you not notice that its the same as an early civic sam... same car

Hey Sam even tho they are non paper titles are you still able to take them and turn them into drift builds?

That is Iketani S13 after when he disbands the Akina Speed Stars Team

If you lose the paperwork for a car and can't legally sell it........why not break it down and sell it off as parts ? at least you would make some cash out of it !

The black 190E near the exit at Retro Havoc was very nice, pld mercs and bmw's are cheap here in KL, thats why I drive a 94 manual E36.

5:07 my dad had a corolla in that exact same colour and rear light style years ago. It pains me to see one abandoned like this

I love the Doctor Stone reference!!!!

20:40 we have a lot of these corolla's in south africa

the w112 looks sick!

@27:36 stellar blade game moment lol.. found a special can quest 😂

The AE101 with the different badge is an early pre facelift model I believe. And only Japan new models got those badging.

Yes same its a ae100 corolla with a 4afe

Rover is a British automotive brand that was used for over a century, from 1904 to 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before starting to manufacture autocars in 1904. The brand used the Viking longship as its logo.