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Nissan keeps the factory camper vans coming. Its newest is built atop its smallest van, the Clipper kei van, which measures in under 3.4 meters (11.2 feet) long. To make it a micro-camper, Nissan relies on a basic household staple with which everyday DIY handymen have been familiar for ages: pegboard. The van's integrated peg panels serve as a simple, affordable means of holding up the bed and providing highly versatile storage organization for related (and unrelated) outdoor adventures.

Bringing a taste of the flair and fashion of Japanese camping culture to the US, the Tokyo Crafts Grayhus glamping tent is a fantastically geometric wilderness abode. It elevates the outdoor experience, whether you're inside or viewing from afar.

There aren’t many cars with appeal as enduring as the original Honda NSX. Now, 35 years after the first-generation NSX came into being, the sports car is receiving a beautiful, and more importantly, purposeful, makeover.

Free goosebumps with every view. Watch as an original, complete, un-started HRC GP bike is uncrated. The bike has just become the most expensive Japanese motorcycle and the second-most-expensive two-stroke motorcycle in auction history.

Nissan's MyRoom light camper concept moved to full-on production earlier this year and has now spawned a smaller version, the NV200 MyRoom. The new camper vanette rolls the homey tranquility of the original MyRoom into a tiny mini-camping package.

Many camper vans double as everyday 3-row MPVs, requiring the removal of seats or other parts to switch modes. A new Toyota HiAce camper van makes the switch without removing anything. It's a full-time camper van and full-time 7-passenger minivan.

If you can't build out, build up. It works for city buildings, and a Japanese design firm is trying to make it work for city bikes. The Streek e-trike carries two levels of cargo inside a loop frame compact enough for tight city streets and paths.

Japan's Hoshino Resorts skips the ski lodge-inspired camper van concept and goes a different route. Its adorable Camakuruma mini-motorhome concept brings the cool, icy feel of an igloo inside to blend inconspicuously with its alpine surrounds.

It's an odd looker at first glance, but the philosophy behind this Samurai motorcycle concept is an interesting one: why don't Japanese motorcycles adhere to the traditional principles of Zen aesthetics? And what would a motorcycle look like if it did?

This year’s Paris Motor Show played host to electric debuts from Mercedes and Volkswagen, but they weren’t the only ones to make a big battery-powered push. The new GLM G4 might boast supercar performance, but its four doors and sumptuous cabin mean the whole family can come along for the ride.

La Montre Hermès has unveiled two rather special watches at Baselworld, each limited to a numbered production run of 12. The company says that these works represent the first time that French porcelain has been combined with the Japanese art of Aka-e.

In sad news for the automotive world, Yutaka Katayama, first president of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A., and father of the Z Car, passed away on February 19 at the age of 105. Affectionately known as Mr. K, his impact, on the automotive industry worldwide, cannot be overstated.