Used Japanese cars are flooding Myanmar, thanks to duty reductions and deregulation since President Thein Sein's government was inaugurated in 2011 in a shift to civilian rule.
The trend, however, will likely be challenged by increased competition from European and U.S. carmakers that are opening showrooms in Yangon, the commercial capital of what many call Asia's last economic frontier.
Their arrival follows moves to lift most of the economic sanctions against the formerly junta-ruled country as it democratizes.