Jap ones were better tho growls. Better spec better name and more grunt!
I bow to your obvious superior knowledge on them, as I've never owned one.
I know someone that did though, and he paid monstrous money for it with a view to keeping it mint and hopefully increase in value.
Unfortunately for him the import market exploded, and the previous rarity factor, and consequential high values all came tumbling down.
He lost intrest in it, it became tired looking, and he evntually got shut before it de-valued any further.
Nice ones are probably going back up again in £££'s now I'd have thought.