Tanabe USA is the US branch of Tanabe Racing Development, a Japanese performance parts manufacturer. Tanabe was founded nearly 25 years ago in 1982, by Mr. Suteo Tanabe. It was during this time, from the 1970’s to the early 1980’s that the Japanese sports car, and a completely new type of vehicle, the sports compact, would emerge on the world stage as a serious competitor against the dominant US and European automakers.

There were very few Japanese performance parts manufacturers over 20 years ago, and Tanabe was one of those very few that would assist the Japanese car manufacturers by developing parts for motorsports use. Tanabe quickly grew to be a respected member of the Japanese performance community, and would assist in the foundation of numerous associations such as JASMA (Japan Sports Muffler Association) and would become involved in motorsports such as N1 Endurance, and JTCC.

Tanabe is a unique type of manufacturer that specializes in a wide variety of high quality parts, from suspension and chassis, to exhaust components—all of these parts are manufactured strictly in Japan-- and virtually all parts are manufactured in-house at our factory in Shiga Japan. One of the more distinctive features about the Tanabe manufactured product line is that all of the products are manufactured with ISO9001 certification. ISO is essentially a group of extremely strict guidelines and worldwide standards to ensure quality manufacturing. Because of the difficulty in obtaining this, there are surprisingly very few manufacturers who actually have this.