20 Years of Tegiwa: YouTube Series
Twenty years is a long time to sell car parts.
Long enough that some of the people who ordered from us in 2006 now have kids old enough to be building their own cars. Long enough to go from a couple of lads importing cars and breaking Hondas, to a 28,000 sq. ft facility in Stoke-on-Trent, a 28-strong team, and official UK and European distribution for Mugen.
We thought 2026 was a reasonable excuse to sit down and tell the story properly.
Introducing the series
20 Years of Tegiwa is a new series on our YouTube channel covering how the business came to be, what went right, what went wrong, and everything in between. No script, no polish, just the people who were actually there, talking about how it happened.
Episode 1 goes right back to the start. Before the warehouse, before the distribution deals, before any of it was a business at all. It covers what our Directors Johnny & Luke were doing before Tegiwa existed, how importing Hondas from Japan went from a hobby to something that paid the bills, and the decisions made early on that we’re still living with two decades later.
And yes, we finally answer the name question
It’s the thing we get asked more than almost anything else: what does Tegiwa actually mean, and where did it come from?
Twenty years of fielding that one at shows, in the comments and over the phone. Episode 1 answers it — properly, and with the full story behind it.
Watch episode 1
The full episode is live now on the Tegiwa YouTube channel.
Subscribe while you’re there so you don’t miss the rest of the series. There’s plenty more to come, and some of it we probably shouldn’t be putting on the internet.
