About Us

Established in mid-2002 based in the North East of England; 10 miles from Newcastle City Centre.

Here at JM Imports Newcastle based in the North Easts we have established ourselves as Europe’s Leading Tuning and Performance centre, at JM we can cater for any High Performance or Prestige vehicles with full on-site workshop facilities and tuning using our State-of-the-Art Link Dyno from Dyno JET or Main Line PRO HUB Dyno. Please browse our new website to see what services we can offer your vehicle.

One of the Reasons JM was created was, I myself was looking for a particular car from Japan with the right modifications on it and also for the right price, unfortunately, nobody local did this and if they had any in stock their condition was not as described or matched my expectations.

We vary rarely travel to Japan now, I just send an email or call my contacts regarding particular cars in Japan from either the auctions, dealerships or private sellers, I then trust him to inspect the cars and provide me with an honest description of the car which then I will bring to the UK and the JM team will then service, repair and prepare to the highest standard possible so customers can get cars with no hidden faults or extra prices.

We currently try to keep around 20 cars in stock for sale at all times at our premises, this is excluding the cars we import for private customers for the UK or overseas that have been ordered specifically for them via our Personal Import Service – Be sure to check that out.

JM-Imports stock cars are hand picked by myself and my sales team and I try to have almost every niche of cult sports car, from a superbly maintained stock example all the way to a highly modified 1500bhp cars.

In June 2020 we open the doors on our new premises at Benton on the edge of Newcastle. Here we have a bigger workshop and storage facility to cater to tuning, servicing, repairs, upgrades and preparing all of our stock and our customer’s cars to new levels from JDM Sports cars to Supercars.

One of the reasons my business has remained strong in this bad economy is that we sell cars I would be happy to own and drive myself, please feel free to make appointment and visit us, you will not be disappointed with the quality of stock we import or the services we offer here at JM were quality is the KEY.

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Jurgen Vallons

Company Director

Career Background
Engineering Aviation Qualified CNC Engineering Machinist doing CAD and Milling in Late teen early 20s, then switched to Asbestos Surveying within the same Company while growing JM in early 2002.

1st Car
Honda Aerodeck – Could not Get Insured –
So ended up with a Nova 1.2 Merit

Current Cars
The JUN R1, Mclaren 720s, Lambo TT Huracan, R34 GTR Vspec, Escort Cosworth, Supra GZ Aero, C211 Skyline + Some Daily Cars

Project Cars
R32/R35 GTR – Frankenstein
+ All the above when shop time allows

Dream Car
My R34 GTR

Hobbies
Work, Football, Boxing, Gym, Films,
Good Food and watching my kids play football.

Chris Thompson

Operations Manager

Career Background
Trained Master Tech in the dealers, always had a hand in modified cars. Built magazine feature cars back in the good old days.

1st Car
1ltr 4 speed Vauxhall Nova

Current Cars
Maserati Granturismo, Toyota Celica GT4 and a Mighty Volvo daily driver!

Project Cars
Toyota Celica GT4

Dream Car
Ferrari F40

Hobbies
Football and drives out with mates.

Callum Haggerston

Sales Manager

About Me
From a family which is car oriented. Got my love for Cars working on my dads TR7 as a youngster.

Career Background
I’ve come from a European Logical distributors/imports.

1st Car
Suzuki Swift

Current Cars
Mazda Rx7 Spirit R, Nissan PS13 Silvia, Toyota Chaser

Project Cars
Every modified car is a project car!

Dream Car
R34 GTR Vspec 2 Nur

Hobbies
Golf, Track Days

Linzi Vallons

Company Secretary

Career Background
Communications, Secretarial and Administration

1st Car
Peugeot 206

Current Cars
Toyota Vellfire Hybrid

Project Cars
(None)

Dream Car
R34 GTR

Hobbies
Gym, Netflix, Walking, spending quality time with my family

Chris Renwick

Fabrication

Career Background
Time served fabricator and 6g pipe welder from oil and gas industry

1st Car
Corsa vegas 1.2 modified

Current Cars
Porsche boxster ford ka

Project Cars
All of Jurgens cars

Dream Car
911 gt3rs/ r34 nur skyline

Hobbies
Professional kart racing playing competition 8 ball pool

Dale Baxter

Vehicle Prep and Detail

Career Background
Building and Structural and turned into prep and detail due to passion and satisfaction in working with vehicles

1st Car
Mini metro

Current Cars
Hyundai Tugson

Project Cars
Mazda Sport 3

Dream Car
Lamborghini Huracan

Hobbies
Gym, Football and watching my kids play football

Romain Levesque

Ecu Calibration

Career Background
Engineering, CAD Design and R&D

1st Car
Honda Civic EJ9

Current Cars
Tesla Model 3 (Too many miles a month…)

Project Cars
Noble GT3R

Dream Car
Ferrari F40

Hobbies
Fishing, RC Cars and Spending quality time with family

Matthew Bennett

Technician

Career Background
Honda specialist /aftermarket parts designer

1st Car
Rover Streetwise

Current Cars
Nissan Skyline R32, Civic Type R, 1993 Swift GTi turbo. BMW e60 530d

Project Cars
R32 Skyline , Swift GTi

Dream Car
Mk4 Supra TT

Hobbies
Building cars, going to the gym, racing , gaming

Kyle Tully

Technician

Career Background
I grew up around cars, with an interest in everything with an engine. Completed a level 3 apprenticeship as a technician when I finished school and went on to join the JM team.

1st Car
Ford Fiesta 1.2

Current Cars
Seat Ibiza Cupra + Audi A3 (daily)

Project Cars
My Ibiza Cupra is an ongoing project

Dream Car
Porsche GT3 RS or R32 GTR

Hobbies
Watching motorsport, drives out and going out for food

Raz Constantin

Technician

Career Background
Building and modding high performance cars since a small kid, worked with various top tuners around Europe and learned vast amount of skills – over 25 years experience

1st Car
BMW 325i 4×4

Current Cars
Not at Present

Project Cars
Project Franky R32/R35

Dream Car
R35 GTR

Hobbies
Formula 1 and working on cars.

Callum Reid

Media

Career Background
So I’m 26 Year old and a Director of my own Tarmac Company, Laying roads and racing on them is all I know. A Self Taught Videographer with a Passion to make a name in the Automotive YouTube World.

1st car
Ford Fiesta 1.0

Current Car
BMW M140

Project Cars
BMW M140

Dream Car
Twin Turbo Lambo or LBW GTR JM1000

Hobbies
love to spend time with family and friends, love messing with cars, love food and love the weekends with my daughter.

Matt Gair

Apprentice

Career Background
JM trainee been passionate about cars for 15 years and got into modified cars 4 years ago. Training to highly level 3 due to infrastructure at JM

1st Car
1.2 Nissan micra

Current Cars
2003 1.6 Mini one hatch at the minute may change once I actually past my driving test

Project Cars
None yet want a Toyota mark II as project though

Dream Car
MNP r34 gtr v spec II hks 2.8 massive spec list

Hobbies
Football, car photography, anything to do with cars, DNB, travelling

Simon Maitland

Sales & Ebay

About Me
I’m very family oriented and massively into cars. I’ve got a 1 year old daughter that is already showing signs of liking cars (I’ve taught her well 😎)

1st Car
Ibiza FR 1.6 (absolutely rapid)

Current cars
NA MX5, E30 (engine swapped), soon to have a 90’s Honda acty truck.

Dream cars
RX7 spirit R, Honda Acty Truck, R32 GTR V-SPEC

Callum Barnes

Technician

Career background:
Studied business to high diploma level. For the last 5 years I have had involvement in management of business operations, procurement, logistics, production, and health & safety.

My experience is motor trade has been purely gained from working on my own vehicles, and building, preparing and running, and of course racing, my race car

First car:
Fiat panda

Current cars:
Fiat panda (different one lol)
Subaru Impreza STI
Mazda Rx8 R3
Caterham style race / track car running Mazda engine
Iveco 7.5T lorry (lorry is my fav)

Dream Car:
Nothing in particular- usually if I see a car I like I always end up buying it lol

Hobbies:
Live music (I play in a band on weekends)
Slot car racing
Motor racing

Established in mid-2002 based in the North East of England; 10 miles from Newcastle City Centre.

Here at JM Imports Newcastle and North Easts number 1 Tuning and Performance centre, we can cater for any Performance or Prestige vehicles with full on site workshop and tuning using our State of Art Link Dyno from Dyno JET.

I myself was looking for a particular car with the right modifications on it and also for the right price, unfortunately, nobody local did this and if they had any in stock their condition was not as described or matched my expectations.

We vary rarely travel to Japan now, I just send an email or call my contacts regarding particular cars in Japan from either the auctions, dealerships or private sellers, I then trust him to inspect the cars and provide me with an honest description of the car which then I will bring to the UK and the JM team will then service, repair and prepare to the highest standard possible so customers can get cars with no hidden faults or extra prices.

We currently try to keep around 20 cars in stock at all times at our premises, this is excluding the cars we import for private customers for the UK or overseas that have been ordered specifically for them.

JM-Imports stock cars are hand picked by myself and I try to have almost every niche of cult sports car, from a superbly maintained stock example all the way to a highly modified 1500bhp cars.

In June 2020 we open the doors on our new premises at Benton on the edge of Newcastle. Here we have a bigger workshop and storage facility to cater to tuning, servicing, and preparing all of our stock and our customer’s cars to new levels from JDM Sports cars to Supercars.

One of the reasons my business has remained strong in this bad economy is that we sell cars I would be happy to own and drive myself, please feel free to make appointment and visit us, you will not be disappointed with the quality of stock we import or the services we offer.

Meet The Team

Jurgen Vallons

Company Director

Linzi Mckenzie

Company Secretary

Chris Thompson

Operations Manager

Jean F Vallons

Electrical/Wiring Manager + Senior Technician

James Graham

Engine Build Manager + Senior Technician

Kyle Glenn

Gearbox Specialist + Senior Technician

Dean Thorne

Senior Technician

Scott Sinclair

Workshop Technician

Ben Atkinson

Fabricator / Welder

Romain Levesque

Mapping / Dyno Calibration

Dale Baxter

 Vehicle Prep Specialist

Matt Gair

Apprentice Technician

Callum Reid

Social Media

Kevin Wilson

Web Development/Servers

Leo Vallons

  Saturday Boy

Matt Bowen

Saturday Boy

Kieran Cavanagh

Saturday Boy

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