Safety first with the Toyota Corona T100 series. I think car safety has come a long way since this commercial was made!
Just look how that whole Corona crumples up with an impact speed of only 25 km/h!
Month: March 2011 (Page 1 of 6)
I was going through the collection of Carina brochure pictures and one small detail stroke me on this brochure:
Belgian Carina GL
The Carina in the bottom picture is a Belgian Carina TA60 GL. Now that isn’t that weird, but the brochure is Japanese and dated as S56-9 (September 1981). The Carina A60 lineup was released in September 1981 so the Carina on the brochure must have been a pre-production model.
This was done by Toyota before, just like the Levin and Trueno AE86 European tour in 1983 but we’re talking about a left hand drive Carina here.
Also in this picture you can see the front of the car is actually featuring quad headlights:
Belgian Carina GL
Now it gets even more confusing and more and more questions arise!
Why did they feature a LHD pre-production car in Belgium in a JDM brochure? And why does it have quad headlights while all European models did only have the normal headlights? And where is that car now?
This time rusty J-tin from the old world: a Dutch Toyota Corolla KE20 crumbling away next to a B-road. The Corolla appears to be in a reasonable state, but since it has been parked there for years now I fear the worst. Unless someone pays a ridiculous amount of money the owners will leave it there till it has merged together with the soil…
Dutch Corolla KE20
I passed this rusty rolla many many times but never actually stopped to take a picture of it. The picture was taken by Dutch Toyota Club board-member Marco when he passed it. Since he already took the picture it saves me the trouble of taking my own. ;)
Found at [Dutch Toyota club]
Even though the Toyota Supra 3.0 turbo MA70 isn’t that rare I hardly spot one in the wild. This one was driving in front of me when I visited our second Dutch office for my work. Lucky enough it parked in the same multi-storey car park as I did.
Toyota Supra MA70
I took a quick snapshot with my phone cam and a better picture with my analogue camera that still needs to be developed…
Now this is an amazing video: someone took the time to recreate the Seibu Keisatsu opening with Grand Theft Auto IV footage!
It is all there: explosions, cars, violence, explosions, car chases, fist fights, guns, explosions, police sirens and did I already mention explosions?? :D
In the following video both openings are compared to each other:
Now that’s accurate!
Back in 1989 when Toyota rebranded the Toyota Celsior to the Lexus LS400 it introduced the car with an almost unbelievable ad: a stack of champagne glasses was placed on the bonnet while the car drove 145mph (240km/h) on a rolling road. The champagne glasses remained steady even though the engine under it revved all the way up to 5000rpm. Amazing!
This Lexus owner tried to recreate that stack on his brand new 2009 LS460 (XF40) and see if it would be as good as the LS400 and his Youtube video went viral this week. He utterly fails and the stack collapses around 4000 rpm:
Now, you may think that the ad was wrong, but in reality the owner actually failed to stack the champagne glasses properly.
Lexus responded by recreating it on both a 2009 LS460 and 1990 LS400 and amazingly the stack remains stable:
Now how about that?
Also fun to watch, a parody on that 1989 ad:
Now that’s more like it! :D
Found at [Jalopnik]