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Welcome to JDM Trivia #12 where I describe the Toyota Carina A60 history. Carina, Corona and Celica combined The Toyota Carina A60 started its life when Toyota decided to combine the platforms of the Corona, Carina and Celica. This delivered a floorpan that was identical for all three cars and some of the Corona and…
As I described a few weeks ago: I bought a CD-ROM with all Toyota Carina FR workshop books (scanned) on it and it is a treasure of information. From now and then there are a few hidden gems in there, like the initial design sketches for the four door sedan of the Toyota Carina A60:…
Some time ago I bought a CD-ROM from Japan with the Japanese Toyota handbooks hoping it would contain the wiring diagrams of the Japanese Carina A60 or at least the body repair manual for this to help me out with the wiring of the JDM gauge cluster. Unfortunately I haven’t found any pin out for…
There are a lot of speculations why the third generation Carina (the Toyota Carina A60) failed to sell in large numbers in Europe. One of them is that Datsun (aka Nissan) launched their new Bluebird 910 around the same time and offered a better pricing. This is partly true and this posting is about the…
I did post a couple of Toyota Carina A60 timelines in the past but now I found a nice tool to visualize this even better: The data is based upon the Carina Chronology I posted in the past and added some titles and photos. I tried to make it a bit funny by adding some…
To stay in the Carina Week spirits I’ve made a listing of all Carina A60 ads. Somehow they are just as wacky as all the other hilarious postings! The puppy saving Twincam Turbo ad with Sonny Chiba: The Carina Roadrunner II SG (twice) and the Carina Jeune: The 1981 Carina AA60 (probably a Carina SG):…