Tag: Sonny Chiba

JCS2011: Super rare Carina hardtop coupe TA17!

This posting had a high Sonny Chiba feeling: this restored Carina hardtop coupe TA17 is exactly the same model as Sonny Chiba used in the famous commercial! Toyota Carina hardtop coupe TA17 @ JCS2011 The owner and his buddies came all the way from Finland to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and inbetween they stopped…




Carina Sightings: Carina’s twin Brother

MyCub uploaded these two videos containing all Corona Twincam Turbo TT140 commercials featuring Roger Moore (when he was still 007). The Carina GT-TR TA63 had the puppy saving Sonny Chiba, its twin brother the Corona GT-TR TT140 had Roger Moore jumping out of a truck! On one hand I prefer Roger Moore because he got…




Carina Sightings: how the Carina A40 was designed

This 1977 Toyota Carina commercial shows how the A40 Carina was designed: with tron-like neon computer vectors the laser sharp lines of the A40 were cut out and moulded into the famous (pre-facelift) shape! Apparently Toyota did not need Sonny Chiba to convince us the sharp lines were the way to go in 1977! Did…




Carina sightings:Carina A40 commercials with Sonny Chiba

After last weeks puppy saving Carina with Sonny Chiba we have two other Carina videos featuring him: The Sporty Special looks like a great car to me! Could it have been a special version of the Carina GT coupe TA45 or was it just the ordinary LX or XT? How about Sonny Chiba driving the…




Carina Sightings: Puppy saving Carina GT-TR TA63

Two years ago I posted the puppy saving Carina commercial and unfortunately it disappeared due to copyright violations… (why?!) Lucky enough Youtube CM poster mycub posted it once again: And once again Sonny Chiba saves the day!




Commerical time: Carina Jeune commercial

Brilliant! Someone uploaded the Toyota Carina SG Jeune commercial yesterday! As you can see the girl sticks a Japanese Young Driver Mark on the Carina, hops two or three time of joy before pointing to the reverse backup warning system and the amount of lock you can have on this Carina! Also Sonny Chiba makes…