Tag: toyota

Saving Stepho’s Toyota Site from disappearing

Stepho’s Toyota Site has been an indispensable resource for the classic Toyota community over the past two decades. Unfortunately his Australian provider Iinet stopped hosting their customers websites and therefore something important disappeared. Luckily enough I was able to retrieve 98% of its content from Archive.org and decided set up a mirror of Stepho’s Toyota…




JDM Trivia #5: Toyota Total Clean System

JDM Trivia #5: Toyota Total Clean System First of all: Happy new year and all the best wishes for 2016! Last weeks teaser was: What is this badge and what does TTC stand for? Some guesses were made and some people refrained from googling, but Rookie Tuner provided the correct answer: TTC is an acronym…




Family Album Treasures: so much wow from Toyota!

Toyota launched their latest campaign at the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 today and it is called What wows you?. For the introduction video of this new campaign they used various photos that I often label here as Family Album Treasures: aged photos of people posing in front of their pride and joy that could literally…




The Carina A6 in the Toyota Family Tree

A couple of days ago Japanese Nostalgic Car posted (yes I do read their blog occasionally) that because of their 75th anniversary Toyota created a big family tree of all models they created. Of course I immediately looked up the third generation Carina in it: The nice thing is that they have a fairly good…




Family Album Treasures: Team Trendy Club Toyota Brothers

These two friends were once Toyota brothers in arms in the Team Trendy Club and their clothes are a perfect match for their Toyotas: Team Trendy Club Toyota brothers On the left a Soarer GZ20 and on the right a Crown MS125. Later on the Crown on the right was modified to a new 90s…




Video: Can it get cheesier than this Cressida?

I’m sohohohohohorry! But this North American Toyota Cressida promo (or should I call it a soap-opera) is sooooo cheesy! Enjoy part one: And enjoy part two: Now, my wife would probably divorce me if I wake up like that guy Allen! He really woke up like he had some sort of wet-dream and mumbled a…