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 they they change their mind and rehired him in 1979?
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Another proof that Japanese girls love weird fashion: the mori hari. This has been fashion for a while now and the media is picking it up as well, like this damn funny advertisement:
If you want to see how big this craze is, watch this video:
WTF?! How can you have 8cm of hair?
During the late 80s Nisseki created some commercials which appear to be parodies on existing commercials. Take for instance this one featuring an Alfa Romeo Junior:
It sure does remind me a lot of the Ken&Mary Skyline commercials of the 70s.
And what about this one with a bunch of VW Golfs:
Sure does remind me of the 80s Ajax commercials.
You can find more of them here
The Violet from last monday made me think about its rally heritage. The Violet A10 was Nissan’s most successful rally car and the later models were powered by the LZ20 DOHC engine we know from the Nissan Super Silhouette Formula cars. Back in 1982 Nissan still appreciated their rally achievements and showed it with this TV advertisement:
The video starts with a the normal Gazelle S110 RS commercial, but shortly after that it shows the Nissan Violet A10 splashing through a big muddy pools and going sideways on the fourth Safari Rally. As a bonus it gets followed by another Gazelle S110 RS commercial! Probably they couldn’t get enough of that 4 valve FJ20E engine of theirs! Now that is appreciation! :)
This 1987 US Nissan commercial was posted by Reich and it clearly illustrates why cars and Flashdance don’t match:
WTF were the Nissan executives thinking in the 80s? Apart from the fact that flashdance and cars don’t match it is also weird to have such a commercial in the late 80s when flashdance was clearly out of fashion. Now if they would have come up with the Lambada it might actually have caught the attention of the teenagers. ;)
Apparently Australian robots favor the 1985 Corolla FX above hovering two feet above the ground:
Now if that isn’t a selling point! :D