Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not dissing Leonardo di Caprio here but it just seemed to be very very funny that Leonardo is actually doing a commercial for a dull car as the Suzuki Wagon R Wide in fluent Japanese:
BTW:The Suzuki Wagon R Wide is the same as the Wagon R+ in export markets. ;)
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I don’t regret having bought a Honda Civic already, but after watching a JDM commercial for the Toyota’s Mobile Suit Gundam Auris it makes me wish Toyota would actually sell the version from the commercial and not the one we find at our dealers! Basically Toyota launched the Auris in Japan already in September 2012 and they created a Gundam inspired version called MS-186H-CA to promote it on the Chara Hobby fair in August 2012 and fast forward one year and they now allow you to own one yourselves!
They use Gundam in their car commercial with an anime clip with Gundam’s Char character hopping out of a Mobile Suit and into the Auris and driving it to the limit. Now that’s a selling point! ;)
The real life version of this Auris costs a mere 3.3M yen (25000 euros) on top of the ordinary Auris price and this is what it looks like:
Don’t get me wrong here, but IMO the ordinary Auris is a bit dull… A bit suburbian I guess… This Auris actually makes me wish Toyota would be equally fun to drive again in Europe! ;)
To make another analogy: Char’s Auris looks just as good as a GT86 and I honestly don’t know which one I would rather own!
The commercial itself is 40 seconds of Gundam meets Toyota goodness!
Continue here to watch the video of the commercial:
Just spotted this one on Jalopnik and thought it is well worth to share: the new 2014 USDM Corolla never get out of style and Toyota proves this with a commercial that shows you every decade is full of Corolla. For instance the 70s is full of KE35:
And apparently the 80s is full of Herbie Hancock’s Rockit with a real fine USDM Corolla GT-S AE86 which got its front bumper periodically correct replaced by a kouki JDM item and a skate girl dancing on top of its roof… Did Toyota fail to find a genuine example? ;)
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What better way to promote your auto parts shop than by jumping a beater Celica A60?
Shortly before it jumps you can see it is the facelifted model. Continue reading
I watched this JDM advertisement for the Honda Civic 35XT and it kind of puzzles me what the 35XT stands for…
It just looks like a regular ED sedan, but then with the dual carbed hyper 16valve D15B2 engine in it…
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Everybody knows it is impossible to walk on water unless it is frozen, but someone forgot to tell that to this Prince Skyline S50 owner:
In this commercial for the second generation Prince Skyline they show it has this very advanced feature: Continue reading
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