Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Suzuki must have looked very well to the 1981 Honda City in both the styling and choice for advertising for the Mighty Boy:
The Suzuki Mighty Boy is a small ute based upon the Cervo/Alto SS40 and apparently was targeted at the young.
Direct link to video: 1983 SUZUKI MIGHTY BOY Ad
Obviously Subaru named the Leone after the Leo constellation in the Zodiac and it was their best selling car for 23 years (when it got replaced by the Impreza). The name Leone came from the Italian word for Lion but strangely enough the commercial on TV showed this Italian named car in a German environment:
Maybe the Lion likes German roads better?
After taking so many rides in the Bemo taxi busses in Irian Jaya I started looking around for one but I still have no intention of selling the Carina. ;)
I did come across this Subaru Sambar commercial on Youtube:
I like the motto: Let’s try the Sambar!
The fourth generation of the Toyota Tercel was even more dull in its looks than its predecessors, but apparently it was a very very very quick car: even this Kamen Rider lookalike can’t even match its speed!
How can the Chaser change the Chaser?
I don’t know how, but it surely turned out very nice in 1992 when the new Chaser JZX91 arrived!
I think I posted a few of these commercials sometime before, but most of the videos have been removed from Youtube in the meantime. Hopefully these won’t disappear since they are not ripped from the DVD.
Even before the famous Ken and Mary C110 commercials Nissan was marketing the Skyline to be the car for the young and sporty couples, including the G18 Skyline GC10 deluxe around 9:08. Funny how his beret changes into a hat within a few seconds…
Don’t be fooled by the first commercial: that’s a model from the previous S50 generation Skyline.
Mental note: If I ever buy a Skyline C10 I’ll definitely have to buy a beret as well!
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