The New York Times has published an article about the rise of Toyotas in the collector car market. The article touches upon Japanese nostalgics as a whole but to a lesser extent. They mention the Crown, Celica, Corona and of course the 2000GT. The article’s not particularly long, but it’s good to see we’ve hit the mainstream!
UPDATE: After a while the NYT puts articles behind a login page. For those without access, our forum member QuasiMondo has kindly posted the entire text.
A couple of weeks ago Toyota launched a motorsports history section on their Japanese site to mark 50 years in motorsport. It’s all in Japanese and there are only a handful of photos ranging from a racing S30 Toyota Crown to the Toyota 7 all the way up to the current F1 cars.
Surely they could have included more, but the classic video of the FIA speed record setting 2000GT at full roar makes up for it!
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