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NIHON LIFE: Tressa Yokohama, Toyota’s Mega-Mall
I finally got some free time to go check out Tressa Yokohama, a giant Toyota-owned mega-mall in Kohoku, Yokohama. In addition to your typical shopping mall features like a McDonald’s counter and escalators pointing every which way, showrooms representing all … Continue reading
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Tagged toyota, toyota 7, toyota division 7, toyota mall, tressa yokohama
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Japan Sighting: Denso Corona Wagons
Random Japan sighting: Isn’t it nice to know the Corona wagons employed by Denso are still in service? I thought these were KE70 Corollas originally but apparently they are Coronas! Closeup after the jump
Tama Autos of Auckland, New Zealand
We love checking out sites created by JNC readers and lately we’ve really gotten into cheater_5’s A B110 Perspective. As you can guess from the title, the man is obsessed with Sunnys, and he owns an uber-cool sanitora, or Sunny … Continue reading
Posted in datsun, nissan, toyota, tuning shop, wagons
Tagged toyota, toyota corolla e70, toyota corolla ke70, toyota corolla panel van
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Toyotafest 2009
Good news, guys! The 14th annual All Toyotafest is moving back to the Queen Mary for 2009! It’s the preferred venue of fans, and few can argue with the neatly trimmed lawn and cool ocean breeze we’ve come to know and … Continue reading
Super Bad Slammed ’73 Toyota Stout
We’re back from the SEMA MPMC conference, in one piece no less. So why not close off the week with something really cool, like this slammed Stout pickup? Once in a while the folks at Mini Truckin’ unearth a gem … Continue reading
Kidney, Anyone? 1958 Toyota Corona on YJA
Chances are, when you think of Toyota Corona, one of these pops into your head. It’s the first model Toyota designed specifically to suit US tastes and what really got the company moving in the US market. Or you might … Continue reading
Footage of Nissan, Mazda and Toyota Nostalgics
For your weekend viewing here’s some drool-inducing footage of vintage Nissan Skylines. Hakosukas, kenmeris, japans, you’ve got it all. Click through for another video with Z-cars, Celicas and the stray 810 Bluebird, Mazda Familia, Luce, RX-7 and Toyota Chaser. Thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged mazda, mazda familia, mazda luce, mazda rx-2, mazda rx-4, nissan, nissan skyline, toyota, toyota celica, toyota chaser
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Weird and Wild at the Tokyo Auto Salon
It’s Tokyo Auto Salon time again, and you know what that means. All the weird and wacky custom cars of Japan come to Makuhari Messe in Chiba to show their stuff. Reports are filtering in all over the web, but … Continue reading
Posted in honda, nissan, tokyo auto salon, toyota
Tagged 2009 tokyo auto salon, honda civic, honda civic ef, mugen, nissan, nissan skyline, nissan skyline r30, tokyo auto salon, toyota, toyota 2000gt
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Greenland Expedition – In a Toyota Carina?
These low-res scans of an early 1970’s Toyota publicity brochure tell an unbelievable story: “To heck with a Land Cruiser; we’re tackling the frozen wastes of Greenland in the New Carina!”
This is How the Bosozoku Roll
They say that the goose-step, ridiculous and inefficient as it may seem, became the march of choice for dictatorships around the world specifically because of its silly appearance. After all, only a terrifying madman could force thousands of able-bodied soldiers … Continue reading
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Tagged bosozoku, chaser, cressida, datsun, mark II, mazda, mazda rx-7, nissan, nissan skyline, skyline, soarer, supra, toyota, toyota chaser, toyota cressida, toyota mark ii, toyota soarer, toyota supra
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Bay Area Toyotas at Performance Options Meet
Straight outta Oak-town, here’s some photos from an old school Toyota meet at Performance Options in Oakland, California. The crew hopes to make this a semi-regular gathering, welcoming all old school J-tin. Thanks to Miles Aquino and Justin Bonoan for … Continue reading
Classic Toyota Celicas at Fuji Speedway
And now for your viewing pleasure, some footage of some vintage Toyota Celicas tearing it up at Fuji Speedway. Love that mean green liftback! Beware, by the end you’ll be seeing double. [Chase the Horizon]
Car Nut Could Take the Wheel at Toyota
There’s more than a few Toyotaku who come to JNC because, let’s face it, most of the exciting machines in the automaker’s portfolio are in its past – RWD Celicas, Supras, Sports 800s, MR2s, twin-cam Corollas and the glorious 2000GT. … Continue reading
Vintage Japanese Drag Racing at Fuji Speedway
Old School Japanese Drag Cars Break out the earplugs before watching this footage of vintage Japanese iron doing the Zero-Yon (0-400m, approximately a quarter-mile), circa 1986. Unlike the nostalgia drag racers of the US, these cars sport canister mufflers and … Continue reading
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Tagged 240z, datsun, datsun 240z, datsun z, drag racing, dragsters, fuji speedway, mazda, nissan, nissan z, toyota
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Toyota Sports 800 Styled iQ Roadster
Last month, Toyota launched the iQ city car, to much fanfare amongst the green-machine crowd. Within days, speculation began on a sporty two-seater roadster based on the same small platform. Naturally, the first thing we noticed was its resemblance to … Continue reading
The Intersection of Datsun Drive and Toyota Road
View Larger Map El Paso, Texas is located precisely in the middle of nowhere. The only interesting things within a 500-mile radius are 1.) the site of the first atom bomb explosion in White Sands National Park and 2.) Roswell, … Continue reading
$22,000 Crown Finds Home in Tupelo, Miss.
A couple of months ago we told you about a 1958 Toyopet Crown with a very unique history, having served as one of the cars of the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco, that sold for a record. $22,322. It’s one … Continue reading
