In the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, the car collector hosts Brian Corsetti, owner of twelve FJ60 and FJ62 Toyota Land Cruisers. Of course, next to Leno’s triple-digit vehicle collection that sounds positively sane, but at least Jay has a variety of makes and models. So, how many Land Cruisers is too many?
Naturally, the two jest about their significant others cutting that taking tally down the moment Brian gets married, and pluck other low-hanging fruits from the joke tree. As is the custom with such videos there are factual errors, but it’s still cool to see the iconic off-roaders get some screen time. Brian’s FJ62 does look pretty sweet on the roads of Burbank.
I guess when you own as many cars as Leno does you can’t expect to be a subject matter expert on each one.
Question: He says the last Toyota model that had carbs was the Land Cruiser in 1987. But didn’t the AE86 have carburators till the 87 model year? Unless I misheard the fact he said…..
I don’t think so. Off the top if my head, the 4A-GE engine designation makes it the 4th iteration of the A engine, G meaning twin cam, E meaning fuel injection. (From German – Einspritz?)
The SR5 model used the 4A-C which may have been carbed.
Sr5 were carbed and some AE92 Corolla had carbs till 1989.
So that means… Weber 45DCOEs!
AE92s… Cleaner looking, but overlooked because it was FWD. Didn’t stop Hondas from being popular
Similar to the TE37 being overlooked in favor of the TE27, even though the TE37 was a nicer car.
See, I thought the guy was slightly wrong. I knew the 4A-C was carbed (they even had a California-Spec engine).
I think the E stands for EFI.
Makes me wonder how Toyota (and everyone else) come up with their engine designations. So why does G=twin cam, Z=supercharged, etc…
I don’t think they stand for anything. They were probably the only non-assigned letters left since T, C, D, and S were reserved already.