And then BMW came along in 2005 with their new models and proved we were right all along.

Japanese car are very reliable ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@@johnj3577 as an owner of two German cars I can confirm that German cars are very overrated, something always breaks

Because you never owned a Mercedes!!! Benz please.

Great compliment to Toyota

*saddest

You know what the Arabs say: "If you want to go to the desert, you go in a Land Rover. If you want to return from the desert, you go in a Land Cruiser."

Insane

The Land Rover is a nice off-road brand. Buying a car isn't just about reliability, it's about passion, aesthetic, performance, and heart. That's why I'd still buy the Land Cruiser. :)

The original TLC (They don't make them like that any more) was the Hilux of it's day. You remember what Jeremy did to a Hilux? Yeah, that's it's grandfather. The Hilux inherited it's nigh indestructibility from the FJ40.

Absolutely well said

To.bad he became intolerable as if he already wasn't

@@davidt8087 I don't think he's changed much, just people can't take any heat anymore

I know he's inappropriate and over opinionated but I love him, I read one of his first books years ago and it was the funniest thing I ever read. Love him or hate him he's still a legend.

He's a bellend but he's a legend and god damn hilarious

Tf British Leyland are the best

It's sad how this kind of documentary cannot be made today. It will be called ant-globalist, rac|st, xenophobic, bla bla bla bla

Hahah, Clarkson has an excellent piece on BL as well that more or less says the same, nice homage :-)

Lada?

Aaand then you missed the point. BL might not have made reliable cars, but they were sure pretty.

G3ORGE hate when that happens

I know. Its like it was yesterday, but I never would want to come back.

But the current GTR stated in the video (R34) was first made in 1999.

20 years from yesterday :)

@@StopFear i'd love to

Yeah this GT-R is a generation old now.

about to be 2

UGU Zach it managed to get worse

They're even legal to import into Canada at this point

The R35 nissan GT-R isn't a skyline because the r35 borrowed design from their sister company, Infiniti so it's technically a car from infiniti

Even if you've got the money to buy and maintain the expensive German luxury cars, you're better off buying a Lexus because it will last and hold its value unlike a Mercedes.

I read this as he said it. I don't have a drink

Driving a Corolla for six years now as my daily commute. It always gets me from A to B with zero hassle. I don't appreciate it enough, may be because it's just a regular sedan. Only now I realise that it's the most reliable piece of machine I've ever owned.

@@nationalismispatriotism9812 wife's got a '09 Corolla. Bought it since new. In 2022 only basic maintenance has been performed and with 172k miles on the clock (and climbing,) I have to say it's the most reliable thing out there. Still on it's original rear drum brakes & shoes, fronts were changed twice. Still maintaining it complete original exhaust and the under carriage is still flawless despite the years of driving through salt and snow has gotten me bewilder as to why much newer vehicles than this 12 year old one, are falling apart much sooner! "I love what you do for me Toyota!"

'87 Toyota van , been in the family since new. 245,000 miles and everything working good to perfect, I figured it could last for ten forevers , especially now I drive less. Boom! At 3am? What's that? A drunk girl crashes into it parked minding it's own .

@@aaronsmith5433 what a shame, it lived a good life being well cared for only for some dimwit to take it out.

+Interceptor810 agreed. why do they have to be so rare in the US?

+roguedogx The s12 was the 200sx and the s13 was basically the 240sx.

***** yes but have you tried finding one that is not hatched up, has a million miles, or has a "drift tax" on it?

roguedogx Mileage doesn't really matter but yes, its difficult to find one that hasn't been trashed. I've maybe seen only 3 decent ones out of the dozens I've seen.

+roguedogx They're like that because they are Nissan's equal to the Civic. Affordable and economically efficient. Their popularity grew because they were marketed as entry level sports cars for an affordable market.

Why does that seem familiar? *putting pinky in ear and wiggling* No, dont remember. My brain is not what it used to be.

Pinky & The Brain

Now Chin try good copee

And, unlike Pinky and the Brain, they did. But then, they lost it.

10:36?

5:40?

@@evani4067 Leftfield shallow grave soundtrack

Does anyone know the song at 12:20?

1:07!??

Wish they could, but they've retired it for good. Maybe a successor to the Evo will rise from the ashes?

+lawlerzwtf Mitsubishi is out as a major car manufacturer. The Lancer hasn't been notably updated since 2012. In any way. Whatsoever. The i-MiEV is a joke. The Outlander is outdated and nobody touches it. Mazda is taking the spot it formerly occupied as we speak.

Mickey the Luxray sad truth, but at least Mazda is getting bigger.

+lawlerzwtf No more Lan Evo's :(

BoostBoy Apollo Given the RX-Vision and Mazda's recent promises, the RX-7 should be making a return sooner or later. Mitsu is probably just going to stick to heavy industry and electrics at this point. Probably smarter now that they've shat the bed completely.

He says the Skyline is totally original and goes straight to saying all Japanese cars are copies

But at least they work and that's all I'm happy about 🙂

A cool car is a running car.

@@firstescobar6863 way to set the bar so low

He clearly didn't see the compact SUV coming - but it was pretty much all the Suzuki Vitara and Toyota Rav4 that made it happen.

In the late 19th century, Japan feared becoming a colony of the West. They decided to adopt Western industrial methods so they could export products and become a major power, with a world-class navy. Japanese culture, which is group-oriented rather than individual-oriented as in the USA, caused the whole country to modernize and for the large corporations to work with the government and each other to get maximum productivity in the shortest time. WWII was a setback for Japan but also an opportunity. The U.S. feared that the defeated powers would go communist, and so via the Marshall Plan helped Germany and Japan rebuild their industrial base. American companies helped out. Steinway, the American maker of premium pianos, sent some samples to Yamaha. That company used the Steinways as a template and ended up building pianos very nearly as good at a fraction the cost and in large quantities. Now, Yamaha is the Toyota of the piano industry and Steinway is for the elite only. American and Britain both had the resources to compete with imported Japanese products, but their arrogance and their refusal to see their cars as mediocre and sloppily built caused car company executives on both sides of the Atlantic to laugh them off and not respond. Once the Japanese had a foothold in the USA, the American auto industry was so riddled with bad practices by both the unions and the executives, the economy cars they built, like the Pinto, Vega, and Chevette, could not begin to compete with what Japan was building in the same price range. The same went for Britain, and in that country things got even worse when they consolidated most of their manufacturers under one umbrella company, British Leyland. The British car industry is pretty much dead, and were it not for government bailouts the American industry would be, too. We can only hope American decision makers will use electrification as an opportunity to build a world-class lineup of cars that can compete with anybody.

@@johntechwriter Nerd alert.

@@falconater68 learn from history of remain ignorant.

@@falconater68 its called being smart and having knowledge

I still don't understand how US could rebuild Japan and Germany into one of the world's most hailed country in the world, yet they couldn't do so in Iraq and Afghanistan despite the technology and knowledge is far more advanced than before.

They get stolen easily

And they rot

​@@davidt8087kinda like VWs & Fords😂

Go play some rugby please.

Corrie De Beer I'd be rubbish at it.

However toyota seemed to make that ac work so good, that they made a switch to shut it off so you could wind out the borderline pathetically underpowered engine. The xr2 i imagine did not possess the same issue, but with the regular 1.8 it is frankly dull and very beige. Mind you i live in a society obsessed with displacement and 75 mph speed limits on uninspiring roads. Saskatchewan is the wrong place to own a capable beast. As the most interesting thing to do here is take 300$ cavaliers and make them fly without wings.

Toyota Refrigerator owner here. 250.000km, from 2001. Most expensive problem I had was a trunk shocks failiure. Oh the shocks were cheap, about 7€ each, the problem was I couldnt work for a while with a cracked skull xD At first I thought "this is just a beater". Then I started hating it. Then, I put diesel in it, watered petrol, didnt change oil for years, went rallying... And it didnt die. Then I started loving it, because although it may not be really good at anything in particular, but there isn't really anything that car says "no" to. And then, the best part: rollas are usually cop cars. I rarely ever get pulled over XD

Corrie De Beer I feel like that’s mildly racist.

😌👍

The last Colt generation is very ugly, but it is extremely reliable. I collect Mitsubishi (Starting from the early 80s up to the last Galant) and that Colt is just fine for driving to work.

I had a Granada and the wipers flew off in a rain storm on the motorway when the linkage fell apart. Last Ford I ever owned lol

why be joyless and boring?

@@AverageAlien Exactly! Why get a car that impinges on your ability to get to where you find joy & excitement. Cheap means I can spend more money on the boat, family & friends etc. While reliable means it doesn't stop me getting to the places I like to be. Though I loved my Triumph I certainly didn't love seeing my time & money drain away in petrol stations and repair bills. The trick is not to waste money, while retaining high availability, in getting to the places you love to be. Thus 'cheap & reliable' car = more joy & excitement.

@@Kimdino1 No, not how it works at all. Plenty of reliable and fun cars. No excuses. You choose to be a boring sod

Italian styling..? 2nd gen could well be the ugliest roadster ever, with its disproportinally large headlights making it actually look a bit disgusting, like a Nissan Leaf. :o

@@miljororforsprakpartiet290 do you mean third gen, as first gen is OK but dated, 2nd gen is a beaut, 3rd gen meeeh

@@thechurchofsupersampling yes, the one without popups. Didn't know there were 3 gens

1st gen was a copy of the Fiat X19

The first one yes. The 2nd one looked like a car made out of Lego

Who cares? Miata is way more reliable than British roadsters, no wonder it soon caught on in GB. No rust, no engine issues etc' .

+Jason Hamelin in what world is it the coolest car car from that era you forget all the the awd eclipse the crx,nsx I would take a civic over a girlie miata anyday

+humpty lol civic... crx.... have a nice roadtrip if its what you prefer.

Honda Civic EX is fine, I've just never figured out how it is executive 😁

Boosted Fool lol it's funny cause where I live there were also luxury versions of the Civic that were rebadged and had slightly altered appearances. the 96-01 Acura 1.6 EL; the 2002-05 Acura 1.7 EL; the 2006-2011 Acura CSX (this altered version was then sold in Japan as the regular Honda Civic)

Japanese standards? You realize 90-95% of VW's income is service and repairs? Japan have always played catch-up, not only in design but nowadays also profitability. Japan no longer have a reliability advantage in consumer indexes (surpassed by the cheap Renault sub-brand Dacia), even less so in reality.

@@miljororforsprakpartiet290 Man...you have an answer for everything, don't you? Your debating style can be summed up as: talk trash; apply your white/Euro pride issues to random consumer goods like you're stuck in the 1960s; say that up is down, left is right, good is bad, and call a turd a rose -- DONE; you win the argument all in your head.

@@braynstorm3149 And your debating style can be summarized as: generic, mainstream, anti-logical and anti-intellectual. At least I have my own opinion, based on knowledge rather than ignorance.

@@miljororforsprakpartiet290 were you born an asshole or did you grow into it?

Well, this is what happening when money is more important than the customer. Europe could dominate the world if with some magic the money would be secondary for the people.

Bosch may have caught up, but Lucas stayed the same old crap manufacturer. They only make unreliable garbage.

@@joshuagarden7304 it earned the moniker, “The Prince of Darkness”

here in the middle east they are loved by every one a millionaire would buy all the ones with his favorite specs and build his own dream ls

Depends on the mercedes and depends where it was made. Its also that i noticed that ppl are much more forgiving about problems with toyotas or lexus when they have to be recalled or the dash melts etc

@@kloschuessel773 happened in middle east a lot also to the Mercedes C classes 😆

@@Axel_sms what now?

@@kloschuessel773 what now?

ahahahahaha

Simple, get paid to say scripted offensive things to generate headlines and viewers, and do the same shit day in day out and on top of taking all the heat, have every word he spoke copyrighted by a bunch of money grabbing bastards who will reprimand and/or sue him for stuff as little as having the freaking wind blowing in his general direction :)

How the BBC had the only reason anyone watched their poxy channel,.......and lost him.

clarkson is not scripted

You do know that Jeremy clarkson was one of the people that made the new format he even sold it to the bbc because he owned the new format of top gear.

Quite a weird time for cars with the push towards electric.

@@TheDude50447 Won’t last. There’s not enough cobalt in the world to make all the lithium batteries needed, there’s not enough child slave labor to mine the cobalt, and you’d have to build a nuclear power plant every week for the next 30 years to supply enough electricity just for the US.

Japanese cars are where American cars were in the 1970s. The Nipponese Malaise Era. The craftsmanship is poor in comparison to the 80s and 90s. They discovered planned obsolescence and they're not even trying anymore. They know that the uninformed public will keep buying Toyota and Honda because mom's Civic lasted 20 years, and they don't understand why their CVT craps out after three years and the engine is ruined because the timing belt snapped. Anyone that is marveling at Japanese build quality in 2022 are people that have never driven anything else and are just ignorant.

They were. Korea has now overtaken them with the offerings from Kia and Hyundai.

@@RockandrollNegro that's why they keep winning Le Mans and WRC right? And who gives a shit about CVTs when the best Japanese cars are manual or DCT.

Men. As we grow older, from certain points, our personality goes bad as we become more arrogant and confident. That is good and bad at the same time.

When you're born, you're given a credit card fuck of "fucks" to give. When you young, you use it liberally. As you grow older, you start to run out of these fucks. Eventually you have run out of fucks to give. And towards the ends, there is none left.

This is not only very true but also has an amazing fucks-to-length ratio. Brilliant.

+GodKing804 that's some wise things you said there! But that's not an excuse for shameful behaviour, a gentleman must remain a gentleman at all times.

Maybe James did the editing:)

Clarkson likes to spread disinformation

It's a joke

Kozo Hoshino God Foot: DORYAA!!! (screaming intensified)

"Till the day I die, I'll drive a GT-R"

aaaand 2:51 MICROAGRESSION! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Yes. James May was also an excellent magazine editor until he got fired.

+SirSnivy ofNottingham This is from the June of 2000, they weren't doing so well back then.

***** They, and other Japanese automakers, do still rule many reliability surveys, and Japanese cars still last for hundreds of thousands of miles.

***** I can maybe see modern Toyotas being relatively less reliable when compared to their '80s ancestors (which are immortal tanks), but, that being said, to my knowledge, Toyotas are still reliable when compared to other makes (especially non-Japanese makes).

Any properly maintained American and European car can reach a million miles with your point being?

Totally Winning Pro Gamer Of course any can. However, ultimately, it amounts more to how much abuse a car can handle before dying (even regular driving can count as abuse, depending on the environment), and also how reliable the car is in the first place (unreliable cars often tend to be scrapped sooner than more reliable cars). Put a Citroen (except 2CV) and a Toyota through the same lifestyle in northeastern Pennsylvania, with rough winters and mountain roads, and see which one lasts longer.

And nsx gen 1

​@@eriksantoso1741 desinged in italy

the rx7 is very unique in the engine rebuilding compartment

Still ugly.

+Adam Jensen OOOH the JP/EU spec Civic is SUCH a cute little spaceship, it's amazing. I think people claiming that Japanese copy EU vehicles disregard the obvious: EU and US vehicles copy each other and the Japanese all the time! Everybody does. It's called following trends. You either follow the trends, or you set the trends, and if you do neither, that's usually your door out.

Siana Gearz That's true. But someone who *only* follows the trends means he has no idea what else to do. Maybe you need to come up with something of your own if you want to stay relevant.

+Adam Jensen u never know dude they could have

True it was very futuristic and has own character. but at the end of day it wasn't beautiful, whole glass front panel, very odd propotions at back doors, very low bonnet, not good for crash tests, like an arrow to enter a lorry from back. even push button you needed key!!!.Honda models from 90 s has much advanced suspension then this... so focus and golf s independent rear suspension were way better. and they tried hard, they couldn't achieve it..they still evolve this car, with patches after 10 year. wearing a glass or smoking a cigar does not make you intellectual, you are who you are even with different cloths.

Civic spelled backwards is... Stupid and gutless.

Japanese cars are overall the best...i dont care if interior is a bit less upscale. I care for how practical and ergonomic it is and japanese are superior to entire world with that. Getting the most from least amount of space and materials. Making fun cars by accident just because of them being light. And incredibly fun cars when they mean it ergo MX-5 or any other dedicated sportscar from japan

@User European (German) cars still have boring design and their problems . The Japanese can also match interior quality too. If I was spending my own cash I would take Japanese every time. Euro cars fine for a three year lease and then get shot...

You mean same european cars with cheap plastics and fall apart after 3 years. The europeans are expert at selling myths, Lexus, Honda, Toyota, Acura, Mazda, Subaru all vastly superior in every way.

Yes, but they're incapable of original thought. They COPY Western designs, eliminate what's considered frivolous & then flood the markets with a different take on our ideas.

@@lukespector5550 They are capable of original thoughts, they just don't export them 'cause we would probably not like them. To sell to the world they copy what the rest of the world likes and that's just normal

They also take care of their stuff better on average too

Not anymore.

they are so good at what they do that they die of overwork

Don't forget American and British Ride Quality.

The only let down is on the security department, for passive as well as active safety, German cars remain unbeaten. They still are the best insurance against car accident death.

Accord is FF. Not even Japanese buy it.

My family bought a 1997 Toyota Kijang (Revo) in 2011 or 2012. Still running well more than 10 years later. No issues to report apart from the usual wear and tear such as the clutch plate, clutch master, and routine change oil.

My dad bought a 1984 Toyota SR5 pickup in Jun of '84 when I was 5. It's been mine since 1995 and I still drive it at 44 years old although it hasn't been the daily driver in a couple of decades. Now I have to beat people off with a stick who want to buy it.

nsx

+Jon Doe (Mr White Foxy) That is why they are trying to remake some of them.

+John S No way man.

+Jon Doe (Mr White Foxy) And the LFA's and NSX'S of today are so very unutterably dull.

Supra, Skyline, Integra type R, RX-7 etc.

Sounds like pompous bullshit to me if I'm honest

@@msimomi y

Europe still hasnt figured out how to make them reliable

​@@MrWalker1000because "heart and soul" has always been a get out of jail free card for Clarkson. A rover 75 or a Mercedes C Class is as much of a mass produced car than a Lexus LS. But somehow the Europeans have more soul and passion. Why? Because his fellow Europeans are somehow more passionate about their work? How do you quatify this?

+INUMIMI28 If only their engines were any good and the design wasn't as pathetically rounded and feminine.

Towe96 Look the video, all young Jeremy Clarkson can come up with, is a headlight washer, which the more mature current Clarkson doesn't complain, and really if there's more substance than the style, it can make a case for itself, don't you agree?

+Towe96 yeah because a 2000hp+ 6 cyl or a 1500hp+ 4 cyl is girlie hahaha id like to see you have enough balls to steer either one of those machines down the strip ;-) now go play with you "manly" american rubbish, i mean "muscle"

AKA as Zeus I'm not even American. I'm from Germany. Point is, you can't make anything that's significantly over 100 kW/l reliable. Period. I just find no appeal in engines that need a rebuild every 500 km. Have a guess why a Veyron costs 5'000'000$ to manufacture while your crappy GTR's only cost 100'000$.

+Towe96 the 2jz is incredibly reliable as is the 1uz.. the rb series is less so than the jz series but man there's very few german engines that i'd take over an rb.. and it's basically only the m120 and the other merc v12's.. cause let's be real, an engine that is good enough for a zonda is good enough for basically anything

I never understood why people believed that Mitsubishi named the car over the phone. "Why send out a printed press release? We'll just phone it in."

+ZeroStriker426 And a Volkswagen or a Peugeot isn't mass produced in enormous quantities then?

+ZeroStriker426 Maybe because Corolla (like many others japaneses cars) is just a household appliance and nothing more?..

. Ae86?

Genius, broke my shit laughing at it.

Thanks for explaining the joke. As if I couldn't tell what the joke was without this comment.

BS. I was a factory rep ( District Manager) for Mitsubishi. The STARION was garbage as was the rest of the line. Mitsubishi is a Finance Company making cars. No more, no less. They were under the thumb of CHRYSLER, the worst car company in history. I had enough of them after 2 years and went back to work for Volvo Motors of America. An adult company with quality products.

@@bohemian46 Volvo quality? not since the old 240's

@@bohemian46 thank you for sharing your knowledge from the inside out... I always thought less of Mitsubishi but never knew why. It has one iconic car and a business model that looks like a money laundering front lol... It all makes sense now.

@@plainpawesome Its sad how mitsubishi made a lot of cool cars in the 90s yet today only has 3 or so models that are absolutely bland and no one really buys. Today its just a complete mess.

Mitsubishi in the uk died when it joined forces with Renault/Volvo at Nedcar in Holland to avoid import taxes from Japan. Colts, lancers, shoguns, sigmas, 3000gts, galants, l200s, evos, l300s and the rest of their predecessors were great cars and I hate to say the starion were iconic too. The introduction of the carisma in the 90’s onwards with the rest of their inbread crap was the the death of the brand. Many more models with good spec were denied imports into the uk because of financial politics, this can be seen in the uprising of the pajero, fto, vr4 , Trojan/Tritan and delica just to name a few being brought into the county by businesses not linked to the colt car company or Mitsubishi..

Words to live by. Greetings from Portugal.

But Japanese engineering IS great. We wouldn't have ever known a car could last more than 5 years/100,000 miles without y'all showing the way. We need to work to catch up with you guys.

And MR2 :)

Simon Liu Why? MX5 are being produced, Skylines, Evos, I beleive they have just released the new NSX as well. Also, Toyota is planning a successor to the Supra in collaboration with BMW. Mazda has also tested a prototype for a new RX7.

+Aldous Forest You just put me to sleep with that list

+Aldous Forest CRX (don't care that it was a civic)

+Romero Turner (ROMXAVTUR) Yeah, Skyline GT-R. I'm sure everyone understood what I meant

Very well said! In life no one is perfect! However, there are those who aim for perfectionism.

+Adam K exactly Japanese are perfectionists without a doubt

Dark joke: They had recall issues, and since they are japanese they wouldn't take it and committed suicide. Sorry.

ThePwaro Yikkes! Didn't know that bro. But, I am aware of suicide in Japan. Just didn't know even Honda employees were committing suicide. Very sad.

Organic Beast they just lost their edge

Quick Expert Reviews He also called the Skyline GT-R the “best car he had ever driven” :)

Quick Expert Reviews He is also a massive fan of the Honda S2000

Dude I’m a Toyota guy for life and I drive a Lexus LS but if you pass a background check and pay $400k for a Car it better be the best (And it is)

kachow! He also said that to the lexus

The Stig's favorite car is the LFA as well.

+Viktor Penc Beautiful car, shitty engine (8v SOHC). 4G63T swap FTW!

WasmachinemanTT5/R™ You didn't really got it, did you?

It's a marsupial?

+Viktor Penc I found an LS swapped one in my area, so its even better now!

+Viktor Penc Starrion?? Imposibrru!!

Yes but thats america things are different here in the uk, we dont have companies like dodge or chevy selling top quality muscle cars we just have crappy nissan micras because theyre practical as are most japanese cars which are just plain and boring

Commodorefan64 . I have owned many American cars and they have sucked away at my wallet with gas or even parts but my Japanese cars are fun. Here in canada we love to make sleepers with small Toyota, Honda, nissan imports are just so much fun and when it come to have some track time they don't hurt the wallet

I liked my commodore 64 in 85!

Jack, pre-97 f150 is all I can tolerate regarding cost risk of ownership. IMHO post 97 toyonda also went corrupt, especially with automatic transmission.

Quite a bit of difference between a Toyota and a Ford, lmao. A Toyota and Volvo would be a fair comparison, or a Ford and anything between Alfa and British Leyland.

an f150 is literally 90.000 dollars in my territory

A Pontiac Vibe is A Brand engineered Toyota Matrix.

The RX-7 that is similar to a 944 is the FC model which started production 1985. The FB is quite different to both.

dandinofat 924

I agree, absolutely no explanation or elaboration of how the RX7 copied the porche or if the RX7 was better or worse. He literally dismisses all of its engineering and advancements as just being a copy cat.

Dandinofat, true 1st Gen rx7 was sort of unique, but I wasn't impressed with it's handling. I loved the 2nd gen RX high speed cornering enough to buy one in 87. Styling did remind of a shaved 944, at only 25% lower cost, but I didn't want an unreliable, unsafe VW piece of crap. My teenage background was muscle cars and main car 72 Camaro.

Richard Hammond already hates you

@@marmedalmond9958 I don't care

Oinky Aldritz I’m with u

You have no soul

Because i am proud european. I Will never buy japaneeeese shit.

@@santiagomachado7378 Well my golf 4 with legendary 1.9tdi is also reliable. Theese engines can easilly hit 1 million kilometers without problém. But golf is much better than for example toyota avensis in terms build quality and driving. And New cars are still reliable they can hit 500 000 or 1 Mill km too but depends on motor and Basic maintainence.

I'd rather push my Alfa than drive a Toyota.

Maybe one of the directors have seen it?

+Rage_Hardscope better yet, read the manga. God Foot in the anime didn't show up until over a decade after this episode aired

I was thinking about that!

Me too ^LOL

Randy Buxsel sure, Hoshino come to my head when Clakson say that

Indeed

Tons of room and fantastic visibility all round. Lot to be said for the design, much prefer it to the later models.

They did

Skate Neon Don't think so.... " In 1998, Toyota ceased sales of the Supra in the United States[3] and in 2002 Toyota officially stopped production of the Supra in Japan " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Supra

+Basih Toyota has worked on bringing it back, the FT1 is based off the last 2 Supras. Biggest problem ignoring the FnF movies, Supras don't sell. Sales were horrid in the late 90's, and they didn't get any serious popularity until the 00's when production was already shut down. Even used a MK4 Supra is expensive as all hell, that's why I fell in love with the MK3.

News from Toyota said there ft1 concept is going to Be the new supra

Brian Gorski It dosen't quite look like the supra unfortunatly though I guess it's better then nothing.

cyz44 True, he totally missed the prediction, but probably not even Toyota could imagine that the Prius would have been that successful. Anyway the Prius is more "real car" than the Insight, which looks like a toy car.

yeah, toyota have a knack for these things, building reliable cars is a great marketing tool for them.. but in saying that you'll never get a straight answer from toyota in terms profit margin. They probably only started turning a profit in the mid to late 2000s. haha yes the insight wasn't the best looking thing..

+cyz44 Toyota made it's only loss in 2009 ( or 2008) in more than 50 years due to crisis. Toyota consistently has been the industry's most profitable company.

crms1100 yes, i agree.. i should have mentioned in the previous comment, i was referring the profit margin specific to the prius model..

+cyz44 That's actually a normal strategy. If you want to establish a new market, you can push it way forward by doing it at a loss. Austin Mini really cost 1/4th more to build than its retail price for the first few years in production.

Honda for me. Civic and Jazz. Jazz built in Japan.

And get the Italians to design them. There is actually such a car which came out in the late 1990's called the Nissan Autech Stelvio. I believe it was based on the running gear of the Nissan 300ZX but styled by Zagato. It is extremely rare because of the economics of production made it unprofitable.

And styled by the Italians.