Toyota to do list in the 90s: Make car for yakuza Make car for Middle East coup Make car for 500,000 miles Make car for drifters Make car for history books
IMHO it blows it out the water as well, and 100 percent more reliable. Rolls didn’t have all the messaging seats and other bells and whistles during that era either. They copied the Century
@@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs Funny because mobsters here in America tend to be patriotic and usually drive American cars. And of course some Italian cars as well lol
The 1GZFE V12 in the Century has an interesting party piece: Individual engine computers for each bank of the engine. It's basically treated as two inline six engines joined at the crank, and can actually continue running fairly smoothly with one bank completely dead.
That would either have been a toll card system, or the car telling you it’s Japanese annual road safety inspection had expired. Some importers remove that stuff, some don’t.
When I lived on Okinawa island I saw a very sharp dressed man exit one of these, upon seeing me in the parking garage he asked me in perfect English if I was enjoying my stay. The answer was unequivocally “ yes sir absolutely “ 😅
Bmw proud of a moving seat meanwhile charging you a subscription for the heated seats, meanwhile a 90s car that probably costs less has heated massaging seats 😅
@@horvathbenedek3596 Doubt it is a ECU limitation. This is a car engine designed in the 90s, almost 300 hp was a lot for a V12. The export market version had about 300 hp and that did not have any gentlemens agreement limit
@@DarkAttack14 There are plenty of early to mid 90s V12s with 300+ hp, and factory ECUs are practically always a limitation, since they aren't optimized for maximum power output. If by "ECU limitation" you mean "intentionally cutting back performance", then I agree, they probably didn't limit it THAT much, but to me at least, "ECU limitation" also includes just a less optimized software overall. There's another factor though, and that's that this was a luxury car. Not a muscle car. Keep that in mind. You heard the video, Toyota even optimized the accoustics of the car's body to sound appealing. I find it very much possible that they felt it's preferable for a wealthy buyer for the car to always sound elegant and not like a dying horse on a racetrack, so they chose to limit the car's power output somewhat. And since as you pointed out, it's a 90s car, sound insulation wasn't as good as it is today.
@@yoslauda4714 this thing kinda replaced the S class when it came out with the v12 one tho it was the same quality has a japanese badge they make americans look like the least patriotic nation on the planet so they like to buy domestic and this thing had bullet proof glass as an option yea german cars were popular still but top bosses rolled around in this pretty commonly
Seeing the features and common sense practicality of cars from back then makes you wonder what happened? If we continued on this trajectory, cars today could be amazing
No they didnt the Ls400 was the first toyota they did realize that rich people wouldnt want a toyota so they would have to create a new brand to badge this new car under but its still a completely new car there was almost nothing in a ls400 especially excluding exterior that could be found in a toyota it had a v8 for Christ sake. Adaptive Cruise control heated leather seats all kinds of wild shit for the 1995 and it was half the price of German comps they were outselling the luxury brands so bad and had such better cars BMW accused them of LOSING MONEY ON EVERY LEXUS THEY SOLD because there was no way BMW could ever make a car and charge that much they didnt think it was even possible but with japanese currency and good engineering
@@ThatWolfWithShades and japanese car manufacturers gentlemen's agreement in reality it really makes around 300 i think a 7 second 0-60 for this things curb weight at 280hp and this kind of car would be a lil nutty
Not sure if anyone has driven a Cressida or a crown but those old school toyota were something else, pure gems. Toyota used to throw in some goodies for the Japanese market. I'd see some Lincoln or Buick owner clowning this car but these cars never had any issues whatsoever... None.
