Sunday, July 18, 2010

First generation Toyota Soarer

The 1981 Toyota Soarer was a high performance, luxury grand tourer.  (It later became the Lexus SC300/400.)  The car was significant enough to make it onto the 240 Landmarks list.  A family friend imported a white one to the U.S. in the oh-so-lax mid-1980s.  He soon parted with it and I'm convinced I saw it parked in front of a Korean BBQ in Berkeley in the late 1990s.

Here is one of the original ads for it with a purty lady:


Here is a review.  The car shown is almost identical to the white Soarer that ended up States-side.

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