RE: Toyota Century: Spotted

RE: Toyota Century: Spotted

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Barchettaman

6,282 posts

131 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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shakotan said:
Barchettaman said:
Well, it looks like a Toyota Comfort that's been on the pies, it will drink like a fish whilst returning meagre performance in return, I would imagine it isn't the most fun on anything other than a smooth motorway, and parts availablity is likely to be migraine-inducing.
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If you mean the Toyota Crown Comfort taxi, the Century was out decades before it existed.
Nearly. First-gen Centurys (Centuries?) look very different.



The second-generation Century (model code G50), of which the car in the article is an example, came out in ´97.



The Comfort / Crown Comfort predates it by two years:







Edited by Barchettaman on Tuesday 16th January 17:01

Fastdruid

8,623 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Tuvra said:
Fastdruid said:
Japanese Rolls not that it is the same as an *actual* Rolls.

The LS is a lower car in the Toyota/Lexus range. Your argument is the equivalent of saying "Why bother with an S-Class Merc, you should buy an E-Class". Yes an E-Class is nice...but it's not an S-Class.
How can you compare the two if they're from different brands? It's like saying a Phaeton is better than an A8, they're not even in the same hierachy? boxedin
From this era Lexus = Toyota.

It was only relatively recently that Lexus branched out from being the "exporter" arm of Toyota to selling as Lexus in the JDM as well.


GliderRider

2,068 posts

80 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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From the original article Most of them are C-HRs. But look at what can be found: an excellent 80s Land Cruiser, whatever a Toyota Noah is,...

Very disappointing to find that the Noah isn't amphibious!

HRCM

Original Poster:

70 posts

88 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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GliderRider said:
Very disappointing to find that the Noah isn't amphibious!
4x4 or 2x2?

givablondabone

5,475 posts

154 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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cheddar said:
5 litre V12 and only 276bhp?

Chinny okey dokey.

More like - whoops, sorry - 400bhp.

Unnapealingly ugly, still kinda want

But for £4k, not 12
This 100% and I must confess I didn't know about these at all.

Porkymerc

24 posts

124 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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sdiggle said:
Now I'm looking at Rollers and thinking they're good value....

Would running costs really be that bad??
http://robisonservice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/blown-head-gaskets-in-bentley-turbo-r.html

This Yank RR repairer has some interesting service and repair articles to really frighten you off owning a Roller or Bentley...

Hairymonster

1,419 posts

104 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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I'm sure this was on here a few months back.

Ocellia

186 posts

148 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Toyota go to ridiculous lengths regarding quality on their big cars. Lexus engineer checking switches reputedly has 3 sets of fingernails.....the paint guys are retrained every 3 months... etc..
This should last forever?

That Series one has a touch of old Studebaker about it's front end-sold!

Edited by Ocellia on Tuesday 16th January 20:56

Turbojuice

598 posts

88 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Fantastically quirky cars. Glad to see the new model continues the trend.


Earl of Petrol

485 posts

121 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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No

devnull

3,745 posts

156 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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So much want for one of these.

These things are seriously silent. Check out YouTube for videos. They are opulent as fk.

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I didn't know they existed until today - thanks to PH it's another school day for me. laugh

I love that fold-out front seat feature, but how many Japanese people would ever need that? I thought they were mostly not that tall!

I got picked up from Heathrow once in a LWB 7 Series with the front passenger seat fully forward and my feet couldn't reach the seat back (mind you I'm only 5'9"). laugh

For some reason I like it just for being different - a bit like a Zil!

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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There's something deeply lovely about this - unpretentious old-money luxury. If they make an actual 400bhp rather than the gentleman's-handshake 276bhp, then that also makes them more compelling. However, I'd struggle to justify one over an X305 XJ12 or E38 750i, never mind a W140 S600...

Anyone else think that, post-Honda, Rover missed a trick in not signing a deal with Toyota to import these, stick a Rover grille on the nose, some Axminster, Connolly and walnut on the dash and sell it as a cut-price Rolls?

Distraxi

45 posts

138 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Anyone likening the quality of these to a mere Lexus should consider that most of Shoichiro Toyoda's friends and peers (not to mention the Imperial Household) would have owned one, and that the car was produced entirely for the status accrued to Toyota by this - making money off it won't have been a factor.

Then think about how truly, madly, deeply unhappy Toyoda-san would be to have one of these gents complain to him about a broken car.

Then consider the position of the Toyota employee who allowed that unfortunate situation to occur.

DegsyE39

576 posts

126 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I love these always have.. if you get a chance look at some of the v12 century driveby videos on youtube.. epic sounds! almost like an aero engine.

My heart sank soon as i saw it on the front page spidey senses told me it would be some chancer asking 10k plus! I was looking at them 2-3 years back at 4k! Seems like anything old is megabucks now the classic car bubble is just pulling everything up in price!

4k interesting and worth a punt.. 12k your having a laugh!

Regards D.

DegsyE39

576 posts

126 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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feast your ears lads hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ljP3Iwfvs


Edited by DegsyE39 on Wednesday 17th January 05:23

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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RoverP6B said:
Anyone else think that, post-Honda, Rover missed a trick in not signing a deal with Toyota to import these, stick a Rover grille on the nose, some Axminster, Connolly and walnut on the dash and sell it as a cut-price Rolls?
Was that an option for Rover? It seems very unlikely

MidnightXR6

813 posts

168 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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13k for a car and can only be bothered to take 5 pics on advert?

LasseV

1,754 posts

132 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I wonder how much hp it does actually produce? This is the most silent rubber burning like ever:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_-YoE4L25w

And yeah, nice car.

Tuvra

7,920 posts

224 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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gareth_r said:
Tuvra said:
That makes absolutely no difference, it still looks rubbish (and has Hilux switch gear). The only thing I like about that is the very nice looking gearstick...
I think you you'll find that it's actually Lexus switchgear. smile
The indicator and wiper stalks look identical to the ones I had in my 2005 Toyota Hilux confused