The cover says " We drive Japans answer to the VW!" Really no guts to it - car or story as not really a typical test drive report of the day. The journo was in NZ and flew past it loaded up with what are described as fatheads - later described as normal people, just the car made them look supersized. After passing on freeway the journo chanced upon car again , so what does a good journo do ? Make a report on the $1200NZ car.
Chanced upon it looking up facts after a multi topic yak with an old school Subie nut in a successful attempt to disprove his claim the MS55 Toyota Crown of the day had the same engine as the Toyota 2000GT as featured on Top Gears Bond cars special - a car they describe as being worth half a million pounds today. I knew one and its owner Col - drove it everyday in the eighties , parked out with the rest of the world! Think it went back to Japan?
two litre DOHC triple Mikunis 130ftlb, 150HP was certainly not same as MS55 2.3 SOHC 127ftlb 120HP
$1200NZ or A$9400 for the 2000GT . $9400 would have bought 1.5 E types or nearly 2.5 Falcon GT's of the day
that $9400 has turned into about $700,000 !!