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newVideoPlayer("/80_Toyota_Cresta_494.flv", 506, 423,""); In 1980 Japan, it was possible to get synthesizer keyboards with far more futuristic "whistling echo laser" effects than those used anywhere else in the Free World. Naturally, the Cresta was the machine most deserving of those keyboards. Somewhat similar in appearance to its American cousin, the Cressida, the Cresta was basically a luxury-enhanced Corona Mark II. Nice car, but we'd rather have a Crown Super Saloon .
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newVideoPlayer("/1990_Hino_JDM_DianeLane_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Paul Newman really did race Nissans and had a longstanding relationship with the company. But how about Diane Lane , star of Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains ? In a real test of the whole concept of suspension-of-disbelief, we see Ms. Lane driving a Mondrian-style Hino Ranger delivery truck through a Japanese neighborhood populated by refugees from the suburbs of Des Moines. Was there a rush on Hinos after this ad came out?
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newVideoPlayer("/84_Skyline_PaulNewman_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Paul Newman did a lot of ads for Nissan in addition to racing their cars, and the association went far beyond the usual "big in Japan" deal in which foreigners make major yen for appearing in car ads, then flee back home. Nissan even came out with a Paul Newman Version R30 Skyline, which is featured in one of the trio of '84 ads here.
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newVideoPlayer("/87_CRX_JDM_476.flv", 506, 423,""); While the American version of the Honda CRX could circle the globe in five seconds flat , late-80s robots were tearing up their prefectures in the Cyber Sports CR-X. Featuring a "1500 Hyper 16 Valve" engine and "Extra Window," the Cyber-Sports CR-X presented a terrifyingly accurate vision of the future. Looks like Jeff Beck cashed in with Honda, since there's at least one other CRX ad using his song.
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newVideoPlayer("84_Corolla_Japan_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Here's another in a long line of jittery Japanese-market car ads, this one showing how a pack of tie-wearing Toyota shoprats can whomp together an '84 Corolla for fashion-deranged monogloved chopsocky experts and fedora-wearing, flask-in-bottom-drawer newsies alike, all thanks to the mighty powers of the Munificent Plutonium Wrench.
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newVideoPlayer("84_Suzuki_Cerbo_476.flv", 475, 376,""); We love us some weird Japanese-market car ads, and this one for the Cerbo Cervo is downright puzzling . The Cerbo Cervo makes with the rakish side-mirror moves, and the ladies are just on it like ants on candy.
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The Japanese seem unable to make a home-market vehicle ad without surrealism and/or serious macho voiceovers, and we love them for it. This one shows the Mazda Titan flatbed miraculously loading an elephant in the back. Ti-TANN!
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