1993 Toyota Century - Jay Leno's Garage

heating back here too, oh he didn't see that and great seats too. heated, okay, let's put this in. It's amazing how much space there is here. I mean, this is actually a pretty comfortable six-passenger car. Yes Yes. Brilliant. Can I take this for a spin? Let's do it. I mean, the good thing is sit in the back, but we Americans would like to sit in the front, let's try it with the exception of the sheet metal parts, fenders and doors, whatever. I imagine both total parts originally, most of the maintenance and replacement parts are body parts.

The panels and the strange interior trim pieces are specific to the vehicles, mainly, when you get this, you can order it online, order a part, it will be there in 24 hours, right, I mean Toyota, so you get your car. Have you driven the? v12 model no, I don't have it, I think you see what kind of power, I know the guys are ever top secret, which is like a Japanese tuning house, he said basically like an outlaw top speed record with one, like that who took the v12 and put it. in a Supra in England and got arrested, oh speaking of speeding, yes there is a gold Supra with the v12

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I know it's fun, it's interesting, it looks more like a Mercedes 600 than those exactly were roles. Rice is really known to you. You know all the little innovative features. Good quality construction. Do you know where Mercedes the 600 is? This is closer to a 600, right, yeah, and this is it. How about $200,000 in 93-something there? Yes, it was very expensive and more. Yes, they have stayed the same price even for the newer ones today. Oh vanity no, it has a strange Japanese radar detector that starts talking to you and making strange beeping sounds, would this be the most expensive car sold in Japan?

I mean, you know, yeah, in

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, this is probably the most advanced car because they debuted in 1967 along with the 2000 GT, which was a launch in that halo-only market in Japan. and they had the v8 and the 67 or they were sick, I had a 3 liter video, okay, there are different behaviors, I'm sorry, America eats well, that kind of big sedan, probably the most American Japanese car, yeah, and I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, it just has that Cadillac foreshadowing. that nice flow, yeah, not bad and the good thing is that now that the 25 year rule is approaching and all these Japanese cars, there is a lot more stuff coming, a big variety of everything, because the car culture in Japan is so niche, you know, now that you can bring these diesel pickup trucks that are off-road bands and sports cars and big luxury cars and all that kind of stuff that you only read about now, yeah, we brought one of these in Japan.

Do you need a large parking space? Yes, you have to have a big place to store it. Yeah, these cars in Japan still have a certain level of status, so if you park them somewhere outside, guys won't be wondering, who is this guy? with a small car oh, there's that guy with the big car that you don't want to mess with, you know, which is cool. I just like all the little features with the swing air and all the cute little things on the back. Yeah yeah, privacy shadow tracking camps are very handmade crochet looking I know and they're not actually private because you know yeah it's just an illusion of privacy well this is probably bigger than most Japanese apartments. um, yeah, I'm not saying it is. insulting, but I mean they're not small, yeah, there's no level of space here that you don't have at home, you know, that's why this car is probably for upper class citizens and the Hankook tires are on this one. those.

That Korean is a cool 50 Korean, so they didn't put it in Japan. No, no, we had to put the tires on him here just to make sure he was safe and correct on the road. He has very low mileage for a dead in

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car we drove by. check everything again, make sure the brake suspension, everything is in good ride quality, we have to go there. I guess we'll miss a video, we're in a bit of a hurry, let me pass this camera, yeah, because when we buy a car in Japan, they have specific features. license plates, you're doing fine and this one had a dot, dot, dot, dot and just two numbers and it's usually a license plate, why would you want to have a mafia number playing?

Oh, look, there's a mark. I mean, you think you'd want to. to be more discreet, I'm discreet, you know, yeah, there's actually a licensing organization, so I don't have some Cadillac features that I read, they line up with the markers in the front corner, yeah, it's very Cadillac, yeah, it's funny that hit. hundred on the spirometer and imagine a digital dash was a big deal, yeah, there's our digital tachometer on the dash, you know, the fuel gauge temperature gauge, I get used to sitting on this side pretty easily, you know , people go crazy. I could never do that.

Oh damn, I'm crazy. You can use it to acclimatize quite a bit, you make parking a little easy, but you can see here, just the car ride is the hard part you have to go through, leave the room, yeah, yeah, how many cars do you bring in a month from Japan? It varies depending. about which we have people searching what they know what places are here, then you go there and find it, yeah, we just find anything, we just find interesting cars, if there's interesting things, we'll bring it back like this is a fun thing, right?

Just bring this, it's a fun car and how often do you come across something like this a couple of times a year? You know we'll find things and you know it's about what fun things we can have fun with, you know sometimes? You might not sell it right away and it might be something fun to own and enjoy, and then if someone else wants to continue owning you and more performance cars, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone's looking for that Japanese performance and those faster and furious movies. yeah yeah, those movie franchises really elevated what you know, car tuning is right all over the Japanese market, you know the whole JDM thing, so if the boss did in the back once it gets cold, right, keep it cold, it would be interesting to know.

If this car could tell the stories they would tell, yeah, you get these things and you never know, but sometimes you find newspapers and little things in there, sometimes you find old Japanese candy, most of them tell me, just find change, yeah, thanks, you know . I always wanted to drive one of these. I've heard about them and read about them, but it's for someone I just met and you know, it's impressive. The more I drive, the more Cadillac II is correct. It seems like, like I said before, it's the most American Japanese car there's ever been, but just with all the weird little features and weird things it does, you're sitting right there and for the price it's pretty good, you know? like I told someone.

Graduated, things are going well for everyone, love, thank you, friend, thank you, right.