Convey sporting range Toyota left in 1967. The drawing is signed by the designer at the origin of BMW 507 and it is very comparable with the standard Jaguar E.

Particularly modern vehicle for the time (an ancestor of ABS, magnesium wheels…) it will undergo a commercial failure vis-a-vis the German competition of Porsche in particular, that because of a high selling price. The production will be limited to only 337 specimens, with only two convertibles, and nine half-compartments with automatic box.

The engine is drawn from the Toyota bank, it is about one 6 cylinders 2.0L equipped with 3 Carburateur S Solex-Mikuni allowing a power with 150 ch 6500 tr/min and a stall torque with 177 Nm with 5000 Tr/min. Its preparation will be entrusted to Yamaha. Not very flexible but of sonority sympathetic nerve, it will be penalized by a too long Gear box not very practical because, whereas it is possible to choose an option long bridge.

The production particularly reduced and little exported in Europe make this vehicle today true a collector.

NB: The alternative convertible will be conceived at a rate of two specimens to be used as high-speed motorboat with James Bond in One saw only twice .

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