One from the 2018
TCCAV Toyota 'Winterfest' car show held at Toyota Australia's former manufacturing plant (in Altona, VIC) earlier this month..
It's a fifth-generation Toyota Cressida (X70 Mark II, Cresta, Chaser, etc..)
wagon, in wildcard South-African-assembled and 21R-powered 1987
RX70 form...!
Special here today both for having an engine we never saw in this chassis locally (Toyota's R) and a body style we didn't-but-absolutely-should've had; Toyota Australia choosing to stop importing these wagons when the X60 / fourth generation cars wrapped up in 1984...
Is it sad this is the go-to detail in my mind on these cars though?
Double-wipers on a rear window?! A detail Australia (..saying here with
some confidence..?) didn't see outside of the XV10 Camry Wagon - coincidentally another Toyota of similar size. Isolated examples for obvious reasons; I'd like to know how the hell the need was justified...
Like its X70 sedan equivalent, these wagons (or "vans") are too a handsome thing. Thin pillars and a flat roof accentuating that length..
..and even further here with the good couple inches taken out of this particular car's ride-height!
Roll with your mates in the blue-velour lounge. The manual transmission and a AW11/AE82/AE86 "Twin-Cam" steering wheel adding a dash of sportiness..
..even
if it's only wringing the guts of out a 21R-C four'!
Single-cam and emission-equipped for outputs of <70kW and ~150Nm; a far cry from the 121kW and 221Nm muscled up by the twin-cam six-cylinder 5M-GE (a
pretty engine to boot!) powering even base Cressidas locally by 1987.
The
Toyota South Africa Manufacturing Limited build tag, rarely seen locally.
Rosso Corsa text and a prancing horse? Oh
yeah!
Done.
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