NPOCP - Are All Imports Equal?

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
09/10/2015 at 20:49 • Filed to: None

1990 Toyota Celsior Type C priced at $7495. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

DISCUSSION (14)

For Sweden > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 20:53

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 20:56

Zohaibman72 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 20:56

Cloth seats? Doesn’t the LS come with Leather standard?

Was the Celsior aimed more down market?

Either way NP, it’ll last forever.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 20:57

Is that matt farah’s million mile lexus?

Sam > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 20:59

I would have to check with an importer and see if the time saved buying from Japanese Classics would make it worthwile. Their prices tend to be a fair bit higher than if you were to have an importer bring it in for you.

I do also find it funny that it’s $200 more than this one which has more options -

http://www.japaneseclassicsllc.com/1990-toyota-ce…

Also, we were about to buy this Sera from them when it was still on the boat -

Kinja'd!!!

http://www.japaneseclassicsllc.com/1990-toyota-se…

But $7k is somewhat CP, since the interior is rough and it’s an auto. (Manuals are very hard to come by, since this was a pretty expensive car)

not for canada - australian in disguise > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
09/10/2015 at 21:00

This is not Matt Farah’s million mile Lexus.

This is however, Matt Farah’s million mile Celsior.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 21:01

Always liked the JDM versions of 90s Lexuses (Lexi?). Soarer, Harrier, Celsior, Aristo, Altezza. All weirdly intriguing to me.

Sam > Zohaibman72
09/10/2015 at 21:02

Cloth seats are actually seen as equally luxurious in Japan I think. Notice how they call them “executive cloth seats”. I think they’re wool.

Amoore100 > Sam
09/10/2015 at 21:04

Actually more luxurious IIRC, since they don’t really understand the Western custom of slathering dead animal skins across seats...

mazda616 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 21:06

I love browsing that website. They had a CRX not too long ago that I was in love with. I like the Toyota a lot. The price might be a bit high, though.

Sam > Amoore100
09/10/2015 at 21:06

Yeah, I think their version of ‘cloth seats’ is nicer than ours. Meaning they’re actually made of some form of wool or other real cloth.

Nymphicus Hollandicus > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 21:49

Total NP, even though similar vintage LS400s are laughably cheap.

touring the brook - now with ZHP! > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/10/2015 at 22:22

wbizarre - OEM fetishist > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
09/11/2015 at 22:47

I just don’t understand this one. Unlike other JDM classics, this one was available in the US. Not only that, it was developed for the US as the flagship of their new US-targeted Lexus brand, so by all accounts the LS400 is the more genuine article. I suppose it can be called quirky and obscure, but really, how quirky or obscure is it? It’s a LHD re-badged Lexus with cloth massaging seats.