My first car in Japan was a Nissan Skyline.
The Skyline is a nice car!
So, it was a nice surprise when I went to the shopping mall today with my family (in the car we have now, a Toyota) and I saw that they had vintage Nissan Skyline cars from the 1950s to the 1990s on display!
Here are a few photos I took:
1957 Nissan Skyline:
1962 Nissan Skyline:
1965 Nissan Skyline:
Mine wasn’t this old. I had a 1986 Nissan Skyline Turbo years ago.
Eiji Toyoda, former president of Toyota Corp., died today at the age of exactly 100.
The Toyota company started in the early 1930’s by Eiji Toyoda’s father and the company’s name was originally “Toyoda” but was changed a few years later to the current トヨタ (Toyota) because it’s sounds nicer in spoken Japanese and looks nicer in written Japanese.
Eiji Toyoda, R.I.P., 1913 September 13 – 2013 September 17
The 「最高経営責任者」 (Chief Executive Officer (CEO)) of one of America’s automobile corporation, Dan Akerson, unveiled the latest model of the Chevrolet electric hybrid car called the “Volt“.
GM's Chevrolet "Volt"
At the unveiling of his company’s car, Mr. Akerson decided to express his opinion of Toyota Motor‘s hybrid car, the “Prius“.
He called Japan’s Prius a “geek-mobile” (かっこ悪い車) and he said that he wouldn’t be caught dead in one.
I wouldn’t be caught dead in a (Toyota) Prius.
– Dan Akerson, General Motors C.E.O.
The Toyota Prius doesn’t look “geeky” to me. What do you think?
Which do you think is nicer, the Chevy “Volt” or the Toyota “Prius”?
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