Toyota Corona 1900 Deluxe - The inconspicuous conqueror
Summary
Without this unspectacular box on wheels, "cult cars" such as the Toyota Celica, the MR2 or the Supra Twin Turbo might never have existed. It was only with the third generation of the Corona series that Toyota's rise from Japan's eternal runner-up to the world's largest car manufacturer began.
This article contains the following chapters
- From retreat to record-breaking drive
- American-automatic
- Hints of global success
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
In the pioneering days, those who aspired to make their fortune in the USA tended to overlook a footnote in the small print of the promise of prosperity in the hope of a better life: the land of opportunity offered numerous opportunities for advancement as well as the possibility of failure. And so Toyota's road to the top also began with a brilliant failure. When the American Toyota Dependence opened its first branch in a former Rambler dealership in Hollywood in February 1957, compact import cars were virtually unrivaled on the US market. Those who found the products from Detroit too big or too expensive had to buy foreign goods, so that in addition to sports cars, more and more small cars and mid-size sedans from the Old World found their way to America. Toyota - at that time the undisputed number two on the domestic market - was the first Japanese manufacturer to venture into the promising US market.
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