Toyota Corona Mark II - One of many and yet unique
Summary
From 1968, the Toyota Corona Mark II was intended to close the gap that opened up between the medium and large Toyota model series. The similarity in name to the established Toyota Corona is misleading: the Mark II was not a successor, but an independent model. This article is dedicated to the second Mark II series and shows it in historical and current photos.
This article contains the following chapters
- Japanese model diversity
- Generation X
- A wide range of body variants
- Shifted perception
- Tired engine
- Almost like 1976
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The temptation is great. Not the one that comes from the Toyota Corona Mark II as a car, but the one to use its name as a template for jokes about current events. But since the designers from the Far East could not have imagined in 1957 - when they first wrote the name "Corona" on a car - what viral diseases would sweep the world 63 years later, we will dispense with moderately creative thigh-slappers at this point and devote ourselves to Toyota's mid-range model with the seriousness with which it attempted to attack the Ford Consul, Opel Rekord and VW K70 in the 1970s. Nevertheless, we must first address the name. Contrary to what the suffix "Mark II" might suggest, it does not indicate the second, improved generation of a car model - as is common in England, for example - but rather a completely different mid-range model series positioned above the simple "Corona". As mentioned, the small Corona appeared in 1957, at that time still under the brand name "Toyopet". It was followed a year later by the larger Toyopet Crown, which from 1964 bore the group name "Toyota", as the previous one sounded too cute for the US market.
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