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Posted by hipstomp | 14 Oct 2008
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These days Toyota is the world's #1 (or #2, depending on the week) auto manufacturer in the world, so it's interesting to see a time when they didn't quite have it together.
Above is their RV-2 prototype from 1972, a year when a pointy station wagon (that's "estate car" for you Brits) that opened up into a tent probably seemed nifty. Or just weird.
Either way the vehicle had one thing in common with Joe Pesci in Goodfellas: Neither of them got made.
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this is great! I would buy this car if they came out with it today. At least it's a house many can afford. They had it together then, more thinking and actual development in this direction would have brought cars and "living" a whole other meaning 30 years later.
I agree. If development like this had been supported in production, we'd be leaps and bounds ahead of where we are currently.
Wow, this is pretty creative. Maybe back then, this was cool-- these days though-- yeah. Still, interesting. How did you dig this out? (:
Yes. I am all over those tail lights and RV-2 logo on the side...what typeface is that?