Toyota entered the world of motorized sports in 1957 by fielding a Crown in the Round Australia Trial, also known as the Mobilgas Rally. The Japanese aut.
Journey Through Japan s Distinctive Car Culture With Road & Track
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Road & Track editorial director Joe Brown was a car kid before he ever left the U.S., but, when he was 14 years old, he found himself attending a Japanese high school. The experience forever changed the way he related to automobiles. In America, car ownership is expected; in Japan in the Nineties, it was a rarified privilege to be able to drive, let alone call a car your own. As a journalist who has covered cars for most of the past two decades, he s witnessed that reverence for all things automotive every time he s been back as an adult.