Sunday, December 20, 2015

1972 Toyota F101

Concept cars don't really interest us much because they're so far removed from reality. But one catches our eye occasionally, for various reasons. Here's one that did; the 1972 Toyota RV-2.


From Chicagoautoshow.com:

"Shown at the 1971 Tokyo Motor Show, the asymmetric gull-wing luggage doors of the F101 wagon-type sedan caught people's attention. Toyota promoted it as "the sedan of the future." With only 97 horsepower, the F101 used the same 2-liter engine found in the 1974 Corona. The oriental prototype featured four-wheel disc brakes and a fully independent suspension."

Posted by K2

3 comments:

  1. BobinottDecember 20, 2015 at 12:33 PM

    So, a Toyota and a Dodge Daytona Charger met in a bar.......

    Nice find, and not something I had seen before. Interestingly, a Google Image search for "Toyota RV-2" brings up a totally different concept car from the same era:

    [img]http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/08/toyotarv2rearquarter.jpg[/img]

    Even more strangely, included in the image search are some apparently-official promo shots with a topless model and her beau communing with nature. Definitely NSFW. I guess the 70s were a different time.

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  2. BobinottDecember 20, 2015 at 1:29 PM

    Aha! I may have solved the mystery. I think this white car is called the Toyota F101, from 1973. That is according to this page, which also includes the actual RV-2 (that green one):

    http://pinktentacle.com/2010/09/photos-50-years-of-japanese-concept-cars/

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  3. UnknownDecember 20, 2015 at 4:10 PM

    Ha ha ha ha ha! You are 100% correct B, I've confused the two. I was researching the RV-2 for another project and got the two texts confused. You're also correct in that the RV-2 appears to have been marketed to swinging 70s nudists. I believe those images were from an old feature in Playboy.

    Thanks again and I'll correct that.

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