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Perhaps it's Japan's first exotic supercar, that took 5 years to develop.
The LFA (short for Lexus Future Advance) is Lexus's two seater supercar manufactured from 2010 to 2012, and it is the first standalone F-series model, the first of the LF lineup and the brand's first ever supercar.
Development for the LFA dates all the way back during the start of the Turn of the Millennium when both Toyota and Lexus intend to produce a supercar to showcase its performance and aerodynamic capabilities. The first Super Prototype was finished in 2003, and underwent numerous tests around the Nürburgring where the car was equipped with a retractable rear spoiler and carbon ceramic brake discs.
The LF-A was finally introduced to the world on January 2005 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, despite having no plans for production. The car was designed in collaboration between Toyota and Italian designer Leonardo Fioravanti. Notable features of the car other than its retractable spoiler is its twin rear radiators, turbine shaped wheels and mostly its triple exhaust placed in an upside-down triangle position. Rumors say it was green-lit for production, though reports stated it was not officially confirmed.
The second concept was introduced in 2007, with a much more restyled body, a more aerodynamic exterior and having a fully-functional interior. The car had plans of utilizing a V10 and a hybrid engine. The following year, a roadster variant of the concept was unveiled.
On August 5, 2009, Toyota officially confirmed that the LFA will go into production, where it's expected it will carry V10 engines. The car was officially unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show and it would also mark as part of Lexus's 20th anniversary. Under the hood is a 4.8 L even-firing V10 engine, producing 553-563 hp, and the car's body made fully of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer. As for performance, the car accelerates 0-62 in 3.7 seconds and can reach 326 km/h (203 mph).
The LFA officially ended in December 2012 with exactly 500 cars produces, with the final car being the track-focused LFA Nürburgring Package/Edition.
Anime and Manga
- The anime adaptation of Dimension W exchanges Kyoma Mabuchi's vintage-loving Toyota 2000GT for a modern-day supercar; a while Lexus LFA.
- The "supercar" that Chisato sees
in Episode 2 of Lycoris Recoil is a red Lexus LFA. It's no wonder she wanted to drive it, and then went all mopey afterwards when Walnut shows up in a much less extravagant white hatchback and they have to leave the Lexus behind.Chisato: WOOOAAAH! IT'S A SUPERCAAAR!! CHECK IT OUT!! AMAZING!
Takina: A car like that stands out.
Chisato: I'm sorry, but I GOTTA DRIVE THAT THING!
(A moment later just as they drive away)
Chisato: (To Walnut) Hey, hold on! You're gonna leave the supercar here!? (Smash Cut) But I wanna ride in the supercaaaaaar!
- At the end of Fast Five, Han Lue and Gisele Yashar speed along the autobahn in a black Lexus LFA, whilst planning on their trip to Tokyo. (which whould foreshadow the events of Tokyo Drift)
- Kevin Spacey's character Nine Lives owns a white LFA he usually drives around New York. Even there is a commercial posted by Lexus themselves dedicated to it.
- The PlayStation 2 release of The Fast and the Furious features The Leader of Sunshine Run named Fujio who would drive a Super Prototype Rice Burner note , which is the 2005 LF-A Concept.
- This supercar has been fully present since Forza Motorsport 3, where in Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious, appears as on of the Bucket List events. Plus, only exclusive to the very first Horizon game gets you to drive this rare bird; the track-tuned LFA Nürburgring Edition.
- It's one of the premium supercars of Gran Turismo 5, where the Nürburgring Package joins in the following game. In the Spec II update of 7, you can get your hands on this supercar for free by completing Master International B-License with all Golds, and you can recreate the said Nürburgring Package with its aero parts. Oh, and did we mention is five times more expensive than the previous 2 games?
- The LFA was introduced in Need for Speed: Shift, albeit in its concept form, where it was featured as the Invitational Event car set in Silverstone National. Its sequel fully uses the production version and is also one of the Speedhunters cars. That being said, it spawned in later games;
- ...where it appears as the car of the #7 of The Most Wanted racer in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012).
- And in Rivals, it's considered as a rank 9 RCPD car.
- Terrazi's brand new super sports machine, the Centellee, introduced in Ridge Racer 7 strongly resembles the 2005 LF-A Concept.
- Ridge Racer spinoff Drift Spirits adds Lexus LFA and its variants in several updates respectively.
Japan's answer to the Porsche 911.
This Japanese sports car was considered to be one of Toyota's gemstone at its time in The '60s, which would be the kickstarter of bringing sports car industry to the country. The 2000GT was designed in collaboration with Yamaha, with its sleek fastback coupe design to it top-notch performance, worthy enough to rival with European sports cars.
Road & Track magazine summed up the 2000GT as "one of the most exciting and enjoyable cars we've driven", as this collectible car is considered to be both as the brand's "halo car" and arguably as "Japan's first supercar".
The 2000GT name would later be reused for TRD's tuned variant of the Toyota MR2 (SW20).
Anime and Manga
- Can be quite spottable in Crayon Shin-chan. The film, Crayon Shin Chan The Adult Empire Strikes Back has Ken's beloved 2000GT, and may lord have mercy on one's soul if anyone dare mess around with The Precious, Precious Car!
- In a World… 20 Minutes into the Future, where Nikola Tesla's visions of free energy Take Over the World, Mabuchi Kyoma of Dimension W, a man who has a passion for vintage ICE cars, is the owner of the Toyota 2000GT. In the anime, this is traded for a Lexus LFA, arguably an equal icon in that respect.
- If you thought You Only Live Twice is the only work with the 2000GT convertible, think again. In Sailor Moon, Haruka Tenou a.k.a. Sailor Uranus, a race car driver where sports cars are one her biggest traits, primarily drives a roofless yellow Toyota 2000GT.
Film—Live Action
- The most famous appearance of the 2000GT is in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where it is exclusively in open-top form (it was never supposed to be a convertible, but it got converted into one due to Sean Connery's height), driven by Bond Girl" Aki, played by Akiko Wakabayashi. Later Bond actor Daniel Craig voted this car as his favorite Bond car of all-time.
Live-Action TV
- In Hawaii Five-O, the sports car seen during the finale of "Not That Much Different" is a Toyota 2000GT coupe.
Video Games
- Choro Q, even in its chibi-form would be one of the few to utilize Japan's first supercar.
- A parked Pegasus White 2000GT can be seen in the foreground in Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone.
- Shows up in Forza, where ForzaVista acknowledges, the compartments from both sides. A Falken Tire Car Pack is required to get that Japanese classic in Horizon 2.
- The 2000GT in Gran Turismo widely used since its introduction in 2. In 4, it's considered to be The Alleged Car eligible for the Premium Sports Lounge.
- The Michelli Roadster from Grand Theft Auto 2 is evidently a futuristic verstion of the 2000GT. Considered as the best car in the Downtown District.
- Project Gotham Racing: It's one of the only Japanese classics depicted in the second and fourth game.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer: The 2000GT's sole appearance in the series was in 3, driven by an early game Nagoya Wanderer.
- It was introduced in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4. In 6RR, a special matte black version can be obtainable by playing September's Navi Scratch-off.
Nicknamed the "Hachi-Roku", the AE86 is a small and lightweight front-engined, rear-wheel drive sports coupe of Toyota, introduced in 1983 as part of the fifth generation Toyota Corolla line up. It both comes in either a 2-door coupe or 3-door liftback configuration.
During its production, the AE86 became much more prominent in motorsports, such as rallying and circuit racing. Its rear-wheel drive and its lightweight body made the AE86 a popular choice for drifting, in which Japanese legend Keiichi Tsuchiya helped popularize and pioneered this discipline. As a result, the AE86 has been extensively modified and commonly used in professional drifting from all over the world.
Oh, and if you exceed 100 km/h in this car, it will trigger a speed chime that warns you that you are speeding.
Anime and Manga
- Perhaps this car is widely well known in Initial D, where the AE86 plays in the series:
- The series's protagonist, Takumi Fujiwara drives a panda-white AE86 Trueno with Watanabe rims, Cibié fog lamps and the iconic Fujiwara Tofu Shop sticker. Though intended to be as a tofu delivery car, it's instilled with advanced driving techniques that allowed Takumi to use his skills at and despite its unassuming appearance, it manages to beat all rivals he has faced and attained a perfect win ratio. In Second Stage, the 86's engine was blown up during a battle against Kyoichi Sudo in Akagi, prompting a Mid-Season Upgrade with a new but powerful engine.
- Wataru Akiyama on the other hand drives a white zenki-model AE86 Corolla Levin. Originally, his Corolla is turbocharged before his engine broke down, resulting in Wataru fitting an brand new supercharged one.
- The Akina SpeedStars member and resident Butt-Monkey, Itsuki Takeuchi insists of buying an AE86 Levin, but accidentally buys a AE85 Levin instead. Following his plans for work life, Itsuki uses his pay check to purchase a turbocharger, making it much as a Lethal Joke Car.
- In Fifth Stage, a Takumi impersonator of the fake Project D team drives a late-model Trueno that obviously doesn't look like the one of the real Takumi. The car was never seen racing in neither the anime nor manga, but you get to battle him in Initial D Arcade Stage.
- Shinji Inui, a member of Sidewinder and the Final Boss Takumi has faced in the series, drives a 2-door notchback Trueno which belonged to his late father. When not racing, Shinji acts as The Driver for his mother as the said Trueno is used as a transport car to drive her through the Tsubaki Line.
- ...and with Initial D's growing popularity has spawned lots of spoofs and parodies with this iconic tofu drifting car:
- As a Shout-Out of the aformentioned Initial D, Hachiya Rokoku a.k.a. Detective Hachiroku at the beginning of episode 4 of Miami Guns is a blatant parody of Takumi Fujiwara. He drives an AE86 police car and he's not afraid of pulling insane drifting techniques whilst chasing down a crook in a blue Evo III.
- Another Shout-Out has Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter which spoofs the hell outta Initial D as Yuzuru-86 drives an AE86 Sprinter Trueno with a sticker parodying Fujiwara Tofu Shop's on the right door.
Film — Live-Action
- The sad little vehicle that down-at-the-heels that poor Annie is forced to drive around in Bridesmaids is a 1987 Toyota Corolla SR5 Sport Coupe.
- 1998 indie film Buffalo '66 features a North American-spec Corolla SR5.
Video Games
- In Battle Gear 2, both the Trueno and Levin are available in the game. The bonus Trueno Mecha Tune and Levin Turbo Tune are a Shout-Out to the cars of Takumi Fujiwara and Wataru Akiyama respectively. Additionally, the Joke Cars AE85 Levin SR and Trueno SR is included in the Toyota lineup as well.
- The 2006 PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable release of The Fast and the Furious has a team called "Kansai" where the members are all references of Initial D. Hiroto is a blatant Takumi Fujiwara Expy who drives a near-identical AE86 Sprinter Trueno, where Katsuhiro drives an AE86 Levin, intended to be like Wataru Akiyama.
- Gran Turismo, starting with 3 added the Shuichi Shigeno version of the Trueno, a pre-tuned car built for the author who did Initial D.
- In Sport, both the Corolla Levin and the Sprinter Trueno's speed chime were fully utilized, as well as using a digital tachometer. In 7, both cars will resemble the TRD N2 body kit if a widebody is fitted.
- Grand Theft Auto IV onwards feature an AE86 parody with the Punny Name of "Futo".
- Race Driver: GRiD uses a D1GP spec 2-door Sprinter Trueno note as one of the Drift class cars.
- Horizon Chase takes this iconic Initial D meme and ascended it, with the Sprinter Trueno aptly dubbed the "Déjà Vu" an its tagline continues..."I've just been in this place before"
- Need for Speed:
- The North American-spec Corolla GT-S debuted in Underground 2 as one of the early starter cars in the game. Despite is slow top speed at stock performance, it makes up for its handling. A fully upgraded Corolla can be a deadly sleeper on straight lines.
- While it appeared custom bonus car in Carbon, ProStreet on the other hand has this car available for purchse. The Corolla is extremely useful in Drift and Grip races, as well as Wheelie Competition events due to its low weight.
- In Nitro, Singaporean top racer Zarinah drives a Corolla only during the Bronze Cup.
- While the Corolla continued to be in Shift, its sequel Shift 2: Unleashed has the special Retro GTX Team Need for Speed Corolla GT-S driven by Irish Formula D driver Darren McNamara. A Works-converted car would resemble the 1999 JGTC GT300 Trueno.
- The actual JDM-spec Trueno appeared in the 2015 reboot. It's possible to turn the front-end into a Levin with fixed headlights via body customization.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer:
- Rolling Guy, the series' signature team, features an all-AE86 line-up. To team members, passion and loyalty for their cars comes before everything else, to the point of calling a former member who switched cars a "traitor".
- As fitting for a Takumi Fujiwara Expy, "Lightning Shift" Takuya Hajiwara drives one in almost all of his appearances. The sole exception is in 3, where he's driving a loaned Toyota Starlet after wrecking his AE86 sometime after the events of Zero.
Japan's answer to the luxury sports sedans produced in leading European luxury marques.
The Lexus IS (stands for "Intelligent Sport") is a series of compact cars introduced in 1998 and sold under the Lexus marque, a luxury division of Toyota. Within Japan, the IS was sold under the name, Toyota Altezza (Italian for 'height' or 'highness'). It was marketed as an-entry level sports model positioned below the ES lineup.
Originally, the Altezza/IS were powered by either an inline-4 or an inline-6 engine, with some differences being the Altezza AS 200/IS 200 being its entry-level car and the Altezza RS200/IS 300 being the performance-level car. It was also offered a 5-door station wagon dubbed as the Altezza Gita and the IS 300 SportCross.
The Altezza name was dropped in 2005 when the Lexus marque was introduced in Japan. For its second-generation IS now utilizes V6 engines instead of inline ones. New to this generation comes sleeker exotic design, coupé-like contours and a more fastback profile. A powerful high-performance variant of the IS was introduced in 2007 as the IS F, utilizing a 5.0 L V8 engine and an 8-speed transmission, a first to ever do so. It was intended to compete with other high-end performance luxury sedans such as the Mercedes C-Class, Audi A4, BMW 3-series and the Cadillac CTS.
Following the LF-CC concept in 2012, the third-generation IS was launched in 2013, which included various trims and performance-tuned F-Sport variants.
Anime and Manga
- A full-on TRD modified Altezza RS200 is the signature Cool Car of Nobuhiko Akiyama, The Leader of the Northern Saitama Alliance and Wataru's cousin in Initial D, where he was curbstomped by Takumi Fujiwara at Sadamine at just the beginning of the race.
- The Lexus IS 250 is the car that established Chloe in God Bless America as a Spoiled Brat for throwing a fit over her parents getting her the wrong (still luxurious) car she wanted on her birthday.Chloe: I SAID I WANTED AN ESCALADE!
- The titular protagonist's IS 350 has been used in many of Johan Falk films, where it plays its significance in the action, since Lexus/Toyoa have been part of the Product Placement deal.
- The Mongolian Connection has a Toyota Altezza as one of Mongolia's police fleet, which is an Improbably Cool Car to begin with since there are barely Altezzas sold outside Japan.
- Courteney Cox's character Jules Cobb in Cougar Town has a Matador Red Lexus IS 250 C convertible as her personal Cool Car. The pilot had some Early-Installment Weirdness where she drives a silver Volvo in the pilot.
- Meadow Soprano of The Sopranos owns a 2007 Lexus IS 250 during season 6's finale where she's struggling to parallel park her car. Sorry, not even music "Don't Stop Believin' playing didn't help her.
- Version 2 of "Be The One" by Dua Lipa has Ansel Elgort following Lipa inside her Pimped-Out Car, a Lexus IS with lots of LEDs that emit and generate lots of visuals based on the song.
- The B-Class Altezza RS200 in Battle Gear 2 comes already equipped with a TRD body kit. 4 on the other hand has a TRD-tuned Altezza with TRD stickers slapped all over the car.
- The first four Forza Motorsport games once had the Toyota Altezza/IS 300 and IS 350 before ditching it with an almighty IS F.
- It all began in Gran Turismo 2 where the Altezza RS200 and its gemini twin, the Lexus IS 200 note are part of the new car lineup altogether. By 4, Be prepared to meet all of the Altezza/IS family, where it includes a station wagon and entry-level counterpart.
- Also in 2 has its racing LM Edition where it resembles a DTM race car at that time. 3 has the fictional GT300-esque Altezza/IS Touring Car which can be obtained at the one-make "Altezza Race" event.
- Finally, in 5, there is the second-gen Lexus IS, which has 4 different versions: the road-going IS F, the Super GT IS 350 GT300 the DTM-esque IS F Racing Concept, and added in 6 is the Nürburgring VLN IS F CCS-R.
- One of the strongest D-Class tuners in Midnight Club 3 is the Lexus IS 300, which you can win it at the San Diego City Tournament.
- While the Lexus IS 300 debuted in Need for Speed: Underground 2, Most Wanted on the other hand plays more significance; it's one of the three starter cars, and then you have this crazy guy named Vince "Taz" Kilic, #14 on the Blacklist who drives a yellow modified Lexus with a Skeleton Motif vinyl.
- With the secong-gen IS introduced in ProStreet, Undercover gives you this 8-speeder IS-F, which one of Chau Wu's Mooks drive.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer:
- In Street Supremacy, The Leader of The Road of Justice, All Ears drives a custom orange Altezza RS200. Also in the same game, some body kits and custom lights can transform the Altezza into a blatant BMW 3-series.
- The Drift subseries has special models of the Altezza; the first game has a SARD tuned version, where the second game has an HKS/Genki-spec Altezza that was used by D1GP driver Nobuteru "Nob" Taniguchi.
The Toyota Celica was produced by Toyota from 1970 until 2006. Produced across seven generations, the Celica was powered by various four-cylinder engines, and bodystyles included convertibles, liftbacks, coupés and notchback coupés. The Celica name derives from the Latin word coelica, meaning "heavenly" or "celestial".
In 1973, Toyota coined the term "liftback" to describe the Celica fastback hatchback, using the name Liftback GT for the North American market. Like the Ford Mustang, the Celica concept consisted in attaching a coupe body to the chassis and mechanicals from a high volume sedan, in this case the Toyota Carina, though some journalists thought it was based on the Corona due to some shared mechanical parts.
In 1986, the six-cylinder Celica Supra variant was spun off as a separate model, becoming simply the Toyota Supra, which itself would become a a sough-after model in tuning culture. Lightly altered versions of the Celica were also sold as the Corona Coupé in the 1980s and as the Toyota Curren through in the 1990s.
The Celica GT-Four variant is a popular rally icon that competed in the World Rally Championship, where the car saw everlasting success with driver titles won by Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol. However, in the 1995 season, the FIA decided to ban Toyota Team Europe from competing after one race where they found out the team were using illegal turbo restrictors, issuing them a one-year ban. Then-FIA president Max Mosley stated that it is "the most sophisticated device I've ever seen in 30 years of motor sports."
This name has nothing to do with Celica A. Mercury. Obviously, she's not named after the car.
Anime and Manga
- The hot race queen and teacher at the Arcadia Academy Rui Akana of Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter is a Badass Driver who runs a red Toyota Celica GT-Four, given that her name and her car are all in red. And she's also a Fiery Redhead herself.
- Miki, the ex-boyfriend of Natsumi Mogi who attempted to rape her (for which Takumi Fujiwara punched him) in Initial D specialized in racing on snow. And to go with it, his car of choice is the rally monster; the black 1998 Celica GT-Four with C-ONE components built to race at Akina during heavy snowfall against Takumi Fujiwara, though Miki is poorly skilled, despite having good traction and power to keep up, when the snow builds up on Miki's wheels, loses control and crashes onto a guardrail.
- The silver Toyota Celica XX Mk. II (MA61L)note was once driven by the Koichi "Ultimate Demon Runner" Aizawa, the late father of Keiichiro Aizawa in Wangan Midnight who runs a monstrous Supra.
Film — Live Action
- Cleopatra's Weaponized car in Death Race: Beyond Anarchy makes an unorthodox choice of vehicle: a blacked-out Toyota Celica that’s frustratingly hard to catch.
- Watch Chuck Norris deliver a Diving Kick through the windshield of a speeding blue Celica GT in Good Guys Wear Black. It's both the car and the stunt that sold the movie.
- The Toyota Celica GT was Peggy's own car that she had been driving earlier that ran out of gas in front of the hotel where she met Tatum in Kojak.
- The Cool Car of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger is the Machine Doberman driven by DekaRed and Yellow. It's a police interceptor based on the 2000 Toyota Celica T320.
- "Fire" by "Jus†ice'' has the electronic duo refurbish and old-beaten Toyota Celica cabrio, and takes it with an unnamed beautiful girl for a fun little road trip.
- Despite its banning of the car in 1995, the Celica has been a staple Japanese rally icon in many rally racing games, usually in its distinctive Castrol livery:
- This iconic rally car would also be in Colin McRae Rally and DIRT, alongside the almighty GT Celica Pikes Peak.
- One of the two cars ever features in Sega Rally Championship is the 1995 Toyota Celica GT-Four (ST205). Speaking of Sega racing games, the GT-Four also appears in Sega Rally's Spiritual Successor Initial D Arcade Stage (in games where Miki appears as an opponent) and R-Tuned as playable and customizable cars.
- The Sports Type 2/Assassin Sports in Burnout 3: Takedown is a 7th-gen Celica, judging by its body.
- There had long been Celicas throughout Gran Turismo, but the one that stood out the most is the fan-favorite Celica GT-Four rally car that had been a staple through installments.
- Jacket's Cool Car in Hotline Miami closely resembles the Toyota A60 Celica Supra with gullwing doors reminiscent of the DMC-12.
- The Celine in Racing Lagoon uses the 6th-gen Celica as its basis. Nanako Aoyama runs the rally-built Celine-FOUR for the Daikoku gymkhana, while Ryo Yamazaki runs a wine-red FWD Celine-S3.
- Air Refresh, Steel Dinosaur and a Wanderer named uh... Obi-wan Kenori all drive modified Celica GT-Fours in Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3.
Hence the name, the MR2 is Toyota's mid-engine sports car that spans over three generations from 1984 to 2007. The name MR2 stands for "mid-ship run-about 2-seater" or "mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-seater". In France however, it was renamed to simply just the Toyota MR since MR2 in French would sound like "merde" note
Since 1976, it was Toyota's ambition to create a car that was enjoyable to drive and yet still provide reliability and good fuel efficiency, though not necessarily a sports car. Toyota in 1981 unveiled its prototype called the SA-X, where that concept evolved into a fully-fledged production sports car, but at the same time complied with Japanese regulations in regard of exterior dimensions and engine displacement.
Its lifespan can be pinpointed to three generations: the AW11 (essentially a backwards Corolla Levin/Sprinter Trueno, powered by either a naturally-aspirated 4A-GE or supercharged 4A-GZE engine), the SW20 (a larger platform powered by either a naturally-aspirated 3S-GE or turbocharged 3S-GTE engine), and the ZZW30 (at which point its name was changed to MR-S, now exclusively powered by the naturally-aspirated 1ZZ-FE engine).
Anime and Manga
- Before the Countach became a thing in Countach. Shun once owned a Toyota MR2 before he was forced to sell it due to his father's illness.
- This is the car assistant manager Masami Ooshige drives in Full Moon.
- Kai Kogashiwa in Initial D drives a Strong Blue Metallic Toyota MR2 G-Limited (SW20). This car was inherited from his father Ken Kogashiwa, which became notable for cutting the second half of the Irohazaka switchback, which fans tend to call it the "Irohazaka Jump".
- After his defeat in his Home Stage against Takumi, Kai would join Racing Team Katagiri and ditched his father's MR2 for a silver third-generation MR-S, complete with C-ONE body kit.
- Some of the minor characters also drive this MR2, such as Myogi NightKids's Miyahara and Project D's Fumihiro.
- The black first-gen MR2 can be seen in the second part of Vice Academy.
- This is Ho Nam's car, whom which Smarite carjacks in Young and Dangerous, where she demand payment. But unfortunately she gets caught by Ho Nam and his friends and is punished by eating dozens of Chinese barbecue pork buns.
- Josip Matic's Toyota MR2 in Happy Valley.
- This is Mark Hofmann's Cool Car in Murder Among the Mormons: a metallic blue Toyota MR2 — at least, it was cool by the standards of 1980s Salt Lake City. This later becomes an indicator of Mark's unsustainable lifestyle, revealing how he bought it on a whim using the money from his forgeries.
- BLACKPINK's Jennie in "Solo" has her standing on a first-gen MR2 with text defaced on the car's body saying: "See you never" "Not even a distant memory" and "Better off without you."
- The Synthwave song "In For The Kill" by La Roux has singer Elly Jackson take a night drive on a targa-top Toyota MR2. Keep in mind, she's wearing Sunglasses at Night.
- You can get to drive Kai Kogashiwa's blue MR2 GT in Battle Gear.
- Quite feasibly seen in Forza, including its tuned counterparts from Tom's, Border and VIS Racing.
- All of the MR2 generations are quite feasibly seen in Gran Turismo games, including its tuned and JGTC GT300 counterparts.
- It makes its one and only appearance in Need for Speed: Carbon, as an unlockable (and uncustomiazable) bonus car in the mainline version. Its portable counterpart, Carbon - Own the City, made it 100% customizable, in one version being driven by Sara at the start of the game.
- The first two Project Gotham Racing games has this Japanese convertible as one of the early starter cars. The MR2 Spyder was fairly new when the game was out.
- Genji Katou's car, the SW-2000 in Racing Lagoon clearly resembles the SW20 MR2.
- An ultra rare Group S MR2-based Toyota 222D is perhaps one of the deadly super rally cars in two of Milestone, s.r.l.'s rally games; Sébastien Loeb Rally EVO and last seen in Gravel.
- All three generations of the MR2 are highly active in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series.
- The MR2 is fully present in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune. Being the very few mid-engined cars in the roster, the MR2 tends to snap oversteer when cornering, causing to lose grip.
- This is the Hero's Classic Car in the obscure Japan-only Racing Game Zero4 Champ Series: Drift Champ, where the supercharged AW10 is seen in both the intro and the game's cover◊.
The Toyota Prius is a hybrid car introduced in 1997, developed to be the brand's "car for the 21st century". It was the first-ever mass-produced hybrid vehicle, which combines an internal combustion engine with an electric motor, typically offered in either a four-door sedan of a five-door liftback (introduced in 2003).
Early generations of the Prius encountered lots of Early-Installment Weirdness in terms of bland designs and uninspiring performance, leading to later ones to have more futuristic and aggressive designs in each iteration. In 2011, the Prius has expanded to various types, ssuch as the Prius v (a multi-purpose vehicle) and the Prius c (a subcompact hatchback).
The name Prius is Latin meaning "prior" or "previous", implying that there was never a mass-produced hybrid car prior to it. Toyota asked the United States on which to decide for the proper plural form of Prius (Prien, Prii, Prium, Prius, or Priuses) with Prii being the most popular and thus adopted the plural designation in on February 20, 2011.
Film — Live Action
- Horrible Bosses speaks of itself:Nick: I was drag-racing. I'm a drag-racer.
Detective Samson: You were drag-racing... [Beat] in a Prius.
Nick: I don't win a lot. - One of the biggest Product Placement cars ever to be witnessed in La La Land is where Sebastian helps Mia look for her car. And every car parked... were all Priuses (Prii?). It's also funny that Mia asks Sebastian to get her car keys.Sebastian: What kind?
Mia: It's a Prius.
(Sebastian looks in the key holder and sees that all of the keys are for Priuses)
Sebastian: That...that doesn't help me. - The car of Will Ferrell's and Mark Wahlberg's character in The Other Guys is that little red Prius, acting as a Running Gag that reflects their By-the-Book Cop status.
- The funny part of Paranormal Activity, where Alex almost gets hit by this car as she's stepping off the sidewalk.Alex: Fucking Prius!
- A Brilliant Blue Toyota Prius Hybrid is the car driven by Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie 3.
- Clay Jensen of 13 Reasons Why graduates from using a bike into driving a Toyota Prius in the start of season 2, acting as his personal source of transportation.
- The Product Placement of Bones in one episode when Hodgins swerves and the Prius beeps at him. Which lead him and Angela to be sent to jail for erratic driving.Angela: Look! The Prius helps you stay in your lane!
- Larry David has a good reason to drive a Toyota Prius in Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's justifiable that in 2006, he uses it to raise awareness of global warming issues.
- Somewhat The Alleged Car of Rory from Gilmore Girls, which is a 2002 Prius, which se drives from season 4 onwards. Possibly a Shout-Out to the car which Leonardo DiCaprio drives.
- It is clear that Jen's car in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is a Prius (Prius Prime to be exact), being a Product Placement after all. Blonsky tries to wax philosophical about Jen's broken car, but Jen isn't having any of it.Blonsky: Think of this totally knackered Prius Prime as your teacher.
Jen: Uhm... That was nothing. You just said nothing to a very straightforward question. - All of the agents of Warehouse 13 all drive Priuses (or a Highlander) beginning in Season 3, as part of a Product Placement deal.
- Inaba Rinne's mecha, the Prius Alpha in Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter is well... a Toyota Prius.
- The Toyota Prius in its only appearance in Forza Motorsport 4 is perhaps one of the dreaded Green Aesop hybrid cars in the game. While it's laughably and horribly slow, the game's extensive customization system allows it to become a 400+ horsepower monster.
- Priuses have long been in the Gran Turismo series, typically as a Joke Car. The Downloadable Content of 5 has this PRIUS Touring Car which would make it much more or less lethal.
- There was also this Japan-only Tech-Demo Game where the Prius is the only highlight car, and when it's released in 4, it retains its unique dashboard.
- There was also this Japan-only Tech-Demo Game where the Prius is the only highlight car
- The Dilettante in the Grand Theft Auto series is based on the Prius.
- The Prius was added in Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA, as typically a Joke Car. Just like Gran Turismo the Prius has a unique tachometer no other car has ever had.
- When Electronic Arts partnered with Toyota at that time, the Toyota Prius was one of the playable tokens for the Facebook and iOS version of Monopoly.
- SEGA World Drivers Championship, an arcade Racing Game revolving on Super GT cars has this GT300 spec silhouette Prius. Yes, a Prius Race Car. You might as well look at the Real Life folder of Improbably Cool Car to see more about that Hybrid race car.
- The Product Placement car in the then-free-to-download Toyota Prius Pack of The Sims 3 includes... (obviously) four various Toyota Prius models.
- The Valiance CE in Watch_Dogs 2, is based on the third-generation Toyota Prius, both available for taxis and civilians.
- Brian Griffin of Family Guy is the owner of the 2004 Toyota Prius. It is the only recurring car in the entire show to be a specific model.
- The Priuses in South Park's Smug Alert are... overly smug.
The Toyota Supra car was manufactured by Toyota since 1978, being derived from the Toyota Celica (it was in fact sold as the "Toyota Celica Supra" until becoming a separate model in 1986).
Starting in The '90s however, the car underwent a redesign for its fourth generation (model code A80) that saw Toyota placing great emphasis on it becoming a more serious high-performance car. The A80 featured two new engines: a naturally aspirated engine having a power output of 164 kW (220 hp; 223 PS) and 210 lb⋅ft (285 N⋅m), and a twin turbocharged engine with a power output of 206 kW (276 hp; 280 PS) and 318 lb⋅ft (431 N⋅m) of torque for the Japanese model; for export to American/European markets, Toyota added upgrades for the model with the turbocharged engine (like smaller, steel-wheeled turbochargers, bigger fuel injectors, etc.), which increased the power output to 239-243 kW (321-326 hp; 325-330 PS) and 315-325 lb⋅ft (427-441 N⋅m).
By the late 1990s, sales of all sport coupes were declining in North America, and the Supra was withdrawn from the Canadian market in 1996 and the U.S. in 1998, while roduction continued in Japan until August 2002, marking the end of the Supra...
...until 2018, when following rumors through the 2010s, a pre-production version of the Supra with a camouflage was unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, before it was officially unveiled at the January 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The car was confirmed to be a collaboration between Toyota and BMW with the new BMW Z4 (G29), but that according to Toyota the Supra is intended to be "much more hardcore and track-focused", with Toyota global chief engineer Tetsuya Tada disclosing that the Supra was developed with the idea of benchmarking against the Porsche Cayman S (982), akin to the previous generation Supra's rivalry with the Porsche 968.
Anime and Manga
- Hideo Minagawa's Super White II Supra RZ in Initial D comes fitted with various Bomex parts, used for his uphill battle against Keisuke Takahashi in hi Home Stage in Nagao.
- Former "Dream Project" member and MFG rookie, Sena Moroboshi in MF Ghost is seen driving a Yellow GR Supra, with the colour of the car being Inspired by the Yellow FD3S RX-7 that Keisuke Takahashi (one of the 2 founders of the "Dream Project") drives. Sena's Supra is also tuned up by former Project D mechanic, Shuichi Matsumoto.
- The "Monster Machine" Supra RZ of Keiichiro "Kei" Aizawa in Wangan Midnight is quite impressive with over 700 horses under the hood. It's a "monster" for a reason as his car gets milked up to over 800 horsepower, but lacks the handling and stability. During the race against Akio and Tatsuya, Jun Kitami felt disturbed by Kei's Fatal Flaw, promting the tuners to detune the "warped" Supra to 400.Jun Kitami: Kei, that car's already dead. You should be able to hear the cries of its body, it can't even move straight.
- This is one of Brian O'Connor's signature car in The Fast and the Furious (2001) following the wreck of his green Eclipse caused by Johnny Tran. It's painted in orange and is fully decked with a Bomex body kit (and a TRD 3000GT hood). It would return later in Furious 7, as Brian once more drives a Supra (albeit white) as he parts ways with Dominic Toretto, giving him a proper conclusion.
- Slap Jack in 2 Fast 2 Furious, drive this car for his battle against Brian O'Connor in his Skyline ...and crashed into a Pepsi billboard.
- Also in the franchise, the brand new 2020 Toyota GR Supra is the car Han drives in F9 when he reveals that he's not dead. Dom's brother Jakob Toretto uses that car to escape after the film's climax.
- As a Fast and Furious Shout-Out, Kane's car in Grandma's Boy (2006) is the same aforementioned modified Supra of Slap Jack's in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
- A silver GR Supra with a Vanity License Plate saying "ROBIN-8" is one of Robin Masters's fleet from the rebooted Magnum, P.I. (2018).
- "ごめんねFingers crossed" by Nogizaka46 is Car Porn incarnate, with a black tuned GR Supra as one of the six powerful and fast racing cars in the music video.
- The typical A-Class car of Toyota in Battle Gear, especially in the first two games, which pretty much looks like a TRD 3000GT.
- Forza has a fair share of Supras to use across the series, including two Fast And Furious versions of the Supra, one of which being the above-mentioned signature car of Brian O'Connor. The GR Supra is given to the player at the start of Horizon 5.
- Extremely common in Gran Turismo as every single installment has at least 1 A80 Supra. One of the most popular example is the iconic Castrol Tom's Supra, a GT500 car that stood out by many players.
- The GR Supra is the selected choice for a Toyota race car in Sport. For the Gr. 4, it's the 24h Nürburgring race car, and for Gr. 3 is its racing concept.
- The Jester in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is modeled after the Mk. IV Supra, as is the Jester Classic in Grand Theft Auto Online.
- The Pro Tuned Supra in its only appearance in GRID comes fully decked with a ChargeSpeed Super GT body kit.
- Considered to be a widely known tuner in Midnight Club, where II has the the Saikou and the modifies Saikou XS, based on the A80 Supra, seen driven by Haley and Ken'ichi respectively. The Supra itself would be fully licensed in the sequel.
- And the fact a black Supra would be in the cover art◊ of Midnight Club: Street Racing, which you don't even get to drive in-game.
- And the fact a black Supra would be in the cover art
- Need for Speed features this Japanese import in most of their games:
- The A80 Supra was among the six cars featured in the original The Need for Speed.
- After being Put on a Bus through the entire classic era afterwards, the A80 Supra made its return in Underground.
- Some noteworthy examples of the A80 Supra featured in Most Wanted (2005):
- This is the car of Blacklist #13, Victor "Vic" Vasquez; a navy blue Toyota Supra modified with various stripes and fireball vinyls as well as with a body kit and matte gold OZ Racing Opera wheels.
- Before Ronnie got his DB9 as his graduation gift from his parents, he was originally seen driving this car during the prologue, where he challenges the player in their M3 GTR. ...and lost.
- The opening prologue of Carbon has Darius lend you his Supra to escape from Palmont. Also, picking the Tuner career in and you see your crewmate Sal drive a Supra as his Tier 3 car.
- The last appearance of the Supra is in the 2015 reboot, this time using its naturally-aspirated SZ-R where you can fit Max Orido's Ridox body kit.
- Racing Lagoon features the RZ-3000 and the SZ-3000, implying the turbocharged Supra RZ and the naturally-aspirated Supra SZ-R respectively. Gamo Kusunoki and Ginji Moriwaki are notable Supra Expy drivers.
- The first Expert car in San Francisco Rush is a Mk. IV Supra with either a lightning design in the Arcade and PS1 versions, and triple stripes on the N64.
- It only made its appearance in Test Drive: Overdrive, also where a customized version of the Supra driven by Hamada Tojo. This car also serves as the police car in the Tokyo map.
- The Supra is widely used in Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Some notable examples are: Wanderer Orimabu aka Trickster Corner Stylus' RIDOX SUPRA and two notable members of the 13 Devils: Exotic Eve and Iron Heart, all driving customized Supras.
- Like the aforementioned Wangan Midnight, the Mk4 Supra RZ have been fully present in every Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune game to date since its foundation back in 2004. Added in the Japan-only 6R was the GR Supra RZ, only obtainable via Limited Edition event before it was available internationally for 6RR.
