We all know about the Toyota Corolla and even the Toyota Corona, but few Americans have ever laid eyes on a Toyota Carina, since that model graced American Toyota showrooms for just a few years in the early 1970s. In Japan, though, sales of the Carina (which was built on the same platform as the Celica) continued through the 2001 model year. Here’s a home-market TV commercial for the 1983 Carina, featuring a cool-looking dude with a golden razor blade tangled in his chest hair (use your imagination) tooling his right-hand-drive Carina past coyotes in the Mojave Desert while sporting the best-looking license plates the Golden State ever offered: the “sunset” plate used between 1982 and 1987.
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