Before the Toyota Camry became a household name and the TRD badge signified serious performance credibility, there was another Toyota sedan quietly laying the groundwork for both, the Toyota Cressida.
In the early 1980s, the Lexus brand was still on the drawing board, but if you wanted something luxurious with the bulletproof reliability of a Japanese car, you had an option. The Cressida was Toyota ...
The '78 Cressida listed for $7389, about $36,388 in 2023 dollars. That was similar to the price tag on a new '78 Buick Electra 225 sedan ($7319, or $36,043 now), and the Buick weighed 1000 pounds more ...
Driving is in his blood. We recently caught up with professional drifter Ken Gushi at Asari Auto, his dad's auto repair shop. Both love cars and work on them. Just like the cartoon drama, Ken learned ...
Sometimes car companies don't know when they've got it good. For many years Toyota had been selling its conservative but highly regarded Cressida to people who valued reliability and respectability ...
From intern to editor, Damian Adams' story reads like a well-written novel where he steadily worked to become the youngest-ever editor of South Africa's leading motoring publication, CAR Magazine. He ...