Comments on: Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

By: swampdawg

swampdawg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:28:03 +0000

Thanks Matt/ CA for providing this interesting article.

By: Raf

Raf — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:06:41 +0000

When I was in Japan earlier this year, I passed through Nagoya and visited the Toyota museum in Nagoya itself (ironically, the very day Toyota announced a bunch of layoffs and their first ever line shutdowns, legendary timing). It’s half devoted to their heritage in weaving machines- which they’re still involved in, to their benefit for building a carbon fibre weaving machine for the Lexus LF-A, as it happens- and half to cars. Very much about the technical processes of manufacturing (and how, when they began, they had to invest in stuff like steel mills just so they had the quality of steel necessary to make cars like they wanted to; which again underlies the modern Toyota corporate empire). It was far more interesting than I expected. Was there right to closing, which got me and a couple of dozen other people a performance from their trumpet-playing robot.

Nice to see the stuff from this museum, since I didn’t get to it when I was there!

By: Mark G

Mark G — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:42:24 +0000

Wow, the early Jap cars were basically clones of American cars. Now, American cars are becoming clones of Jap cars.

By: Carz

Carz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:27:33 +0000

It’s definitely a vintage collection. Car museums are great, car fanatics would learn where all awesome cars now started.

By: davie

davie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:22:15 +0000

Wow, what an ecclectic collection of cars,

I think there’s even an old Citroen Traction Avant in one of the photos!

By: Popeye

Popeye — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:53:11 +0000

Where is the F1 car? It would fit right in with these slow old relics….lol.