My mom drove an 88 also. My freshly licensed brother was involved in an accident on the interstate vs a semi-truck and got bounced around like a pinball. The car was severely crushed on every corner. Surprisingly the insurance repaired it instead of totaling it. I drove and enjoyed the car for a number of years afterwards. Seeing them now brings back memories of the velour seats and all of the 1980s glory. My brother and sister were also not harmed whatsoever in the crash, impressive for a non-airbag car.

Liar

classic toyota

@@Maximus20778 Douche

I drive an 87 to work every day. It only has 160k miles and I bought it from my neighbor for $370!!

@@justinb9223 Wow, nice! Lucky guy. I absolutely would have no complaints about owning one and put in my (tastefully done) very high quality sound system. They're good cars.

@@justinb9223 I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one today. Even if I had to restore the outside and/or the the interior, so long as the drivetrain was good, it would be worth it.

I do.

Noseefood my stepmom had one. It was great to drive as long as the road was clear if it was wet, icy or had snow better off on a broomstick.

churchofmarcus lol

And much nicer than the first Lexus I saw/rode in, which was an obviously rebadged and re-trimmed Camry. ES series I think, can't remember the numbers after ES, a thoroughly forgettable early attempt. They should have started with the Cressida but that's my opinion and they seem to have done OK without my input :-)

@@JDMHaze You may laugh but it's true.

albear972 Well I certainly agree, no arguments there

You are so right. Rear wheel drive luxury of the 70s and 80s.

I'm so jealous....

MotoringMiddleEast yes most to see in trucks and four door cars..are and still today... Toyota's and Chevys..they rule the mid east.

Hell yeah thats right😎✌am from the middle East persicly from Dubai I treasure a 1993 cresida wagon that use to be my dad's , intiriour & extiriour all stock to the bone I just made an engine swap to 1jz twin turbo!! I enjoy driving it on weekends more than my 2013 rangrover sport..this car got big time lagasy over here & got A LOT OF ADMIREREs over here❤ sorry for the book though🤣

Don’t see any Caprices on the road, anymore. Still see a few Crown Vic’s and LTDs

Your reviews are terrible imo

@ATCkeepsUsafe In the gulf states (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar), American car brands are actually pretty popular. Not ad popular as Japanese and Korean but definitely more popular than most European brands. Crown Vic, Caprice, Tahoe, Expedition, Charger...etc

Also one button open sunroof, heated mirrors and automatic climate control

+Soca Nick And 4 wheel independent suspension

It's called an expensive car.

soft touch radio controls. SOLD.

The Toyota Soarer had in-dash navigation just a few years later.

Very beautiful this Toyota Cressida, nice and confortable car

Oh no my B R A N D

given the 1st lexus was the ES 250 ..which was nothing more than a dressed up camry..the Cressida was the better buy..Toyota learned their lessen and later came back strong with the LS 400...

@@arionassis-niarchos2895 I was under the impression the LS came first, then the ES, or that they both came out simultaneously.

John Drake they came out at the same time, but the ES was kind of a last-minute thing after they realized they spent all their time on the LS and didn’t have a more affordable counterpart to it

@@interstate366 Makes sense.

And $56k in 2024 dollars. Wild!

Oh so this was really made in 1985?

@@FloridaPlayzYT yes, this generation came out for the 1985 model year. It was Toyota's luxury car, which was eventually discontinued when Toyota debuted it's new luxury brand, Lexus, in 1989.

donald louk jr. well say it like u mean it

@@donaldloukjr.7260 Maybe the reason why people buy foreign like Toyota and Honda is because of reliability reputation, I'm not saying American vehicles are unreliable because my dad owns a Chevy Colorado 2007 and it's run like a charm.

Rally Rallo well I don't know you could be right it's possible but I still don't think people should continue to buy him that's why I feel our American Sales are down because of people buying too much that's why we lost the US market will you still want have a u.s. market but it's no longer US market and that makes me sad that we lost so many brands of our American cars because of the foreign parts or because they weren't selling or because the company had to file bankruptcy like General Motors or the company changing names and being sold or bought out by another company there's so much that's killing our brands of our American cars in the US and it makes me sick that we lost the US market to the overseas people China Japan Germany Mexico Canada Korea it just makes me sick that we lost our US market to these countries and more overseas that continue to ruin our sales and that's why people keep buying like you said Toyotas and Nissans Hondas I don't care where the stuff is made the names aren't American made they're not American names and that's what burns me up about it and just makes me sad and sick to my stomach that we lost the US market in the US we don't longer have a u.s. market because of people keep buying this junk but still killing ourselves as causing our factories to move out of the u.s. and go overseas which is not right that's why people need to start buying them or American cars they have American names like Chevy Ford Dodge why do people buy foreign like you said maybe because they're more reliable but they break down to and I don't want to kill the American economy cuz it's ruined enough and people just continue to destroy it and it just makes me sick it disappoints me that allow this to happen it should never signed that foreign trade with NAFTA that was a stupidest dumb mistake ever made and look what problems it's caused us or US market as far as our car business truck van SUV have a good day peace

@@donaldloukjr.7260 you sound like the one with no brains and all useless anger. Lol. Common sense car enthusiasts would know what a good car and whats not a good car, Japanese have a fleet of dependable, fun cars that can be tuned for whatever discipline you want to pursue. Drift, autoX, track, drag, etc.. Stop making a mockery of yourself, you give everyone a giggle while you're all upset. Lol

Holy shit, those walls of punctuation-free, redundant text were a pain to wade through. Free market provided us with better cars. Imagine how much worse American cars would’ve been in the 80’s had they been granted the gift of no foreign competition. Even the Oldsmobile Cutlass’s badge falls off in Motorweek’s video. See for yourself.

I don't get the hate either. Stupid people as far as i'm concerned.

These "generic" 80s designs have loads more soul than the newer models that inspire no-one. You left out the Volvos and VW Jettas from the same era.

It sure beats all of these slow-ass cars trying waaay too hard to look aggressive and sporty. The amount of times I see some hatchback with red trim, aggressive lines, big rims and it turns out it has 75 hp lol

@@HamsterWheelGaming you're joking serious right? No car pulls 75hp in modern times lol

@@Maximus20778 they absolutely do. Kia Picanto, Volkswagen Up, Toyota Aygo, Mitsubishi Mirage...they all hover around the 70-80hp range.

Will go down as one of the worst ideas in history to actually become law. The seat belt that puts itself on, but you STILL have to buckle the lap belt. Had a friend who was hurt bad in an accident bcz she never thought she had to buckle the lap belt. Another friend told me he didn't have to buckle the lap belt because of the auto shoulder belt. Huge sense of false security.

WestSide 🤣 no

@@negativeindustrial Thanks for responding after 4 years, must be a crowning achievement of your life. Please lmk which car was better, thanks.

WestSide I really don’t have that much time but here’s the top hits: MKII Supra MKIII Supra MKIV Supra ST-165 Celica Alltrac ST-185 Celica Alltrac AW11 MR2 SW20 MR2 ZZW30 MR2 UCF10 Lexus LS400 UCF20 Lexus lS400 SC300 SC400 Every version of the 4Runner Every version of the LandCruiser I can do this all day. Every one of those are better cars.

@@negativeindustrial I've owned multiple cars on that list- all JDM versions. LS400 I owned Celsior, SC300 I owned Soarer, MkIII Supra I had with 1JZ-GTE engine. I also owned a Cresta GT Twin Turbo (GX71) and that was honestly my favorite car of the bunch.

WestSide You slept on the SW20 Turbo. That’s where you fucked up IMO. It basically ruins you for all other cars. My ST-205 and my UCF20 haven’t moved an inch in two years.

In today's money it was close to $38,000

17k was lofty if you made 30k. 38,000 is pretty lofty.

You could get a Lincoln or a Caddy for that price in 85.

Milford Civic yeah...and you'd get a worse car. Cressida is a bargain compared to those.

Christopher Waits Toyota was still considered a "Japanese car", meaning inexpensive and flimsy in 1985. A Cadillac or Lincoln was a premiere luxury car and paying $17-20K for a Japanese car was considered outrageous. Yes, hard to believe, but the average American consumer didn't see Japanese cars as anything more than sensible "small" cars. The same could be said of BMW cars in the mid 70's, a tiny 2002 cost as much as a Cadillac, only liberal, college educated professionals bought them. Besides, all cars back then required frequent maintenance to keep them operational and reliability was more of a thing of the car not falling apart and burning out the engine inside of 100,000 miles. Retrospect isn't a thing that should be used to criticize the past as the future hadn't been written yet......

Haha I caught that, too. I'm like, "When did he start reviewing rugs?"

Back when every little whiny asswipe didn't get offended by words.

Orient is Latin for East.

Noted that as well.. Didn't sound right.. Funny how you notice things.. Things change folks.. It's ok.

J Gravitas Around here we still say "oriental" to refer to Far East Asians. Don't see how that term made you laugh...

Yelp.

Looks like an almost-anything of the same year.

What was so good about it?

itsmegp46 build quality and materials were top notch. This extended into the late 90s and early 2000s for Japanese cars. The reason why their build quality was outstanding was because of the yen. The japanese had so much money to burn on R&D, they manufactured 3 different versions of some models sometimes with their own distinct bodies. They dumped some of the craziest technologies on cars back then. In Japan, you could get a JDM "Cressida" with parking sonars, rear seat TV, cabin air cleaner, electric folding mirrors, twin turbo, 5 speed manual trans and a limited slip differential. Even the solid thunk of a 90's Toyota cannot be matched by whatever the bean counters are forcing them to make now unless its a Lexus.

CACressida I respectfully disagree. We are in fact now in a golden age of automobiles. Cars that can go 110,000 miles between tuneups, that will easily slide past 300,000 miles. Electric mirrors and cabin air cleaners are nothing new. Chrysler had cabin air cleaners in their cars equipped with air conditioning way back in 1955. Today's cars have anti-lock brakes, a hundred airbags, brake assist, traction control, multi-geared transmissions just to name a few.

70,000mles? my 2014 has 70,000

Well said if you weren't alive in the 80's then you don't understand the history when Toyata, Honda , Datsun had arrived. Hence look at. early Celicas, Accords, Preludes,Maxima's ; Man they came out balling!😎

Wellcome to the club💪😎✌

james blatchford just bought one myself and it has 53k original old man miles. It’s such a nice car!

If you happen to be selling one in future, please let me know?? My name is Cressida... and I want to someday own a Toyota Cressida.. bc it just makes sense to meeee

1979irock Don't forget to jump up in the air while saying that.

You got it Toyota!!

1985 Cressida? how many km on it?

Dajour D we are in the same page buddy😎 shining like a star..except that i got it from my dad and am in my 20s & it got a twinturbo engine under the hood😁✌(deadly serious)

Lies!

Hi, I have the same cressida :) but I don't know how works the automatic seat belt :( the automatic seat belt move into the car it's okay, but it's always free loose, it's normal?

Chris Dooley Go look up: Backyard build here on youtube. Really cool videos :)

In Japan, when the Cressida was cancelled, they created the Chaser. They gave it a 1JZGTE engine, which is smaller version of the 2JZGTE.

There is a guy that has a 400ls1 in one now that’s a sleeper it looks completely stock

The switch to front wheel drive opens up more interior room and trunk space. No transmission bell housing, no driveline hump, no rear differential.

That's true.

Lexus?

pbfloyd13 The LS is a large car, with lots of available space. Most of their other rwd cars have very tight back seats. Their fwd ES, based on the Camry is in sharp contrast very roomy,

itsmegp46 If you watched the review, the Cressida isn't exactly super spacious...

You must be a fan of Family Guy!!!!!

It was a softly sprung car. My brother had this same car. Driving it felt like you were sitting in a hot fudge sundae.

itsmegp46 Hot and cold at the same time with a side of fear for your life because you're about to be eaten? Sounds fun.

HAhahahahaha

Mine came with headlight washers. They were just nozzles for washer fluid that were operated by a special button.

Mind you, sealed beams were the norm in 1985

Aspie Otaku That is the purpose of Lexus... Lexus IS-F, RC-F...

Richtofen Pascua Oh shit your right, never thought of that lol!

Hehe yeah, it's easy to not think of Lexus as a Toyota sometimes. I used to make that mistake as well.

Richtofen Pascua Still better than BMW can bring, they cry like a bitch when their m3 loses to the ISF lmao!

+Aspie Otaku Well, there's its successor: the Avalon.

Yeah cressida came 5speed from 1979- to 1988 in the u.s.

Yup very rare but very true knew a guy that had one in ny back in 91 good memories gone are those days

No 5-speed Cressida for Canada unfortunately. At least we didn’t get those irritating passive shoulder belts!

You're so right. I bought an 89 CRX HF that never needed anything but oil, tires and one clutch over the 125,000 miles I put on it. Plus being the high fuel economy model, I once drove from Philly to Boston on three quarters a tank of gas. It was amazingly reliable. I wish I kept it but a mustang cobra had my name on it (which incidentally was nowhere near as reliable lol)

This era was a particularly bad period of time for American engineering. Lack of R&D, poor marketing, corporate raiding of profits, and ridiculous union labor lead to an unsustainable American car market that ultimately produced, with few exceptions, POS's on the road. I

You should be able to get at least 200 - 300 thousand miles from that car with proper maintenance.

Jert1000 it was the 80s.....Everything Looked like this 😂

Nissan used the same kind of button on their 4 speed automatics.

I thought that was only on the 7M-GTE?