Toyota · Soarer

Toyota Soarer 2nd generation (Z20)

Years
1986–1991
Chassis
Z20
Drivetrain
FR
Toyota Soarer 2nd generation (Z20)

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Story

It had a flush-surface canopy using three-dimensionally curved glass for all of its windows. It was the world's first to put into practical use the Space Vision Meter, a virtual-image display.

Stories

01

An instrument panel that doesn't reflect

The second generation kept only the look that identified it as a Soarer at a glance and changed the content completely. In the top-grade Grande Belle interior, the instrument panel, which reflected in the glass even when made black, was finished by vacuum-forming suede skin imported from Benecke of Germany, which he had found at a European motor show. Having struggled with target costing on the first generation, he found it easier to get understanding for the second thanks to the first generation's track record.

Chassis

Length 4,675 mmWB 2,670 mm1,335 mmHeightWidth 1,725 mm
Curb weight
1,510kg

Production plants

  1. Tahara Plant

    Tahara, Aichi

US import eligibility

Earliest cars
Eligible since January 201125 years after sales began in January 1986
Last cars
Eligible since 201625 years after sales ended in 1991 (month not recorded)

Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).

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Engineers

Toshihiro Okada

Toshihiro Okada

Chief engineer for development of the first through third generations of the Soarer.