The 2020 Tokyo Auto Salon’s
numerous premieres kept us busy for the past few days, and while the event may
have closed its gates on Sunday, pictures of weird vehicles continue to pop up
online. The Toyota Century Strange Edition is a good example, as it truly is
strange. Built by the WiZ International Information Engineering and Automobile
College’s third-year students, it’s a flashy concept that cannot be driven on
public roads.
Key aspects of the car include
the green paint, brown-finished roof and side mirror casings, plenty of chrome
accents and an air suspension that, in its lowest setting, leaves room for the
20-inch multispoke alloy wheels by Work and shod in 225/35 front and 265/30
rear Falken tires. The icing on the cake are the suicide-opening rear doors,
which give this classic Century a Rolls-Royce-esque feel.
We still need to work on our
Japanese, but from what we can tell, the engine used to power this special
project is a 4.0-liter V8. Codenamed the VG45, it’s an evolution of the VG40
engine built by Toyota between 1982 and 1997 and was made between 1990 and
1997. We do not know whether the young team behind the project has updated it
in any way, but in the top tune, it used to kick out 190 PS at 4,800 rpm and 324 Nm of torque at 3,600 rpm back when it left
the assembly line.
