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As a Detroiter, it's sort of a private joy to see some of his early works around, especially as there are hints of the WTC design in one, especially.

Great documentary, but the ending seemed a bit rushed. Seems strange that the RX, being such an important car for Lexus, was only mentioned in the last 20 seconds.

Next time she wants to talk im gonna go for a really brief drive😏🤝🏽

IDK if I was trippin' and seeing ELVIS or UFO sightings. I could have sworn I saw one of the B.A.T. Alpha Romeos in Dallas TX sometime between 1984 & 1988 parked in a driveway at a residential home, multiple times on the way home from work. MAYBE IT WAS A REPLICAR.

Monte carlo meets stratos meets lambo meets deloreon.... ish

I had a 1980 280ZX. Gorgeous car. It was black with gold trim, tan leather interior and a t bar roof. Sadly it was not designed for the Canadian market. By 1990, it had rusted through completely. It was game over when the strut towers rusted away from the body.

I believe it was letter "O",not zero. And it spells as is written,DOME - it's not an english word (spelled doum).

Did you record this while brushing your teeth?

My '06 LS430 is the best car I've ever owned.

I love more classical cars. Especially the Toyota 2000 GT

love my 280z have had it 25 years now shes been great

agree with afoolandhismoneychannel. I bought a '82 silver/black ZX in '93, expecting it to be a 'nicer', maybe quieter version of my '75 280. I was right, but I wasn't expecting a Buick. The change from McPherson strut to trailing arm rear suspension may have solved some NVH issues but it was no longer a sports car. Driven even moderately hard, the softness of the back end, in my opinion made it unusable on a twisty country road. I tried better shocks, but it was what it was, as the commenter said, for all the right and wrong, reasons. Great looking car, I kept it for 3 years and sold it way too soon, it was an immaculate low mileage cream puff from CO. Great to look at, not fun to drive. Was it the 'worst' Z ever? For me, yes, but I've only had 2. Still have the '75.

I bought a new 1977 280z and kept it for 4 years. Traded it in for a new 81zx. The zx is absolutely the worst Z ever made. It’s not a sports car, it just looks like one. Kept it 4 months and bought a good used 78z. The zx rides like a tiny Cadillac coupe de ville. Horrible car.

Mecum car auction recently really liked them , 2 or 3 of them sold for over 125 k if i remember correctly.

I saw them at goodwood. I specifically remember the Nismo.

Looks like the Italian wedge shaped design exercises. The front is Countach

The perfect upbringing.

Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto. Could they possibly steal from the Italian wedge prototypes of the early 70s any more? Unlike the Italians though, they couldn't give it some balls. 2.8L straight-6? Hell no. Hell no not now and HELL TO THE NO in the 1970s. Walk over to the US Navy base and get a 455 cu-inch V-8, someone over there is bound to own a 1971 Firebird Trans Am. Turbocharge it and you can rename yourself Vector.

When a house is built for ideology rather than people

Oooooh, gorgeous 😍 Better than a Delorean 😏

Lexus can only sell mediocre crossovers and SUVs now.

Wow, that's ugly AF. Looks like something scribbled by kid.

3 hours long!!

If a Lamborghini, Delorien and Mazda had a child

Bertone-desu

I love Mazda!

It's sad that more people don't do this hyper high quality documentary style of car videos. I always find myself rewatching videos from a handful of channels including this one because I can't find anything else as good.

First race agaisnt some of the baddest porsches to ever race. Talk about wake up call.

I love the seats in the zero.

170 dollars?? Even back then thats nothing.

As referred to in the video, the Avanti was meant to be a "halo car" meaning to get attention and get people to the dealerships. And it did do that. They didn't expect to sell many as the price was the same as a Cadillac. Instead, once people got to the dealership they were expected to buy the regular lineup. People DID come to the dealerships but were simply afraid to buy from the shaky company. Also, at first, they really had no cars for the dealerships and flew the same two cars from town to town in cargo plane. They would set up bleachers, give out free "Avanti" stadium seat cushions, and had a lot of hoopla introducing the car. Then they would fly off with this "Avanti Airlift" marketing project to do the same in another city.

You might note there is no external trunk latch. Instead, there is a handle down low at the left side of the rear seat. It pulls on a wire cable connected to the latch. There is a small panel on the deck below the rear window where advertising shows a woman able to have access to move things to and fro from the trunk from inside the passenger cabin. That really isn't very practical, and the real reason was to provide access, via a long screwdriver, to the trunk latch should the release cable break. Otherwise, you would have to cut a hole in the trunk floor to get to it.

Another safety feature was the gas tank location. It is a rectangular box behind the rear seat. At the usual gas tank location under the trunk is the spare tire. It is accessed by a round removable panel that is part of the trunk floor. So, in a rear end collision, the first thing hit won't be the gas tank. Seatbelts were also standard which was not yet the case in all cars as seat belts were not yet federally mandated. I believe there was a "seatbelt delete" option, or perhaps that option to delete just the rear seat belts.

For the Starliner shown early in the video, you might notice the three pointed star logo, especially at 2:16. Mercedes-Benz told Studebaker that it resembled their three pointed emblem too much and could not use it. Studebaker obliged removed the downward pointing leg making it a V instead of a tri-star. Interestingly, Studebaker became the distributor for Mercedes-Benz in the U.S. and Canada from 1957-1963. And the door locks in the Avanti are Mercedes-Benz cone style door locks. These were better door locks than the typical and part of a safety improvement.

crazy they didnt use the prelude motor 🤔

Just like the N Vision :(

So today I was looking through the spy kids behind the scenes dvd, they included a modified version of the axiom concept in the movie, but the vehi cross convertible concept I can see it in the behind the scenes footage , but it looks like it never made it to the final cut of the film.

and now GM is a sad basket case

I had a model of this car as a kid and always thought it was just that, a model, but it seems it was an actual car. Interesting

So Yada didn’t want to change the headlights? of course not. Imaging they did change them… Boom! All of a sudden the Diablo is different. Shit, in that timeline Lamborghini name it something else… probably the poodle 🐩. He was right about the headlights, good enough for Lamborghini anyways. When you know you know

Exaskerbated???

Shame it looked like that but had 140 bhp 😑

You mentioned the Mustang One had an Inline 4 engine,that is false:she had a V4 engine from British Ford Taunus

I got 2007 350 spotless garage kept looks headturns compliments all the time still in wild

Rings true- the Fiero was neutered because of Corvette. They originally wanted the 3800 in the Fiero which would outrun anything GM could produce in that wide, light body. Corvette complained it would hurt them so they underpowered the Fiero. I will NEVER give a dime for a Chevrolet. Eff Chevy.

Fantastic video. Thank you.

i first saw this car in sega GT 2002, and just fell in love with the design of it, and its great to see them still around even.

Is there a biographical film of Mr. Honda? His story would make an amazing film.