Note that it still works after 25 years. I like this kind of dahboard better than the modern multimedia shit we have today where you pay a lot of money for updating your maps (if possible at all). This silly layout gives the car character.
I mean he clearly says that the climate control thing breaks fairly often and I imagine that is the case for most of this stuff. Just because something is mechanical it doesn't mean it will magically never fail, just the opposite actually. And what has upüdating your maps to with anything lol?
@@uselessDM I think you forget that this was a lot earlier in digital displays being in cars, as well as mechanic things can brake yes, but are offend much easier to repair
+xboxgamer969 It's all just layers of marketing crap. Not too far off from now we'll all regard selecting everything from increasingly convoluted cascading touchscreen menus annoying as well. I like a few simple buttons and a couple touchscreen controls, the important stuff needs to be on a dial, slider, or switch. For that reason I usually buy base model vehicles.
With the HVAC slide in door closed, you simply push the AUTO button and set the temperature to the desired number. The HVAC system then chooses the correct airflow pattern and speed based on the temperature number you select. Using a sunlight sensor on the top of the dash and an ambient air interior sensor, this was a very early climate control design which still exists today but in a more advanced form. Sliding the door open allows you to override the "auto" feature and choose airflow speed and direction manually. Once you do this the light in the auto switch should go off.
RideCamVids I've found that most people don't even know they have automatic climate control, or have some big problem with it and use all the controls manually..
This has got to be one of the coolest cars I have come across, and add to this that it's rear wheel drive and has double wishbone suspension, like come on!
a shame the 7m engine loves to blow head gaskets all the time due to factory undertorqued head bolts. fix that and you have a decent engine. improve the oiling system and you've got a decent engine that can be hooned around on spirited drives.
@@negativeindustrial meh. everyone goes jz swap. i admire anyone that sticks with the 7m despite its faults. plus jz engines are getting to insane prices owing to their reputation and scarcity now.
+A Rare Trump Actually, you can replicate the sensation of a button press on a touch screen by placing a pressure sensor and a really fast vibration motor behind it. Apple does that with the trackpads of their new laptops to make them thinner.
Katzelle3 Well, actually they simulate a button, not replicate it. I haven't tried the Apple trackpad yet, but I can tell you I'm sick to death of touchscreens. I don't want one in my car.
Why do I feel like these motorized panels will be like what Teslas end up looking like. A needlessly extravagant motorized thing that makes grinding noises.
DreamGTS Yeah, at least the 96 corolla has standard dimensions for the radio so I could get one with an AUX port, just need a new sub and some more speakers and I'm set
I literally laughed out loud when you pushed the button to slide out the tray with the rest of the HVAC buttons. The whole thing screams like a bet between two different engineers of "How many controls can we put in one car?"
avalon was the _marketing_ successor to the cressida, the lexus gs is considered the mechanical successor to the cressida. it seems like the US market got more features though. aussie cressidas didn't have the telescoping steering wheel, nor did we get the redundant radio controls beside the speedo cluster
+Robert Rowley Not really lol, phones were still made like that when the iPhone came out. Apple was the one who decided against all the buttons and then the industry followed suit. ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-10-24-keyboards.jpeg
+logicity1 And now it's fucking hard to write on these trashy phones. I swear, it was Steve Jobs secret plan to decrease the amount of communication with others with the iPhone!
Well Apple knocked the touch-screen idea off others, they just did it better and brought it to market, much like how Macintosh borrowed many ideas (pointer/mouse, GUI) from a XEROX Alto prototype that Jobs viewed... but this is another debate. :)
+RegularCars i drove my cressida all night to get to you. no idea why, because i'm all beige and my dick doesn't work anymore. for some reason though, i really like this car.
Definitely madness! It seems to foreshadow my gripe of current web design - specifically CZcams - making the user take 2 or 3 steps to perform a function instead of one single step. That's just insane to have the fan speed and output options hidden behind a motorized unit. Not only does it take a couple extra steps to operate it , something that should only take a quick glance a single push of a button, but if it malfunctions, it causes unnecessary inconvenience. Sure, you could say that about most all gimmicks in higher end cars (the more options, the more that can go wrong) but this gimmick doesnt SOLVE any problem, make anything better, or give enjoyment to the driver or passenger. It actually does nothing except add more work to the operator! Very bad design! And all I keep thinking of is CZcams! haha Very similar thought process. Make the user hit a button to access more buttons rather than have them all visible from the start. Trying to solve a problem that never existed in the first place. (there's plenty of room for all the buttons - in the car & in CZcams)
My grandma had one of these. Bought it new from Grand Blanc Toyota in Flint, MI in 1992 and her slide out hvac control broke and she didnt have the money to fix it so whenever she wanted to adjust the hvac system she would peg it from a red light and fire the controller out of its hole. 87 year old women was still sharp as a knife when it came to her air conditioning
More buttons equals better? I think that was the episode "How Japan took over the world and then lost it" from his other show called "Clarkson's Car Years"!
Growing up in the 90's working those fade/balance knobs on Reel 2 Real's I like To Move It . While it blares out the rear deck mounted pair of 6x9" and "Realistic" branded tweeters that my dad was so proud of installing on his 1983 300SD - DJ Pog Slammer
I had the luxury model 1990 Cressida. So I got leather interior, pwr sunroof, and a CD/cassette player, posi rear diff.. Which moved my tuning buttons right beside my volume knob at the top. Mine had 208k miles. And EVERYTHING on the car still worked perfect, except the cassette player. Awesome car. I could still get it to run 130 mph in stock form. Rare car to find as well.
My dad had one of these, I found the user interface to be rather nice. All of the most used functions have large buttons within easy reach, all of the least used functions have small and/or tucked away buttons. Also, every button on the entire car had the most wonderful tactile feedback. It was stolen by a bunch of kids who may have known about the engine, they wound up wrapping it around a tree.
I love these little things youd find in olderJap cars. My Mazda was similar in the way they were designed with alot of little features. LOVE the emergency exit idea! Feels like your in an aircraft lol
My first car was a 1985 Cressida wagon. Uncool to the max but RWD and that sweet inline six... Great car. My friends used to laugh when we'd be driving down the road, the radio would go out, and after a solid bang on the side of the center console it'd (usually) come back on again.
It has a drawer which opens and has more buttons. And it has a blinking red light which says belt release lever. Damn that is just hot shit. Really cool stuff.
My mother had one of these when i was like 4, hers was a 92 or 91 I think. If it was not for the 7m's valve seal issues this car was super reliable. Was sold to my dads brother who drove it way past 300k miles. fond memories of that car and my mothers toyota's in general. She also owned two mkiii turbo supras while i was growing up. Ya my mom's awesome.
You're making this seem a lot weirder than it actually is. I had one of these in the early 90s and the stereo controls are perfectly intuitive. Frequently used controls, like radio presets and volume, are up high in the line of sight, while secondary controls (mine had the optional CD player) are at the bottom. The A/C is in fact true climate control, not just a hot-cold knob with numbers as you assert here. Most of the time you left the sliding door shut and just adjusted the temperature, but if fan speed didn't suit, you could adjust it manually. Mine never broke so I can't speak to longevity of the slide out mechanism. It was a great car, loved the blue tinted glass on the moonroof, which bathed the interior in surgical looking cool light. When you floored it, the engine sounded like expensive silk ripping.
My 2013 Buick Regal/Opel Insignia is full of buttons but also has a touch screen and I love it. Buttons make sense while driving imo. Tactile feedback is best in cases where you can't/shouldn't look.
In their day, these cars were very luxurious and in Australia, after Toyota dropped the Crown, they were the flagship model. Then Lexus established itself and the Cressidas were no longer exported, only sold domestically in Japan. In the early 90s I knew of company executives that drove them. Nice cars and great engines.
Koooool I love buttons. Because after being familiar with the car i wont have to take my eyes off the road. Seat belt warning light needs a beep sound like 80's tv shows.
its a miracle that all of that shit still works. My father has an 89 cheverolet pickup truck with way too many damn buttons, none of which have worked in probably a decade.
I think some of the supposedly complicated functions actually have some decent benefits. Separate buttons for bass, treble, speakers, etcetera are actually a good idea, and I even dug the climate control if there wasn't the risk of the opening tray getting stuck opened or closed.
This car is as old as me but I find these controls much nicer than putting everything on one slow responding touchscreen. It's like on screen virtual keyboard vs. the real thing. You need to have some feedback from the controls. And once you remember them by heart you can use them without having to take your eyes off the road.
+RegularCars It really is automatic climate control. All of the MKIII Supras, Cressidas, MKIV Supras, and same era Toyota vehicles have an "Auto" button and either a knob to set temperature or an up/down button with a digital display to set temperature. If you look right above the "open/close" button there's a vent, that's the cabin temperature sensor. The Supra had a little photoelectric sensor on the dash pad up near the windshield to tell the system if it was really bright or dark outside to alter how aggressively it cooled (and maybe heated.) I suspect the Cressida has a similar sensor. If you stick in auto and set a temperature, it will adjust the servos to control where the air flows and cycle the compressor to the set temperature. They were WAY ahead of their time. Owning a MKIII Supra ruined me for cars after it as I lost MANY features on vehicles afterward.
Great, reminds me of my old Seat Ibiza... back from 89... All dash controls were in this strange box underneath the steering wheel. The horn was a lever that you puled up...
I owned one of those in 1989 the first year of the last generation. I got it sky blue with dark blue leather interior with moonroof and ABS brakes and heated mirrors that don't have their own designated button, they work with the redefroster. The CD player gave up on me in 2001. I had to sell it to move out of state, I'm really I got a nice cash out of that deal, despite it was an i6 engine not a v6. And it didn't have any airbags at all.
Man just look at the quality of materials in this thing, everything is still working, I could swear if it was a modern car everything would be crumbling inside it or you would have ugly faded dash. Cars from that era were built to last, cars of this day are built to eventually break and hard to fix.
Aftermarket stereo install must be pain in the ass. I always thought that this is a recent fashion, to make the stereo controls integrated into the dashboard, but now I see that this comes from way back.
Interesting fact: the EQ in a 90's astro van works exactly the same way; if I had to guess, the electronics came out of the gm/toyota partnership that happened in the 80's(?).
Used to have a Cressida as recently as 2 years ago before we sold it. The accelerating power was insane for a car that old. The dashboard controls were poorly designed, but made you feel like you were in control.
Oh those spring-loaded audio controls! My dad's E80 Corolla had that setup. I remember the split audio system controls back in 1990 and it felt luxurious. And what do we have today? If you've been in a Ford Escape or Subaru Tribeca, or Mazda CX-5, we have all kinds of distance between audio displays and knobs. That cruise control wand is a Toyota hallmark. Virtually unchanged today (albeit smaller).
"Now as you can see, we've finalised the designs for the cabin controls in the new model MX-83. The devices on the table are actual production units straight from the factory." "Um, where's the button for melting the ice off my rear window?" "Shit."
AC was automatic climate control- notice this little vent on panel- it was sucking air, measuring temperature and change position of distribution flap. It was like in old W124 Mercedes (Merc has temperature sensor next to sunroof controls)
Had 3 of these cars Toyota Grande Mark II 89 90 92 WERE GREAT CARS & LOVED THE HEATER AND STEREO CONTROLS ! AND considering how long the cars lasted they were awesome reliable so much better than our present Crappy Astra by GM ! WE ARE GOING BACK TO TOYOTA AS SOON AS WE CAN AFFORD IT ! JDM FOR LIFE
As other people have already mentioned, yes it is real climate control. The little grille above the temperature control knob gives it away. Climate control has been around since at least the '70's, if not earlier. I don't know off the top of my head who had it first, but Cadillac would be a pretty safe bet. Related rant: There are still far too many buttons for climate control in modern cars. If you think about it, all you really need is a screen demist button. Everything else is superfluous in a modern, fully automatic system.
in 1992 Toyota launched the Soarer. top spec cars had a Touchscreen LCD screen that controlled stereo, climate, gps, and inbuilt TV. in 1992, the same year as that Cressida.
This was the first car I ever owned. I remember all those buttons lmao. I never gave 2 thoughts to how many arbitrary buttons there were in it. Maybe that's why my Audi seems so simple to me lol. Thank you for this review! You definitely took me back in time.
My '96 Buick had push to reveal sound control knobs like your Cressida, Mr. Regular. I never pushed in, though, just twist with the tip of my finger. Works well.
There was an old Asian man that lives near me who used to have a brown Cressida on the road and I swear every time I passed it he was always working on it.
You have made the same comment on several Toyota videos that needs to be corrected. Although I agree that the slide open a/c control panel and split radio controls of this generation Cressida are unnecessary and distracting I feel that I must point out and explain a few things. Whether you even realize its' advanced capabilities and fully understand its' impressive overall functionality or not, the Toyota automatic climate control systems which have existed since about 1979 and have only needed and gotten minor operational upgrades a few times since then really is a fully automatic climate control system, NOT "just a glorified hot/cold knob", unless of course you manually choose a fan speed and ducting mode which bypasses the system logic and totally defeats the purpose of having automatic climate control at all... Once you realize how it works, it's actually pretty slick and works very well. Unfortunately, many consumers are clueless and impatient and "don't get it". You don't even need to open that panel or press a fan speed button to use the system. You can literally just press that big white AUTO button and then turn that numbered temperature knob to adjust the fan speed and airflow ducting as needed. It's not just a hot/cold knob, it's numbered for a reason. In manual mode it does act as a hot/cold knob because you're not giving it a choice, you're forcing it to operate manually. If it's summer and it's hot in the car it will probably leave the fan cranked up although somewhere in the midrange or upper end of the range it will probably back the fan down a bit within a minute or two if given time to process the present climate conditions. In the winter chances are it'll seemingly not want to run the fan for moments or minutes but there's a very good reason for that which I will explain later... Also notice the fact that the AUTO button has 2 lights above it and 2 symbols on it. The top left symbol is obviously a fan, the top right one is for ducting (vent mode) selection. You can have the system automatically control just the ducting, just the fan speed, or both based on temperature selection you choose with that temperature knob. When you press AUTO the lights above both symbols illuminate. If you manually crank up the blower speed the system will disengage the automatic blower speed control and the light above the fan symbol will go out to indicate that the fan is being manually controlled. If you manually pick a vents mode the light above the vent symbol will go out and the system will disengage the automatic ducting system. You can do any combination of both (full automatic), either (partial auto), or neither (full manual). Here's another very significant detail that anyone can see and possibly understand... Notice that little slotted grate directly above the open/close button? That is actually a cabin air temperature sensor for Toyota's Automatic Climate Control System! But wait, there's more...
Also buried somewhere in the front grille or front engine bay area is also an outdoor air temperature sensor that was not typically made accessible via any displays for driver information purposes in the older cars since it exists to be utilized as an interior/exterior thermal comparison reference by the Toyota climate control system and they didn't think anyone cared enough to see how hot or cold it really was outside at the time. PLUS if you look along the seam where the dash meets the windshield out there along the edges of the windshield defroster vent slats, towards one corner or the other (or possibly centered depending on the vehicle) you will see at least one covered photocell sensor which visibly detects the outdoor brightness level and there is another sensor somewhere in the outer front grille or front of the engine bay that measures the outdoor temperature. (If the Toyota vehicle also has automatic on headlight capabilities there is another one along there for that too.) The older systems' AUTO feature, from generations prior to the electronic duct control actuators, was limited to automatic fan speed control based on the signals from those 3 sensors and the chosen position of the numbered temperature knob or slider. Somewhere along about 1986-ish when they transitioned to motorized vent mechanisms an additional layer of automatic functionality was added. In this particular Toyota you're reviewing, a final generation Cressida, when the AUTO button is pressed the system looks at the cabin temperature, outdoor temperature, and how sunny it is outside and decides not only which fan speed is appropriate but also which combination of air flow venting is the most appropriate for the indoor/outdoor conditions and the preferred setting you've turned that numbered temperature knob to. Then once the cabin has been cooled or heated to the appropriately satisfactory temperature selection based on the user's temperature selection the system automatically reduces the fan speed in stages like a central home AC system. If the weather is excessively sunny outside the system keeps the fan speed moderately higher and adjusts the vent ducting for more upper airflow whereas if it's shady it will reduce the fan speed to a lower rpm with a more balanced upper/middle/lower airflow as a hot sunny day demands much more airflow to keep the interior at a comfortable temperature while on a shady day such choices would be overkill so it adapts as needed. Note that by pressing the AUTO button and turning the temperature knob on that Cressida, especially if you turn it drastically one way or the other, you may be able to actually hear the vent control actuators redirecting the airflow based on what the sensors are detecting, and it will also adjust the blower speed at some point. Basically, if you choose a temperature and press the AUTO button, if it's cold outside you will end up getting heat while if it's hot outside at the same temperature selection you will get cold air conditioning. It knows the difference and makes the appropriate adjustments. The fan control system has worked that way since about 1979. The vent control system that got added in the mid to late 80's was just a nice added touch. I'm sure the electronics have improved over the years but the climate control system concept used by Toyota has been around for close to 40 years now and works very well once you understand what it's trying to accomplish and how. The one complaint I have with it, which that particular Cressida suffers from due to the early automatic vent control version, is that with the numbered temperature knob (or the numbered digital display in that same generation of Supra) set at any point between about 71 and 79 degrees the duct control logic has this stupid habit of somehow choosing to dump heat on your feet from the floor vents while dumping ice cold air out the dash vents in your face or vice versa in certain weather conditions which happens a lot actually. The 90's revisions of the Toyota climate control systems like the one in the 4th generation Supra are far less prone to that quirk. My first car was a 1981 Celica GT Liftback with the hot/cold slider. My second car was a 1982 Celica-Supra with a numbered temperature slider and an AUTO position on the fan switch. It worked great, especially on long road trips. Set it and forget it. No random fiddling with a/c controls needed... That car got totalled and was replaced by a 1980 Celica Supra with that same system. I eventually stepped up to a 1987 Supra which added the feature of automatic duct selection to the system along with a digital display and up/down buttons to replace the numbered temperature control slider. The Cressida's knob does the same thing as the Supra's up/down buttons. Ironically, Toyota put the Cressida's temperature knob in the MkIV Supra. The 2002 Lexus (Toyota) IS300 I had years ago also had that same dual mode automatic climate control functionality with a numbered temperature "knob", albeit a very large knob with a button in the center but it was still a knob... Note that once they added the automatic ducting logic to the system in the mid to late 1980's which included this reviewed Cressida, when you press the AUTO button the system takes control of both the blower speed and the ducting selection based on the temperature choice you make and the readings from the 3 sensors, unless you opt to manually operate the system instead... Also note that in the summer when it's hot in the car, when you press the AUTO button it almost seems like nothing happens. Same thing in the winter. That's because the system knows the ducts are full of hot air in the summer or cold air in the winter so it's choosing not to blast you and make you uncomfortable. In the winter it waits until the coolant temperature has come up enough to provide heat then it gradually begins flowing air and stepping things up to warm the cabin. Due to the first generation auto ducting function's simultaneous 71-79 hot/cold quirk I end up pressing AUTO to engage the system, choosing a temperature with the temperature slider/knob/buttons, then I press the appropriate button for my preferred airflow ducting choice to disengage the auto ducting system while leaving the auto fan speed system engaged. If I'm cruising along and after a while I start feeling a little warm in the summer or cool in the winter I just bump the temperature control a degree or two and let it do its' thing. Rarely do I even need to touch it once it has gotten the cabin comfortable and backed down the blower speed, unless of course I suddenly need a windshield defrost... Plus some of the systems even back then, if they had a momentary windshield defrost button, you could press it and they'd switch the fresh/recirc mode and airflow to clear the windshield and once you were satisfied with its' accomplishment you just press that defrost button again and the system goes right back to exactly how you had it set before. So please stop saying that the Toyota Automatic Climate Control system is basically just a hot/cold knob because unless you run it in full manual mode that's completely wrong mis-information you're putting out there for others to hear, believe, and erroneously repeat... I can pull out the owners' manual for my 1981 Celica-Supra, 1984 Celica-Supra, 1987 Supra, 1992 Turbo Supra, 1993 TT Supra, 1998 TT Supra, 2002 IS300, 1994 LS400, and my buddy's 1994 SC400, 2000 SC300, and his mother-in-law's old 1992 Cressida (his brother-in-law totalled the car, he kept the owners' manual) if you would like to hear Toyota's actual explanations of how to use these systems in the various generations and what they could do? That generation of Cressida was sort of a 4-door Mk3 Non-Turbo Supra, although there were some significant differences beyond the 2 extra doors, just as the prior generation Cressida was mostly a 4-door Mk2 Celica-Supra. You could say that the GS300 basically took the Cressida's place when Lexus came into the US market. What I really wanted was a 1990 Cressida Wagon, albeit rare but yes they do exist! :)
it is climate control btw. that slotted hole above should be the temp sensor. the electronically.controlled flaps inside the HVAC unit will move to adjust temperature or the unit can start the ac compressor too. fairly standard on higher spec toyotas of that era aw11mr2 g limited sc had it too....
+mans “mansalans” alans If he ever goes to Australia, I'm sure the first thing that gets reviewed will be a Skyline, because he's American. Cressidas aren't all that exciting, even with a turbo. They're a piece of history and have their own quirky place in the line up.
The 1990 grand prix had a ton of little buttons. Top gear even named it the spaceship or something of the like since it had so much going on on the dash, on the wheel, on the upper dash around the wheel, and even on the console.
*Wow!* A button panel automatically slides out to reveal _more buttons!?_ *SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!*
go away
+Sean Place I fucking love buttons! More the merrier.
Toyota did that to the Lexus GS. A cubby that opens to reveal less frequently used buttons
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it's a nice gimmick at first, but people got tired of it quite quickly, as evidenced by the move to fixed controls
This car is A E S T H E T I C
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Note that it still works after 25 years. I like this kind of dahboard better than the modern multimedia shit we have today where you pay a lot of money for updating your maps (if possible at all). This silly layout gives the car character.
I mean he clearly says that the climate control thing breaks fairly often and I imagine that is the case for most of this stuff. Just because something is mechanical it doesn't mean it will magically never fail, just the opposite actually. And what has upüdating your maps to with anything lol?
@@uselessDM I think you forget that this was a lot earlier in digital displays being in cars, as well as mechanic things can brake yes, but are offend much easier to repair
Still better than the touchscreen bullshit in cars today.
I agree
+BKofficer23 There is a lot to be said for tactile feedback, something touchscreens lack.
+BKofficer23 i totally prefer this
+BKofficer23 It really isn't.
No wonder a former pilot would feel at home in a Cressida
I'd take this over stupid touchscreens anytime
+ChargedCovers i kinda liked the dashboard cassette style!!
+ChargedCovers no kidding, those touchscreens take way too long to do anything.
+ChargedCovers They came to conquer, Uranus!
Ok boomer
@@amirbutcher2147 ok dumbass
Real cars have buttons! And lots of them!
+ARMYTRIX You mean like one of those exhaust buttons that make cars sound lovely & insanely loud! ;)
+MarLinD FarKa that make them sound like ass?
+top memes ohh come on! Armytrix has some of the nicest sounding exhausts out there :) But i guess it's just a matter of personal opinion...
+MarLinD FarKa I disagree
I need every car to have that level of cyberpunk technology and A E S T H E T I C
You mean shitty AI and graphical glitches?
@@roddydykes7053 he's not talking about cyberpunk 2077
I fucking love 80s/90s innovation
+BlueHokage
interesting for sure yes but most innovations from the 80's and 90's are extremely inconvenient for today's society
+xboxgamer969 It's all just layers of marketing crap. Not too far off from now we'll all regard selecting everything from increasingly convoluted cascading touchscreen menus annoying as well. I like a few simple buttons and a couple touchscreen controls, the important stuff needs to be on a dial, slider, or switch. For that reason I usually buy base model vehicles.
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we have a 2007 Dodge Nitro, its ok, pretty basic but gets the job done
With the HVAC slide in door closed, you simply push the AUTO button and set the temperature to the desired number. The HVAC system then chooses the correct airflow pattern and speed based on the temperature number you select.
Using a sunlight sensor on the top of the dash and an ambient air interior sensor, this was a very early climate control design which still exists today but in a more advanced form.
Sliding the door open allows you to override the "auto" feature and choose airflow speed and direction manually. Once you do this the light in the auto switch should go off.
RideCamVids I've found that most people don't even know they have automatic climate control, or have some big problem with it and use all the controls manually..
unnessicarily complicated ? more like unnessicarily brilliant
+sexymikeization I agree with you, this dashboard is really cool.
This has got to be one of the coolest cars I have come across, and add to this that it's rear wheel drive and has double wishbone suspension, like come on!
a shame the 7m engine loves to blow head gaskets all the time due to factory undertorqued head bolts. fix that and you have a decent engine. improve the oiling system and you've got a decent engine that can be hooned around on spirited drives.
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@@edbo10
Or just drop a 1JZ TT in and destroy everything.
@@negativeindustrial meh. everyone goes jz swap. i admire anyone that sticks with the 7m despite its faults.
plus jz engines are getting to insane prices owing to their reputation and scarcity now.
am I the only one who thinks using a touch screen infotainment is boring? I like pressing bottons.
+Dualshock GT3 You should become an accountant
i remember that in the 90s. literally.. more buttons mean better / more exciting
+A Rare Trump Actually, you can replicate the sensation of a button press on a touch screen by placing a pressure sensor and a really fast vibration motor behind it. Apple does that with the trackpads of their new laptops to make them thinner.
Katzelle3 Well, actually they simulate a button, not replicate it. I haven't tried the Apple trackpad yet, but I can tell you I'm sick to death of touchscreens. I don't want one in my car.
they dont feel anything close to a button
That was "The Shit!" back in its day. Besides, who doesn't love a bounty of buttons? I know I do!
Bring that thing to California and someone will buy it in a heartbeat just to stance it lol
shameful!
+Mark Wicker ....stance as in that negative camber shit? or just dropped a few inches?
+YLLA I may not be Mark, but I can clarify that it''s the former. Excessive negative camber is a thing now, for some reason.
Widebody treatments are what happens when you think your car's too narrow and its aerodynamics are too good.
+Maxaxle or you want more tire for traction...but some camber it so bad that it means nothing 😄
Why do I feel like these motorized panels will be like what Teslas end up looking like. A needlessly extravagant motorized thing that makes grinding noises.
I own a '90 Cressida. I love the dash. haha
and then you want a new radio :P
+NorwegianAvenger I owned an 89'. Ain't it the truth. Pissed me the heck off, lol.
DreamGTS Yeah, at least the 96 corolla has standard dimensions for the radio so I could get one with an AUX port, just need a new sub and some more speakers and I'm set
I rock the tape deck adapter. Old school ;)
I literally laughed out loud when you pushed the button to slide out the tray with the rest of the HVAC buttons. The whole thing screams like a bet between two different engineers of "How many controls can we put in one car?"
the '90 cressida had a telescopic steering wheel yet my '98 avalon (which replaced the cressida) does not? c'mon, toyota =)
Neither does my 03 IS, and it uses the same tilt lever!
avalon was the _marketing_ successor to the cressida, the lexus gs is considered the mechanical successor to the cressida.
it seems like the US market got more features though. aussie cressidas didn't have the telescoping steering wheel, nor did we get the redundant radio controls beside the speedo cluster
@@ExodusisThere The 03 Lexus IS didn't have it? My 03 G35 did and my 08 MDX.
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@@specialdiablo9 Umm...He's just a Car Enthusiast saying that the Middle Eastern Spec Toyota Cressida didn't come with all those fancy buttons.
ToyGTone hes joking around man
@@specialdiablo9 stop talking rubbish you moron!
@@specialdiablo9 shut the fuck up you racist, cow worshipping, side street shitter
omg, thank you for explaining what the emergency belt release levers do. I've had a cressida for 20years and never knew what that purpose was!
Wow. 86,000 miles. May be complicated, but I'd still buy it just because it's unique, and I missed out on the 90s
This is what the iPhone would look like if it was made in the 90's
+Robert Rowley Not really lol, phones were still made like that when the iPhone came out. Apple was the one who decided against all the buttons and then the industry followed suit.
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+logicity1 And now it's fucking hard to write on these trashy phones. I swear, it was Steve Jobs secret plan to decrease the amount of communication with others with the iPhone!
Well Apple knocked the touch-screen idea off others, they just did it better and brought it to market, much like how Macintosh borrowed many ideas (pointer/mouse, GUI) from a XEROX Alto prototype that Jobs viewed... but this is another debate. :)
Toyota - "We need more buttons, here, here, and here. When you're angry, you can never find a button to press!"
Honestly I find the actual temp readouts (as opposed to the red/blue gradient) on the analog gauges to be so satisfying
There was cup holders? Some English major you are...
sigh
+headcas620 Yer I used the cupholders all the time in mine !
+armedessential Dun fergit to milk dem cows down by tha rivah now ya hea?! =(
+headcas620 what were wrong with these phrase?
Ey yo put they in them cup hoes son. Yknowsayn.
whats the cassette?
+TheKillaComa Roy Orbison
+RegularCars i drove my cressida all night to get to you.
no idea why, because i'm all beige and my dick doesn't work anymore.
for some reason though, i really like this car.
+RegularCars the owner should get *Cassette Adapter*
A cassette is a Acient Artifact.........
+RegularCars Ooh.
If you folks amazed by this, wait 'till you see the interior & dashboard of a Mazda Eunos Cosmo 20B
Definitely madness!
It seems to foreshadow my gripe of current web design - specifically CZcams - making the user take 2 or 3 steps to perform a function instead of one single step.
That's just insane to have the fan speed and output options hidden behind a motorized unit. Not only does it take a couple extra steps to operate it , something that should only take a quick glance a single push of a button, but if it malfunctions, it causes unnecessary inconvenience.
Sure, you could say that about most all gimmicks in higher end cars (the more options, the more that can go wrong) but this gimmick doesnt SOLVE any problem, make anything better, or give enjoyment to the driver or passenger. It actually does nothing except add more work to the operator! Very bad design!
And all I keep thinking of is CZcams! haha Very similar thought process. Make the user hit a button to access more buttons rather than have them all visible from the start. Trying to solve a problem that never existed in the first place. (there's plenty of room for all the buttons - in the car & in CZcams)
my exact thoughts, yet it seems that everyone likes it...?
no you're wrong. it's necessarily complicated.
My grandma had one of these. Bought it new from Grand Blanc Toyota in Flint, MI in 1992 and her slide out hvac control broke and she didnt have the money to fix it so whenever she wanted to adjust the hvac system she would peg it from a red light and fire the controller out of its hole. 87 year old women was still sharp as a knife when it came to her air conditioning
More buttons equals better? I think that was the episode "How Japan took over the world and then lost it" from his other show called "Clarkson's Car Years"!
It was in: Clarkson's Car Years Episode: How Japan Took Over the World... And Then Lost It
+Geovanne Moura OMG, you can find it on CZcams. 22 minutes of pure awesomeness. Thanks man.
+Geovanne Moura Just watched it, awesome!
That's some 80s vision of a year 2000 spaceship-vibe going on there
I WANT ONE
I need to do a button swap on my car.....need at least 40% more button
Growing up in the 90's working those fade/balance knobs on Reel 2 Real's I like To Move It
. While it blares out the rear deck mounted pair of 6x9" and "Realistic" branded tweeters that my dad was so proud of installing on his 1983 300SD
- DJ Pog Slammer
I think gm takes the cake for equalizers with the one with all the little sliders. God I loved messing with that as a kid
80's/90's BMW HVAC controls were far superior. So simple to operate without taking your eyes off the road. You nailed it, needlessly complicated.
I had the luxury model 1990 Cressida. So I got leather interior, pwr sunroof, and a CD/cassette player, posi rear diff.. Which moved my tuning buttons right beside my volume knob at the top. Mine had 208k miles. And EVERYTHING on the car still worked perfect, except the cassette player. Awesome car. I could still get it to run 130 mph in stock form. Rare car to find as well.
My dad had one of these, I found the user interface to be rather nice. All of the most used functions have large buttons within easy reach, all of the least used functions have small and/or tucked away buttons. Also, every button on the entire car had the most wonderful tactile feedback. It was stolen by a bunch of kids who may have known about the engine, they wound up wrapping it around a tree.
I love these little things youd find in olderJap cars. My Mazda was similar in the way they were designed with alot of little features.
LOVE the emergency exit idea! Feels like your in an aircraft lol
My first car was a 1985 Cressida wagon. Uncool to the max but RWD and that sweet inline six... Great car. My friends used to laugh when we'd be driving down the road, the radio would go out, and after a solid bang on the side of the center console it'd (usually) come back on again.
Needs to be remixed into RCR ASMR. "But-tons. But-tons." *tapping/clicking/whirring*
+HighpowerRifleBrony Wow. at first i saw a VERY different word when i glanced at your proile pic!
It has a drawer which opens and has more buttons. And it has a blinking red light which says belt release lever. Damn that is just hot shit. Really cool stuff.
Clarkson said "I wish someone would tell the Japanese that more buttons doesn't mean more luxurious".
My mother had one of these when i was like 4, hers was a 92 or 91 I think. If it was not for the 7m's valve seal issues this car was super reliable. Was sold to my dads brother who drove it way past 300k miles.
fond memories of that car and my mothers toyota's in general. She also owned two mkiii turbo supras while i was growing up. Ya my mom's awesome.
You're making this seem a lot weirder than it actually is. I had one of these in the early 90s and the stereo controls are perfectly intuitive. Frequently used controls, like radio presets and volume, are up high in the line of sight, while secondary controls (mine had the optional CD player) are at the bottom. The A/C is in fact true climate control, not just a hot-cold knob with numbers as you assert here. Most of the time you left the sliding door shut and just adjusted the temperature, but if fan speed didn't suit, you could adjust it manually. Mine never broke so I can't speak to longevity of the slide out mechanism. It was a great car, loved the blue tinted glass on the moonroof, which bathed the interior in surgical looking cool light. When you floored it, the engine sounded like expensive silk ripping.
My 2013 Buick Regal/Opel Insignia is full of buttons but also has a touch screen and I love it. Buttons make sense while driving imo. Tactile feedback is best in cases where you can't/shouldn't look.
+tytotheler92 yo need to do a badge swap in your buick, and a fake euro plate behind your plate for added euroness
+brunoignaciogi Someone ship me an Opel Grille, center caps and rear badge. I'll do it. lol.
In their day, these cars were very luxurious and in Australia, after Toyota dropped the Crown, they were the flagship model. Then Lexus established itself and the Cressidas were no longer exported, only sold domestically in Japan. In the early 90s I knew of company executives that drove them. Nice cars and great engines.
Koooool I love buttons. Because after being familiar with the car i wont have to take my eyes off the road. Seat belt warning light needs a beep sound like 80's tv shows.
"It's unnecessarily complicated" that pretty much summarizes most things I encountered in Japan lol
All the buttons, knobs & power everything, remind me of a 1996 Toyota Hiace Super Deluxe my family use to own! The thing was off the hilt haha
its a miracle that all of that shit still works. My father has an 89 cheverolet pickup truck with way too many damn buttons, none of which have worked in probably a decade.
I would love that car. I am actually a fan of the dash design.
I think some of the supposedly complicated functions actually have some decent benefits. Separate buttons for bass, treble, speakers, etcetera are actually a good idea, and I even dug the climate control if there wasn't the risk of the opening tray getting stuck opened or closed.
This car is as old as me but I find these controls much nicer than putting everything on one slow responding touchscreen. It's like on screen virtual keyboard vs. the real thing. You need to have some feedback from the controls. And once you remember them by heart you can use them without having to take your eyes off the road.
+RegularCars It really is automatic climate control. All of the MKIII Supras, Cressidas, MKIV Supras, and same era Toyota vehicles have an "Auto" button and either a knob to set temperature or an up/down button with a digital display to set temperature. If you look right above the "open/close" button there's a vent, that's the cabin temperature sensor. The Supra had a little photoelectric sensor on the dash pad up near the windshield to tell the system if it was really bright or dark outside to alter how aggressively it cooled (and maybe heated.) I suspect the Cressida has a similar sensor. If you stick in auto and set a temperature, it will adjust the servos to control where the air flows and cycle the compressor to the set temperature. They were WAY ahead of their time. Owning a MKIII Supra ruined me for cars after it as I lost MANY features on vehicles afterward.
Very entertaining! They sure loved buttons.
Great, reminds me of my old Seat Ibiza... back from 89... All dash controls were in this strange box underneath the steering wheel. The horn was a lever that you puled up...
I owned one of those in 1989 the first year of the last generation. I got it sky blue with dark blue leather interior with moonroof and ABS brakes and heated mirrors that don't have their own designated button, they work with the redefroster. The CD player gave up on me in 2001. I had to sell it to move out of state, I'm really I got a nice cash out of that deal, despite it was an i6 engine not a v6. And it didn't have any airbags at all.
My buddy's dad had one of these in high school. Total sleeper, and comfy as hell !
I honestly think buttons are better than a touchscreen. You can memorize where everything is by feel and dont have to take your eyes off the road
The 87 Camry I went to college with had those belt release levers, cup holder and shifter. So many memories.
Man just look at the quality of materials in this thing, everything is still working, I could swear if it was a modern car everything would be crumbling inside it or you would have ugly faded dash. Cars from that era were built to last, cars of this day are built to eventually break and hard to fix.
Those release levers for the power seat belts take me back to the tempos and the 1st Gen escorts.
That HVAC control thing is nifty af. SO MANY BUTTONS!
I will only purchase clean cars from the 90s. And this is a perfect example of why. Super cool and I love it
Aftermarket stereo install must be pain in the ass.
I always thought that this is a recent fashion, to make the stereo controls integrated into the dashboard, but now I see that this comes from way back.
My friend used to drive a 1990 Toyota Cressida, when we were high school seniors in 2007-2008 school year.
I kinda like late 80s to early 90s upscale Japanese cars like this as they have have a unique charm to them.
Truly the fan speed/location selector is the party piece!!!!
I love that about old cars, beep boop buttons EVERYWHERE.
Beep boop especially in the 80s
Interesting fact: the EQ in a 90's astro van works exactly the same way; if I had to guess, the electronics came out of the gm/toyota partnership that happened in the 80's(?).
Which unnecessary located button is best unnecessary located button?
Used to have a Cressida as recently as 2 years ago before we sold it. The accelerating power was insane for a car that old. The dashboard controls were poorly designed, but made you feel like you were in control.
Oh those spring-loaded audio controls! My dad's E80 Corolla had that setup. I remember the split audio system controls back in 1990 and it felt luxurious. And what do we have today? If you've been in a Ford Escape or Subaru Tribeca, or Mazda CX-5, we have all kinds of distance between audio displays and knobs. That cruise control wand is a Toyota hallmark. Virtually unchanged today (albeit smaller).
"Now as you can see, we've finalised the designs for the cabin controls in the new model MX-83. The devices on the table are actual production units straight from the factory."
"Um, where's the button for melting the ice off my rear window?"
"Shit."
AC was automatic climate control- notice this little vent on panel- it was sucking air, measuring temperature and change position of distribution flap. It was like in old W124 Mercedes (Merc has temperature sensor next to sunroof controls)
Man, I miss my 89 Cressida. Car was a lot of fun
Had 3 of these cars Toyota Grande Mark II 89 90 92 WERE GREAT CARS & LOVED THE HEATER AND STEREO CONTROLS ! AND considering how long the cars lasted they were awesome reliable so much better than our present Crappy Astra by GM ! WE ARE GOING BACK TO TOYOTA AS SOON AS WE CAN AFFORD IT ! JDM FOR LIFE
I still think my 2012 mdx advance with dvd has the most buttons ever on a car. Love it though. Much faster than a touchscreen.
As other people have already mentioned, yes it is real climate control. The little grille above the temperature control knob gives it away. Climate control has been around since at least the '70's, if not earlier. I don't know off the top of my head who had it first, but Cadillac would be a pretty safe bet. Related rant: There are still far too many buttons for climate control in modern cars. If you think about it, all you really need is a screen demist button. Everything else is superfluous in a modern, fully automatic system.
I love weird dashboard layouts. It's so typical '80's.
I just saw a Cressida on the streets of Austin a few weeks ago and was like No Way! Haven't seen one in ages.
in 1992 Toyota launched the Soarer. top spec cars had a Touchscreen LCD screen that controlled stereo, climate, gps, and inbuilt TV. in 1992, the same year as that Cressida.
The Crown had an optional lcd touch screen on top spec Royal Saloon models since late 80s
This was the first car I ever owned. I remember all those buttons lmao. I never gave 2 thoughts to how many arbitrary buttons there were in it. Maybe that's why my Audi seems so simple to me lol. Thank you for this review! You definitely took me back in time.
my dad had one of these back in the 90's and he loved it
My '96 Buick had push to reveal sound control knobs like your Cressida, Mr. Regular. I never pushed in, though, just twist with the tip of my finger. Works well.
I like this video for information better than others with all the commentary. I love these cars
“And don’t fuck with my levels. I got ‘em just how I like ‘em.”
I love 90's cars.
"Yo I heard you like buttons, so we put buttons behind your buttons, so you can press your buttons, while you press your buttons."
am i the only one who would absoloutely love that dashboard, its just all over the place but looks kind of cool
There was an old Asian man that lives near me who used to have a brown Cressida on the road and I swear every time I passed it he was always working on it.
The flashing red light and the release levers are badass! Make more videos like this one
Hell yeah! It gives that military jet cockpit feeling no other car gives. Well a Saab will give you that feeling too
You have made the same comment on several Toyota videos that needs to be corrected.
Although I agree that the slide open a/c control panel and split radio controls of this generation Cressida are unnecessary and distracting I feel that I must point out and explain a few things.
Whether you even realize its' advanced capabilities and fully understand its' impressive overall functionality or not, the Toyota automatic climate control systems which have existed since about 1979 and have only needed and gotten minor operational upgrades a few times since then really is a fully automatic climate control system, NOT "just a glorified hot/cold knob", unless of course you manually choose a fan speed and ducting mode which bypasses the system logic and totally defeats the purpose of having automatic climate control at all...
Once you realize how it works, it's actually pretty slick and works very well.
Unfortunately, many consumers are clueless and impatient and "don't get it".
You don't even need to open that panel or press a fan speed button to use the system.
You can literally just press that big white AUTO button and then turn that numbered temperature knob to adjust the fan speed and airflow ducting as needed. It's not just a hot/cold knob, it's numbered for a reason. In manual mode it does act as a hot/cold knob because you're not giving it a choice, you're forcing it to operate manually.
If it's summer and it's hot in the car it will probably leave the fan cranked up although somewhere in the midrange or upper end of the range it will probably back the fan down a bit within a minute or two if given time to process the present climate conditions.
In the winter chances are it'll seemingly not want to run the fan for moments or minutes but there's a very good reason for that which I will explain later...
Also notice the fact that the AUTO button has 2 lights above it and 2 symbols on it.
The top left symbol is obviously a fan, the top right one is for ducting (vent mode) selection. You can have the system automatically control just the ducting, just the fan speed, or both based on temperature selection you choose with that temperature knob.
When you press AUTO the lights above both symbols illuminate.
If you manually crank up the blower speed the system will disengage the automatic blower speed control and the light above the fan symbol will go out to indicate that the fan is being manually controlled. If you manually pick a vents mode the light above the vent symbol will go out and the system will disengage the automatic ducting system.
You can do any combination of both (full automatic), either (partial auto), or neither (full manual).
Here's another very significant detail that anyone can see and possibly understand...
Notice that little slotted grate directly above the open/close button?
That is actually a cabin air temperature sensor for Toyota's Automatic Climate Control System!
But wait, there's more...
Also buried somewhere in the front grille or front engine bay area is also an outdoor air temperature sensor that was not typically made accessible via any displays for driver information purposes in the older cars since it exists to be utilized as an interior/exterior thermal comparison reference by the Toyota climate control system and they didn't think anyone cared enough to see how hot or cold it really was outside at the time.
PLUS if you look along the seam where the dash meets the windshield out there along the edges of the windshield defroster vent slats, towards one corner or the other (or possibly centered depending on the vehicle) you will see at least one covered photocell sensor which visibly detects the outdoor brightness level and there is another sensor somewhere in the outer front grille or front of the engine bay that measures the outdoor temperature. (If the Toyota vehicle also has automatic on headlight capabilities there is another one along there for that too.)
The older systems' AUTO feature, from generations prior to the electronic duct control actuators, was limited to automatic fan speed control based on the signals from those 3 sensors and the chosen position of the numbered temperature knob or slider.
Somewhere along about 1986-ish when they transitioned to motorized vent mechanisms an additional layer of automatic functionality was added.
In this particular Toyota you're reviewing, a final generation Cressida, when the AUTO button is pressed the system looks at the cabin temperature, outdoor temperature, and how sunny it is outside and decides not only which fan speed is appropriate but also which combination of air flow venting is the most appropriate for the indoor/outdoor conditions and the preferred setting you've turned that numbered temperature knob to.
Then once the cabin has been cooled or heated to the appropriately satisfactory temperature selection based on the user's temperature selection the system automatically reduces the fan speed in stages like a central home AC system.
If the weather is excessively sunny outside the system keeps the fan speed moderately higher and adjusts the vent ducting for more upper airflow whereas if it's shady it will reduce the fan speed to a lower rpm with a more balanced upper/middle/lower airflow as a hot sunny day demands much more airflow to keep the interior at a comfortable temperature while on a shady day such choices would be overkill so it adapts as needed.
Note that by pressing the AUTO button and turning the temperature knob on that Cressida, especially if you turn it drastically one way or the other, you may be able to actually hear the vent control actuators redirecting the airflow based on what the sensors are detecting, and it will also adjust the blower speed at some point.
Basically, if you choose a temperature and press the AUTO button, if it's cold outside you will end up getting heat while if it's hot outside at the same temperature selection you will get cold air conditioning. It knows the difference and makes the appropriate adjustments. The fan control system has worked that way since about 1979. The vent control system that got added in the mid to late 80's was just a nice added touch.
I'm sure the electronics have improved over the years but the climate control system concept used by Toyota has been around for close to 40 years now and works very well once you understand what it's trying to accomplish and how.
The one complaint I have with it, which that particular Cressida suffers from due to the early automatic vent control version, is that with the numbered temperature knob (or the numbered digital display in that same generation of Supra) set at any point between about 71 and 79 degrees the duct control logic has this stupid habit of somehow choosing to dump heat on your feet from the floor vents while dumping ice cold air out the dash vents in your face or vice versa in certain weather conditions which happens a lot actually.
The 90's revisions of the Toyota climate control systems like the one in the 4th generation Supra are far less prone to that quirk.
My first car was a 1981 Celica GT Liftback with the hot/cold slider.
My second car was a 1982 Celica-Supra with a numbered temperature slider and an AUTO position on the fan switch. It worked great, especially on long road trips. Set it and forget it. No random fiddling with a/c controls needed...
That car got totalled and was replaced by a 1980 Celica Supra with that same system.
I eventually stepped up to a 1987 Supra which added the feature of automatic duct selection to the system along with a digital display and up/down buttons to replace the numbered temperature control slider. The Cressida's knob does the same thing as the Supra's up/down buttons. Ironically, Toyota put the Cressida's temperature knob in the MkIV Supra. The 2002 Lexus (Toyota) IS300 I had years ago also had that same dual mode automatic climate control functionality with a numbered temperature "knob", albeit a very large knob with a button in the center but it was still a knob...
Note that once they added the automatic ducting logic to the system in the mid to late 1980's which included this reviewed Cressida, when you press the AUTO button the system takes control of both the blower speed and the ducting selection based on the temperature choice you make and the readings from the 3 sensors, unless you opt to manually operate the system instead...
Also note that in the summer when it's hot in the car, when you press the AUTO button it almost seems like nothing happens. Same thing in the winter.
That's because the system knows the ducts are full of hot air in the summer or cold air in the winter so it's choosing not to blast you and make you uncomfortable.
In the winter it waits until the coolant temperature has come up enough to provide heat then it gradually begins flowing air and stepping things up to warm the cabin.
Due to the first generation auto ducting function's simultaneous 71-79 hot/cold quirk I end up pressing AUTO to engage the system, choosing a temperature with the temperature slider/knob/buttons, then I press the appropriate button for my preferred airflow ducting choice to disengage the auto ducting system while leaving the auto fan speed system engaged.
If I'm cruising along and after a while I start feeling a little warm in the summer or cool in the winter I just bump the temperature control a degree or two and let it do its' thing. Rarely do I even need to touch it once it has gotten the cabin comfortable and backed down the blower speed, unless of course I suddenly need a windshield defrost...
Plus some of the systems even back then, if they had a momentary windshield defrost button, you could press it and they'd switch the fresh/recirc mode and airflow to clear the windshield and once you were satisfied with its' accomplishment you just press that defrost button again and the system goes right back to exactly how you had it set before.
So please stop saying that the Toyota Automatic Climate Control system is basically just a hot/cold knob because unless you run it in full manual mode that's completely wrong mis-information you're putting out there for others to hear, believe, and erroneously repeat...
I can pull out the owners' manual for my 1981 Celica-Supra, 1984 Celica-Supra, 1987 Supra, 1992 Turbo Supra, 1993 TT Supra, 1998 TT Supra, 2002 IS300, 1994 LS400, and my buddy's 1994 SC400, 2000 SC300, and his mother-in-law's old 1992 Cressida (his brother-in-law totalled the car, he kept the owners' manual) if you would like to hear Toyota's actual explanations of how to use these systems in the various generations and what they could do?
That generation of Cressida was sort of a 4-door Mk3 Non-Turbo Supra, although there were some significant differences beyond the 2 extra doors, just as the prior generation Cressida was mostly a 4-door Mk2 Celica-Supra.
You could say that the GS300 basically took the Cressida's place when Lexus came into the US market.
What I really wanted was a 1990 Cressida Wagon, albeit rare but yes they do exist! :)
it is climate control btw. that slotted hole above should be the temp sensor. the electronically.controlled flaps inside the HVAC unit will move to adjust temperature or the unit can start the ac compressor too. fairly standard on higher spec toyotas of that era aw11mr2 g limited sc had it too....
+Legotruck82 2:28 There's even the A/C button on the right ...
If you're ever in Australia, feel free to drive my 1JZ MX83 Cressida.
+mans “mansalans” alans If he ever goes to Australia, I'm sure the first thing that gets reviewed will be a Skyline, because he's American. Cressidas aren't all that exciting, even with a turbo. They're a piece of history and have their own quirky place in the line up.
The 1990 grand prix had a ton of little buttons. Top gear even named it the spaceship or something of the like since it had so much going on on the dash, on the wheel, on the upper dash around the wheel, and even on the console.
I like these cars. They're different and you could get them with both "fuck drivin', I'm'ma take a nap" seats and a stick shift.