R Garage's Richmond So on the Toyota S800

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The S800, Toyota’s first sports car and progenitor of the 2000 GT, is a headturner. Watch Richmond So talk about one of the most special cars in his collection.

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00:00So this is the Toyota Sports 800.

00:06This is the first sports car of Toyota.

00:09When they built this car, basically Toyota was not just an everyday car anymore.

00:15Everyone was excited to see, it looks nice.

00:17It's sold for quite some time.

00:19The only challenge that this car faced was it only had a 800cc engine.

00:26So it was not as strong as what a sports car should be.

00:32Based on the mold that they have here, they built the next sports car, which was the 2000

00:38GT.

00:39And that is probably the most expensive Japanese car right now.

00:43From what I heard, the latest auction, it's sold for $1.2 million already.

00:50But it was because of this car.

00:52It was because of this car.

00:53So when you see that it's just a longer version, that's why I love this car because this is

00:57where everything started.

00:58They did a limited production run for this one because the idea before was when they

01:04launched this car, I believe the market was not ready for it.

01:08Relatively affordable sports car back then, but the one who can really afford an extra

01:13car not just to use on a daily basis are the ones that have the capacity to buy.

01:20So I believe Toyota built a bigger one and a nicer one to cater to that market.

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