The History of the Toyota 2000GT - Japan's Most Expensive Classic

In the 1960s, Toyota released a car that would change the Japanese motor industry forever. The Toyota 2000GT was like nothing that had ever come out of the country before and it showed the world that the Japanese motor industry meant business.
Toyota began developing the 2000GT soon after the 1964 Japanese Grand Prix. They enlisted the help of Yamaha, who had already begun development of a prototype sports car for Nissan. Nissan rejected the prototype and went on to create their own sports car, the 240Z.
Toyota and Yamaha worked together and in 1965 they unveiled the 280A1 prototype. The sleek prototype impressed attendees at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, but buyers would have to wait two years before they could get their hands on the 2000GT.
Production carried on for three years and Toyota produced a total of 351 cars. The 2000GT was made famous when it appeared in the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”.
Today, the Toyota 2000GT is the most expensive Japanese classic car you can buy, with examples fetching well over $1,000,000.
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The Mustard of cars. Hell yeah!

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my thoughts exactly

[@alexmartinez280]

The Lexus LFA is the best Japanese sports car bar none. A full episode is warranted as its history and importance to Toyota as a brand is massive. The legendary test driver lost his life creating the NR edition. That edition alone can be a whole episode as so many modifications were made. It’s bhp bump was a side note to all that was done and is the only thing mentioned by those that have no idea the lengths of effort that went into the car. It WILL surpass the 2000GT in future value, none more deserving than the LFA. A future mythical sports car that is the Crown jewel for the land of the rising sun.

[@gerryg1056]

Always loved the look of the Toyota 2000GT from the very first time I saw it in "You Only Live Twice".

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The roofless ones for 007 had no roof at all; they weren't soft tops.

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A big thumb uo to the production team!

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Great video - definitely one of the nicest cars to have come out of Japan. Completely out of my price range unfortunately!

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What a cool car the 2000GT is great info on it

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Toyota 2000 GT look great with beautiful Japanese actresses Aikio Wakabayashi and Mie Hama poised with it Bond film 🎥 You Only Lived Twice

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Beaten on the race track by the BRE Datsun 2000 Sports.

[@cargueone1971]

The 240z was a 1970 model. That was the last year of the 2000GT. Not competitors.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party and Gretas FFF movement gave order to shorten fuel
supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only
one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now these
green heroes want to slow down all the gas station fuel pumps from 20
litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain
car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers
and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do
the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil
burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here,
called emissions- and smoke crime.... :-( :-(

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Just get rid of these woke politicians assuming we have clean elections.