Toyota... No Holdon... uhm maybe Toyota....

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There was one thing that I found really interesting while being here in Sydney. It seems that in the early 90ies, I'm not sure about the reasoning why, Holden and Toyota became friends and some serious crossbreeding was going on.

Besides our lovely Corolla and Camry modes being sold here on the Toyota batch, they where also rebatched as Holdens and cars like the Apollo saw the light of day.

The other way around happened aswell. Holdon created this thing called a Commodore VN. Basically an Vauxhaul Omega but then bigger and with an old pushrod Buick V6 in the front. My neighboor has this early VN station that I've been slowly helping him get in running condition again with the idea I might take it off his hands as a cheap run around.
At the time a mate of mine already mentioned that the VN was also sold by Toyota as the Lexcen or something.

So here I was with my wife meeting up with a friend of hers. We're talking about how we where thinking of renting a car to drive around for easter a bit and she sais, well I got this old car that I'm not using much, would you like to lend it for the weekend?

Guess what, its a Toyota Lexcen. So I got it for the weekend. I just drove it around the block a bit and I have to say, its weird...

I'll take some pics of it over the weekend.

(owh and it is RWD.. auto though..)