Publication: Motor Fan
Format: Road Test
Date: June 1962
Authors (roundtable): Jiro Tanaka, Tomochika Murakami, Osamu Hirao, Toshiaki Nakamura, Yasuhei Oguchi, Atsushi Watari, Kenichi Goto, Kazuhiko Aoki, Masaichi Kondo, Akio Miyamoto, Yuji Tsukada , Motor Fan Editorial Staff (uncredited)

A “Semi-Sports” Car

Tanaka: This sports car was planned around three main objectives. First, with automobiles becoming as widespread as they have today, the sedan tends to become a car used mainly for “business”—for work, in other words—and we believe there is a need for a car intended simply for the enjoyment of driving. In that sense, one of our objectives was to create what might be called a “leisure car.”