This is a Century from Toyota Motors. It is a 3,000cc four-door sedan that first appeared in 1967. It cost ┤2.68 million. That was, of course, the price of a full-size car; not this model. (By the way, the model cost ┤800.) The Japanese automobile industry achieved great advances and massive growth after World War II, making an important contribution to the economic growth of the nation. But in 1970, Japan still produced far fewer cars than America.It would be about 10 years later, around 1980, before Japan would become an automobile producing power. That was the year that annual production passed that of America to become the highest in the world. Phrases such as "Japan-U.S. Auto War" were first heard about that time.