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This appealing little runabout from Toyota was the product of ‘The National Car Concept’ that was created in 1955 by the very powerful Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.<\/p>\n

The idea was to nudge Japanese captains of industry into focussing their efforts on creating vehicles that met a number of specific requirements.<\/p>\n

Top speed had to exceed 100 km\/h; the cars kerb weight had to be below 400 kg \u2013 and fuel consumption should not exceed 1 litre\/30 km at an average speed of 60 km\/h on a level road.<\/p>\n

The other significant element was full service intervals should exceed 100,000 kilometres.<\/p>\n

You can see by the slightly Stalinist prerequisite that the ministry meant business – but it must at least in part account for the legendary reliability of most Japanese production cars.<\/p>\n

And in the Publica’s wagon manifestation (above) the result looked kind of cute – and in the ’62 Sports concept guise (below), was downright dashing.<\/p>\n

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Child of Japanese policy and cute little runabout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110],"tags":[251,2077,1177,2727],"class_list":["post-22287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-cars","tag-toyota","manufacturers-toyota"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nToyota Publica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Influx takes a look at the making of the Publica; the appealing little runabout from Toyota.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/toyota-publica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toyota Publica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Influx takes a look at the making of the Publica; 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