"Life saying is first at home place."

[Taro Toporific]

Ten Japanese Cars You Can't Have
Plus a couple you don't want.
August 2003 / Car and Driver magazine

...these cars are aimed squarely at domestic buyers, their manufacturers felt safe in suffusing them with all the quirks and kinks unique to the Japanese culture. Stuff like radios with 95 functions, including e-mail; TV cameras for backing up; action-adventure styling; and inscrutable legends embroidered into floor mats, such as:
"Life saying is first at home place."

SUZUKI ALTO LAPIN TURBO..."height wagons"--boxy microvan...There's a print ad for this car whose tag line reads: "Lapin: A feeling. A relax."

HONDA VAMOS TURBO...The three-cylinder engine is stuffed somewhere under the cargo floor. I know, because the deck back there got hot enough to cook rice. It's a reminder how easy it is to screw up a car. Vamoose, Vamos.

Toyota Centurys'... V-12 finds a home in no other car on the planet. Is that cool or what?

Frumpy lace curtains are part of the deal, naturally, as are vibrating Magic Fingers in the rear seats, plus a trap door in the front-passenger seatback through which Mr. Bigshot sticks his tired, stumpy legs. If his feet stink, it's the chauffeur's problem.

One official NISSAN CUBE color is called Beans.

[Marked Trail]

Ten Japanese Cars You Can't Have
Plus a couple you don't want.
August 2003 / Car and Driver magazine
and inscrutable legends embroidered into floor mats, such as:
"Life saying is first at home place."

...a print ad for this car whose tag line reads:
"Lapin: A feeling. A relax."

One official NISSAN CUBE color is called Beans.

Where are all the drugs these Japanese on when they write this coming from?

N. Korea Accused of Bolstering Economy with Illegal Drug Sales
VoA - July 28
... United States and 10 other nations, including Japan, Australia and Britain, have
agreed to intercept North Korean vessels suspected of carrying illicit drugs ...