No, I don’t mean the Toyota Paseo (“Pauseo”?); based on the Tercel it was not exactly overly fast. I mean the creation of this Outtake, from the time it was photographed to it being put together. Stephanie saw and shot it on a walk with a friend, and was of course taken by its paint job, and sent me the pictures instantly. And since her judgement has been deemed impeccable based on the response to her last choice of car to shoot, I was putting it together by the time she walked in the door. How could I resist, actually?
Colorful paint jobs are hardly uncommon here, but this one is a bit more professional than average. Paseos haven’t exactly made a lot of appearances here at CC; in fact we’ve had just one post on it, by a former owner who loved his. That story is here.
The Paseo is the kind of car that typically tends not to get noticed. Maybe that’s what inspired this paint job.
I’m having a Ricardo Montalban ad flashback and I’ve never even seen one…. “Could this be the world’s most interesting Paseo?” (I do realise I’ve probably mangled that)
This paseo doesn’t always drink beer but when it does it prefers XX.
Hope that isn’t a regional ad.
It isn’t. It still appears occasionally in Michigan.
The actor in “The Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials for Dos Equis Beer is Johnathan Goldsmith.
Montalban, the longtime actor and Chrysler pitchman, died a few years back.
My teens are huge fans of the ads – that is how I know.
The Paseo is a nice inoffensive vehicle with kind of a blah figure, but I hear Toyotas are reliable so it has that going for it and I assume the it is sportier than a Camry Coupe. I love the paint job on this Paseo.
The F-150 (maybe F-250) is very interesting indeed because it appears to be Tan and I have never seen one of those in that color. I am using my phone to look at these photos so perhaps the small screen is playing tricks on me.
I encounter one occasionally on the way home from work and it is so damn slow it can’t get out of its own way.
I deeply dig this, a masterpiece.
Makes one ponder why most people cars have to be solid? Graphics just don’t cut it. Art applied to a car done right can be more impressive than custom wheels, bling and accessories. The Lowrider subculture incorporates amazing art, museum quality often. You could even use plastic dip, commission and artist, and peel it off at sale time.
I love the Cadillac Seville in the movie High Anxiety, driven by the late great Madaline Kahn;RIP, love. It had a Louis Vuitton type Emblem pattern entirely covering the brown paint , exactly matching Madeline’s outfit and purse. Even that could be cool on new cars.
Today’s explosion of white cars+removable vinyl decals=advertising / personalization bonanza.
Why doesn’t someone offer replaceable decal sets laser cut to fit (your) car? It would be like changing the desktop theme or browser theme on my computer and keep me visually interested.
I rather like this, it’s like a folk art version of the BMW Art Cars!
I vaguely remember this car. It seems like Toyota usually has a handful of slow selling models, I think this was another of them. Fairly redundant to, more cramped, and really not much more sporty than a Corolla coupe.
Maybe it was meant to be a shot at the CRX market.
The Paseo is what replaced the departed Corolla coupe mid ’91. I remember seeing plenty when they were newer back in the day. An old customer of mine had one for ages, and reluctantly gave up on it when her mechanic told her the underside was getting too rusty to make any money invested back into the car worthwhile. Too bad, as the visible body was in very good shape.
What was interesting about this car was that it was indeed the replacement for the Corolla coupe but it was based on the Tercel and was actually smaller then the car it replaced and had the “slow as molasses in winter” engine of the Tercel which meant you were passed by 13 year olds on bicycles when driving this car.