Every so often, an automotive marque will forget its place and try to build the best car it possibly can. For Volkswagen, it was the plush Phaeton. For Porsche, the forward-thinking 959. And for Toyota, the Century defined the full-size luxury segment and showed that the Japanese weren’t just good at building efficient city cars. We may see Toyota as a mass-market brand nowadays, but the Century certainly represented the very peak of what the company could offer.
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