Like Diane Lane, The 1990 Hino Ranger Truck Was Big In Japan

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Like Diane Lane, The 1990 Hino Ranger Truck Was Big In Japan

Paul Newman really did race Nissans and had a longstanding relationship with the company. But how about Diane Lane, star of Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains? In a real test of the whole concept of suspension-of-disbelief, we see Ms. Lane driving a Mondrian-style Hino Ranger delivery truck through a Japanese neighborhood populated by refugees from the suburbs of Des Moines. Was there a rush on Hinos after this ad came out?

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