Oh, those wacky Japanese! Even while Toyota relentlessly crushes America's auto industry beneath its hobnail boot, they still want to have a little fun! Take this ad for the '92 Starlet- sure, the car is a masterpiece of cold-eyed production efficiency and will probably last 400,000 miles (well, it would if the draconian Japanese car-inspection system didn't send most cars to the crusher before they even hit six odometer figures). But, more important than all that boring engineer-y stuff, it's a car that a couple of American serial killers can use to stoke their rage against humanity as they look for a good spot in the desert to dispose of the dismembered corpses in the back! – Murilee Martin

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