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The original was posted on /r/cars by /u/Dakto19942 on 2024-01-08 22:36:33.

All I’ve been able to find in my research into this is that there is one of these cars at the Toyota Auto Museum in Nagoya, Japan, but is that really the likeliest source of its popularity in Japanese media?

evidence folder for the conspiracy