Toyota Publica

Toyota Publica
Toyota Publica (UP10) at the Toyota Automobile Museum
Overview
ManufacturerToyota
Also calledShinjin Publica (신진 퍼블리카)[1]
Production1961–1978
Body and chassis
ClassSubcompact car
Body style2-door sedan
3-door station wagon
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door coupe utility (pickup)
LayoutFR layout
RelatedDaihatsu Consorte
Toyota Sports 800
Chronology
SuccessorToyota Starlet (Hatchback)
Toyota Corolla (Sedan)

The Toyota Publica (Japanese: トヨタ・パブリカ, Toyota Paburika) is a small car manufactured by the Japanese company Toyota from 1961 until 1978. Conceived as a family car to fulfill the requirements of the Japanese Government's "national car concept", it was the smallest Toyota car during that period and was superseded in that role by the Toyota Starlet, which itself started out as a version of the Publica. It was available as a 2-door vehicle only, but in a selection of body styles, ranging from the base sedan through a station wagon, convertible, coupé and even a coupe utility (pickup), which outlived the other models by a decade, and spawned other models, such as the Toyota Sports 800 and the Toyota MiniAce.

  1. ^ "매거진 > 자동차교실 > 새나라자동차에서 GM-대우까지 격동의 40년을 돌아본다" [40 years of turbulent GM-Daewoo history] (in Korean). Carlife.net. 2001-11-13. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2012-10-28.