One in all Japan’s weirdest vehicles crashes into Japan’s oldest bathroom

Should you needed to choose a spot to crash your automobile, a public restroom might be fairly low on the record. Not that crashing wherever is fascinating. Even worse could be if that restroom was a very historic one. That is precisely what occurred to a driver in Japan with a bizarre little Toyota.

Based on a police report offered to Japanese information outlet Sankei Shimbun, somebody working for the Kyoto Affiliation for the Preservation of Historic Cultures thought they’d shifted their automobile into drive, however have been truly in reverse. The result was backing proper into the Tosu, on the Tofuku-ji Zen Buddhist Temple in Kyoto. The Tosu is the massive restroom for the monastery, and the oldest bathroom of its sort in Japan. And that is actually outdated: the temple, which is a posh of 25 smaller ones, was based in 1236 and primarily accomplished in 1255. Studies point out this superior 20-hole outhouse is 500 years outdated.

The crash ended up damaging doorways and pillars, however an worker on the temple advised Sankei Shimbun that they are going to be repairing the constructing. It definitely will not be the primary time the temple has needed to be repaired. A number of instances within the centuries because it was constructed, the temple has caught hearth, and a lot of the buildings have been fully rebuilt in some unspecified time in the future in time, although many are nonetheless greater than a century outdated. Whether or not this poor driver will be capable to restore his fame and retain his job are much less sure.

However in addition to the temple, we have been stunned to see the automobile that was concerned. Within the photograph on the prime, you will see the wrecked automobile is a Toyota WiLL Vi. It was a compact automobile with some actually funky styling. The rounded form and the rear window hanging over the trunk are harking back to some ’50s vehicles. However the thick strakes and easy surfacing are rather more in line with styling of the early 2000s, which is smart because the automobile launched in 2000, and was solely constructed till the top of 2001. 

It was one in all three Toyota vehicles made to fall underneath the WiLL model, which encompassed all types of merchandise from varied producers, together with easy dwelling items. The design of those vehicles was actually the unusual a part of them. The Vi and the extra futuristic-looking Cypha, have been quirky compacts that used platforms shared with the much more regular Vitz/Echo and the Toyota bB/Scion xB. The Vs was bigger and based mostly on the Corolla.

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