All you vintage Japanese automotive fans, we may have found your show. It's called "Top Sales" and is being broadcast in Japan by the government-funded NHK media giant. Apparently (we don't speak Japanese, so we are taking someone's word on this), the plot has to do with a young woman's journey through the male-dominated automotive sales industry at a fictional company called "Omiyake Motors." As success often happens so readily on television shows, she starts out on the car lot in sales and quickly works her way up to president of the company. We'll admit that doesn't sound overly exciting, but the show is set three decades ago - this means a lot of thinly-disguised 70's-era Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas zooming around. See if you can name some of the classics in the screen shots... Thanks for the tip, catgirlshyla!
[Source: Auto-Otaku]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
tekdemon @ Apr 15th 2008 8:05PM
Woman car salesman?
I hope you meant saleswoman, and not a salesman of female cars.
IK47 @ Apr 16th 2008 1:08AM
nonono
you don't understand
journalists use higher levels of language then us cretins
what we see as poor grammar and diction is actually their way of metamorphasizing of the written word into something sublime
Smeagle @ Apr 16th 2008 1:57AM
Does it bother anyone else when people say "then" instead of "than"? It makes me cringe every time.
Aug @ Apr 16th 2008 10:06AM
Smeagle, does it at least give you some gratification that he was talking about bad grammar while he did it?
Smeagle @ Apr 16th 2008 6:12PM
Yeah I suppose I can live with that.
John @ Apr 15th 2008 8:08PM
Do the pictures even show the girl in question? It's hard to tell.
Big Rocket @ Apr 15th 2008 9:47PM
Of course, and it's right on the official website. Just don't expect to see a J-pop teen idol.
Links (with photos):
http://www.nhk.or.jp/dodra/topsales/index.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/dodra/topsales/html_top_cast.html
GypsyDRB @ Apr 15th 2008 8:13PM
wha?
XeroK00L @ Apr 15th 2008 8:17PM
Where's the 2000GT?
jgp @ Apr 15th 2008 9:27PM
I love 1970s Toyotas. It depresses me to think Toyota has turned into Bland, Inc.
k.w.a @ Apr 15th 2008 10:08PM
i see a Datsun in there! I like them now, but i'd never want to relive the days when my dad would leave me in the back of his '78 240 Z with the small windows only slightly opened. Everybody loved his Z... except for my sister and I. where was child services in 1987? haha
k.w.a @ Apr 15th 2008 10:08PM
i see a Datsun in there! I like them now, but i'd never want to relive the days when my dad would leave me in the back of his '78 240 Z with the small windows only slightly opened. Everybody loved his Z... except for my sister and I. where was child services in 1987? haha
phez @ Apr 15th 2008 10:08PM
May fools, right? They always do things a month later.
Casper @ Apr 15th 2008 10:27PM
Eeek! They've stuck new Mazda logos on all the old cars!
I love the TA22 Celica with the mirrors way up front or the 240K in the garage where all the mechanics are doing aerobics.
70s Japanese everyday cars had some style that their US counterparts never did (yes there were amazing muscle cars but they're not most cars).
tankd0g @ Apr 15th 2008 10:38PM
Japanese "Ashes to Ashes"?
Harrison @ Apr 16th 2008 12:29AM
No, just because it takes place in the past and has a car named Quattro doesn't make it Ashes to Ashes. :D
tankd0g @ Apr 16th 2008 9:22AM
Also it's about a woman in a man's world, don't forget that :)
SPG @ Apr 15th 2008 11:23PM
C'mon North American spinoff.
Yar @ Apr 16th 2008 1:09AM
I foresee this spiraling downward into a soft-core porno around season 2
catgirlshyla @ Apr 16th 2008 4:16AM
They'll probably do the obligatory "Company Trip to the Hot Springs" Episode, then the Christmas Special.