Toyota USA Automobile Museum, Automotive museum in Torrance, United States.
The Toyota USA Automobile Museum is a company-run museum located on the grounds of Toyota's American headquarters in Torrance, California, displaying cars from the Toyota, Lexus, and Scion lines. The vehicles are arranged across several halls in roughly chronological order, covering decades of model history.
The collection opens with the 1958 Toyota Crown, the first model sold in the United States, followed by the 1965 Corona, which became the first high-volume seller for the brand in America. Together, these early cars trace the beginning of a long commercial presence in the US market.
The Hollywood/Futuristic section held the Lexus prototype built for the 2002 film Minority Report, shown with a poster of the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, in which the Toyota 2000GT appeared. Three 2000GTs were displayed there, alongside a cutaway drawing and technical schematics.
The museum closed permanently on September 28, 2017, so it can no longer be visited; the 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2) site stood next to Toyota Motor Sales USA in Torrance. Its roughly 100 Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles, dating from 1958 to 2013, were dispersed after closure. The Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagakute, Japan, remains the official Toyota museum.
Several cars on display carry serial number one, meaning they were the very first units to roll off the line at different Toyota plants across North America. These vehicles were never meant for sale and exist nowhere else in this form.
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