Flex Automotive is a Japanese firm that focuses on changing up to date Toyotas into one thing resembling earlier generations of the automobiles. The standout is Flex’s Land Cruiser choices that are made to seem like the 60 collection Land Cruiser of the Eighties.

Flex calls the transformed automobiles Renocas, a portmanteau of “renovation” and “automotive.” Flex sees such a personalization as a method to foster and strengthen the connection between the car and its proprietor.

Flex was based in 1967 as a vendor community and at current has 50 dealerships throughout Japan. The shops function below a singular idea the place every makes a speciality of a single mannequin, sometimes the Land Cruiser or Toyota’s Hiace van.

Now Flex is able to increase to the U.S. and has confirmed San Diego, California, as the placement of its first native retailer. The shop, which would be the first outdoors Japan, is scheduled to open within the winter.

The San Diego retailer will initially supply a pair of Flex’s retro Land Cruisers, however extra extra fashions are deliberate together with a retro Tacoma pickup truck being developed solely for the U.S. market.

The confirmed Land Cruisers embrace the Flex 106, which is a 100 collection Land Cruiser made to seem like the 60 collection, and the Flex Marvel, which is an 80 collection Land Cruiser additionally made to seem like the 60 collection.

The adjustments made to the automobiles are largely beauty, although relying on the car, Flex can add mechanical upgrades, resembling lifted suspension and off-road wheels and tires. The corporate additionally has trim upgrades for the inside.

Pricing for the U.S. market hasn’t been introduced however Flex’s on-line configurator reveals Japanese pricing ranging from about 3 million yen (roughly $21,900) for many fashions, not together with the worth of the donor car.