Side wipers [JDM Trivia #1]
Channel: banpeinet
Date: 2015-11-28

Last weeks question was "In the picture shown you can see some weird chindogu applied to a car. What is it and which car does it belong to? "
The invention used was a so called side-wiper. Toyota thought that after windshield wipers, rear wipers and headlight wipers the next big luxury thing should be side wipers that clean your side window. They even added a washer jet in the side mirrors to ensure the cleaning of dry surfaces.
The side-wiper was an optional accesory for the Toyota Mark II, Chaser and Cresta X80 in 1988. It was created at the peak of the Japanese bubble economy and consumers demanded even more outragous options on cars. The bubble economy burst in 1990 and at the launch of the Toyota Mark II, Chaser and Cresta X90 in 1992 almost all options to the cars were actually making sense.

The teaser for next week: what do these cars have in common?
Leave your guesses in the comments below!