At the recent 2015 Tokyo Auto Salon, a local tuner called Coplus unveiled the industry's first "Full LED head light" for the awesome Toyota Hiace minivan.
The Hiace is one of those amazing JDM cars we wish we had overseas. It's body and totally unique in its design, making it an ideal candidate for a tuning project. This particular one has been fitted with a body kit that features a small spoiler, new grille with Lexus-like spindle design and other minute custom touches. It also appears to have been lowered.
Coplus Japan appears to specialize in lighting systems and some production kei car models actually use them. For the taillights of the Hiace, Coplus offers no less than 4 different designs, all of them being tented. The systems are based on Osram LED tech and are supposed to offer better-than-standard visibility at night.
And before you ask, the Japanese cutie goes by the stage name Moe Nami or Monami. She's a gravure idol (whatever that means) and race queen, plus she's dressed to match the Toyota custom.
For those of you who don't know, the HiAce is one of the oldest Toyota nameplates, dating back to 1967. It is available in a wide variety of bodies, including minivan, bus, van, pick-up, taxi and ambulance. It's like the VW Bus of Japan.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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