TOMYTEC Nissan Cedric Gloria Wagon V20 Deluxe 1/35

[Atmobil]

Great looking molds. I have a couple of very fine 1.32nd kits from Tomy and I'm wondering if Tomytec is  the same company with a new name.

I think maybe they are also they same company that are behind the Tomica die-cast toy cars. I have a VW baywindow bus somewhere from Tomica, it is about 1:64ish scale I think.

[peteski]

Tomytec name has been around for a while - they usually make model railroad items.  A good breakdown of the company history and their brands is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy

• Tomica （トミカ）die-cast – model vehicles
• Tomix – the model railway brand of Tomytec, a subsidiary of Takara Tomy

[niteowl7710]

Incidentally the two December kits (the Van and the Police Wagon) came into stock this morning.

[Zarana-X]

These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....

The Cedric was the Japanese Crown Vic, and the Gloria the Grand Marquis. They saw common use as police and taxis. 

They were never sold in the US. 

[martinfan5]

These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....

The wagon deluxe and the Police version are the Y30 , which was in production from 1983-1987, but the wagons were built tell 1999

The Standard wagon(white box art)and the Military version,  is the 430 version which was in production from 1979-1983.

[Edsel-Dan]

I just checked Both H-L J & Hobby Search and Neither have the kits

I got "NO Match Found" on both using the title of this thread

It Should have given me the kit links, but, No

[Erik Smith]

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10335931

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=112&cat=car&sold=0&state=0&sortid=0&target=series&searchkey=Modelers+Spirit

 

Edited December 10, 2015 by Erik Smith

[fumi]

The Cedric was the Japanese Crown Vic, and the Gloria the Grand Marquis. They saw common use as police and taxis. 

They are more like Buick, big expensive sedans for people over 50, just one rung below the President.

The commercial version is very different from the consumer version.  It uses a posted sedan body style instead of the consumer version's hardtop.  At the 1991 model change, the commercial version broke off and remained on the Y31 platform, and is still being produced today.

The consumer version progressed to the Y32/33/34 platform until it was replaced by the Fuga in 2004.  The Y34 Cedric/Gloria was exported to North America as the Infiniti M.

[martinfan5]

These look about mid 80's vehicles to me. I'm no expert, but....

The Cima's (Y) and the Gloria/Cedric are all related , the First Cima(Y31) went into production in 1988 , the Cima Y34 was sold here as the Q45