Toyota Cressida Dashboard Madness

Weirdest dash layout this side of a Citroen DS.

[@TheSeanUhTron]

*Wow!* A button panel automatically slides out to reveal _more buttons!?_ *SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!*

[@lcameeno1]

go away

[@Goblintom]

+Sean Place I fucking love buttons! More the merrier.

[@fartman10284]

Toyota did that to the Lexus GS. A cubby that opens to reveal less frequently used buttons

[@MultiDesignGuy]

😂😂👏

[@edbo10]

it's a nice gimmick at first, but people got tired of it quite quickly, as evidenced by the move to fixed controls

[@tomokokuroki2506]

This car is A E S T H E T I C

[@MultiDesignGuy]

👏👏👏

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Note that it still works after 25 years. I like this kind of dahboard better than the modern multimedia shit we have today where you pay a lot of money for updating your maps (if possible at all). This silly layout gives the car character.

[@uselessDM]

I mean he clearly says that the climate control thing breaks fairly often and I imagine that is the case for most of this stuff. Just because something is mechanical it doesn't mean it will magically never fail, just the opposite actually. And what has upüdating your maps to with anything lol?

[@spooky9176]

@@uselessDM I think you forget that this was a lot earlier in digital displays being in cars, as well as mechanic things can brake yes, but are offend much easier to repair

[@ChargedCovers]

I'd take this over stupid touchscreens anytime

[@amopastorcanadense]

+ChargedCovers i kinda liked the dashboard cassette style!!

[@Drives31forhalo]

+ChargedCovers no kidding, those touchscreens take way too long to do anything.

[@MrFreezy911]

+ChargedCovers They came to conquer, Uranus!

[@amirbutcher2147]

Ok boomer

[@aretard7995]

@@amirbutcher2147 ok dumbass

[@ARMYTRIX]

Real cars have buttons! And lots of them!

[@marlindfarka]

+ARMYTRIX You mean like one of those exhaust buttons that make cars sound lovely & insanely loud! ;)

[@Will-gd9dx]

+MarLinD FarKa that make them sound like ass?

[@marlindfarka]

+top memes ohh come on! Armytrix has some of the nicest sounding exhausts out there :) But i guess it's just a matter of personal opinion...

[@FronkG]

+MarLinD FarKa I disagree

[@needleonthevinyl]

No wonder a former pilot would feel at home in a Cressida

[@BKofficer23]

Still better than the touchscreen bullshit in cars today.

[@armedessential]

I agree

[@Mittau]

+BKofficer23 There is a lot to be said for tactile feedback, something touchscreens lack.

[@Turismo860]

+BKofficer23 i totally prefer this

[@RobPTK]

+BKofficer23 It really isn't.

[@whatevers31]

I need every car to have that level of cyberpunk technology and A E S T H E T I C

[@roddydykes7053]

You mean shitty AI and graphical glitches?

[@xdavie3]

@@roddydykes7053 he's not talking about cyberpunk 2077

[@sexymikeization]

unnessicarily complicated ? more like unnessicarily brilliant

[@mookie714]

+sexymikeization I agree with you, this dashboard is really cool.

[@RideCamVids]

With the HVAC slide in door closed, you simply push the AUTO button and set the temperature to the desired number. The HVAC system then chooses the correct airflow pattern and speed based on the temperature number you select. Using a sunlight sensor on the top of the dash and an ambient air interior sensor, this was a very early climate control design which still exists today but in a more advanced form. Sliding the door open allows you to override the "auto" feature and choose airflow speed and direction manually. Once you do this the light in the auto switch should go off.

[@mrkzj]

RideCamVids I've found that most people don't even know they have automatic climate control, or have some big problem with it and use all the controls manually..

[@stevenvictoria9568]

am I the only one who thinks using a touch screen infotainment is boring? I like pressing bottons.

[@zkambov]

+Dualshock GT3 You should become an accountant

[@MrGoldenwaffler]

i remember that in the 90s. literally.. more buttons mean better / more exciting

[@Katzelle3]

+A Rare Trump Actually, you can replicate the sensation of a button press on a touch screen by placing a pressure sensor and a really fast vibration motor behind it. Apple does that with the trackpads of their new laptops to make them thinner.

[@mosesberkowitz3298]

Katzelle3 Well, actually they simulate a button, not replicate it. I haven't tried the Apple trackpad yet, but I can tell you I'm sick to death of touchscreens. I don't want one in my car.

[@hbsupermage]

they dont feel anything close to a button

[@BlueHokage]

I fucking love 80s/90s innovation

[@HikariSakai]

+BlueHokage interesting for sure yes but most innovations from the 80's and 90's are extremely inconvenient for today's society

[@speedytech7]

+xboxgamer969 It's all just layers of marketing crap. Not too far off from now we'll all regard selecting everything from increasingly convoluted cascading touchscreen menus annoying as well. I like a few simple buttons and a couple touchscreen controls, the important stuff needs to be on a dial, slider, or switch. For that reason I usually buy base model vehicles.

[@HikariSakai]

speedytech7 we have a 2007 Dodge Nitro, its ok, pretty basic but gets the job done

[@LazerLord10]

Why do I feel like these motorized panels will be like what Teslas end up looking like. A needlessly extravagant motorized thing that makes grinding noises.

[@foadrightnow5725]

That was "The Shit!" back in its day. Besides, who doesn't love a bounty of buttons? I know I do!

[@ComboBreakerHD]

Growing up in the 90's working those fade/balance knobs on Reel 2 Real's I like To Move It . While it blares out the rear deck mounted pair of 6x9" and "Realistic" branded tweeters that my dad was so proud of installing on his 1983 300SD - DJ Pog Slammer

[@Geotpf]

I literally laughed out loud when you pushed the button to slide out the tray with the rest of the HVAC buttons. The whole thing screams like a bet between two different engineers of "How many controls can we put in one car?"

[@theodorejohnkaczynski9442]

My grandma had one of these. Bought it new from Grand Blanc Toyota in Flint, MI in 1992 and her slide out hvac control broke and she didnt have the money to fix it so whenever she wanted to adjust the hvac system she would peg it from a red light and fire the controller out of its hole. 87 year old women was still sharp as a knife when it came to her air conditioning

[@FatherWicker]

Bring that thing to California and someone will buy it in a heartbeat just to stance it lol

[@kcm732]

shameful!

[@sparko123456]

+Mark Wicker ....stance as in that negative camber shit? or just dropped a few inches?

[@Maxaxle]

+YLLA I may not be Mark, but I can clarify that it''s the former. Excessive negative camber is a thing now, for some reason.

[@Maxaxle]

Widebody treatments are what happens when you think your car's too narrow and its aerodynamics are too good.

[@MiikeyLawless]

+Maxaxle or you want more tire for traction...but some camber it so bad that it means nothing 😄

[@inveca]

the '90 cressida had a telescopic steering wheel yet my '98 avalon (which replaced the cressida) does not? c'mon, toyota =)

[@ExodusisThere]

Neither does my 03 IS, and it uses the same tilt lever!

[@edbo10]

avalon was the _marketing_ successor to the cressida, the lexus gs is considered the mechanical successor to the cressida. it seems like the US market got more features though. aussie cressidas didn't have the telescoping steering wheel, nor did we get the redundant radio controls beside the speedo cluster

[@zacharymaclellan6761]

@@ExodusisThere The 03 Lexus IS didn't have it? My 03 G35 did and my 08 MDX.

[@JamisonMK3]

I own a '90 Cressida. I love the dash. haha

[@BreachingCharge]

and then you want a new radio :P

[@DreamGTS]

+NorwegianAvenger I owned an 89'. Ain't it the truth. Pissed me the heck off, lol.

[@BreachingCharge]

DreamGTS Yeah, at least the 96 corolla has standard dimensions for the radio so I could get one with an AUX port, just need a new sub and some more speakers and I'm set

[@JamisonMK3]

I rock the tape deck adapter. Old school ;)

[@kyrptonitefusion]

omg, thank you for explaining what the emergency belt release levers do. I've had a cressida for 20years and never knew what that purpose was!

[@969thewhip]

Those release levers for the power seat belts take me back to the tempos and the 1st Gen escorts.

[@Speedysnail9999]

Wow. 86,000 miles. May be complicated, but I'd still buy it just because it's unique, and I missed out on the 90s

[@Analog_smog]

Honestly I find the actual temp readouts (as opposed to the red/blue gradient) on the analog gauges to be so satisfying

[@TheKillaComa]

whats the cassette?

[@RegularCars]

+TheKillaComa Roy Orbison

[@zloychechen5150]

+RegularCars i drove my cressida all night to get to you. no idea why, because i'm all beige and my dick doesn't work anymore. for some reason though, i really like this car.

[@Levan4KGaming]

+RegularCars the owner should get *Cassette Adapter*

[@bubbabusta8373]

A cassette is a Acient Artifact.........

[@utrak]

+RegularCars Ooh.

[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

Definitely madness! It seems to foreshadow my gripe of current web design - specifically KZbin - making the user take 2 or 3 steps to perform a function instead of one single step. That's just insane to have the fan speed and output options hidden behind a motorized unit. Not only does it take a couple extra steps to operate it , something that should only take a quick glance a single push of a button, but if it malfunctions, it causes unnecessary inconvenience. Sure, you could say that about most all gimmicks in higher end cars (the more options, the more that can go wrong) but this gimmick doesnt SOLVE any problem, make anything better, or give enjoyment to the driver or passenger. It actually does nothing except add more work to the operator! Very bad design! And all I keep thinking of is KZbin! haha Very similar thought process. Make the user hit a button to access more buttons rather than have them all visible from the start. Trying to solve a problem that never existed in the first place. (there's plenty of room for all the buttons - in the car & in KZbin)

[@tb2748]

my exact thoughts, yet it seems that everyone likes it...?

[@zacharylagler242]

Clarkson said "I wish someone would tell the Japanese that more buttons doesn't mean more luxurious".

[@marioskoutras6583]

More buttons equals better? I think that was the episode "How Japan took over the world and then lost it" from his other show called "Clarkson's Car Years"!

[@galihxtreme]

If you folks amazed by this, wait 'till you see the interior & dashboard of a Mazda Eunos Cosmo 20B

[@headcas620]

There was cup holders? Some English major you are...

[@armedessential]

sigh

[@terrythomas1690]

+headcas620 Yer I used the cupholders all the time in mine !

[@battosaijenkins946]

+armedessential Dun fergit to milk dem cows down by tha rivah now ya hea?! =(

[@friedchicken1]

+headcas620 what were wrong with these phrase?

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

Ey yo put they in them cup hoes son. Yknowsayn.

[@MR.MANSOUR46]

أزرار المكيف اللي تطلع مو موجوده عندنا في المواصفات الخليجية ولا حتى الجلد اصلن عادي ريحت المخمل حقنا حلوه 😂😂

[@aboodalshoodri4373]

MANSOUR nasheb في أزرار المكيف في القراندي والجلد تحصلهم في الخليج

[@Bahraini_Carguy]

@@specialdieblo Umm...He's just a Car Enthusiast saying that the Middle Eastern Spec Toyota Cressida didn't come with all those fancy buttons.

[@KS-qr1ry]

ToyGTone hes joking around man

[@عبداللطيفعبدالله-ع2خ]

@@specialdieblo stop talking rubbish you moron!

[@ahmada5472]

@@specialdieblo shut the fuck up you racist, cow worshipping, side street shitter

[@lucklesscope8367]

That's some 80s vision of a year 2000 spaceship-vibe going on there

[@OtaconHalMGS]

It was in: Clarkson's Car Years Episode: How Japan Took Over the World... And Then Lost It

[@Dufffaaa93]

+Geovanne Moura OMG, you can find it on KZbin. 22 minutes of pure awesomeness. Thanks man.

[@utrak]

+Geovanne Moura Just watched it, awesome!

[@serge933]

I love these little things youd find in olderJap cars. My Mazda was similar in the way they were designed with alot of little features. LOVE the emergency exit idea! Feels like your in an aircraft lol

[@Maxfli82]

I still think my 2012 mdx advance with dvd has the most buttons ever on a car. Love it though. Much faster than a touchscreen.

[@Mr3wheeledbike]

I need to do a button swap on my car.....need at least 40% more button

[@rockets4kids]

My dad had one of these, I found the user interface to be rather nice. All of the most used functions have large buttons within easy reach, all of the least used functions have small and/or tucked away buttons. Also, every button on the entire car had the most wonderful tactile feedback. It was stolen by a bunch of kids who may have known about the engine, they wound up wrapping it around a tree.

[@EJ22bakadesu]

The 87 Camry I went to college with had those belt release levers, cup holder and shifter. So many memories.

[@moccina]

My buddy's dad had one of these in high school. Total sleeper, and comfy as hell !

[@nathanrspain]

This was the first car I ever owned. I remember all those buttons lmao. I never gave 2 thoughts to how many arbitrary buttons there were in it. Maybe that's why my Audi seems so simple to me lol. Thank you for this review! You definitely took me back in time.

[@tytotheler92]

My 2013 Buick Regal/Opel Insignia is full of buttons but also has a touch screen and I love it. Buttons make sense while driving imo. Tactile feedback is best in cases where you can't/shouldn't look.

[@brunoignaciogi]

+tytotheler92 yo need to do a badge swap in your buick, and a fake euro plate behind your plate for added euroness

[@tytotheler92]

+brunoignaciogi Someone ship me an Opel Grille, center caps and rear badge. I'll do it. lol.

[@Khakhees]

no you're wrong. it's necessarily complicated.

[@adamkovac90]

This car is as old as me but I find these controls much nicer than putting everything on one slow responding touchscreen. It's like on screen virtual keyboard vs. the real thing. You need to have some feedback from the controls. And once you remember them by heart you can use them without having to take your eyes off the road.

[@CrossWindsPat]

Truly the fan speed/location selector is the party piece!!!!

[@Quarker]

Used to have a Cressida as recently as 2 years ago before we sold it. The accelerating power was insane for a car that old. The dashboard controls were poorly designed, but made you feel like you were in control.

[@DavidLarson15]

Which unnecessary located button is best unnecessary located button?

[@jim575757]

It has a drawer which opens and has more buttons. And it has a blinking red light which says belt release lever. Damn that is just hot shit. Really cool stuff.

[@Fleetwing1627]

My first car was a 1985 Cressida wagon. Uncool to the max but RWD and that sweet inline six... Great car. My friends used to laugh when we'd be driving down the road, the radio would go out, and after a solid bang on the side of the center console it'd (usually) come back on again.

[@onesimpleclik]

All the buttons, knobs & power everything, remind me of a 1996 Toyota Hiace Super Deluxe my family use to own! The thing was off the hilt haha

[@teslar0ssa]

+RegularCars It really is automatic climate control. All of the MKIII Supras, Cressidas, MKIV Supras, and same era Toyota vehicles have an "Auto" button and either a knob to set temperature or an up/down button with a digital display to set temperature. If you look right above the "open/close" button there's a vent, that's the cabin temperature sensor. The Supra had a little photoelectric sensor on the dash pad up near the windshield to tell the system if it was really bright or dark outside to alter how aggressively it cooled (and maybe heated.) I suspect the Cressida has a similar sensor. If you stick in auto and set a temperature, it will adjust the servos to control where the air flows and cycle the compressor to the set temperature. They were WAY ahead of their time. Owning a MKIII Supra ruined me for cars after it as I lost MANY features on vehicles afterward.

[@CreRay]

Very entertaining! They sure loved buttons.

[@BlackSpottedZebra]

Man, I miss my 89 Cressida. Car was a lot of fun

[@SemmyRace]

I WANT ONE

[@trbossdoggy]

I love 90's cars.

[@JCWiley2300]

You're making this seem a lot weirder than it actually is. I had one of these in the early 90s and the stereo controls are perfectly intuitive. Frequently used controls, like radio presets and volume, are up high in the line of sight, while secondary controls (mine had the optional CD player) are at the bottom. The A/C is in fact true climate control, not just a hot-cold knob with numbers as you assert here. Most of the time you left the sliding door shut and just adjusted the temperature, but if fan speed didn't suit, you could adjust it manually. Mine never broke so I can't speak to longevity of the slide out mechanism. It was a great car, loved the blue tinted glass on the moonroof, which bathed the interior in surgical looking cool light. When you floored it, the engine sounded like expensive silk ripping.

[@frankderuiter811]

I love weird dashboard layouts. It's so typical '80's.

[@ALFAGOMMA]

In their day, these cars were very luxurious and in Australia, after Toyota dropped the Crown, they were the flagship model. Then Lexus established itself and the Cressidas were no longer exported, only sold domestically in Japan. In the early 90s I knew of company executives that drove them. Nice cars and great engines.

[@DiraNightcore]

I would love that car. I am actually a fan of the dash design.

[@DTD110865]

I think some of the supposedly complicated functions actually have some decent benefits. Separate buttons for bass, treble, speakers, etcetera are actually a good idea, and I even dug the climate control if there wasn't the risk of the opening tray getting stuck opened or closed.

[@karmatose]

80's/90's BMW HVAC controls were far superior. So simple to operate without taking your eyes off the road. You nailed it, needlessly complicated.

[@bamf802]

my dad had one of these back in the 90's and he loved it

[@georgecollins7683]

I like this video for information better than others with all the commentary. I love these cars

[@mrKozmoz]

I love that about old cars, beep boop buttons EVERYWHERE.

[@Nippledozer]

Beep boop especially in the 80s

[@da0908]

My first car was an 87' Cressida. The dash was nowhere near as complicated, but still very interesting. Loved that car and seriously considering picking one up just for the hell of it. Technics tape deck factory with full equalizer!

[@RandomGenera7ed]

The flashing red light and the release levers are badass! Make more videos like this one

[@enterBJ40]

Hell yeah! It gives that military jet cockpit feeling no other car gives. Well a Saab will give you that feeling too

[@SinginShooter]

Needs to be remixed into RCR ASMR. "But-tons. But-tons." *tapping/clicking/whirring*

[@williamblazkowicz5587]

+HighpowerRifleBrony Wow. at first i saw a VERY different word when i glanced at your proile pic!

[@vadim6385]

Aftermarket stereo install must be pain in the ass. I always thought that this is a recent fashion, to make the stereo controls integrated into the dashboard, but now I see that this comes from way back.

[@ethanzamora4304]

video backfired now i own an 89 cressida

[@diego4azn]

"It's unnecessarily complicated" that pretty much summarizes most things I encountered in Japan lol

[@TransAmsandDashcams]

Were you thinking of the Chrysler "joystick"? That controlled just fade and balance. Radios that had bass and treble adjustments had separate knobs for it, along with the joystick.

[@MiravusVideos]

That HVAC control thing is nifty af. SO MANY BUTTONS!

[@chronoleviathan]

This was my first car. Great content, Mr. Regular.

[@TimJoseph08031990]

My friend used to drive a 1990 Toyota Cressida, when we were high school seniors in 2007-2008 school year.

[@thereve]

its a miracle that all of that shit still works. My father has an 89 cheverolet pickup truck with way too many damn buttons, none of which have worked in probably a decade.

[@isegrim1978]

Great, reminds me of my old Seat Ibiza... back from 89... All dash controls were in this strange box underneath the steering wheel. The horn was a lever that you puled up...

[@gm12551]

Toyota wins the award for the worlds biggest cassette eject button

[@RoodeMenon]

Koooool I love buttons. Because after being familiar with the car i wont have to take my eyes off the road. Seat belt warning light needs a beep sound like 80's tv shows.

[@BrendanMacWade]

Oh those spring-loaded audio controls! My dad's E80 Corolla had that setup. I remember the split audio system controls back in 1990 and it felt luxurious. And what do we have today? If you've been in a Ford Escape or Subaru Tribeca, or Mazda CX-5, we have all kinds of distance between audio displays and knobs. That cruise control wand is a Toyota hallmark. Virtually unchanged today (albeit smaller).

[@viktorwarhola1525]

Wonderful video. I couldn't have done it any better! Love the channel! Keep the genius coming please

[@Patchuchan]

I kinda like late 80s to early 90s upscale Japanese cars like this as they have have a unique charm to them.

[@P7777-u7r]

I honestly think buttons are better than a touchscreen. You can memorize where everything is by feel and dont have to take your eyes off the road

[@hoover2501]

I will only purchase clean cars from the 90s. And this is a perfect example of why. Super cool and I love it

[@rkgaustin]

I just saw a Cressida on the streets of Austin a few weeks ago and was like No Way! Haven't seen one in ages.

[@jacobm2625]

Interesting fact: the EQ in a 90's astro van works exactly the same way; if I had to guess, the electronics came out of the gm/toyota partnership that happened in the 80's(?).

[@LeftyPem]

I used to own an 89 with all those buttons. Such a great car.

[@landshass2849]

I owned one of those in 1989 the first year of the last generation. I got it sky blue with dark blue leather interior with moonroof and ABS brakes and heated mirrors that don't have their own designated button, they work with the redefroster. The CD player gave up on me in 2001. I had to sell it to move out of state, I'm really I got a nice cash out of that deal, despite it was an i6 engine not a v6. And it didn't have any airbags at all.

[@james42519]

i like stuff like this. this is different and not the same thing as everyone else.

[@arthurs7882]

that hvac shelf design is BONKERS.

[@MichaelFlatman]

am i the only one who would absoloutely love that dashboard, its just all over the place but looks kind of cool

[@Syncopia]

This is without a doubt some kind of 90s spaceship.

[@karrrrrrrrrrom]

Man just look at the quality of materials in this thing, everything is still working, I could swear if it was a modern car everything would be crumbling inside it or you would have ugly faded dash. Cars from that era were built to last, cars of this day are built to eventually break and hard to fix.

[@alexander_ford_]

I hope this means a cressida review is on the horizon!!

[@Seth.R.A]

I dunno Mr. Regular, I think maybe the Saab 9000 has more buttons. Has a "night panel" button that shuts off the illumination for everything except the gauges too, if I remember correctly.

[@Legotruck82]

in 1992 Toyota launched the Soarer. top spec cars had a Touchscreen LCD screen that controlled stereo, climate, gps, and inbuilt TV. in 1992, the same year as that Cressida.

[@Marklin15]

The Crown had an optional lcd touch screen on top spec Royal Saloon models since late 80s

[@actuallyusingmyrealnameher5061]

4:24 great for adjusting the wheel when you just want to let others know you are planning to turn

[@conzmoleman]

“And don’t fuck with my levels. I got ‘em just how I like ‘em.”

[@Cruisingwithwheels]

Have you seen some of the new Buicks???? Take a look if you like buttons.

[@Sekushiwolf]

There was an old Asian man that lives near me who used to have a brown Cressida on the road and I swear every time I passed it he was always working on it.

[@joeyv.7360]

My '96 Buick had push to reveal sound control knobs like your Cressida, Mr. Regular. I never pushed in, though, just twist with the tip of my finger. Works well.

[@speedfiend925]

So that EQ setup is very similar to a C5 Corvette. So basically the EQ setup in this 1990 Cressida was ported over to the 1997-2004 C5 Corvette. I love how technology advances. :D

[@xxRamD3yruxx]

that eq setup was used on many delco radios from 1995 up, the plastic knobs coveriung the switches broke off the delco units

[@mariomontedoro1]

The 1990 grand prix had a ton of little buttons. Top gear even named it the spaceship or something of the like since it had so much going on on the dash, on the wheel, on the upper dash around the wheel, and even on the console.