The Toyota Sports 800 is Toyota's first production sports car, affectionately called the Yota-Hachi in Japan. Its prototype, called the Publica Sports, debuted at the 1962 Tokyo Auto Show with a space age sliding canopy and the powertrain of the Publica 700. The car went into production in 1965 with the chassis code UP15 and an air cooled 790 cc horizontally opposed two cylinder engine, and about 3,131 units were built by Toyota subcontractor Kanto Auto Works between 1965 and 1969. It was one of the first production cars with a lift out roof panel, or targa top. Generations with their own pages on this site: the single generation, UP15 (1965 to 1969).
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The Toyota Sports 800 is affectionately called the "Yota-Hachi" (ヨタハチ), which is a Japanese short form for "Toyota 8".
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Introduced in the Toyota Publica subcompact car, the U engine was also used in the Toyota MiniAce small commercial vehicle and the Toyota Sports 800 sports car.
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