Toyota C engine

The Toyota C engine family was a series of inline-four diesel engines. Japanese market vehicles with diesel engines were sold only through Toyota dealerships called Toyota Diesel Shop from 1979 until that channel was cancelled in 1988. Two earlier engines had also been named Type C: a petrol engine introduced in 1940 as a modification of the Type A and fitted to the Toyota AE, and the second generation diesel used in the 1959 Toyota Crown CS20, and the designs are unrelated to each other. The original C was first shown on October 11, 1958 in a prototype Crown Diesel at the Tokyo Motor Show. Derived from the R-series petrol engine, it displaced 1,491 cc and made 40 PS, and Toyota cancelled it in March 1961 in favour of the J diesel.