Toyota Sprinter Marino

The Toyota Sprinter Marino is a four-door B-pillar hardtop sedan version of the Toyota Sprinter sedan, built between 1992 and 1998 on the E100 series Corolla for sale in Japan. The Toyota Corolla Ceres is a slightly restyled version of it, as was common practice among Japanese automakers in the 1980s and 1990s. Toyota used the hardtop approach on several of its core sedans to offer a more upscale body, and a facelifted model was released in May 1994. Automatic door locking was mandatory from the first year of production, since Japanese law of 1991 required all vehicles for the home market to lock all doors at 18 kilometres per hour. Because of cost cutting in the Japanese recession that followed the collapse of the asset price bubble, both cars were discontinued in June 1998.