Rival companies don’t necessarily have to be sworn enemies. While competition in the automotive industry continues to heat up, Toyota’s chairman has made a friendly gesture toward one of its domestic competitors. In a new video shot on the sidelines of last weekend’s 24-hour endurance race at Fuji Speedway, Akio Toyoda waves a couple of Nissan flags while a Murano sits behind him.
Predictably, the video has gone viral on X, since it’s exceedingly rare for an automaker to promote a product sold by a long-standing rival actively. While our Japanese is a bit rusty, we ran the video through a translator to find out what Toyoda said during the nearly minute-long clip shared on social media by Toyota Japan’s official account:
