anshin yamato shaken!
Nov. 8th, 2003 11:24 pmNow you can get your car serviced by the elite technical repair teams who mysteriously and instantly return the Space Battleship Yamato to showroom condition after every battle: あんしんヤマト車検 (NB: Japanese only; lousy translation: "Yamato MOTs for peace of mind").
Apparently a genuine company; they have TV advertising and everything (adverts perhaps aimed at the fanboy since the script runs something like [photographer to catwalk model] "Uno! You forgot your skirt!" [voiceover] "She was too busy worrying about the cost of her next MOT"...)
Furthermore, there is a Japanese word meaning "one's beloved car" (愛車 【あいしゃ】 aisha).