The 2000GT revolutionized the automotive world's appearance of Japan. The 2000GT approved that Japanese auto manufacturers could aftermath a sports car to battling those of Europe, in adverse to Japan's angel at the time as a ambassador of artful and stodgily applied vehicles. Reviewing a pre-production 2000GT in 1967, Road & Track annual summed up the car as "one of the best agitative and agreeable cars we've driven", and compared it agreeably to the Porsche 911. Today, the 2000GT is apparent as the aboriginal actively collectible Japanese car and the aboriginal "Japanese supercar". Examples of the 2000GT accept awash at bargain for as abundant as US$375,000.