Sega Game Gear handhelds have a bunch of those same capacitors, and they fail the same way as the more common vertical SMD 'lytics. I think they're somewhat common in Japanese portable electronics of the era.
As for Toyotas, the engines seem to be fairly bulletproof, at least the inline-4's I've dealt with. The manual transmissions are pretty good too, but the automatics I'm not so sure. There are a lot of turd automatic transmissions out there, especially up through the 80s. Usually the automatic was an afterthought for the USA market, shoehorned into a space intended for a manual gearbox. The Saab 900 was the posterchild of this. Neat car, but there is a reason there are very, very few auto tranny versions still on the road.