I'm from japan and laurel was very popular car. It had inline 6 L20 in it we called it pig butt laurel because it had such a small rear window and big trunk lid tail lite was mounted on big bumper that look like pigs butt. Basic design was skyline at the time.(except laurel never had twin cam with triple solex carb or webber cab like skyline GT-R did) But unlike skyline it was very heavy car so it was never consider as sports car or never used as race car.Kind of like chevy impala back in 60's or ford LTD.