on a side not, i mentioned in one of the posts on celica.net that im selling my celica (wow tounge twister...lol) for an fbody (the car ive always wanted anyway) and there were a good amount of people that have planned/are planning/ or already did this.... im not complainin

 

Oh Darn no more CELICA. Thats too bad.... .


One less car I dont like on the road. He He lol.




Later,
-JOhn

 

The bad side of it:

One less coupe in an ever shrinking coupe market.


The good side of it (from GM's perspective, anyway):

One less coupe in the market when Camaro returns!

 

One less astoundingly ugly coupe. The current Celica made sense in the Japanese home-market, but there weren't enough spikey haired techo-fans in the U.S. of A. The new Solara is a much better focused product, with far better pricing.

A loaded $23K Solara V6 (230 hp!) should eat the lunch of Chevy's aging Monte Carlo. The Celica filled the same niche as the Honda Prelude and last Mercury Cougar. It was doomed to extinction from day one.

 

I for one am pretty suprised that the Celica is being phased out already. I expected maybe a generation change about now, but not the discontinuing of the car line.

The current Celicas are good performers, some out there running mid 14s with boltons (intake, exhaust) and they handle really well.

In my opinion Toyota had a competitive coupe. I'd like to see what they bring out next.

 

The current Celica was too small, and too out of step with the trend towards "rally-style" AWD turbos. Previous Celicas had been based on the bigger Carina/Avensis platform, but the current beast was only a rebodied Corolla. Realistically, the 180hp GT-S moved well enough, but it was cramped and expensive. Overall, a 2001 Celica was far less interesting than a 1991 Cellica All-Trac Turbo.

Of course, I'm the same guy that thinks that the current MR-S sucks when compared to the old MR-2.

 

I think the new celica's are UGLY! The Tiburon ran em out of business!

 

The last good celica produced in the US stopped in '93 when they stopped making the All-Trac in my opinion....