Mk 7 Toyota Celica Goes for a Drive 

How high mileage?

Is a 04 Celica better than Mercedes e270cdi 06 for a first car both prices are fairly same

just out of interest, how was the condition when you bought it? planning on buying one myself

@@kabal6331 Very good condition, 70k miles on the clock and two previous owners who kept it garaged.

Same here, great cars had mine since 2016. Easy to spot in the supermarket car park amongst all the bland suv's !!

@@kabal6331 Did you end up buying a Celica? 🙂

Absolutely the same. Had a one or two break downs, one was a driveline bolts failure and the other was a clutch, but literally every other tiny part of the car has been running fantastically. Love it!

I am still driving mine after 22 years.

Yeah that's what I thought, not many car people really talk about those cars, yet they look cool.

I prefer the previous versions although all are good cars

I feel the same

Totally. The upcoming next gen Prelude looks sick too.

they made a AWD rally convertible - rare - supercharged - GT same eng as the straight 6 92supra - agedly in the 81Celica supra

Perhaps, the gt4 mechanism was modified in this Mk7 technology

Check out the Fensport Celica, it's a AWD turbo 7th gen Celica!!

if you dont need to fit bigger brakes go with 16" rims, much better for performance especially if you get some under 7kgs a wheel

My mum is in her late 70s and needs a new hip. She manages to get in and out.. With my help lol.

trd sports m is the fastest factory spec one, and even then the jdm spec 1999 model is fastest other than the sports m

Yep, just replaced my 52 plate t-sports sunroof to glass as the perspex one does not look too great after 21 years of UV exposure, I can now see clearly though it rather than a blurry mess like it's covered in vaseline!

torque dip?

@@arcanevoid9199 From 3 - 5k rpm the power drops off aka ' torque dip' until you hit over 5k revs and you can feeling the pully power of the car.

They have to survive in a rather nasty environment ….. but I guess that you knew that.

I love the Celica but it comes down to market forces. People want SUVs. It's as simple as that.

@@rain-bender4712 i wonder why though, because they dont make sense for small british roads

@@FenderUsa It depends which SUV. Some share the same platform as cars. They just look bigger because they're taller. Some on the other hand are ridiculously large.

@@rain-bender4712 oh i meant the huge audis, bmw, mercedes, porsche etc SUVs. they are pointless. they take up too much space, dont actually have that much room inside, handle worse than a non SUV equivalent due to higher centre of gravity, are much heavier which means worse fuel economy and co2, they wear out their tyres and components quicker. i could go on and on the smaller weird hybrid crossover SUV things are equally pointless but they dont bug me as much because they don't take up both lanes down a small B road

need to drive more fwds then, 5th gen isnt bad but the suspension setup is leagues behind the 7th gen and hondas from the same era

Where is your familie now? You made a good decission....

@@sandraconrad-luckas9572 thanks. Still being ferried around in my 4x4. Dad taxi is life 😂

@@griff5476 😇👍

Really sad, lol

They were floating around £1k-£3k for a long while, but recently I have seen them for £7k+ so don't wait too long!

Paid £4k back in Feb for one in red 04 lowish miles.

The 81-85 Gen is my favorite personally. Love the straight edges on it. Also the last rwd Celica

@@cliffthelightning Agree, it was nice all right particularly the liftback version. Toyota dropped the boot type versions of these celicas after that I think.

seats too low? thats how its supposed to be, lower is better for a sports car

@@arcanevoid9199 I know. I was being sarcastic.

You took on a M3 with a 140BHP celica ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I'm 40. I got my celica in Feb. In red... Trading in my red mr2 mk3 lowered for this as its more practical. I work at a secondary school and the kids think it's amazing lol

70mph in 6th gear would be about 3250rpm

What are you collecting the data for? I have a 2zz Celica so could let you know.

Its both reasons, at least a few years ago.

@@GoldenCroc Yes you could be right, I think once the first SUV’s like the Freelander and Honda CRV and the RAV4 hit the market people started to deviate away from Family hatchbacks and big Japanese and French/Italian saloons and wanting a taller more chunky vehicle, some say they feel safer in an SUV. We do wish that manufacturers would build cars for all tastes but sadly that’s not reality.

@@willswheels283 I used to dislike SUVs but I'm now at an age where I want one. I do prefer the high driving position. I think it makes driving safer and more relaxing. Getting in and out is easier, as you said and they're just more practical than most cars. When the car market calms down, I'd like an older CRV or Rav4. I'll take the rear seats out (I don't need them) and I have a van. I can get timber on the roof, the high ride height is preferable for me because I have to drive down a few unmade roads. they really are lifestyle vehicles. Newer SUVs tend me be more fashion items than usable vehicles. they're the ones use to take the kids to school.

@@rain-bender4712 high driving position = more body roll and/or higher chance of tipping over

@@arcanevoid9199 I used to drive vans for ten years. I never rolled one.

Yes we did, I'm the owner, l did a 6600km European Roadtrip with my son, we loved the scenery in your beautiful country

@@markotango54 You're always wellcome here !

@@histriamagna1014 l plan to return one day Bratko 🤝

@@markotango54 😁😁😁 Bratko ! You mean PRIJATELJ ( FRIEND ) Bratko is used Bulgaria. Nevermind, happy to have you here.

@@histriamagna1014 sorry l was actually in Bulgaria for the past 5 days, l got mixed up 🙈

I actually heard that when Toyota launched the Corolla T-Sport with the 190bhp 2ZZ-GE engine - which is what the 190bhp version of the Celica also used, they intentionally underrated its 0-60 time so it wouldn't cannibalise sales from the Celica 190 with the same engine. Although speaking of the Corolla T-Sport - and I may be going off-topic here, I will never understand why Toyota didn't offer the facelifted T-Sport as a 5-door in the UK like they did with the pre-facelift car, especially as the facelift was still being offered as a 3 or 5-door in other markets where it was sold. And what makes it even more baffling for me is that even after they made the Corolla T-Sport 3-door only in the UK for the facelift towards the end of 2004, the smaller Yaris T-Sport was still being offered as a 3 or 5-door in the UK, so I see no reason why Toyota couldn't do the same for the Corolla T-Sport here and keep the 5-door version on sale in the UK after the facelift, which begs the question - *why didn't they?*

@@joshbacon8241 Good points! 🙂 I'm not sure about the answers to your questions. I'm not that clued up on Toyota really. I'm sure somebody else will contribute on here! I have driven a couple of their older models recently including a 2006 Corolla. I've been seriously impressed. That Corolla still felt factory fresh. It was only a 1.4 but you could tell it would run forever with little fault. My Mum had an 1997 Celica when new for a short time. That car was a hell of a lot of fun and the new smell was amazing. You don't get that new smell anymore. I miss that in modern cars. Our 1999 A4 and Peugeot 306 D Turbo in my category for best smelling new car. 👌

never been in an actual fast car then?

@@James28R they go really good for what they are, can pretty easily do 0-60 in 6 seconds. for a car that was first made in 99 and only has 190hp that is not bad at all, not far off alot of turbo cars from the same era

That's Matt's driver body guard 😁

​@@Grimwriggler Well hard Northerner 💪🏼 👊

get a 190 if you can

I got two guitars and mic stand and amp in mine

I've got a 2005 Celica T-Sport and a 2012 GT86, and they are very different and drive very different It's a FWD 1,8 strait 4 Liftback vs RWD 2,0 4 cyl. Boxer Sedan

@@auser6426 I was thinking mostly about size, weight, and power in which I am sure you will agree they are very similar. Those were primarily the metrics I meant above. Cheers.

@@GoldenCrocTrue power to weight is the same. But the Celica is larger than the GT GT is Auris size and the Celica is Avensis size

No, they're not similar. Absolutely different cars

@@Crusader-dk6zj They are? In what way are the target markets different, if I may ask? I would think the typical customer is almost the same demographics?

idk why you would buy an automatic one, they do exist though

You can get them in auto but they will be imports only, didn’t do a auto box for the UK market.

tough one...GTO?

i test drove a leather ALfa 166 yesterday and i also prefer the cloth 166 that i did a 1200 kl round trip in last month

I refused to buy my latest car until I found one with cloth/alcantara.

Agreed in regards to spoiler. A must.

I may be going off-topic here, but I actually heard that when Toyota launched the Corolla T-Sport with the 190hp 2ZZ-GE engine, they intentionally underrated its 0-60 time so it wouldn't cannibalise sales from the Celica 190 with the same engine. Although speaking of the Corolla T-Sport, I will never understand why Toyota didn't offer the facelifted T-Sport as a 5-door in the UK like they did with the pre-facelift car, especially as the facelift was still being offered as a 3 or 5-door in other markets where it was sold. And what makes it even more baffling for me is that even after they made the Corolla T-Sport 3-door only in the UK for the facelift towards the end of 2004, the smaller Yaris T-Sport was still being offered as a 3 or 5-door in the UK, so I see no reason why Toyota couldn't do the same for the Corolla T-Sport here and keep the 5-door version on sale in the UK after the facelift, which begs the question - *why didn't they?*

same goes for any car, common knowledge that bad tires regardless of suspension setup will not handle well. driving one of these with cheapo tires can be quite fun though because the back end comes out very easily :)

@@arcanevoid9199 Thank you so much for confirming my point! Hence it would be interesting to know what tyres are on any car being tested.

The later engines after 2002 fixed the oil burning issue

@@markotango54 so is the 2002 version clear of oil bruning or still Burns oil?

@@alexanderblixt5175 my car is 2006 and bought the car at 150.000 km and now it's 260.000 km l never had to add even 1ml of oil during my ownership, Zero oil consumption

@@alexanderblixt5175 no they fixed it

rust?

@@furiousdriving Ah yeah, they were built for the Japanese climate and they didn't realise that UK roads have salt on them. Also, those cars may have had pockets for water to collect.

Funnily enough, the height difference is rarely more than 5-6 inches between something like this and a "normal" car, meaning the aero difference is just a little bit more than 10 percent. Not earth shattering, sadly.

@@GoldenCroc Usually have much more aerodynamic front ends too though as well, Rovers tended to be low probably Jags too.

@@marklittler784 Well, thats the conundrum, they may look sleek, sharp and so on, but that has little real world effect on aerodynamic drag. Its almost as simple as "aerodynamic drag of car front in itself is decided by size of cooling inlets" and nothing else, well at least in the modern age since everything has considerable wind tunnel time. So mid 80s and forward. Rear shape of the car and tire size are something like 80+% of the total aerodynamic importance of a modern car. Cheers.

I'm middle-aged and still single. It baffles me why men get married at my age. WHY????

the shift linkages?

@@arcanevoid9199 yeah do they work ?

@@jiomilopreacher3097 im assuming your talking about the corolla t sport, which no they do not work

@@arcanevoid9199 ok

a lot nicer than similar cars from that era, have a look at the glanza v interior or the ae111 bzr

The 2zzge is awesome engine mate

i mean it is if your not used to it, the spyder is not much different