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Toyota Celica VVTL-i 1.8 TS (192 Hp European Version !)
| Model | Toyota Celica VVTL-i 1.8 TS (192 Hp European Version !) | |
| What things have gone wrong with the car? | - BLIND SPOT ! there is a pretty dangerous blind spot towards the rear. e.g. in the city you really have to check twice that there is nobody on your four o'clock position, because you won't be seeing this guy in any of the mirrors. So whenever I want to turn right I have to turn my head around to check that there is nobody on that position. Setting the right mirror so that it will show almost straight to the rear helps a bit, but you're still pretty much blind there. Just never forget about this and you will be fine.- Almost no visibility to the rear. But so what. Just avoid getting into situations where you would have to drive backwards. It's that easy.- Attracts cops ! Just watch out. Don't drive too fast within cities or areas where radar traps and cops can be expected.- The doors are a bit too long. I can't park the car in my garage, because I cannot open the doors wide enough so I could get out of the car at all.Pretty stupid. I had no such problems with the previous car.- All your friends get jealous, and you lose 90% of them :-) | |
| General comments? | This is a rocket !!! Just in case you did not know, but the continental European version has 192 hp (hmm, or maybe it's just a conversion issue between the different kinds of "hp" (British, US, German ...) thatare around ... I honestly don't know ...), which will catapult you into your seat once you get this baby going. Drove it already on the German highways ( N O speed limits there !!!) and on curvy, isolated mountain roads in northern Italy ... THIS CAR ROCKS ! I was duelling Porsche's and Ferrari's with it - OK, as long as the road is straight and has no curves the other guys can use their highly powered engines and drive away anytime because they are faster .... but things look different when you drive on an extremely slim Italian mountain road with lots and lots of turns and curves. Many of the guys I drove against had real troubles keeping their cars on track, their cars would slide, oversteer, understeer, they constantly had to hit the brakes or they would have lost the control over their cars. It's a question of experience I think - a professional race driver won't have such troubles no matter what he drives. But you and me are no professional drivers, right ? We are civilians who want to have fun with our cars, right ? And fun I have !!! Driving a 192 hp Celica at high speeds (I am talking about 100+ km | |
| Previous car | Subaru Impreza (European 200 hp version), Toyota MR2, Alfa Romeo 156, Peugot 406, Ford Cougar (European 160 hp version), American versions of the 2001 Celica | |