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Starlet is the one that came with the turbo 4E, 1.3L not 1.4.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/441775/toyota-...ssors-to-icons/

The lead engineer behind the Toyota 86, Tetsuya Tada, has revealed a goal to create a performance brand rival to challenge Audi’s quattro GmbH, BMW’s M and Mercedes-Benz’s Mercedes-AMG divisions, while personally dreaming of not only a Toyota Supra successor but also a new version of the iconic Celica GT-Four.

“One fault Toyota has experienced before, is we once produced so many various types of sports cars but when the profit goes down, they just quit straight away. And that’s the major fault. Supra is gone, MR2 is gone, Celica is gone…”

Continuing on that line, Tada-san reveals that if he had his own way, he’d love to see a modern-day production-car successor to the globally successful rally beast that was the Celica GT-Four.

Teaming a turbocharged 2.0-litre 3S-GTE four-cylinder with a five-speed manual transmission and four-wheel drive, outputs were in the realm of 180kW of power and 300Nm of torque (depending on year, specification and market sold).

“I would prefer a new Celica GT4 – turbo, four-wheel drive. [It’s a] really fun car and really fast. And [it was fast on] every type of road.

“[A new one is definitely] one of my dreams.”

You and me both Mr. Tada

Hopefully he has enough pull and/or charisma to talk the higher ups into it, I love Toyota and it pains me to see them only roll out appliances these days. In my opinion the FR-S doesn't count as it's really all Subaru. I don't foresee the MR2 coming back any time soon, but the Celica and Supra would be doable. Heck, the Supra could be based on the Lexus RC but develop or source a manual transmission to use with it. That along with a twin turbo kit and accommodating mods for the 2GR and call it a day.

This post has been edited by Box: May 8, 2016 - 9:38 PM

Toyota appliances you say?

HAHA

thats awesome if its authentic.

In all seriousness though the Celica could be doable. Take the is200t, shorten the base, put the fr-s interior in it and I think you have a pretty good Celica.

I thought abut the IS but couldn't remember if it offered AWD or if you had to go to the GS or LS to get AWD. Anyhow, it's not like they're not already making everything needed to pull it off. Just need manual transmissions, because I said so.