6G Celicas Forums

So like the title says, i'm about to swap my 96 ST Coupe Auto for a 95 GT Liftback Manual. My st is my first car & I love it but looking long term I want a gt, manual liftback.

I didn't know much about cars or celica's in general when I got her so now that I know a little I feel like I want to make the switch. I bought my current car for around 6k and she has 65000 miles. I haven't done much to her yet, so although I'm really attached to having a 6gc, i'd be ok switching. The gt is being sold for around 4k with 125000 miles. I trust in the quality of toyota's engine and I plan to do a engine swap at some point so the miles don't really bother me.

I think I might just buy the GT straight up & sell my st myself. Because I feel its worth more than the car I'm getting and the dealer prob won't have a trade in worth more than the car he's selling.

But hey, gimme your advise, whether to attempt a trade in or not? stick with the st? tips of getting a better price in either buying or selling, lemme know. thanks

You could get a lot of money from a ST with 65,000 miles...thats pretty damn low for a '96.

I wouldnt trade your car into the dealer. The 6th gen is a hard to find car and im sure you could find someone to make a few more bux off of, at least look around. Autotrader has a 55 dollars till it sells special. Maybe try that.

my 96 st coup with 55k miles I bought for 7.5 k, from a dealer *I know a payed more then I should of dont tell me that* but im sayin im sure you could get some decient money for it, and im damn happy even though I payed that much because the car is such a great car!

Ya man sell it yourself u could get some one to buy it and give u some profit.

What is better than A 6 gen celica......2 of them!!! I would just keep them both. If i had the money. Use the st for a daily driver and the gt for a Upgrading, that way when your car is in the shop, you still have one to drive.



p.s. it would be cool if you could do it!

The idea of keeping both is nice but, prob not too realistic (being the college student and all) Plus if if I can make a little profit and get the cheaper gt, could prob move right into either an engine swap or getting a gt-4 hood & bumper.

But yesterday I'm driving home and I totally lose power steering. I wasn't far from my house thankfully. So I get there & pop the hood & one of my belts is shredded. So I'm pissed bc I changed my water pump & belts a few months ago & there's no way in hell it could go bad this fast. So I wanted to go check out the gt today but I gotta get this fixed first. I'll be callling the mechanic who worked on it before & making them do a housecall or something bc I'm not paying for a tow & to fix their mistake.

It could have just been a cheap belt. I had a NAPA alternator belt on mine that broke after 2 months. I replaced it with a OEM Toyota belt (whatever brand they use, dealer replaced it) and it's lasted 2 years.