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post Jun 10, 2004 - 9:20 PM
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I found this post on a UK forum. Food for thought.

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Booked my car in for it's MOT, 50k service and lift bolts today, so I took the opportunity to get a trade in price on my G7.

The salesman, who sold me the car originaly, told me: "The new Celica will be out 1st week of July 2005, similar price bracket but a completely new car. Top of the range model will have a supercharger . There will be no delays with supply, as Toyota aim to have a substantial number in the country for the release date and pre ordering will not be necessary".

He claims to have this information, 1st hand, from a former Toyota UK employee who is now based in Japan preparing the promotional work for the new car. This chap apparently is aligned to the F1 promotion also, and has supplied him with brief detail of the Supra, both cars are designed to maximise on the involvement in F1.

He choose to tell me to wait, rather than sell me a new car, despite the fact he knows I have a time limit on ownership to maintain my company car allowance! He must be confident!

I left the garage one very excited bunny, and today I start saving for the Supercharged G8. Please let it be true. As he gave the same date as Shutty I am left wondering if this date is common knowledge throughout the dealerships?




For what it is worth I will recount to the best of my ability his detail regarding the Supra (bearing in mind I had just been told the G8 will have a supercharger and my eyes were rapidly glazing over).

"The new Supra will be aimed squarely at the supercar league, it will have a carbon fibre body and F1 technology to ensure it can compete with the existing market products with regard performance and handling (911, Gallardo, baby Aston etc) but retain Toyota's image of reliabilty and ease of use on a daily basis. The projected purchase price will be around £70k".

At this point I was mentally remapping my new supercharged G8 for maximum performance and missed anything else he had to say about it!


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post Jun 11, 2004 - 1:31 AM
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They will not stop making Celicas. They will just not import them in the states maybe. They will try to replace the Celi with the Scion Tc because it will be a lot cheaper.

I have been waiting for this kind of info for the last couple of years. It made no sense to me for Toyota to be involved in F1 and discontinue its sports products. I know there are some Lexus cas that are pure power but if they were planning to stuck on them, they could have easily name their F1 team under Lexus and not Toyota.

The Supra is going to be amazing. The Celica looks promising aswell but its going to need a lot more to reach the 6 gen GT4. The next few months are going to be interesting

Posts in this topic
- Outsider   8th gen Celica   Jun 10, 2004 - 9:20 PM
- - moltar   I was never a fan of the 7th gen aesthetically, bu...   Jun 10, 2004 - 9:26 PM
- - 3FingersCelica   I thought Toyota was going to stop making Celica...   Jun 10, 2004 - 10:53 PM
- - Akimbo   Why would you believe that? They wouldn't do t...   Jun 10, 2004 - 11:01 PM
- - neoklis   They will not stop making Celicas. They will just ...   Jun 11, 2004 - 1:31 AM
- - Kwanza26   I think that post is mostly speculation. Doesn...   Jun 11, 2004 - 9:33 PM
- - o8poa8o   If they stop making celi's then they'll st...   Jun 11, 2004 - 10:36 PM
- - sinner96ST   It's all speculation at this point.. but I bel...   Jun 11, 2004 - 10:54 PM
- - KAMiX   Some more food for thought.. and I could be wrong,...   Jun 11, 2004 - 11:58 PM
- - vangSTa_celica   Well..my two cents...is that...from what I've ...   Jun 12, 2004 - 1:29 AM
- - FallenHero   yea, motor trend said no more celica. the Scion T...   Jun 13, 2004 - 3:29 PM
- - shid   Longest running celica? How do you figure? 6th gen...   Jun 13, 2004 - 3:51 PM
- - Kwanza26   QUOTE (shid @ Jun 13, 2004 - 8:51 PM) Longest runn...   Jun 13, 2004 - 4:34 PM
- - Pali_playa   ok this is wht i heard celica not imported to us ...   Jun 13, 2004 - 4:47 PM
- - sinner96ST   QUOTE (Pali_playa @ Jun 13, 2004 - 2:47 PM) ok thi...   Jun 13, 2004 - 5:26 PM
- - sinner96ST   RE: 8th gen Celica   Jun 13, 2004 - 5:27 PM
- - o8poa8o   if the volta comes out, it'd most likely go do...   Jun 13, 2004 - 7:14 PM
- - shid   Actually, I think it looks stupid.   Jun 13, 2004 - 7:32 PM
- - sinner96ST   QUOTE (shid @ Jun 13, 2004 - 5:32 PM) Actually, I ...   Jun 13, 2004 - 8:25 PM
- - KAMiX   QUOTE Longest running celica? How do you figure? 6...   Jun 13, 2004 - 9:19 PM
- - FallenHero   what do you think about the volta? $80k, ma...   Jun 13, 2004 - 11:05 PM
- - sinner96ST   QUOTE (FallenHero @ Jun 13, 2004 - 9:05 PM) what d...   Jun 13, 2004 - 11:16 PM
- - Kwanza26   QUOTE (KAMiX @ Jun 14, 2004 - 2:19 AM) I'm sur...   Jun 14, 2004 - 12:07 AM
- - snadman   Actually...the new "Supra" isn't goi...   Jun 14, 2004 - 12:37 AM
- - snadman   QUOTE (KAMiX @ Jun 13, 2004 - 7:19 PM) QUOTE ...   Jun 14, 2004 - 12:40 AM
- - KAMiX   ... If I could go and buy a 7th gen from my Toyota...   Jun 14, 2004 - 12:47 AM
- - neoklis   now now boys, behave your selves or you will be se...   Jun 14, 2004 - 3:46 AM

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