Panda "Snow White" ST205, At last I got it ! Options

[Panda]

Yep, at last, after having sold my 1.8 ST, I bought my beloved Celica ST205 this saturday in Italy.
Ok, let's go for the photos first









This beauty was first registred in november 94 and has 103.000 km. Full stock, and really good shape (only one fender would need some repainting since I am a maniac).



















Engine bay is clean :




Mine was the first I ever drove, and waow my god
It accelerates like hell, I am already in love !

When driving back from Italy to France, my mean fuel consumption was around 10.5 liters per 100 km, so quite few, I was surprised. I always heard this car was a pain with fuel consumption, but my old underpowered AE86 was almost as thirsty !

I was a bit disappointent when I tried an ST185 and a Carlos Sainz in the past, and I must admit the ST205 is really on another level. I tried a top speed run on sunday on a French highway, I reached 260 km/h and the car would still tell me "come on, push it"

For now, first I will make a large check up, change the oils, spark plugs, filters... And later will come a standard BPU, with intake/exhaust/boost raise, some bronze wheels...

Thanks for reading

[Negative]

LHD= left hand drive.. and that means... we could probably just register it as a USDM celi with their VIN# and drive it around without being noticed too much

I wonder if I can do that with my totalled Celica now...wonder how much it would cost....keh keh

We know people Alex

WOW!! I didn't even know that they made those things as a lhd! why the hell didn't toyota send that sexy thing to the americas? even if they only sent them to canada we could still get them. i am so jealous.
lucky you

ST185 didn't do so well, not a lot were sold, etc... so they decided not to bring over the ST205.

Because Toyota hates Americans [yes that means you Canadians too - As I was telling a Canadian friend the other day - you guys ARE American - just not from the US ]

[TomPoz]

...Because Toyota hates Americans [yes that means you Canadians too - As I was telling a Canadian friend the other day - you guys ARE American - just not from the US ]

You're wrong - it's just that Americans are too "green" to allow some Japanese cars in the country.
And typically these "some" are the sexiest.

I don't know how it works in the US, but in Europe, if you want to register a car that comes from outside Europe (example US or Japan), you must change all the parts that are not on "european standards" to fit those "european standards". That includes :
- seat belts,
- all the windows,
- all the lights,
- some electronics...

You have many technical controls to pass, like UTAC and DRIRE.
This takes at least one year and many many many Euros...

Fortunately not everywhere in Europe. Right, Romas?

[Negative]

...Because Toyota hates Americans [yes that means you Canadians too - As I was telling a Canadian friend the other day - you guys ARE American - just not from the US ]

You're wrong - it's just that Americans are too "green" to allow some Japanese cars in the country.
And typically these "some" are the sexiest.

LOL. It was a joke man. I'm just still bitter about not having the option of owning a GT4. "Green" as in save the trees and all that crap? There are also rumors that the American car manufacturers didn't like the competition that Japanese turbo cars were putting on the corvette and similar or that in the case of the GT4 - it didn't meet our crash ratings requirements.
All BS - it's because the ST-185 didn't sell well at all in the US.

This post has been edited by Negative: Mar 1, 2007 - 2:33 PM