Do you regret getting your Celi? Options

[boosted_K2]

yes the SS-III also, i love the lip kit they have on that car!!

EDIT: hehe page 2 OWNED once again.

[whitefuzz]

Nope i never regretted getting the celica
it's actually still my moms... hehe
=> we had a 4th gen, i had an accident with it (wasn't my fault) but car totally trashed so we got a new one and i got to pick it cuz normally i get it when i graduate
i'm still studying so during the week i'm away from home,
my mom is a teacher so she only needs the car for her work during the week
in the weekend i get home and mom only had to do a quick visit to the local supermarket and i can use the car the rest of the weekend

so i don't regret my mother getting a celica
hehe

the only thing i'd rather drive is a supra
must be great to have so much power in your car!
and the supra still has THE looks

the only "bad" thing about the 6th gen celica is ist "poor" performance
sure you can beat the average family car... but damn it its supposed to be a sports car!

ah well it feels great to drive and it looks verry verry good

[NEVERSTOP]

ignore this

[robdrummer]

hahaha, it's been a while for this but i wanted to add this anyway. i never regreted the celica just wished it was rwd. the only car that will replace it in the next years is a supra but i will still keep it. it just won't be the same. oh and i still hate when people ask what year supra it is

[j0e_p3t]

damn, talk about a really old thread from the dead. anywho... i love my car too much to ever sell it. i'll keep fixing stuff when they brake and replace the engine (with an even better one) when it dies. the only other car i wish i had is a st205. sexiness with the performance to match. plus extremely rare in the u.s.

[Jen]

after my first one was totalled, i was under the impression that i could get another celica and make it better than it ever was.

i now regret getting another one.

sorry. i guess i lost the celica inspiration.

[CelicaST202]

thinking about selling it for a Miata so that i can beat the hell out of it on track instead of my S14.

[CelicaZR]

I had my for 3 years now...
and I still LOVE it
I wanted one ever since high school... which was a long time ago

[MaskedMan]

Sometimes i look back, and i think to myself about all the other cars i could have gotten for the price i paid for the Celica. I could have gotten something faster, maybe RWD, with a better aftermarket. But then i look at my life, and i realize that things wouldn't be the way they would be if i hadn't of gotten my 6GC way back when. I wouldn't have met a lot of great people, and i wouldn't know that much about customizing or fabrication. Most of, if not all my friends that i have now, i met becuase of my Celica in some way or another. I looove the way my life is and who i've become becuase of my Celica. Owning such a slow car kept me from becoming big headed or cocky haha. I think the 6GC has made me a better person over the past few years. And im glad i got one becuase this is one of the nicests communities out there .

[IGloo]

I bought my ST as a project car about 2 and a half years ago.
It was pretty beaten and used up all over the body (for example, stones managed to remove the paint job from the hood, and there was even some rust on the fender flares), blue smoke was coming out of the exshaust pipe whenever I came over 5,5 K rpm, and the 7A-FE powerplant was consuming more oil in a month, than 200 fat people would for a 3-day barbecue weekend every week for a year. It also had a small amount of about 155 000 km (or about 100 000 miles) on the odometer.
Suspension was no longer called that (since the shocks were permanently "shocked", and one of the springs cracked in 3 different places...also, the bushings and some other stuff were completely gone.
As far as the interior is concerned, the seats were also in a very bad condition, and almost every plastic part in the interior made its own snap crackle and pop ™ sound while driving around town...
So yeah, you might say that I bought a piece of crap!

But...

Ever since I sold my Audi 80 (which was at the time just about as tuned as it could ever be), and my 1973. VW Beetle (which was also a kind of a show car), I wanted to buy a car for myself that I could really enjoy and tune and re-style as I saw fit...so, after a while, I looked at some European cars (Opel Calibra, BMW 320is (E30), and even FIAT Coupé), and decided not to look any further, so I switched to Japan, and narrowed my choices to Mazda Astina (323F, BA) , and Honda Civic Coupe 1,6 VTEC (EK)...
Mazda fell out of my good graces because even though it looked pretty cool and kinda sporty with its curved bits and pieces, it was in fact pretty dull, very lumpy and slow.
Honda on the other hand also looked very good, its quality is indeed renowned in these parts as much as it is in the rest of the world, and its speed and acceleration were satisfying, but it still had one major flaw...its interior looked like a 15th century toilette, made me want to throw up my fine lunch when I actually sat in and considered driving it, so needless to say that it was just not good enough for me to sit in for a longer period of time!:)

After that experience, it was pretty hard for me to sit in any Honda (including the last two generations of Prelude...the one with te "Star Trek" console, which is stretched all over the car (including the peripheral view), and the one after...which is about just as ugly as the one in the Civic, but a bit more hard to describe!:)).

One day, I was so eager to find myself a car, that I went out to look at Toyota Paseo...needless to say that I abandoned the idea as soon as I entered the first curve on the road!

So, while I was checking out this Toyota, a friend suggested made me to look for some other one...and that was a Celica...

5th generation is one of those "always cool-looking" cars that defy all ages and times, but it was just not quite cool enough (and there were no GT-Fours available for purchase at the time), so I started looking at the 6th generation...
At a glance, it was a bit too big, and it was WAY TOO expensive for me (especially since there are only a few of 6th generation examples driving around in Croatia), GT´s were more rare to find than a golden frog that grants you wishes, but I somehow managed to find one ST that could...the rest is more or less described in the beginning of my post!

So why did I buy it?
Because of 3 things;

1. It was cheap
2. It was love at first sight
3. I obviously was lacking some experience, since I bought a project car which would be tough to work on, since the aftermarket parts are even more rare than my sleep overs at Cindy Crawford´s house!:)

But...(reprise)

I´ve spent a small fortune, and I rebuilt Mako (yup, that´s her name;)) yet again...and now, she´s painted, bodykitted, upholstered, engine is completely repaired and modded with 2-liter bored 7A-FE block (unique mod in these parts, at least to my knowledge) and lots of other goodies. Suspension got its new edge (even if it still may be relatively high off the ground;))...one might say that everything more or less sat in its place perfectly!
I just need some JDM projectors, and it will be all done!

So, as a conclusion to all of this, I must say that everything (so far) has been more than satisfactory for me! I really adore my car!
Of course, the speed of it may not be so thrilling, and the acceleration might to be missing from time to time (especially on 18˝ wheels), but at least I´ve got good gas mileage, and still I´m not driving a Civic, which is pretty much self explanatory.
One day I will sell it eventually, but it will definately be a part of my driving heritage forever...just because it is so giving.

I just wish that Toyota once again turns its corporate mind to making yet another generation of Celica, even though the 6th generation´s flare and driveability will never be quite matched (IMHO).


Sorry if I got carried away with writing...

[CelicaBuddy]

I sort of regretted buying a convertible in Washington... and also putting the kit and stuff on it... and all the money i've put into it... >_<

but I still love the car

[IGloo]

I sort of regretted buying a convertible in Washington... and also putting the kit and stuff on it... and all the money i've put into it... >_<

but I still love the car

Don´t regret for something that looks so cool!:)

Besides, a girl in a 6th gen is more or less a wet dream for me on its own...and the fact that it´s a convertible just makes the dream more intense!;)

[creis]

many times. its been good to me, but now that the 2nd motor in its dead, and I gata get a 3rd one to get it running. and it still needs loads on interior work, basicly the only thing done is the body which still needs a new front lip, idk I wanted to leave it for an mr2 after the first motor went, then when i 2nd went I had put so much money into it I could not sell it so I just got another car (LOVE MY RS) idk i'm too deep into it to have feelings about it, its in the garage covered up sleeping for the winter and for me to deciede if I want another 5s or what.

[Jaws4God]

Yeah when I had major problems with it I was ready to try something else... but now with a new engine.. some new mods.. getting some different rims.. it will be like having a new car

But in the long run.. i've always loved having the celica and the community that comes with it

[Negative]

Hell no. I knew what I was getting into [second 6th Gen GT] and I still don't regret it. The car does fairly well in the Houston Imports scene and it very rare. Just enough 6th gens that if we see each other at a meet we usually will hang out an compare mods.

[CelicaGT04]

I have thought about getting a FASTER car.
I would not say better, because i feel that the 6th gen's are so rare,
I have only seen a HANDFULL in my area.

But when it really comes down to it, i have way, WAY
to much sentiment attacthed to my car.

BTW for all you guys who want RWD you should check
out Dr.Tweaks thread in engine discussions...
You might like what you see....(whispers 2jz)...

[shin]

damn... people like resurrecting dead threads nowadays.. but yea.. i nvr regret buying my celi... it's really fun and definitely not something you'll see everyday on the streets.. i miss my celi..

[pandakid]

i had a 95 honda accord before i got my celica. even when i had my honda i wanted a celica so bad.but no i don't regret getting one.i have a alot of love for my car and i woulnd't think about selling it.

[Manny]

I regretted buying mine a week after I got it... not by any fault of the car.
I bought it becasue I have always loved the style of the 6th gen, and I needed something with better gas mileage.. ( I was currently spending about 100 a week in gas in my SUV)
Then out of the blue... My appendix ruptures, I am in the hospital and I now have 2 car payments.
My doc said Id be out of work for 2 months, and I dont get paid for time off.....
My first reaction... "****.. I just bought another car..."

Oh well.. Luckily, I convinced my doc to let me go back after 3 weeks.. and I am still recovering.. but.. 20 bucks a week in gas.. I cant complain.
I love my car now, and am glad I got it...

[netrata]

No I don't regret having my celica. The only thing I regret was having to spend way to much on it. The funny things is that I didn't spend a whole lot on accessories and cosmetic parts for the car, it was the labor to do the body changes and a/c components that killed my wallet Oh well, i'm very happy with the way the celica looks and runs now.