Celica, MR2 Will Die After ’05

[Honestmechanics?]

I'll miss the MR Spyder.
Toyota announced Friday that it will discontinue the Celica and MR2 sports coupes after the 2005 model year, disappointing Ray-Ban-wearing readers of Maxim across America. Perhaps, I'm being too glib. Though these fine and respectable affordable sporty coupes have been steadily losing their audiences over the last decade, we should remember that the Celica was Toyota's first real step out of the utilitarian class back in 1970. And the MR2 was, as Car and Driver said in the early 1990s, "an exotic car for the rest of us."
http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=7329

[analogvoid]

The celica may still stay in production... so to speak.. they might just call it something else... for example.. honda cancled the integra here in the states.. but brought the rsx... same car though. I think toyota has something up thier sleeve.. atleast i hope

[ZigRoxi]

well ya know how scion is part of toyota (like lexus is)
well the scion called the TC i just see it as redesigned Toyota Celica get it TC

but seriously i miss the old rwd celica they are just so much fun! glad i got my '78 on the build

[analogvoid]

i dont think the tC is a celica. Or a redesigned celica. If it was, they would have badged it celica in some other market. Just like honda with the rsx/integra. I'd like to see the celica return as a more powerful rwd or awd car. The market for either is pretty good right now.

[Dober89]

RWD is the shiznit. I dont know if I would miss the celica if they cancelled production. Its been around for a long time and im thinking a new car could be a nice change.

[analogvoid]

I wish my 7th gen was rwd.. that car would have the looks and be a REAL fun car to drive!

[91 Celica St]

screw rwd cars, they handle like tanks, plus they cant rally worth shit, they should be all wheel drive or stay front

[Team_Omega1]

scion is usa version of the toyota bB in japan

[analogvoid]

Originally Posted by 91 Celica St

screw rwd cars, they handle like tanks, plus they cant rally worth shit, they should be all wheel drive or stay front

RWD handles like a tank? First of all there are plenty of rear wheel drive cars out there that will hand alot of FWD cars thier a$$ in a road coarse. Your statement is ignorant. A skilled driver can take advantage of a rwd system much better than a fwd setup. In a fwd car if you plow into a turn and understeer your kinda stuck... in a rwd you can tap the gas, break the tired loose and correct yourself. let me name a few cars currently in production that will outperform the good majority of fwd cars.

Lotus Elise
Honda S2000
Chevy Corvette
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-8
Ferrari, Ferrari, Ferrari.....

need i say more ?

[analogvoid]

Originally Posted by Team_Omega1

scion is usa version of the toyota bB in japan

Yes, the Toyota bB is called the Scion xB here in the US. The Toyota Ist is the Scion xA here... and the new tC is based on the Toyota Avensis chasis.

[91 Celica St]

no this something like a ferrari will handle much better than something like a honda or toyta celica, im just saying something as low powered as a celica rwd? that will suck ass it wont have the power to pull it through a turn

[analogvoid]

who ever said it had to be low powered ? Look at the gt-4, although rwd.. it was powered by a 3s-gte. A motor capable of handling well over 500hp on the stock bottom end.

[91 Celica St]

were not talking about a 3sgte, there talkin about taking the 1zzfe and 2zzge and making them rwd, theyd blow my ass, neither one makes alot of tourqe, but the 2zzge does make a reasonable amount of ponies

[analogvoid]

If toyota introduced a new car that was rwd, i highly doubt they would use either of those engines.

[skaterblader23]

If 2005 is last year i think they should introduce a new model for the car in its last year. Something more like the 5th gen would be fucking awesome...with either RWD or AWD(prefferably AWD) with stock 215hp (higher with higher model).......Only in my dreams would this happen, but god that would be fucking sweet