Unusual cars come with unusual problems. Today’s first feature is this Chevy 327 V8 powered Corona Mk II that has a seriously sweet centerline style wheels and show car wrap around custom front valence. It does need some attention to the paint, but the asking price is okay. Find this 1971 Toyota Corona Mk II […]
You don’t have to be an expert in SCCA Solo 2 racing to know the difference between a street car with stickers and a race car with street plates. This next feature is the latter — it is offered as a Solo2 Championship winning car, which means it’ll be fast in an autocross, but still […]
I don’t think that Toyota sold an All-Trac (or GT-Four) version of the Celica in the USA for the ST205 (1994-1999) generation. But today we’ve got a 95 Celica that is advertised as a manual gearbox equipped All-Trac and I wouldn’t say no to that. If this is an All-Trac equipped (or swapped) Celica, it […]
The 1987-1988 Toyota Corolla FX16 was Toyota’s late 1980s answer to the GTI, a lightweight front wheel drive hatch built at the NUMMI plant in California and powered by the high revving 1.6 liter 4A GE twin cam engine. With 108 horsepower, a 5 speed manual, four wheel disc brakes, and available GTS trim with […]
At the turn of the millennium, Toyota briefly decided that normal was overrated. The WiLL Vi, sold in Japan from 2000 to 2001 as part of Toyota’s youth-oriented WiLL project, combined Echo-based mechanicals with styling that looks like a soup can from the movie Tron. Underneath the retro futurist bodywork sits familiar Toyota Echo hardware, […]
The Toyota Tercel 4WD Wagon exists because Toyota once decided to build a car for people who wanted Corolla reliability, a manual transmission, and the ability to point it vaguely toward a dirt road without fear. Long before crossovers were a thing, these lifted, part-time four-wheel-drive econoboxes quietly earned a reputation for being unkillable, lightweight, […]
The 1995 Toyota Previa is the only “sports car” that can win a trophy for resembling a loaf of bread and still have the owner call it museum-quality with a straight face. This one took home a Hagerty “Best Silhouette” award, which is either the most niche concours class of all time or a polite […]
If you’ve ever wished your beige Camry wagon had a little more weird Japan energy, meet the 1997 Toyota Camry Gracia Wagon, the JDM-market sibling of the XV20 Camry that Toyota never bothered to offer American buyers. While the US got the predictable front-drive sedans and coupes, Japan got this long-roof oddball with a sleeker […]
If you’ve spent any amount of time lurking around the van-nerd corners of the internet, you already know the first-gen Toyota Previa is one of the strangest and most screechiest people-movers ever sold in the US. Mid-engine? Sure. Driveshaft powered by a rubber donut? Of course. Optional supercharger? Naturally. But a factory AWD, 5-speed manual […]
Toyota’s first-generation MR2, known internally as the AW11, is one of the most interesting and beloved cars to come out of Japan in the 1980s. It debuted in 1984 and ran through 1989, built around a very simple idea: put a light, rev-happy engine in the middle of a small, rigid chassis and let physics […]