It was either this monthes or last months issue of Road and Track that had a cover story on 4-bangers. I was a little shocked because They usually only write about cars that cost at least $30k. Needless to say i picked it up and read the article. What they did was take about 12 cars that were Performanced tuned and put them up against each other. Then i looked at the list of cars competing, and guess what...no Celicas....not even a toyota. There was one WRX, 1 EVO, Couple Focus(gross) and a whole bunch of hondas. What a surprise!! Anyways i still read the article and the fastest of all the cars was an S2000.(for the RR and 4WD catagory). Then i got to thinking....how come there was no Celica....The fastest 1/4 mile time was only 13.4 sec. Either an Mr2 or GT4 with 3SGTE could have beaten that. The car with the most horses was the WRX, it had about 400. A 3sgte could beat that. So why no toyotas? I think that they were scared.....or they didnt bother inviting us toyota people because we have more important races to attend then to bother with hondas >> >>


What do Ya'll think?

Toyotas are simply not as popular a tuning car here in the States... my guess...

There are no Celica's modified here, period. I drive around and everyone immediatly see's a round body with a Toyota Symbol and jump to conclusions that I have a N/A Supra. I tell them its a Celica, their next question is it AWD Turbo?

The ratio around here is probably 35 Hondas/ 1 Celica, literally - no joke. Its quite sick how only about 3 of the 35 are Turbocharged, and even those are still quite slow. I know if I swapped a 3SGTE into my Celica, and tuned it slightly, i'd run around spanking and everyone would look in awe.

I was actually debating whether I should get the GT4 Hood/Bumper and do a 3S swap. I'd love to see people's faces then.