From my experience the SS-I & SS-II handle very cruisy for a sports car, its alot stiffer & low riderish than sedans, but its very soft and high up and the chassis flexes alot for a sports coupe. The SS-III has super strut suspension with front & rear strut bars which improves handling tremendously and brings it up to par with other sports coupes in stock condition. The GT-Four has 4WD which in itself changes the handling alltogether aswell as super strut suspension which makes the GT-Four one of the top handling sports coupes imo. I had been in a GT-Four with tien suspension which made the ride so stiff the car had no flex and your body took all the force. USA ST & GT would have the same handling as SS-I and SS-II I'd imagine?

yeah Id say they'd have the same suspension, I don't understand why toyota put the 5SFE in, rather than a 3SGE engine? I can imagine the 3SGE would be better on fuel? and has more power. Do you guys think toyota didn't because the 3SGE engine cost too much and/or 5SFE was a more reliable everyday motor?

Also after previously going to a track day and using my Celica SX which is like the GT and driving my dads renault clio sport, really showed me 10 years makes alot of difference in handling, the celica on the road sticks to the corners and you get little to no understeer for a front wheel and it handles very well but its not until you go to the track until you really know the capability, the car understeered constantly and screeched on every bend on the track, still handled but not as good as it could of. When I got in the clio the clio just went around corners crazily well, basically no understeer even if I went twice as hard as I did in my car it would barely screech. now I know its unfair to compare with a modern day sports car but just to give an idea that with stock suspension it doesn't handle as well as some cars, I don't know how it would compare to other cars of its era although I've heard it handles nearly as well as the mid 90's integras.

but with a little bit of suspension work I'm sure it could be better than majority of front wheel drives even of these days.

This post has been edited by Euphoria: Jul 7, 2008 - 4:46 AM

3s-ge is the Japanese powerplant, the japs keep the good stuff for themselves, kinda like how the JDM soarer gets 1jz-gte twin turb and the usdm counterpart lexus sc300 does not.

and nah fe heads are better on fuel on the road..... fe is designed for optimum a/f in the lower rpm where you spend the most time driving, the ge head is designed to give it more a/f to the upper rpm which means wasted gas in low rpms

oh haha bastards!

you seem to know your stuff

keep in mind before when I talked about the clio handling so well it just didn't have the feel of the celica, just didn't feel as nice to drive, was quite dull where as the celica is incredibly fun to drive no matter how slow it is. thats why the GT-4 is ultimate.

This post has been edited by Euphoria: Jul 7, 2008 - 5:38 AM

Fensport are just down the road from me, will be paying them a visit soon i think

back on topic, the other cars i considered/test drove but dismissed before buying my 1994 GT:

Mitsi FTO- Nice car but loads of thing go wrong with them once the miles get high. Which costs loads to fix unless you have lots of space time+ money (I have none of the above lol) every one I looked at had noisy tappets and serious rust round the engine mount on the wheel arch which was worrying

MR2- In the UK it always rains, MR2s are very scary in the wet, I'm too young to die

Mazda MX5-Engine too big (V6 2.5)=expensive road tax

Alfa GTV- Made by Fiat-'nuff said

Fiat Coupe-As above

Mazda MX-3-Too small+girly

So there we go, although I haven't test driven all the above cars, the Celica ticked all the right boxes and everyone I told "I'm going to have a look at a Celica GT next" all said "oh they're good cars" which was confirmed by test driving my current car.

Oh and its cheaper to insure than my previous car (VW Passat 1.8) which is a bit odd but good also hehe

This post has been edited by hardcoreproducer: Jul 8, 2008 - 2:36 PM

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Probably not. GT4's are heavy. They aren't that spectacular in stock form.

if i had a gt-four, it won't stay stock. at first i thought i would just change the exhaust and add a turbo timer. and then i figured i might as well add a boost controller. and blah blah blah next thing you know, i'd have all kinds of mods. but i doubt i'd ever be able to get a gt-four. and how heavy could they be compared to sedans. i think a gt-four can keep up with sti's and evo's pretty easily.