Ever since my dad owned a Toyota Cressida, he's been into toyotas & always told me that I'd be owning one as well. Well toyotas are well built & last long but I never saw a toyota that I liked till the 6th gen came about & that's when I joined cnet & this site afterwords cause I knew it'd be the car I'd want to get & I got it & ice cream is yummy. >> I love the lights the most, I hate when people compare it to an integra because it has a more aggressive look.

I got my Celica through my dad. It was his old car and I remember when I was little I would put the back seats down and put blankets in the trunk and go to drive in movies with him and my mom. I just always thought of it as a cool car and my dad wanted to get rid of it so I bought it for $1,000. It was the best purchase of my life >>

Pure opertunity kinda thing, just lost my civic, and had a big amount of cash from the insurence, I wanted something better and newer. by chance my celica was listed for the 2nd time at my dads work and I took a test drive, and that was it, she was mine.

I got drunk and woke up next to mine

it was my sister's teal cheerleading car....then i stole it and IMMEDIATLY started modifing.....doing as much as i could and seeing what i could do with it then just fell in love headover heels with her now oooo i can't wait till she's finished and back on the road

i wanted a car with more aftermarket parts than my 88 accord and i come from a toyota family and was jealous of my bros 84 supra so my dad said fine u can get a new car but why dont u get a 91 supra and i was like no my bro will get mad if i have the same car and it ends up better. So i got my celica! :-)

so my brother got the GO and i got the SHOW

Um.. I wrecked my love of my life, my bimmer. And then knew a friend that new a guy that hade toyotas for cheap, then did some searching cause i new nothing bout toyotas.. and then said the only cars i would get was a 6th gen black celica hatch 5 speed or an avalon. and went to go check his lot, and he had a black 6th gen hatch 5-speed. that was his ons so he knew it was in real good condition, then test drove it and it was 10 times better then my bros civic witch i was driving at the time, so i liked it, also it was a lot cheaper then the money i got back from my bimmer so i had money to live off of while i went to school, and he let me take it 2 weeks before paying him.. witch was nice, cause the check didnt clear an i needed a car for school.

Toyota + Good Looking Sport Compact Coupe - High Price = My car

I was looking for a new(er) car, had no intention of buying a celi, then my headgasket blew on my old car and i did not have the time to fix it, but i needed a car ASAP. looked for a few days, found the celica at a dealer, researched it, bought it the next day.

well at first i was lookin at a teg, eclipse and si, but everyone and their mom had one, then i looked for a 7th gen but too expensive and not really me, so i bought a 03 hemi ram, and i said with my left over money i will buy a nice used car...then i stumbled on this site and fell in love with this car instantly

i bought mine on impules. I was sick of my Civic because they were over played, o and the tranny was messed. I wanted a two door sports car that wasnt common. I kind of liked the body style of the eclipse, but i hated how popular they were. I was driving down the road and this perfect black 94' celica was sitting there all beautiful and waxed. I almost crapped my self when i saw it. I test drove it and probably 2 days later i bought it. compleatly impulse, and here in IL. they are not very common.

It all started back in 88 when i got my 2nd gen 'liftback' !!!

when i have been able to afford a celica or work has allowed (there not the best car for carrying kitchin units in) i've had celicas >>

i was just looking for a 6th gen as the new one's don't say 'celica' to me and found on the internet a GT-Four and the right price for me......

hey ! what would you guys say the right price was for an imported 96 GT-4 ??

Well my 95 ST Coupe was just sitting infront of my house chillen... when some a-hole just smashed into her... so when i got the insurance money i already had the GT picked out and the guy at the used car dealership had her stored in the back waitting for me....

One question..........what didn't make me want to buy it......... >>

I just wanted something with good gas mileage. So i liked the Integra, but then I fell in love with the Supra (BEFORE FAST AND THE FURIOUS), but then i noticed it was WAY too expensive so i had to hold off on it. Thats when i saw the 6GC it looked like a baby Supra w/ round headlights like the teg. So i immediately wanted it. So here i am now. >>

David

my cuz bought a 95 2.2 vtec prelude import ,i had to get into the import/jap scene,he then bought a non turbo supra and lent me the lude,cool car and i couldn't resist any longer,i needed a fast car ,with a integra type r,mr2 t bar and a celica gt in mind,integra too expensive to insure,mr2 too many kids have them,so the celica it was,£550 to insure,prety rare,and the jap spec is awsome so i have bought one ,45,000 miles,1993 ss2 for 2950£,i can have it for years and the price wont depreciate as quik as the other cars i have had[euro trash]

This post has been edited by D4W5: Dec 30, 2004 - 3:39 PM

this was the first ever thread created on this site (besides the forum rules thread)... just some mindless info to ponder >>

i was originally all set to buy a 7th gen. even went down to the dealer and picked one out... then i started thinking about how expensive it was, and realized that i liked the look of the 6th gen a whole lot better. after searching around for months and almost buying an automatic (could drive stick at the time..lol) i finally found my car.

I had my heart set on a Dodge Avenger for whatever insande reason, so I went car shopping. I had looked at two avengers and the price was right but there was one more place I wanted to check. Then I saw her.. *tears rolling right out front was this black ultra sexy celica. I was sooooooooo speechless at the car's lines and all. Test drove it, tried my best to swallow the price, and drove home in the love of my life! >>

Well, I was looking at alot of Volkswagens when i was shopping for a first car, and I loved the rally-esque look of the older VW's with the four headlights...

It must have been fate, because I was ready to buy a 92 Jetta that was in mint condition with very low miles, but my dad saw my silver Celica and drove it while I was at work.
He immediately called me and told me I HAD to get it, and that it was such a fun car to drive. Turns out the owner was an old high school friend of my dads, and he let us have it for $3200 instead of $5000....so we took it home, and for quite some time I felt pimp as hell because all my other friends either didnt have cars yet or were driving total buckets. >>

hmm wanted a tuner car no one had i first wanted a teg or a civic but when i saw a 94 GT celica with 81 k i fell in love and bought it

When I was shopping for cars, I decided to browse through the cars in Gran Turismo 3!! I wrote down the cars that were cool looking and under a certain amount of cash. I pretty much limited it to the Celica and the Mitsu FTO. The FTO was too hard to get with shipping and everything, so I started shopping for a Celi. I pounced on the first one I could find because I looked for about a month before finally finding one. And Ta-Da! My Celica.

I was looking for a car...and I was shopping for a 5th gen and then I've seen for the first time in my life the 6th gen ..i felt in love with the car cause It was pure hotness and i know that the model was rare....made 12h of driving to get to the seller because there were no 6th gen for sale around here (and I wanted it silver) . Bought it without a doubt

I loved it the first time I saw it in Germany, I was like 10 years old.
That actually whas a Supra, but at that time I knew what car I wanted to have.
Years went by, got my licence, drove a nissan sunny, after that when I still wasn't able to afford the Celica, I drove nissan 100NX and then I saw this Celica with 68000Km for a good price. Now it's mine. (still wanting the Supra)

This post has been edited by Silvan: Jan 3, 2005 - 5:55 PM

great story here..

i'd been looking for one for over a year (didn't have my drivers yet) parents weren't too keen on me getting one, but one night my friend calls me and tells me he found a 95 gt-s, white, manual.. everything i wanted. for 8900 (CAD funds) and i had my drivers appt in 3 days, so we went to look at it the next day, bought it the day after that, and the day after that... i got my drivers! it was just.. pure destiny >>

My story may not be that great but here goes anyway. At first I had my beautiful 1987 Toyota Supra (which I still own). Believe me this thing is incredible. Well one night I was challenged to a race and I was dumb enough to accept. I ended up doing 145 mph down a highway and spun a rod bearing so my car was down for about 3 months. I was then stuck driving a pontiac and did I hate it (Imports All The Way!!!!). Anyway I was always looking for another import to take over temporarily but then I saw it. It was the most beautiful machine I ever saw. It was a red 94 celica ST. I saw so much potential it was unreal. So I went to my folks for a loan and snatched it up before the other ten people that were looking at it got it. Its been 7 months since I bought it and i have a full stereo system with a 7" LCD screen in my dash. I have a Blitz body kit and shogun spoiler waiting to be applied and painted with the rest of the car this spring.

I did get the supra fixed after I had a jap-spec engine with 35-40,000 miles on it swapped in it and still own it but am trying to sell it. If anybody would be interested in buying it send me a message.

My dad always had Toyotas he had a 82-corolla then a 85 celica, then about 4celica after. So he knew I was gonna have a Toyota, my first car was a 88 corolla(auto),then another 88 corolla (auto) then I got a 89 corolla (stick-5spd) I blew the motor then I had a ford turbo T-brid bigest F%&$ up of my life I got rid of it in 3 days, then put a 4A-GE in my 89corolla. then my dad got a 93 surpa (BEFORE FAST AND THE FURIOUS), I wanted it!!! then after he sold it (I saw a GT-4 when I went to JAMAICA), I knew I could not afford one. I looked of a 6th gen for 4yrs, fond one on auto trader.com drove 2 1/2 hrs away 3 diffrent times before I could take it home. after I got it I was the happest guy in the world!

-boosted_K2+Dec 30, 2004 - 7:51 PM

Topic #6 is before this one (topic #7). >>.

mine was a hand-me-down. my sister moved out and couldn't afford it, so my mom gave it to me. i never paid a single dollar for it. now i only pay insurance, because it's been paid off for a while. i bought all the mods though. >>. sigh. i'm still thinkin about gettin rid of the damned thing...::shrug::...hell, i've had it 7+ years. >>.

-Mynzeyes+Jan 15, 2005 - 1:29 AM

no john...don't get rid of the her. she's to f*ckin hawt.

-dstrb

Got out of old ST182. Got into ST205. Test drive. Rolled off lights, selected 2nd at about 15mph and nailed the throttle. Swallowed tounge.

Bought car.

Road going rally slag. What's not to like?