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The TOYOTA CELICA is an underappreciated ’90s hot hatch
I’ll be real with you. I have no idea who this girl is, and this video is barely about the 6G Toyota Celica GT at all. And really, maybe it deserved to be forgotten in the US: we never got the good one. Yeah, we got the 4g and 5g All-Tracs, about 4,000 total across both generations, but we never got a single all wheel drive, 3S-GTE powered 6G Celica GT-Four. Toyota completely blew us off.
Anyway, this video is actually a Readers’ Rides compilation. We asked our viewers (and readers) to send in their cars, they did, and this is the end result. We’ll do more in the near future. Want to send yours in? Click the video, find the email address, and hit us up. Thank you!
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Divisive Power: S197 Mustang GT
There’s something polarizing about the Ford Mustang. Whether it’s the car itself, the engine, the layout, the solid rear axle, touge vs straight line performance, or the owners who can’t stop sending these pony cars into crowds, well, we didn’t really get into that. But some of us hate it and some don’t, watch the video to see who falls where on this one.
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Easy S14 Project: Buy This Nissan 240SX
Look at this thing. Yeah, it has some negatives, but take in the positive. It’s a 240SX. It’s complete. The body is straight. There’s no visible rust whatsoever. It’s a five lug SE and the owner has had it for four years without taking the stock wheels off, so you know he’s a responsible adult. It has a hair over 100k miles, and if you don’t like this one, head over to ccf.com/cars to find hundreds of other 240SX listings.
Yes, it’s an automatic. On the high end, you’re $2000 in parts and rough day in the driveway away from a manual. Yes, the paint is fried. But it looks like there’s no real bodywork to do, so you’re only a couple grand out from this thing shining like new.
He’s asking $8500, which is exceptionally reasonable. Offer $7k and haggle, and you might have a pristine (resprayed) S14 Zenki for just a bit over ten grand, with what is considered low mileage in the S chassis community. This is an excellent base for a very nice project, and I hope you shoot him a message.
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Double Your Money With This DC2 Acura Integra GS-R
I like the Integra Type R. I like it a lot. Stitch welded chassis, obscene bright paint schemes, and decals that launched a decade of Autozone rice aisle sales. But I will never own one, and neither will you. The ITR market has exploded much like the Mk4 Supra and many other desirable 90s JDMs, and now, for most of us, save the oil barons and crypto bros, they’re out of reach, and they’re never coming back.
But, you can still get the next best thing, if you keep your ear to the rail that is ccf.com/cars, stay vigilant, and react quickly. The GS-R is the more common, less refined little brother to the ITR. No stitch welded chassis, no suede interior, but it still has the B18 and it’s ready to party. It’s also way cheaper than a Type R: while your average ITR on Bring A Trailer will pull over $40,000 and sometimes breach the six figure mark, GS-Rs tend to sell in the teens, even with mileage similar to the gem pictured in this article, which I recently found on Facebook Marketplace with an asking price of $6900.
Bright red, fat fives, 100% stock, no rust, and 156K on the clock. I’ve found two examples on Bring A Trailer with similar mileage, one selling for $13,750 and the other for $15,250, both within the past four months.
So what are you waiting for? If you’re in Ohio, empty your checking account and pick up this quintessential 1990s Honda hot hatch. Bet it on red and double your money.
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Goodbye, Daily Deals
Daily Deals, the near-daily blog post featuring a half broken list of Facebook Marketplace cars you’ve been getting spammed to your inbox for months, is coming to an end.
If you’re a daily reader of Daily Deals, don’t worry too much. I’m making a new page that will update daily with good deals found on ccf.com/cars. I’ll post about it when it’s live.
So why pull Daily Deals? Because it severely clutters the news feed. We have actual content we’ve created going up multiple times per week, and I want the feed to be nice and clean, a showcase for all of our work. Unfortunately, DD gets less views than our features, and really just looks bad in its current state. We’re trying to at least look half professional, here, after all. This is also to improve our mailing list. I only want to deliver you a morning email if there’s actually something on the site to read.
In other site news, Ebay listings are returning, and I’m going to start sunsetting the forum in favor of /cars inside the next month. If you’ve bookmarked any of the forum pages, they’ll start redirecting to /cars but filtered to your chosen make/model/generation. The forum has been a spam magnet from jump and is made obsolete by /cars, so it’s time to stop supporting it.
I know for most of you, this doesn’t really affect you in any way. If you have any concerns about DD or the forum, let me know. /cars is, for the most part, much more user friendly than the forum, but if I’ve missed or broken something, just shoot me an email and let me know.
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Toyota GR86 Warranty Claim DENIED Over Social Media Photos: Engine Blew Up During AUTOCROSS
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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The Bring A Trailer Guessing Game: Nice Price or No Dice #4
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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Real Boomer Content: Mecum Orlando 2022 Coverage
Today, we try to attract some boomers to the site, to help even out the overwhelming weeaboo population, by watching Mecum Orlando 2022. It’s the final hour of the final day: what will roll across the auction block? Probably some cars from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Would you pay HOW MUCH for this S14 240SX? Nice Price or No Dice #3
It’s another Nice Price or No Dice game where you guess if that’s a NICE PRICE on that Bring A Trailer auction or not. This may be a divisive video as Nice Price or No Dice is subjective and determined by the host. WHO WILL WIN?
In this one, we check out an S14 240SX SE, a low mileage 986 Porsche Boxster, a 2G Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, a 996 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, a Mk3 Toyota Supra Turbo, and a 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro Z28 SS. Something for most everybody in this one.
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Ranking 2G Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX listings on Facebook Marketplace
It’s the baby Evo. It’s the BETTER Evo. It’s the crankwalking nightmare. It’s some weird soap bar from the ’90s. No matter how you look at it, it’s the 2G Eclipse GSX, and it’s an tuner favorite, a cult classic, a drag racing legend.
None of these are stock. An unmodified DSM does not exist in 2022, probably hasn’t existed for decades at this point. Will we find any worth whipping? Click through.
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Skull Shifters, Boy Racers, and Broughams: Reviewing Your Cars
The fourth chapter of reviewing your cars for 5K subs. We’ll do more in the near future, promise! Some great ones in here today, including an S13 hatch, a Caddy Brougham, and a Phoenix Yellow E46 BMW M3 coupe.
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Dodge Magnum SRT8: Recession-Era Racing
Image courtesy of Bring A Trailer Born from a Whipple-supercharged concept unveiled at the 2003 LA auto show, the Dodge Magnum SRT8 hit the street in 2006, becoming the 4th SRT8 product offered by Chrysler, who always referred to it as a “sport tourer” and never as a wagon.
Image courtesy of Bring A Trailer The Magnum SRT8 was powered by the revered 6.1 HEMI, pushing out 425 naturally aspirated horses and 420 pound feet of torque. Like all SRT8 products at the time, no manual was available: just the beefed up 5-speed auto derived from the Mercedes 5G-Tronic, which was deemed sufficiently responsive by the motoring press and dependable by the passage of time.
Image courtesy of Bring A Trailer 14 inch slotted discs and 4 piston Brembo calipers sat on all 4 corners to help tame the big wagon, which delegated its 4200 pound curb weight to the 20 Inch forged aluminum wheels and the Mopar-tuned suspension components underneath it. All this standard equipment resulted in respectable road manners and impressive straight line performance, with a 0-60 in 5.1 seconds and a 13.1 second quarter mile.
Image courtesy of Bring A Trailer Despite the impressive performance figures, only 2970 units left the factory during the first year of production in 2006, followed up by a comparably sad 921 units the next year in 2007, before dropping down further to a fractional 239 in the final year; when the Magnum itself was dropped from the dodge lineup in 2008. In total just over 4000 units left the factory over 3 years of production, with the ultra rare 2008 facelift models being the most coveted by collectors.
Today the SRT8 Magnum holds up as a solid daily for a discriminating buyer, and as the second to last American V8 wagon ever made. With low production numbers, lead footed drivers and 14 long years having passed since the end of production, Expect to pay mid 20s for sub 100,000 mile examples of this HEMI powered family hauler…. That is, if you can find one.
