I enjoyed it. Its interesting because the show focusses heavily on post war European cars. Most were virtually tin cans with engines but still- it really draws a sort of gross comparison between postwar Europe and the US where we were driving these insanely huge and heavy cars while across the pond the cars they had…

I saw a BBC show about “cars of the people” or something like that, hosted by one of the original top gear guys. Anyway they did a segment on some of these small 3 wheel basic cars and in some European countries- France included- one could buy one of these WITHOUT an actual license, which is insane given how tipsy…

These are one of the few vehicles that Toyota made where the engine is garbage. You “might” make it 150k before the engine blows the head gasket. Despite the hipster appeal this thing has... Cap for the engine alone.

I had a go cart as a kid with a yoke shaped steering wheel. It was great until I hit a tree one day and the end of it hit me in the ribs...

Exactly. Most people forget that when you have lots of oil that forms on the freeway and then it rains the result is a slick slurry and thus no real friction. Especially for rwd cars

Someone didn't learn that when it starts to rain roads will get slick.

Uh.... no he won’t.

Yes. Everyone tried to buy it all the time. I'd be at Safeway and some guy would say- hey, that's one of those super rare super tracs. I'll give you $100,000 for it. I turned them down though.

I owned the ultra rare super trac version which was even faster. They made only two of those and it too was as slow as molasses.

Actually one day I took my taco to the race track and raced on of these celicas. I won the race easily and the other guy was embarrassed.

Broo ha ha

I feel bad for the guy. clearly a LOT of time went into building that and now the thing more or less looks destroyed.

I was a lifelong Toyota and Honda owner until 2.5 years ago. We bought a gently used Chevy Volt, the first domestic car I’ve ever owned. Granted maybe this isn’t a fair comparison because the Volt is a special snowflake car but the quality has been impressive. 75,000 miles so far and its still just as tight as it was…

Let me help you feel better. I owned an 88' Celica. Sure. It looked nice. It was reliable. But holy shit was that thing slow. How slow? Well let me just say that after I traded it in wayyyyy back in 1996 for my small 2Wd 2.2 liter manual transmission Tacoma ( still own ) compared to the Celica the Tacoma was totally…

Yeah but the fact that you could probably eat off the floor at the Tokyo station is key. I live in the SF Bay Area and the trains and train stations are simply nasty. I absolutely avoid those areas if at all possible as a result.

I'm looking at this way more broadly than you. At this point Hillary could be a rock. I'd vote for a rock over trump. If he is elected he will ruin our country. I don't give one flying fuck about whatever other stuff might be tied to Clinton but she is the nominee and so you have two choices.

So then are you ok with having trump for your next president? I ask because if you guys decide not to vote for Hillary then that very may be what you get in return.

Let’s cut be crap. It is now mathmaticaly impossible for Bernie to win the nomination. So it’s now trump. Or Hillary.Seems like a real fucking easy choice . Either vote for a facist or a boring democrat.

These cars are surprisingly quick. That and they will run forever. My mom had one that she passed down to my brother. He thrashed that car yet it had over 320,000 miles when he sold it.

Oh yeah. I forgot!