OK, NOW you sound like my “father”.

Plus, they always put in a ton of work to make some tiny profit so you know you’re getting a great deal.

Did just every company have a car that looked roughly like this back in the 60's? Even my beloved Toyota/Yamaha partnership produced the Toyota 2000GT.

This wouldn’t be the worse thing I ever daily drove. It’s in marginally better shape than the car I went to college with. Far less miles, too.

Open headers on a Honda engine? Have you lost your mind?

I think it looks nice.

I still have a copy of the 2001 Japanese TRD All Sports Catalog in my garage. It’s a half an inch thick. At that time they had basically anything you could ever want for any Supra, MR2 or Celica GT4, the trucks and sooo many other Toyotas. Oversized valves, Camshafts, Intakes, exhausts, full suspensions and bodykits-…

I’ve got a buddy with a 3S-GTE swapped RAV4 and that is one of the most fun vehicles I’ve ever ridden in. So I can’t really explain to you why this is 100% CP for me in any way that means anything. Except when you add in the price. I’d still be voting CP at 1/4 of that price.

I mispoke earlier. The car did have one redeeming quality that I can remember - that super plush seating was extremely comfortable. Did yours have like built in throw pillows made of plush like hers?

WHOOOOOSH!

Unfortunately, I do. My ex had the 318 V8 version (1983) and I’m still trying to figure out how you engineer a V8 to only produce 135HP and still have it be a flaming pile of shit.

Absolutely do NOT go with the Mirada. An ex of mine had one and there is, seriously, no redeeming qualities whatsoever in that vehicle.

LOL Houston and Miami are the other big car towns. Owning a car in NYC is an exercise in idiocy.

I’ve never seen it. The animated Hobbit movies people tried to force me to watch when I was a child have left me completely unable to even try. That was God-awful “entertainement”

V6 TT

My father finally purchased his first new car at the age of 43 - a 90's Corsica. I remember being so thoroughly disappointed in him with his choice. Two years later I bought my first new car and it was a first year Saturn (mostly because I couldn’t afford the Camry I actually wanted for my wife and kids), so I have no…

Agreed. It looks like the wiring I did when I was 19yo on my first swap (‘86 Celica GTS 3S-GE to 3S-GTE). It was a constant source of headache on an otherwise incredibly reliable car. It did force me to learn to properly wire 12v tho.

I had wondered about that - thank you. I suppose no company would dare to equip a vehicle with such things today due to potential lawsuits. Kind of sad, really.

Thank you, sir. I’m trying very hard not to buy a MKV Supra right now. Comments like yours keep me from doing something stupid.

I envy your distance from California. It’ll be years before they start infesting your state in the same quantities as they have mine.