Mk 6 Toyota Celica Convertible Goes for a Drive
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- The Mark 6 Toyota Celica ran from 1993 to 1999 and was the last version to offer a convertible, today we take one of the rare survivors for a drive.
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As someone who drives a white 99 Celica gt convertible, I can say it is fun. There’s something special about driving a car that’s a year older than you are.
A beautiful, stylish, head-turning car backed up with Toyota’s legendary reliability and longevity. Who says you can’t have it all.
Matt, you’re a gem of CZcams. You’re absolutely nuts, totally weird, totally unique. CZcams (and general mainstream media) need more people like you! I don’t mean to cause offense but surely you’d be the first to admit that you naturally slot into the excitable nerd range of the petrolhead spectrum.. good! Your enthusiasm is infectious and you’re really likeable because there is no agenda or pretense. Been following this channel for s good 6 months or so now and just felt it was time to show the love and appreciation. Keep on rock in’, Matt!
Agree entirely.Some guys are so full of themselves it puts me off watching them.
Yeah I agree one of my favourite channels on CZcams for exactly that reason, Matt comes across really well and seems a really genuine likeable guy. Also I'm probably of a similar age so enjoy a lot of the cars featured on the channel, I find the tinkering videos really entertaining as well.
Just like Ian from HubNut😁👍
Thanks everyone!
You hit the nail on the head with your assessment of this channel. The format and content is brilliant.
I hadn’t seen one of there in years until last month. I was driving to the mountains when one slowly eased by me on a rural highway. The top was down, children in the back were happily waving their arms in the slipstream as the adults chatted away up front. They all looked so happy. It was so incongruous with modern cars and modern times that it was shocking. Here was a car that was not that old but spoke to a world that seemed vary different and distant. Car like this used to be everywhere (at least in the southern USA). People bought them to use every day. Modern CUV’s are every bit as fuel effi
Oops! Anyway, CUV’s have comparable performance and efficiency to the fun cars of old, but, damn.... how many slightly different silv....grey....ige boxes do we need to close from?! “Come check out my new badge engineered Buick/Opel, Jeep/Fiat thing! Isn’t it cool?” Yeah........not really.
Thanks for the video Matt. Lovely car.
I've got an old 98 convertible GT here in the states. Bought it pretty cheap, I use it for my side hustle as a pizza delivery driver. It's so much fun. Mine's white with black leather, auto transmission, 170k on the odometer. Still runs like a top. Getting paid to drive it is a dream.
What mpg do you get out of the auto please
I saw one once. In a scrap yard! It was completely flattened in the middle. Apparently a tractor drove over it whe the trailer brakes failed. The car was parked so no one was in it at the time. Very sad looking thing.
Mind the 4 wheel steering if this one has it. My aunty had one of these eons ago. My cousin inadvertently pressed the button to activate the steering. Next time my aunty drove it, the wheels fetched the exhaust off. That "multi box" looks the perfect size for a packet of cigarettes, they japanese love to smoke they sell a lot of trays and tables to stick in cars, to hold coffee and cigs. The clean box is a bin
Good job man! The 'Go for a drive' selection keeps on getting better and better. Really impressed with how you source these rare gems.
Waiting in anticipation for the next vid.
Keep up the good work!
My MK7 Celica has the exact same stalks. I think Toyota used them for years!
Such a nice car, it doesn't even look or feel old to me, it's like it came yesterday, the Interior looks 100 times better then new cars for sure but those seats are just so modren, it dont seem like it's 90s car, it was ahead of its time.
'I've only ever seen one other...
which was this one'. Classic. 👏
What a great spec on that lovely Celica, always loved the front end of the mk6.
Laughed at the Hightower reference, nice one Mat!
I really enjoy celica content especially 6th gen celica content
The 3SGE engine dated back to the gen 4 Celica from 1985 which I believe could also be purchased as a convertible in the UK. However, the gen 5 Celica from 89 - 93 were only available in the UK as a hatchback. All gen 5 coupe and convertibles were all grey imports in to the UK. It wasn't until the release of the gen 6 Celica in 1993 that the convertible was once again directly sold in the UK.
I have a 7th gen 05 model last year they were built. I'm at 117000 miles only had oil changes and brake pads done. Very fun to drive especially in the city switching lanes around other cars.
I just bought a 95 that has the interior redone. Beautiful little car
6:07 There is something fundamentally exciting about a tacho which goes up to 9.
Don’t ever remember seeing one of these in a soft top, and I’m 36!
Super cool car though, and great looking especially for its age😎
A note about Japanese boots, you said they don’t usually have a button to open the boot, just a key hole, or a pull switch by the drivers seat. Well actually my 2005 Avensis has a soft touch button hidden by the rear number plate light, you just press and hold it and pull up the boot lid , there’s no switch inside the car, it just has one near the drivers door pocket for the fuel filler flap👍🏻
Your video has got me fired up again to own another Celica Convertible. My last one was a gen 5 which I imported from Japan 18 years ago which involved a SVA test when it arrived in the UK with it being less than 10 years old at the time. A quick search online and there are dozens of gen 6 and some gen 5 convertibles still available for export from Japan with extremely low mileage and as they are now over 10 years old, I believe the SVA test (or whatever its called now) doesn't apply so quite straight forward to get one registered in the UK.
I just got a 7A FE Celica ST 1994 and i'm excited about it. The only sad part is I had to pay 4250 euros for it because in Portugal everything is overpriced.
The bonnet spoiler is only for the GT-Four. Someone has retrofitted it to that car. The GT-Four had an aluminium bonnet and it was there to stop bonnet flex at speed. I have never heard of one being a factory option for the ST202's as their bonnets were steel.
Wow I had no idea that was the reason, makes sense now!
@@surferdave364 Maybe my 95 Gt-Four doesn't even have one!
You're incorrect.
Incorrect. All UK GT st202s came with them as standard.
Wow how rare are these? This is beautiful car in every way especially the JDM accessories! The upside down wiper spoiler erked me a little lol. Great video Matt - you have - like Ian from HubNut are distinctive and appealing characters and CZcams need more down-to-earth presenters like you. Thoroughly enjoyable video!
How I had no idea they made these. Looks even better than the hardtop edition I think. Think I prefer the rear of the hardtop though
Who stole Scotty Kilmer's car and chopped the roof off it?
lol
😂👍
Rev up ya furious enginessss!
I love celicas I had a gen 2 and 3 when I was a teenager. I really miss the affordable sport coupes although I’m glad the next generation GT 86 will be coming soon
My first car was a mk1 celica 1972, it was already 10 years old when I owned it, only a 1.6cc but when your only 19yrs old it felt special, happy memories 😀
Stephen Godfrey my first car was a mk 2 Escort 1.3L so by the time I got my T reg Celica ST, I really thought I was moving up in the world. Lol
Ive been looking for one of these videos for so long, finally some love for the notchback Celica. I really want to buy one
This car brings back lots of memories. One of my close friends had a red Curren, the JDM coupe version of this, for several years.
Furiousdriving has joined the Scotty Kilmer club.
Matt, I love the attention to detail at 11:30 where you talk about the centre console being useful for holding delicate items, such as a 'very soft peach.' 😆
consumer advice..
Nice. I never actually realised there was a drop top Celica. A hoarder's dream with all the storage
The convertible styling really works. I think its easily the best looking of the MK6 Celica.
Great Vid as always and blown away with your review being the owner of it and FB Celica Convertible group, there is gen 1, 2, 3,4, 5,6, 7 was a concept gen 7 convertible but never produced
Now that is a rare little car. Lovely exhaust note as well. Great review as always. (Nice to see that the interior has somewhere for soft fruits, like peaches etc...!) Thanks Matt.
The rear seats might not ideal for long journeys, but at least you can get into them, in many similar type cars they’re only fit for small children.
Class car, class presenter , class video 👍 Tam.
Valuable future classic.
Nice to see bits of the English countryside if one lives overseas.
Yeh we’re only a small island but have some beautiful countryside.
Of course, part of the reason they were so rare was the fact that they were properly expensive in the UK. As memory serves you could get a pretty decent model BMW 3-Series convertible for the same sort of money, so you'd really need to want the Toyota to buy one new. And the fact that they were not factory-built cars, even if they were factory-approved probably didn't help either as the '90s wasn't really a period when the US had a great reputation for building cars well. I do have to say, though, that for a converted convertible, rather than a car designed to be a soft top, they really do look very good...
This car is ultra rare
Cracking review as always, not sure if I have ever seen these in the flesh but what a stunning car.
very interesting car, copied from the Hyundai Coupe ;-)
Mine is American spec with the 6 speakers . It was a pain trying to figure out how to install a aftermarket stereo. There is also a amp you have to bypass
I've actually seen a couple of these - a black one and a red one, if I remember correctly - up here in South Yorkshire. Quite a nice conversion by ASC, as you say. And I love all the dealer accessories the owner has added 👍 cool car!
Hi Matt,nice review of this Toyota Celica,I only thought they did hard top ones not soft top,its had a few extras that makes it stand out,a very nice car.
I had a lovely red 2.0 GT for a while a few years ago. Paid £350 for it and only intended to keep it a few months... ended up keeping it for 2 years.
Yep till now Jdm cars still has a flare inside. My family's 2012 Toyota Alphard has one
i didn't even think twice about these, i thought the convertible was rather common as theirs 2 locally to me, one black and one dark red
Lovely car great content matt .....☕☕☕☕☕☕☕🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks 👍, it is a fun thing
What a beauty! Would love to have driven this.
Great review. Not a fan of convertibles or Toyota's but these always struck me as having a certain charm. But I would adore a 1980's Volvo 262c or a 70's Citroen DS 21 Chapron convertible, but fat chance of that happening. Keep up the good work.
Would be great to see you review the 200sx s14 , loved that car back in the day 👍🏿
I wouldn't want to land upside down in that whether I was in the front or back, but particularly in the back.
Nice car, great review, I've always fancied the coupe version, maybe one day 😀
"Such shaky footage today. This car must be flexing and wobbling along the road, like driving a shoe box without the lid."
Then I noticed the camera was angled sideways from the windscreen, not the passenger window, and it has a massive lens suspended at a 90 degree angle. The Celica probably doesn't flex much at all, the camera glass just adds a lot of weight on the suction cup mount.
Daniel van Slooten Not sure about that. Did you notice the shaking of the driver's side front window when the camera was on the outside? There appeared to be up 40mm of gap at times. EDIT: LOL - did I say 40mm? More like 7-9mm. My bad - long day. Cheers
@@just_meuploading1902 Oh yeah, you can see it at 14:00, that window is flapping like a banner on a boat.
Thats the same mount thats normally on the side window, but side windows in a hard top car are moving differently to the windscreen
The glass has a bit of movement but there is no body flex or scuttle shake. It was the design of the back windows with the curved runners. Also the windows have adjusters so the owner of this one could make a slight adjustment to line them up.
6:50 Digital clock ten years out of date? :P Toyota were still using that clock until about 5 years ago...
Nice car
A flare in a car! Damn good idea. Don't bother with your mobile when you break down, just send up a few distress rockets...
Variable intake runners. Yamaha engine non interference motor(handy). Super-strut suspension on the jdm models too
Some EUDM models had the superstrut suspension too.
heard him call a cupholder a "tea shelf"... Day ruined😔
Homophone said sell-eek-ah 😂
These are great cars
A convertible Celica? I had never seen that. Is difficult to see a regular coupe, let alone a convertible. Unfortunately, by the time this car came out, the Celica was a weird looking car. Previous generations were better looking in my opinion, especially the 4yh gen. That’s the best looking of them all.
Interesting fact Britain buys more soft tops than any other country in Europe testimony to our eccentricity and optimism😁
Believe it or not we have the perfect climate for it.
@@Brickhazard except all the rain you mean?
@@revivedfears No mild climate. Convertible in a hot country is not that great when it is 40 degrees outside.
Yes it’s not like we even get the weather😂
Typical contrary attitude! Its normally cold or wet when I drive one..
Never knew they were chopped by ASC, I knew they did the 80s Celica convertibles, but I thought they were factory. It's missing one extra...... wood trim, which my R202 GT hardtop had, which I think was a dealer addition. Wasn't real wood though😂😂😂
Im afraid i would have to do an armrest, cubby hole tea tray delete and save about 30kg in plastic. 😂
Theres a white 99 142,000 miles auto for sale for 4,000 usd should i get it? I like it and really seriously think i will not regret it isit truethese can go 300-400,000 us miles if taken care of ive had 3 celicas in 90's 2000's and i miss them so i think ive made my own mind up but what doesthe chat think?
Don't think I've ever seen one, had too much scuttle shake for me.
Also wouldn't like to be a rear seat passenger if it rolled, I couldn't see any protection at all !
Agreed. You have no head left!
I have owned two of these over the years. They are GREAT motors. One would have to be an extremely inexperienced driver or in full ASS-HAT mode to roll it. This is a toyota celica convertible ....NOT A MIATA TRACK CAR or an HONDA S2000!
A very rare spec in a very rare Celica. Celicas were always great cars rwd to fwd and convertible options and just kept getting better. Makes you wonder why Ford let the Capri die and fade away. Celicas prove that the coupe market remained. The Calibra was gorgeous, but the Celica was better. Those taillamps are uber cool. JDM accessories are mind boggling probably because the Japanese are proper Petrolheads. 🇯🇵. Bring back full size spare wheels. Just get dealers to tell people to carry less luggage.
17:11 - Who is holding the camera and where are they sitting??!
That's a pretty car. Actually it could be a great car. Would love one...
Always liked the Celica wouldn’t buy one but they were good looking cars back in the day! So sad how so little are left now!
"Always liked the Celica wouldn’t buy one"..that's why they went away ..lol
Yeah I suppose so there were so many sporty coupes in the mid nineties so it had no breathing room so yes that is why they went away because it was unpractical and too expensive
@@carravioli4803.. People were
n't buying them in large enuf numbers
@Planes Trains & Dogs n Cars and why is that?
@@carravioli4803 Yeah ..your guess is as good as mine..one more generation and they were gone ...SUV's began to surge i guess.
As someone who knows about cars and can name every make and model of most VWs BMWs Ferrari Porsche etc etc i can honestly say i never knew Toyota made a convertible Celica!! it totally defeats the original concept of the Celica as taking away the roof must make the car very wobbly round corners and also less top speed etc etc so odd.
They even made a coveritble concept of the last/seventh gen Celica which looks amazing! Although as you say the performance impact would take away from the lightweight sports coupe feeling
@@FairyLiquid69 Yep only sports car the soft top ever worked out well for was the Mazda MX5 but sadly most of the originals from the early 90s have rusted away nowadays
@@christineayres5339 yes sadly that's what happened to mine, definitely one of the most fun cars I've driven
@@FairyLiquid69 Yeah sad the JDM cars rust so bad after a few years, Italian cars the same ,ive had a lot of fun in old Fiat Pandas or Cinquecentos in the past but again they fall to bits , good while they lasted though lol
@Lord Rupert LOL no one knows everything
Shame - another convertible and no hood demonstration!
I like the car, maybe get one because one is for sale near me (MANUAL TRANSMISSION--YES PLEASE) Have to check it out first. I've several other
Scotty Kilmer approves.
Fantastic and rare. Like it.
Soft top much prettier than the regular coupe.......cant say the same for the scuttle shake tho....
Actually not bad, better than many soft tops
Thats a lot of power for a 2.0 NASP. Is it vvt or anything like that?
I think it is a variable valve
The Curran frontend looks more like a honda prelude. Prefer the celica. Nice find.
Great video. Those Toyota's are bullet proof with freezing cold air conditioning.
I always felt this was a step back in design from the previous generation, a bit too fussy 😬
Those dials must be the most boring piece of automotive engineering i've ever seen. The front end of the car is overcomplicated and with to many lights same as the Hyundai Coupe restyling. I really like the back of the car. Simple and clean. Still, Matt you are the best in rewieving this kind of cars.
It's a not-well kept secret that the Gen6 Celica is the best car in the world. Well I think so: www.colin99.co.uk/mycar-2018.jpg
I've added remote control boot operation, but it's otherwise stock, complete with original wheels. It does have a space saver spare wheel and boot light. Alas no heated mirrors on mine.
Celeeka
Uummm ..A flare ! ,for those times you've crashed out it the desert with only one days water left..somehow reminds me of the safety air drill aboard an aircraft..after surviving the ditching in the ocean i'm supposed to blow the friggin whistle.
We don’t have that problem living on a little island😂 unless you breakdown in the Scottish highlands in the winter, then you run the risk of freezing to death🥶
@@matty6848😏I think i'd rather carry a lightsabre..for you know ..lightsabre fights by the side of the road...lol
haha no, you leave it on the road to warn traffic!
toyota celica coin tray edition!
That arm rest looks like an aftermarket one off ebay. Not very factory looking
ok
How you get on with the rover P6
still working on them
*Xenon headlights
Now mr Furious will get to meet Scotty Killmer and receive a reward.
So surprised you liked it considering the atrocious culinary storage aspects of it......
I would have like to have seen what the car looked like without that stupid roof cover, and see how it would look and ride without it.
If I found it completely driveable without it, that cover would go straight in the bin.
Looks a bit Hyundai coupe ish from the front.
Never heard it pronounced cel-leek-a / us = cel-ih-ka, from '71 through the end :)
thats normal here
Lose the tea shelf bit, never heard of it - perhaps it was a thing back in the 50's or 60's, don't need it, either a car has cup holders or it does not- they are not a tea shelf. That cup holder is demonstrably not a shelf so calling it that is daft. Dash boards do not consider and have not considered putting things on them for decades- certainly in none of my cars, perhaos people movers did but not even them now. Does not work like a triangle of doom gimmick, which is a point for driving at least. Once again- STOP IT!
59 lol
Crystal clear indicators were not an option, they're a readily available aftermarket item you can buy in droves from Ebay