Import Vs. America Muscle, Kill Story...bye bye bye IROC! Options

[Guest_DJMC_Celica_*]

So my buddy has a 1987 Chevy Camaro Z28 IROC. And all he does is brag how fast it is, so he has 18"Chrome Rims, which are even heavier than my 19s because his tire base is wider. So he was talking mad **** about how he wanted to race me. We hit the Interstate 90. And stopped and took off, i must admit he had me on the first 5 secs but i punched it into 3rd and smoked him! i was almost a car and half length ahead before i shifted in to 4th. When he was shifting his car sounded like it was going to fall apart. Not to mention i know this kid is a good driver. But was it nice to say..."A Ricer beats A.M."

[TheReader]

Hi everyone,

First, I must give my apologies for the following long post. This is my second post and I hope I do not clutter too much of the cyber space.

Reliability of the Sixth Generation Toyota Celica (6GC)

This topic is very interesting. There seems to be various misconceptions on the reliability of the 6GC when comparing it against various levels, including car, make and locality.

One must really focus on the individual car (even for a new car) to assess its reliability. Numerous factors can affect the reliability including:

* Company (why the car was build, its investment on the model, the focus on electricals and engine, materials, the actual build process, etc)
* Person (how the car was driven, its history on maintenance and repair, etc)

Obviously, trying to obtain the above information is almost impossible if one does not own the car. In fact, I understand that it might sound very ironic and really defeats the purpose of buying a car when one must own a car before one can actually know its reliability.

Therefore, while being unable to know its true reliability, to a certain extent, there are some propositions which one can use to ascertain a potential reliability of a car.

Upon research (albeit only over the Internet) for the past year, I believe I would make the following very general propositions (with all other things being equal) based on the previous views of the members of this topic:

1. The 6GC is one of the most reliable cars made by Toyota.
2. Toyota and Honda are the companies which consistently make the most reliable cars (which require the less maintenance or daily care). Mercedes Benz and BMW reliability is current declining against Toyota and Honda.
3. Mercedes Benz and BMW has engine reliability comparable to Toyota and Honda although their respective maintenance and daily care must be higher than Toyota and Honda to maintain its reliability. Their electricals are definitely not as reliable as the electricals of Toyota and Honda.
4. Imports are generally more reliable than "local" cars.

Obviously, those views are my thoughts but I believe they are correct. I hope you would come to the same conclusions after research as well.

Thanks for reading,
TheReader