do the feel the same way, whats you opinion .. Options

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Just somthing i was thinking about...a lot of peopel on here hate the 7th gen celica... but i wonder if the 4th and 3th and so on .. gen. owners feel the same way about our cars... ??

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QUOTE (kuya1284 @ Jul 5, 2003 - 12:50 PM)

Good post! I can totally feel you when you were describing the diminished characteristic of the 7th gen. When you said that you don't know what it is about the 7th gen that disappoints you, I highly agree with you in regards to the lack of class or prestige. Since the advent of the GT-FOUR, we've seen the Celica pushed to its limits on the tracks and in the rally world. However, the 7th gen lacks that characteristic. Fun to drive? Maybe. Does it uphold the reputation that it once had? Not any longer. I don't take into how people complain that the 7th gens are all over the road nowadays; but I do agree with how a lot of the 7th gen owners (mostly kids) are ignorant about their own cars, as well as previous gens. But you know, we were all at that stage at some point in our lives. I'm 25 now. I can still remember joining my first racing team and was still learning about the whole seen. I can honestly say that I was ignorant in high school and thought that I could just run down to any local tuner shop and purchase a turbo kit. But times have changed; I've grown and learned a lot since then and I'm sure that those young ignorant 7th gen owners will eventually (I hope) become more educated as they grow older. -Ray

Hey Ray! I whole-heartedly agree! There is a definite lack of prestige in the 7th gen. There's no flair to it since it's become one of those Dodge Stratus cookie cutter styled cars!

I was actually looking at one today and you can tell -- it's just not a finished product in terms of styling. I've even driven a couple of them, and there's none of that genuine Toyota feel. It had the feel of a Civic or Integra.. but whatever.

It's clear the prestige is gone! But I will say these final two comments :

(1) Many many many people tell me they LOVED the 6th gens hands down over the new Celica. Our cars are finished products, and you can tell whatever team designed it paid extreme attention to every detail!

(2) My girlfriend and I stayed at a fancy hotel up here in Toronto a few weeks ago because of some theatre-dinner-show package we had bought. Anyhow. I called the valley from the room before we headed down stairs and asked for the person to bring the car up. Anyway the front driveway is a huge covered roundabout with thousands of lightbulbs on the ceiling. Gives cars that are parked under it this "dazzling" effect. So when I looked out at my car it was parked along side three other cars. A Ferrari 360 Modena, an 99 (or so) E-Class, and a 7th gen celica. The only thing I could think of was "one of these things just don't belong" (and I'm not talking about the Ferrari either! lol)