Got smoked by a Camry!!! Options

[Zephyr]

I thought I'd get around waiting in line at a red light by gunning it from a stop at an intersection where my lane ended in a quarter of a mile or so. I wasn't trying to race anybody, I haven't done that since I was in highschool. I guess the guy next to me thought I was trying to race and he gunned it as well, and I figured "What the hell, lets see what this thing can do..."

Of course I lost. At least it wasn't by much, he just kept inching ahead of me in his lane. I was giving it all I had, but I just wasn't any match for the Camry Power. My folks had the same kind he was driving when I was younger and I can remember putting Camaros to shame in that thing.

The strange thing is, I thought the Camry and Celica have the same powerplant...

Anyway, I've seen people on this site sort of laugh when people refer to our Celicas as sports cars. I guess it's true, because short of a bunch of modifications, Celicas just look nice. I can remember a buddy of mine teasing me at a red on our way to work from the driver's seat of his Chevy S-10 right before he laid a patch and left me a half mile behind him as I tried to catch up in my 91 GTS, I just figured my 96 might have more pep in it since it has a hundred thousand less miles on it than the older one did. I guess not.

Oh well, I'm not a leadfoot anyway. I much rather prefer going twenty in a 35 so everybody sees how sweet my car looks!

[yep]

i just recently got my celica, actually that was yesterday... and anyway before that i drove a 92 camry, 4 cyl. auto. That car was slow as ****. Maybe it was just the fact that it had 307k miles on it... i dont know. Anyway, the transmission went on it so now its pretty much totalled... sad to see the camry go, many great memories. But hopefully ill have just as good memories in my celica.