The Celica, An ongoing car of controversy. Options

[snadman]

For now, I'm keeping my Celica as a daily driver and RX7 as performance. The ongoing question I get asked when driving my Celica though...."Is it fast?"...

How do you define fast? Will it beat a stock Civic...sure. Will beat any slightly modded Civic...yeah most likely.

Well, then you ask...what about a turbo'd car...does it keep up? This is the question I have trouble answering and here is why. A few weeks ago, I lost 50 bucks to a kid in a 93 Talon TSI. I actually had him, i'm an auto his being a turbo manual, until he hit third and he beat me by three car lengths. I then race a 96 Talon TSI, with an automatic...and win by a bumper.

I'm very confused on what to answer to this question, so....my question to this board is...what do you say when you're asked "Is that car fast?"

Personally, I say that it's fast enough, but what do you guys say? Obviously, if you have boost...this question doesn't apply to you because your Celi is another category...but to those of you with N/A Celi's...what do you answer?

Thanks for your help in this ongoing controversial question.

[Silver94CelicaOw...]

I wouldnt say that a GT is slow....it has some serious pep to it, and can keep me entertained, but out of trouble with the law at the same time.

A friend of mine rode in my car for the first time the other day, and i was just kinda crusing along like i usually do. He was telling me how it felt like we were going alot more than 45-50 cuz the way the celica has really direct feeling acceleration, which ive always thought was very true. So i made a turn on to his road which was a big wide road going to a development area, and i hit it pretty hard to his encouragement.....i was kinda suprised, cuz the 5s can dish it out when you really want it to.

Now add boost to that equation.....mmmmm