Ugliest Toyota Ever

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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,139
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    Nice ride
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
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    speaking of ugly Toyotas -- perhaps when new this one was stylish, but note the location and the Toyota Racing Development (ahem, TRD) graphic on this battle-scarred Tercel.

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    source: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/caption-contest/caption-contest-toyota-tercel-trd-wagon-in-front-of-outhouse/

    It's even (roughly) the right color...
    :#

    PS Remember when that high roofline look was a thing on these little proto-"SUV" wagons and microminivans? Like the Dodge Colt Vista? B)

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    or the early '90s CR-V?

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    PPS I had forgotten that generation of Tercels -- I could've done without a reminder, but CC wanted me to have flashbacks, I suppose. ;)


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  • Tony M
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    I'll bet they redesigned the roof height to accommodate tall people.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • engtaz
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    Looks like a Pacer with bulges
    engtaz

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
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    engtaz wrote: »
    Looks like a Pacer with bulges

    More like a Pacer that somebody ironed, wouldn't you say? ;)

    I mean, the Pacer was kinda... bulbous. :#

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    I guess nowadays the term might be curvy? B)
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,438
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  • maxward
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    “The first wide small car.”
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  • gudnoyez
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    That new Corrola Jesse posted looks like the Darth Vader version, or like they thought a Bambi Rammer might make it useful when traveling outside the city limits.
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  • Irrenhaus
    Irrenhaus Posts: 1,082
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    Sorry but I really love my Corolla Hatc. Will love to have my hands on that 1.6 300hp all wheel drive baby. For a 3 cylinder is a big engine. Most of them are 1.0l or lower.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
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    Is "big 3 cylinder" a good idea?
    (just a rhetorical question)
    ;)

    In disclosure, and FWIW, when I think of 3-cylinder engines, I hearken back to the Fordson tractors (named for Edsel, Henry Ford's son.). :|

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    2.5 L Diesel 3-cyl

    oh, and SAAB, too :)
    3 cyl, 2 stroke (petrol, tho')

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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,340
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    Pontiac Vibe (Toyota Matrix in GM trim). This is what happens when a car is in the middle of a redesign but is going to be discontinued and the design engineers are gone but haven't finished the rear so an accountant runs to Lowes finishes the job. "Well it needs a rear window. ... There, done!" It gets a big NOPE!
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  • F1nut
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    On point Stan, on point.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • mhardy6647
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    The AWD Matrix & Vibe were cool little cars, though.
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  • VR3
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    May be one of the only Pontiacs that still drive 😛

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  • skrol
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    The pre-face lift Vibe looked decent. The face lift version looked like they gave up on it before complete and just threw some pieces at it. There are still quite a few running around.
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  • nooshinjohn
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    skrol wrote: »
    The pre-face lift Vibe looked decent. The face lift version looked like they gave up on it before complete and just threw some pieces at it. There are still quite a few running around.

    And now they build Tesla's out of that plant...
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  • F1nut
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    The one in Fremont? That was a Toyota plant.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
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    F1nut wrote: »
    The one in Fremont? That was a Toyota plant.

    That it was. NUMMI The GM/Toyota joint venture that originally built Corollas and the badge-engineered Novas. There was some Saturn connection, too -- but memory is hazy at this late date ;)

    We lived in Milpitas when we were in the Silicon Valley, just a few miles away. The Fremont mall was very close to the NUMMI plant. We were way on the northern edge of Milpitas, very close to Fremont and I-680. We used to go to that mall... more than occasionally. Malls were still a thing in those days. ;)
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,206
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    My daughter just bought this yesterday
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,082
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    This particular wannabe is taking aim at the venerable GTI. I do find the one Jesse posted less than attractive and trying way too hard. But it's not really aimed at my (and most of us on here) demographic. This is what the "young" people expect, lots of show, trying to attract attention so to speak.

    I prefer the subdued (some say boring) lines of my GTI. Understated, grown-up and just a hint of sporty w/o announcing "look at me"! Don't care for the look of the extreme Honda Civic either.....too busy and trying too hard.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,082
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    This was my 1st car given to me by parents starting sophomore year of HS 1982

    1975 Datsun B-210 - 4 speed (mine was **** Brown) came with bias ply tires. It was freedom, ugly freedom, but freedom non-the less...lol

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    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • mhardy6647
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    ahh, the B-210. :)
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  • heiney9
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ahh, the B-210. :)

    Actually mine was a sedan now that I remember, not the fastback/hatchback.

    This is it, but **** brown and the end fender guards were not as faded as the ones in this photo.

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    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,585
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    My walk behind lawnmower has more power than those😜
    Just think we thought gas was high in 82, now we dream about those prices.
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  • Irrenhaus
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    heiney9 wrote: »
    This was my 1st car given to me by parents starting sophomore year of HS 1982

    1975 Datsun B-210 - 4 speed (mine was **** Brown) came with bias ply tires. It was freedom, ugly freedom, but freedom non-the less...lol

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    I did have a 2dr 1981 B-210 from my parents with the 4 manual.

    That thing can run for ever. I remember one time I drove the thing with a broken radiator for miles till I got home and been a teen just added water right when I got home. There was a lot of water steam coming from the radiator.

    Next morning installed a new radiator, new thermostat and drove the thing for few more years with not problems.

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  • Emlyn
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    Back in the early '90s a coworker of mine still had one of those little Datsun B210 Honey Bees as his commuter car. A passenger could lift the passenger side rubber floor mat up and watch the road go by underneath. He kept it running for a few more years.
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  • treitz3
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    HA! My Dad's buddy Bob could do the same thing with his 280Z [EDIT: Could have been a 240 or 260Z.....that was a long time ago]. Rust used to be a major issue with Datsuns BITD.

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  • heiney9
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    Irrenhaus wrote: »
    heiney9 wrote: »
    This was my 1st car given to me by parents starting sophomore year of HS 1982

    1975 Datsun B-210 - 4 speed (mine was **** Brown) came with bias ply tires. It was freedom, ugly freedom, but freedom non-the less...lol

    4mgw3lkir5jc.png

    I did have a 2dr 1981 B-210 from my parents with the 4 manual.

    That thing can run for ever. I remember one time I drove the thing with a broken radiator for miles till I got home and been a teen just added water right when I got home. There was a lot of water steam coming from the radiator.

    Next morning installed a new radiator, new thermostat and drove the thing for few more years with not problems.

    Cheers

    It never broke down, always ran, always started. It was my Dad's "work car" originally knowing I'd get it in a year or two. The floor boards were rusted out pretty bad so deep snow and slush would make humps in the floor mats.

    The B-210 was running when we sold it for parts, the strut tower on the brake booster side was rusted pretty bad and leaning on the brake master pretty heavily. If the strut tower let go it would take the brake master cylinder out and we all felt that was too dangerous a situation for 16-17 year old kid (me).

    Just like all the mid/late 70's imports, they were rust buckets, living their lives in the Midwest ate them up quickly.

    His new work car ended up being a 1977 Opel GT. Solid car, but had a bad carb (Solex). You'd have to keep your foot on the gas (as well as brake while coasting in Neutral) when coming to a stop or it would stall. He traded a 1969 Maico 360cc racing bike (equipped for street) for a brand new Weber carb for the Opel GT. That Maico was scary fast!! Probably good he got rid of it. That doubled as a work ride in the warmer months.

    We always had a nice family car, but my Dad's work cars were always inexpensive, older and needed work. All he did was drive to work and back in them, so they didn't have to be that good as long as they were reliable.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • skrol
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    My walk behind lawnmower has more power than those😜
    Just think we thought gas was high in 82, now we dream about those prices.

    Hell, now we dream about 2021 gas prices.
    Stan

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    HT:
    Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60

    Other stuff:
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    heiney9 wrote: »
    This was my 1st car given to me by parents starting sophomore year of HS 1982

    1975 Datsun B-210 - 4 speed (mine was baby **** Brown) came with bias ply tires. It was freedom, ugly freedom, but freedom non-the less...lol

    4mgw3lkir5jc.png

    Fixed it
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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