When we think of a Toyota Celica, the words that immediately come to our mind are ‘style’ and ‘expediency’. Coming from a Japanese family with reliability as its middle name, the Celica, a sporty version, which was introduced in 1970, although well into its seventh generation, still retains its charisma.
The first generation Celica was extremely successful as a reliable vehicle, and was powered by a 1.9 litre 8R-C SOHC four cylinder engine. In fact, a point to note is that all through its seven generations, the Toyota Celica has been motorized by four-cylinder engines.
The succeeding generations of this popular vehicle witnessed several significant alterations and revisions that contributed a lot towards increasing its market value and performance car factors in general. The seventh generation of the Toyota Celica which came into production in 2000 enjoys a tremendous fan-following today in several parts of the world.
The Gen-7 Toyota Celica with a fantastic chassis and a light-weight body was manufactured in two distinct models. The first one was the 1.8 Litre 4-cylinder AAT230 engine with 140 hp which was considered economical, and the second one was a higher powered ZZT231 1.8 Litre 191 hp engine, that gained more popularity in Europe and Japan. Another significant feature of the Gen-7 engines is that both these versions were fitted with the VVT-i system that regularized the camshaft timings. The Toyota Celica GT was released in Europe in 2005 with a six-speed manual transmission, extra body kits and bigger alloys.
