Celica Trd Sports M Question

September 29, 2004

Does anyone know if there are any genuine UK cars, or are all TRD sports M models imported?

Thanks

September 30, 2004

As far as I'm aware they're all imports.

October 1, 2004

Yep cerainly are all imports, the UK will never see a sports M in production gotta import them from Japan. Unless you can find a supplier to get the Headlights, LSD, FLywheel, Header and other bits imported.

Edit:- Did'nt "drunkenduck" have a TRD sports-M for sale ?

October 1, 2004

That's what made me curious. I would have preferred to go for a UK car for insurance reasons, but if there are no genuine UK cars obviously I can't.

At the moment I am trying to choose between an Elise, the TRD celica, and a the possibility of a supercharger upgrade to my ST182...

October 2, 2004

That's what made me curious. I would have preferred to go for a UK car for insurance reasons, but if there are no genuine UK cars obviously I can't.
At the moment I am trying to choose between an Elise, the TRD celica, and a the possibility of a supercharger upgrade to my ST182...

The Celica is a genuine car in the U.K. the 140 / 190 and T-Sports are to U.K. specification, your correct in saying that insurance will be cheaper (bit of a con IMHO)

The Sports-M is for Japan only will never be a option over here due to certain persons who do not realise that there is a market for aftermarket TRD performance items for our cars They have only just started to sell "TTE" items in some dealerships in the U.K.

I would suggest test driving an Elise and also a Celica 190 VVLTI (T/Sport) both of which are very nice cars. If you are set on the Import route, you will get more toys, but the fuel octain is different in Japan they use 101 in the UK unleaded is 95 but you would probably run Optimax at 98 RON. Hope this helps a little