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Title: 185 on TV
Post by: Coyoteboy on May 10, 2009, 07:44:39 pm
On a programme called "Primeval" - not sure exactly what it is but it was on in the background, but part of it was set in a scrap yard and there, say with no wheels was a fairly neat looking red 185! Poor thing.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 11, 2009, 09:57:14 am
If mine dont start behaving it will be joining it!!
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 12:40:53 am
Seen that. Best place for it really.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 11:41:41 am
Seen that. Best place for it really.

Could sit on top of yours.  8)
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 11:46:25 am
EVERYBODY knows that the 185 is nothing more than a re-bodied 165. It was a marketing ploy to make the Celica more attractive to the limp-wristed brigade who were afraid of the 165s manliness. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 11:49:42 am
EVERYBODY knows that the 185 is nothing more than a re-bodied 165. It was a marketing ploy to make the Celica more attractive to the limp-wristed brigade who were afraid of the 165s manliness. ;D ;D ;D

LMAO

Look on the bright side though, I could have bought a faff.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 11:50:58 am
EVERYBODY knows that the 185 is nothing more than a re-bodied 165. It was a marketing ploy to make the Celica more attractive to the limp-wristed brigade who were afraid of the 165s manliness. ;D ;D ;D

LMAO


And donated it to a tuning shop?
Look on the bright side though, I could have bought a faff.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 12:29:10 pm
he is getting a bit touchy about it.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 12:31:07 pm
LMAO, As if that matters. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 12:49:22 pm
Fair comment.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: paul_gt4 on May 12, 2009, 01:07:58 pm
so can i comment in this thread now?

there is a bright side, its orange and every side is bright.......
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 01:21:46 pm
you may comment if you promise to behave yourself and stop being such a fanny simply because Baz and I choose to slag off your car.  ;)
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 01:35:18 pm
so can i comment in this thread now?

there is a bright side, its orange and every side is bright.......

I don't know how you can hold your head up after basing a car on, above all things, a can of..................










































Irn Bru.
Oh the shame.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: Coyoteboy on May 12, 2009, 01:37:45 pm
I thought the 165 was the release they did based on a design envelope, before they'd finished the design process ?  Sure doesnt look like a finished article to me ;D
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 01:49:10 pm
I thought the 165 was the release they did based on a design envelope, before they'd finished the design process ?  Sure doesnt look like a finished article to me ;D

Then again by your own admission you don't know about their rally heritage and so are biased against the true greatness of the 165.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: Coyoteboy on May 12, 2009, 02:00:40 pm
No no, you miss quote me - I said I never bought one because of its rally heritage, not that I currently have no knowledge of it - get it right  ;D ::)
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 02:06:18 pm
No no, you miss quote me - I said I never bought one because of its rally heritage, not that I currently have no knowledge of it - get it right  ;D ::)

Bazza - possibly, yes! The Four (Especially the CS) epitomises how I like cars to look (not how I like others to see me, as some people assume) and further investigation found it to be more interesting than just any old attractive car. I was 10 when it was rallying, I had no real following of WRC until later in life. TBH though stuff like scoobies have rally heritage too (to some degree), as do Lancias - but I'd not buy one of either of those! :)

Celicas were never a WRC they were group A
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: Coyoteboy on May 12, 2009, 02:14:48 pm
Again, I never said celicas were WRC, just that I didnt follow WRC (and hence read into the rally heritage) until after I bought it. Keep trying ;)
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 02:15:24 pm
there was a group b celica though.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 02:17:53 pm
And a group 4 but both were RWD.
165 was first AWD.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 02:20:08 pm
165 was the 1st awd celica, though not toyotas first attempt at an awd rally car.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 02:49:01 pm
Group S doesn't count as it was essentially a prototype.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 02:52:16 pm
Took you long enough to go off and find that one.  Group s was the intended group though this was limited to 1200cc engines, the car they developed ran a 2000cc so would never have been a group s car, it would have been a group b car except for the powers to be dropping group b in 1987.  And the car was?
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: bazza2541 on May 12, 2009, 09:03:50 pm
Mk 1 MR2.
Title: Re: 185 on TV
Post by: karbon on May 12, 2009, 09:07:24 pm
correct mate.  Would have been an animal if it had made a rally.