{"id":74116,"date":"2021-07-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=74116"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:54:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:54:17","slug":"drive-toyota-celica-turbo-4wd-carlos-sainz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/drive-toyota-celica-turbo-4wd-carlos-sainz\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive: Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD Carlos Sainz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not quite a year ago we had the opportunity to get acquainted with the very first generation of the Toyota Celica. The occasion was a small tour of the friends of the Toyota Collection in Cologne. After the opening of this factory collection on every first Saturday of the month had to be cancelled for the time being due to the Corona pandemic, this tour made a meeting on wheels possible. No one suspected at the time that this crisis would last so long and continue to preoccupy us. So now there was a second edition of the ride. This time, however, specifically in good weather in the summer instead of in the autumnal rain. About 85 vehicles started at the Toyota Collection in Cologne Marsdorf in the direction of the Biggesee. One of them came directly from the factory collection and was reserved for us. Once again it was a Celica. However, this fiery red playmobile didn’t have much more than the name and the number of wheels in common with our vehicle from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A popular read, now also test driven<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A popular and often read article in the Secret Classics archive is about the Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD Carlos Sainz<\/a><\/strong>. Exactly this car was now available to us for a driving report as part of the summer drive. So we directly skipped three model generations and found ourselves behind the wheel of the fifth Celica. Not just any variant, but the homologation special model for Group A of the World Rally Championship transported us this time to the Sauerland area. Internally, this generation is known as T18, built between 1989 and 1994. The sports version was given the abbreviation ST185 and competed in the WRC from 1990. For this, Toyota had upgraded the sports coup\u00e9 with all-wheel drive and a turbocharged engine. While in some markets it was called Celica GT-Four or Celica Turbo All-Trac, in Central Europe it was given the sober designation Celica Turbo 4WD. In road trim, 150 kW\/204 hp from two liters of displacement were available.<\/p>\n\n\n

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