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It has a manual transmission, turbocharged engine, four-wheel drive and heaps of 90s sports car appeal.
If you’re a diehard JDM fan this is the time to lay your hands on one of the most successful rally car nameplates in Toyota’s automobile past.
This is a 1996 Toyota Celica GT-Four listed on Cars and Bids with no reserve, boasting a clear US title.
The current bid sits at $10,205 with only two days left, so do bid up fast if you want to drive off with this historic JDM performance car, into the sunset; at insane speeds.
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The Celica GT-Four was pretty iconic in rallying and was victorious with flying colors, it debuted in the WRC in 1988 and remained in action until 1997, taking home 30 WRC Series victories in total.
Today, it’s dubbed the most-decorated Japanese rally car of all time and remains every JDM fan’s dream car - if they know their JDMs, that is.
The Toyota Celica GT-Four was the high-performance version of the Celica lift back, so it housed a high-revving turbocharged motor beneath its hood and featured a full-time all-wheel-drive system.
Its lifecycle covers three generations- the ST165, the ST185, and the ST205.
The last one, the ST205 GT-Four was also the meanest one of all the siblings to date.
They remained a forbidden fruit for American fans until they became eligible for imports under the 25-year JDM cooling period.
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This example comes imported from Japan in February 2022 but has a clean title, meaning all JDM hassles (read formalities) are over and done with.
It’s got 170,500 miles on the clock and is currently located and registered in Virginia.
Under the hood, it bears a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 mill hammering out 255 horsepower and 224 lb-ft of torque, and the power goes to all four wheels via a 5-speed manual transmission.
There are modifications done to it, for even more road aggression, so it may make more power.
That said; there’s no dyno graph to confirm the same.
It does list out some mods: a JM 16G turbocharger, HKS blow-off valve, Sard manual fuel pressure regulator, Kakimoto
Racing exhaust, Silicone upper and lower radiator hoses, HKS air filter, and a Tein Street Advance coil-overs.
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