Euan

Shame they use such a pointlessly fake looking image to illustrate the effect - just makes me think that the actual effect looks pathetic (hence using a fake image to make it look good).

Pop over here: http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin/toyota/bv/frame_start.jsp?id=Heritage_Celica_BrochuresAnd take a look at the brochure dated a little before the age of your car ... should find it there. Though from the sounds of it yours is a Celica 190

GHD - fancy hairdressing stuff As to the Style and Premium packs (technically models if you look at Toyota's brochures!), they're basically: Premium = climate control, tilt/slide sunroof, full leather Style = 17" alloys, spoiler, aluminium effect pedals, enhanced sound system with woofer, manual aircon

Well, here're four quick colours to avoid... :-)

Heck, I remember one time when I'd been around at a mate's, getting back to my car to find a drunken couple just about to get jiggy over my bonnet (I think the exact quote from the man I interrupted was "I was going to do her up the arse")... boy was that one a close escape! (considering all the fun little scratches that zips and studs might've left, nevermind any possible stains...)

Yeah, I really wish more car parks were like Costco's - the spaces are at a 45 degree angle to the bits you drive through, and the spaces have a good foot-wide marking between them.Sorry to hear about the car in the OP.

If the car is going at a set speed, yes, bigger wheel = slower axle speed. But the car's speed isn't externally controlled, it's a function of the engine and gearbox making the axles turn through lots of revolutions per minute. Boring maths time-> Using http://www.etyres.co.uk/tyre-size-calculator.htm - 195/65/15 tyres give a diameter of 643mm, multiply by 3.14 (approximation of pi) gives a circumference of 2019mm. So for every rotation of the axle, the car will move 2019mm forward. 70 miles = 112 654 080 millimetres (=112.65km), so it takes 55797 revolutions of the wheel to go 70 miles, if you want to do that in 60 minutes (for 70mph) then that's 930 RPM near as dammit. So the speedo will be calibrated, more or less, to read at 70mph when it's doing 930RPM at the axle. Now, let's imagine we whack on some 17" rims, and go to 195/55/17s. These are 646mm diameter, so about 2028mm circumference. So at 930RPM, we go 1886040mm in a minute, or 113 162 400mm in an hour... 113.16km. Speedo will read the same, as the axles are going at the same number of RPM, but the actual distance travelled in a set time is further - so a higher actual vehicle speed (albeit we're still only dealing with very small percentages, and given that a speedo can be 10% out and still OK...)

If we moved the car at a set speed, say 30mph as measured by GPS, then yes, with larger wheels the speedo would under-read by more.But as Bill T says - the speed's factoring off the number of revolutions of the axle, and for a given number of revolutions of the axle, the bigger the wheel the faster the speed.

Other way around surely!Larger wheel circumference means more distance travelled per revolution means a higher speed at a given number of revs.

So from that, 205/50/16 is almost identical size wise, 195/50/16 is 1.3% smaller, or 195/55/16 is 1.97% larger.

Yep - because it means that for one rotation of the wheel, the car travels less distance, so you need more rotations of the wheel to travel the same number of miles.Will also marginally improve acceleration and reduce top speed (not that hitting top speed is an issue on the roads!)

AIUI, ultrasonic refers to extremely high pitched sound, while supersonic is for things going faster than the speed of sound (like jet fighter planes).

So flocking the whole car is right out then? It'd be unique...

Oo, flocked, now there's an idea! .. yeah, painted.

Hint of Ford Focus with the front wheelarch on the black one for me too... not sold!

I'd try grabbing ImgBurn (it's free), and use that to record your image file directly to disc. Sounds as though you might have been burning the image as a file onto a disc with Nero... whereas really it's a special sort of file that contains an image of several files and how they are to be laid out on the disc that needs to be recorded as an image rather than a file, if you get what I mean!

Hadn't seen the Toyota Celica XX 20000GT Twincam 24 before before, looks like a close stablemate to the Mk1 MR2!

As others have said - while access to the back isn't quite as handy as with a five-door, it's very possible to get a child seat in the back, the boot is cavernous, and what's more it's an ace car to drive:

Facelift also gets the pink rear light clusters, as opposed to the earlier ones with distinct red/orange/white bits...

Aha. Despite falling into the right age category to have watched Bod when little, I can't ever recall using "PC Copper" as a generic term!

I fear you may have fallen for a bit of a myth, the word's far older than the TV programme...From http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2209/why-are-the-police-called-cops-pigs-or-the-fuzz

Not even entirely sure what red projectors would look like, but on the basis of basically colouring the black bits in red...