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I wonder if Toyota missed a beat by not having a diesel gen 6 & 7. Imagine a 2AD-FHV gen 7 with 177bhp and 400Nm@2krpm.

That's a fair point. There's certainly something to be said about SUV popularity in the 90s in the US. One wouldn't have thought that people interested in coupes could be that interested in SUVs, as we're all such dedicated followers of fashion. I guess the price motive is a powerful one. howmanyleft doesn't go very far back. The hot hatch theory is interesting. I don't think Toyota ever did a proper hot hatch, only ever lukewarm ones at best.

Does it really make sense? The gen 5 had very similar models to the 6, though the low power was a 1.6, not a 1.8. The 6 still had a high performance model, like the 5. So in pure performance terms, that surely can't be it. If the points above were right, then how did they manage to sell five gen 5s for every gen 6? Having owned both, there's not really that much difference in terms of driving, power or general ownership terms. Even the gen 7 managed to outsell the 6, which I thought was surprising, and that never really had a performance model (well, no 4WD or turbo). And the high and low power versions both had the same engine capacity. I would be nice to get sales figures for gen 1-4 to see if the gen 5 was an outlier in terms of sales, or if the gen 6 doomed the series. That would kind of suggest it's a one off model unlikely to have a successor.

So I was looking through Celica related information and I found this link giving sales figures for the Celica in the US. They're pretty stark figures. In the last year Toyota only managed to sell 9 in the whole of the US. Even the gen 6 was a disaster compared to the 5. And the gen 7 managed to outsell the 6 over there. Total figures are: 575,269 for the 5, 113,545 for the 6 and 154,125 for the 7. http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-celica/ Sadly the sales figures for Europe don't really go back all that far. http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-celica/ It's not really any wonder they discontinued the model.

Care to answer my four questions?

Technically four questions. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk

Only problems are that you also need a new mobo and DDR4 memory. Which adds up when upgrading. And the CPU coolers aren't all compatible with the AM4 socket. I went from a AMD FX-6300 6 core to the Ryzen 1700: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1781&cmp[]=2970 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1781&cmp[]=2970 Literally wice as fast and uses 2/3 of the power. Looks like even the basic Ryzen 7 beats your i5 with a similar margin: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2284&cmp[]=2970

"Excessive noise from exhaust".

What do you mean by a London bus? Any bus in London? Or specifically a double decker? Or a Routemaster?

Got the 1700 for the low power, relatively speaking. Finally an AMD CPU worth spending some money on. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk

Got an AMD Ryzen 7 arriving..

Scot what?

There's not that many light houses in England & Wales.

'Cause when you fill up, you fill up to the max but the existing level is rarely at the max.

New front wheel already buckled thanks to some idiot.

Yesterday but a new front wheel, two new tyres and a new chain. For my bike.

That's pretty slow.

Interesting.. What's the frequency of the information updating? AFAIK the diagnostic port can't do much..

I'd offer to help but my car's out of action itself. :rolleyes:

'Cause they're being abolished.

Not strictly today, but it's last ever tax disc.