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A drive in a ST-162, A Glorious day!!!!!!!	Sat, 20 December 2003 04:26

Hey, Just thought i might mention what I did today, I've been checkin out some ST-162 celicas a bit these days, wanted to check some information about them, And Started to like them more and more. It was gettin at me because i could only see pics of them, So i decided to go check one out at a dealer, so i jumped on CARPOINT and found a couple at Car City, so I made my way down. First I found this Red ST-162. It was pretty nice, a bit rough around some of the edges, but nice non the less, I was speaking to the guy a bit, and he started the engine, I was like "HOLY CRAP thats a nice sound" it was just the standard exhaust, still nice. After some discussion, I said to myself "this is enough, its eating away at me to give it a drive" so i said to the guy "How would i go about getting a test drive", and he goes to me "Well i'm the only person here today so I won't be able to come with u for a drive, and because this is a 'Sports Car' we aren't allowed to let u go on ur own." Pity, as it had like 160,000kms. It worried me that the engine was all rusted, like not rusted but coroded in a way, but it was smooth to the touch, just a bit rough, that was mainly on the head. I didn't mind too much, so i went next door and found this NICE as White Celica ST-162, it had 180,000kms but was pretty neat inside, bit rough, but pretty nice, he fired this one up, and it came to life, It had a sports exhaust system, 2" i think, or it might have been just a sports muffler, but it was pretty loud. I said to him "is there any chance I could take this car for a drive at some stage", and hes like "ohhh u can go now if u like, I just need ur licence, I was like "ohhh wow, thats fantastic" He went to get me P plates and i was off. Initial impressions Holy crap this is nice hahaha. I was loving it, the engine had a LOT more torque than dads CS corolla haha. He mentioned that 3rd gear had the syncros going pretty badly, and it showed in the driving, but i didn't mind, I just shifted in pretty slowly and waited for revs to go down, I took it to about 6500rpm, and it was pretty clean all the way, it was in the wet too, so i was having loads of fun, The car has sooo many features, sunroof, power windows etc.. I had a lot of fun as u can imagine, There was this underground car park, and this cafe in the car park too, so I just wound the windows and sunroof down to really hear the exhaust in action, I was just driving really slowly but it sounded UNREAL.... These cars are pretty damn amazing, Really comfy too! I know what i'm saving up for. I had to wait a bit coz the engine was smelling a bit LOL! Thanx for reading! [Report message to a moderator]

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