JD’s archives: Stillen Ultimate Toyota Celica

[Dobes]

[BRealistic]

That's a pricey Celica.

[Harv]

A half million dollars for 0-60 in 5secs and one of the worst front ends ever made..

[Jordan 191]

gonzo nose

[gonzo08452]

gonzo nose

[DustinM]

Wow, that thing is what nightmares are made of. What kind of drugs would make somebody think that looks good?

[50fridge]

They should have spent more time perfecting this car. A Lancer Evo 8 could do a better 0-60 and it had only 276 hp.

[oh noes! cars!]

They should have spent more time perfecting this car. A Lancer Evo 8 could do a better 0-60 and it had only 276 hp.

One off engineering project for development and because Toyota was on Stillens nuts then

[GiacGtiAgain]

there is NO WAY that car had 497 horsepower with a 108 mph trap speed

[mike02467]

Wow, that thing is what nightmares are made of. What kind of drugs would make somebody think that looks good?

I'd bet they were on methamphetamine.

[c0mmon]

no wonder all the kids went crazy over this car lol, look at the potential per dollar

[FiveAinOne]

The rear quarter shot, aside from the exhaust area, looks pretty good actually. Very beefy, and fenders/sides are pretty nice. Aside from that...

[BRealistic]

there is NO WAY that car had 497 horsepower with a 108 mph trap speed

IDK.. seems about right based on what some "500 hp" imports/four banger do on Pass Time.


And this looks more like a marketing thing than any type of real concept.
This was done to coincide with the release of the 7th gen Celica.

[airman401]

I'll take the Pike's Peak.

[Vash350z]

Not Stillen...RMM built this car. My first car was a 7th celica; totally awesome and underappreciated car. Light weight, was one of the best handlin front wheel drive car at the time, and the 2zzge (and to a lesser extent, the 1zz) were awesome engines in this car.

[sforsancho]

They should have spent more time perfecting this car. A Lancer Evo 8 could do a better 0-60 and it had only 276 hp.

I was going to say that this isn't exactly fair, as the Celica was only FWD, but then I read that they swapped in the Celica All-Trac AWD.

Maybe he didn't launch it, and it was more of a 5-60. The 5-60 time of a Boss 302 (444hp) is 4.5 seconds, not that far off the mark, really. Accounting for bad gearing and turbo lag..

[valfaw]

just needs a new name... celicabruzzi perhaps???

seems a bifurcurious kind of day between this and the panoz mess in the other thread...

[NashGTI]

This was simply a design and engineering excercise. Something for Toyota to show off at SEMA and tie in their IRL/CART participation at the time. It should come as no suprise that not much developement time went into the car, most likely 99% of the distance covered in the car was going along at under 10mph.

[arethirdytwo]

I love that they were using the OEM alltrac clutch . Surprised it broke?

[sirswank]

enzo nose

FTFY

[In 4 Bagels, Left Hungry]

I remember reading this article back when it came out. I was pretty young then so I honestly probably only looked at the pictures but thanks fo the scan!

[jamerican1]

A half million dollars for 0-60 in 5secs and one of the worst front ends ever made..

This.