Friday 2nd December 2016

Toyota Celica WRC: Pic Of The Week

Toyota is back in the WRC next month, so time to celebrate one of our favourites!

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Here's a question for you: has a Castrol Toyota ever looked naff? We would wager not, from Supra to Corolla and Celica to GT86. So with the 2017 WRC season just a few weeks off, and Toyota set to make its return, it seemed time to remember the glory days.

Well, kind of. The Celica GT-Four became shrouded in infamy after the 1995 air restrictor cheating scandal, rather tarnishing its earlier achievements in the WRC. Still, as cheating goes it was a very clever and well engineered device...

Fortunately this picture is from the 1993 season with Juha Kankkunen leading the 1000 Lakes rally, an event he went on to win. Indeed it was a championship he went on to win in a very successful year for Toyota; Didier Auriol finished the season in third and Toyota won the Manufacturers' Championship.

And, well, Finnish drivers going sideways on Finnish rallies always go down well with us. If the new Yaris can capture the imagination half as well it'll be doing a very good job!

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone etc)

[RedAndy]

that's a bit lazy... THIS is a picture of an ST185 Celica "in action"