1982 Toyota Celica commercial

[Mr131211109876543210]

Those are fun to drive.

[tintsnmore]

i own a 82 corolla station wagon oh what a feeling!

[39777207]

yeh my mom's own one since 1979 she was just finished her high school and my grand father bought her the cas as a givt , seems she was he dady little eangle , lol belive it or no the car still running perfectly , daaam those japs how did they did it ?

[gmanfromdland]

My dad's 82 just rolled over 450,000 miles, and the only problems with the car (other than the radio doesn't like to work sometimes) are purely cosmetic. great car

[TheSanityInspector]

The Car That Ate Detroit.

[motorcycledude1000]

sellykah

[Kingsoupturbo]

Out of the past into a Thousand tomorrows, EPIC!

[Doobie1975]

these cars were definitely way ahead of its time for the early 80s, they were definitely rock solid vehicles, I still see a good number of the liftback models but hardly any of the coupe models

[celica49]

@Doobie1975 Hell, I own 2 of the liftbacks (an 82 and an 83) and they both still run amazingly haha. The 82 is now the parts car for my 83 circle track car, but still damn cool. The coupes look like mini Monte Carlos

[fuguf1sh]

Had an '83 GT. Great car.

[ThisisfromUzi]

I was expecting the car to turn into a robot :).

[lymmontijo87]

lol, this commercial is so weird.

[gadgetine007]

I'm glad I wasn't born in those days, wouldn't be able able to handle all those cheesy Special FX

[JBofBrisbane]

In Australia it was always pronounced "se-LEE-ca" - or "silly car" if you were in a good mood.

[MongooseFreeRider]

Selly Car lol

[svendewulf]

here in belgium we say: say-lee-kah but faster :-p

[wendileona]

I love the futurism in the graphics at the time. Kind of cheesy but at least not hokey or over the top CGI craziness like today.

[Scottwax]

I had an '85 Celica, fun little car, put a ton of miles on it. I think it had over 250k miles on it when I blew the rear-end up. Found another rear-end in a wrecking yard and kept driving it.

[retrohip]

Thanks for posting this! I still have mine and the old girl is still going strong!!

I read somewhere that this model was pretty out there for the time and that there was no one in the design team over 25!

[subzero92MK]

what a car, i really like it

[melanie2409]

Is it an australian thing to pronounce Celica "ce-leek-a"? Honestly "sellicka" sounds so...foreign.

[lalas345]

@melanie2409

Thats what we brits say :3

[MrPman851]

@lalas345, I like the way you Brits and certain other Commonweath countries pronounce things differently than we Americans (Yanks as the Aussies call us) do. It's an interesting (good) indication of culture shock.

[TheConradChannel]

@melanie2409 in Ireland we tend to say "ce-leek-a" too

[KingBarlow]

dddddddddaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnng­ggggg

[Shishizurui]

it seems to me the fox body mustang, the old escorts copied off of this conecept to me. but the headlights are sweet

[MrJazztone]

I had one in high school in the eighties and out of all the cars that I have owned it is still my favorite. It was still running well with 275000 when I sold it in college. I want another one. lol

[turbotiger82]

this is hilarious, the americns don't say celica properly, it's pronounced celeeka dumabARSES.

[brobinson75]

@turbotiger82 ya okay.

[andytang04]

that was my first car

[SebastianEngland]

someone got paid to make this commercial...

[gli7utubeo]

I had a light blue one in '82 and people would stop and stare and ask me about it, especially in gas stations. 'drove it cross country twice and you should have seen the looks I got in Montana+Wyoming, where everybody had American Box-like sedans. I think is was the laid-back headlights that got them.

[firedragon689]

hahahaha crappy little toyota probably couldn't even go 50 mph LOL

[philpop17]

I had one. An 82 toyota celica supra, the speedometer didn't go past 85, but the car its self roared all the way up to 130 with room to go. oh, and as for crappy, I have an 1985 now with 210,000 miles on it running strong.

[firedragon689]

that's nice. Buy a mustang. WAY better. Or a older camaro

[IrishChris1979]

My first car was a 1982 Celica GT 5spd coupe... Not the hatchback. This car had 300,000+ miles on it, bondo spots, a hole in the floor board... Water would splash you when I ran over a puddle lol. But, this thing still ran strong for the entire year I had it before I got a new car. Not bad, a $150 car lasted me a year when I was 17. That was a fun car.

[JBofBrisbane]

@firedragon689 - just don't get Japanese cars, do you?

[hotjocks]

i...i...want to buy..toyota

[skeletonbite]

I break wind in my celica all the time.

[starscream6000]

wait, isn't this the version of the celica that wasn't really sporty?

[deepmelody1991]

@starscream6000, when was this generation of Celica not sporty?

[dontsqueezethecheese]

i used to own a blue one, and i'd probs still have it today if the damn thing didn't rust to oblivion.

[JackieTheTruck]

holy crap!! headlights that slant back a whole 15 degrees? wow, it must reduce the drag coefficient to like .01!!

anyone else think that looked like they cut out a picture of one and dragged it across the screen?

[brendabaloyan]

In this days the Japanese were begining to make very good cars, but the Americans understimated them as usual!!!!! And you know the rest!!!!

[Allante715]

Yep Japanese were doing what they do best. Copy Copy Refine Refine Copy Copy Refine Refine Copy Cop. They take a European or American design and refine it.

[blkchrm77]

back looks almost exactly like an ae86 corola

[negativeindustrial]

came out 2 years before the AE86 by the same manufacturer - doesn't take a genius...

Actually if you look at gens 1-6 you can see the rear view [especially the tailights] very slowly evolved but basically kept the same look. The 7th gen is a total departure both in looks and in engine style.

[it3chn0]

all i could think of when watching this was back to the future XD

[boofdfast]

Oh shit, I had one a those.. an 82 GT coupe. Okay, how come the announcer sounds like Lex Luthor from the Legion of Doom, on the Superfriends cartoon? LOL :)

[laskt9]

roflz i have this car

[subsonicbassist]

Awesome car! I just got one and I love it

[pman1018]

HEY! My sister Kelsey was born November 13, 1981 as shown on the lower right-hand corner on the screen.

[pirerman]

"oh what a feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!" those days will never come back (swipes tears from eyes)

[Fahrvergnugen]

I was looking for the old "what a feeling" ads to show to a friend's daughter who was born well after that era!

[dogeatme]

@pirerman we still have 'oh what a feeling'in Aus

[brendandanny2000]

sillycar

[boofdfast]

Not so silly.. that was the last rear wheel drive version of the Celica. Would make a nice drift car, today.

[brendandanny2000]

i love the car its just when you say it sounds like silly car

[boofdfast]

Ohh, you meant the pronunciation sounds like "sillycar". Hehee. LOL :)