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Why not just get something that's as quick as (or quicker than) the Celica, with the economy close to that of the Octavia, and that you'll use every day? :confused:

Neither car (Octavia and Celica) are specialist enough to warrant the other for use at the weekend/weekday.

If you really want a weekend car, get something that's completely unpractical for day to day commuting, but will be properly fun at the weekend or out on track.

I've done the whole two car (and three car at one point) thing, and my two were most definitely not different enough for it to be worthwhile, what ended up happening is that I drove one of them almost all the time, and the other was left standing, sometimes for months on end, soaking up insurance and tax costs, whilst depreciating (even worse when I had an E36 325i sat there as well!) . (FWIW that was my "tweaked" 265BHP 2003 Leon Cupra R, and my remapped 2003 E46 330d).

Running two "normal" (let's not beat around the bush here, the celica, even with the mods is pretty "normal" and tame) cars rarely makes either financial or even logical sense.
 
It does when the Octavia will be driven circa 25,000 miles a year, and I still want something more fun for personal use. That's all there is to it really. I really like the engine in the Corolla, and I've wanted a GT for a long time. That's it. :)

If you haven't driven anything with the 2ZZ motor in, you wont appreciate how great it is.
 
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It does when the Octavia will be driven circa 25,000 miles a year, and I still want something more fun for personal use. That's all there is to it really. I really like the engine in the Corolla, and I've wanted a GT for a long time. That's it. :)

If you haven't driven anything with the 2ZZ motor in, you wont appreciate how great it is.
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Do you get a kick out of being obstinate?
 
Acme, if you had a financial advisor s/he would likely have shot you by now. Perhaps your common sense already shot itself :p I also don't understand a Celica as a weekend car, it's not especially fast, it's not renowned for its handling or dynamic drive, it's just a very normal very average coupe. Fair enough, you saw one when you were younger and loved its looks, but still...
 
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If you haven't driven anything with the 2ZZ motor in, you wont appreciate how great it is.
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I have to admit, when I drove a Celica 190, I was wholly unimpressed, particularly at how hard work it felt to thrash it. It wasn't anything like as exciting and 'thrilling' as a Honda Type-R engine. But that's just me.
 
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It's S-Tronic not R-Tronic. So it's good but manual better still I am feeling. Suspension is a challenge too at the moment, very stiff. Sitting in some snobby restaurant outside Inverness about to start the North Cost 500 in the morning. 480 miles today at 29.8mpg. THAT is astonishing!!!
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That's what I thought. Assumed the Audi R8 owner knew the correct names of the gearboxes :p
 
RIP Motors.

Months of every thread about an Acme project that doesn't quite make sense.

What's so different about the Celica that's worth the upgrade over the Corrolla?
 
The Celica isn't really a 'weekend car', maybe I phrased it incorrectly...

The Celica is an 'everything apart from the M23, M25 commute car'.

It will be used at weekends, evenings, on days off, to go to the shops in, perhaps even driving to work in when I'm at my more local office 15 miles away, but not for my 120 mile a day motorway commute, which is what I do on *most* work days.

It was easier to call it a weekend car. If I have a week off work, the Octavia will sit there for a week. On a weekend, the Octavia will just sit there (unless I'm driving to Wales or something) :p

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What's so different about the Celica that's worth the upgrade over the Corrolla?
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It looks the part, it is more likely to make me look back at it, it is in better condition mechanically and cosmetically, it has a nicer interior, it handles better, it has no rust on it, unlike the Corolla which has a rusty subframe, it will age better and hold its value better, and weirdly it is cheaper to insure.
 
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Spotted a few nice cars out on the NC500 route the past couple of days.
 
Still doesn't make any sense to me, it's just not special enough to warrant the problems and hassle associated with running two cars.

I'd have rather got a higher powered single diesel car and run that until you get a job that doesn't warrant travelling 120 miles a day.
 
Acme said:
The Celica isn't really a 'weekend car', maybe I phrased it incorrectly...

The Celica is an 'everything apart from the M23, M25 commute car'.

It will be used at weekends, evenings, on days off, to go to the shops in, perhaps even driving to work in when I'm at my more local office 15 miles away, but not for my 120 mile a day motorway commute, which is what I do on *most* work days.

It was easier to call it a weekend car. If I have a week off work, the Octavia will sit there for a week. On a weekend, the Octavia will just sit there (unless I'm driving to Wales or something) :p
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What's the point of adding the expense of running two cars when you could buy one that would do the job well enough?
 
Higher powered diesel cars are obscenely expensive to insure for me. To the point where they cost almost as much to insure as both of these combined!

I don't really understand what "problems and hassle" there will be involved. Sure there is the possibility for two cars to go wrong instead of one, and two cars to insure and tax, but if one needs stuff done to it, I have another car to drive while its being sorted... :)

If I get a new job which doesn't involve long commutes anymore, I can just sell the Octavia... :confused: :p

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Out of interest, how fast is the Celica 0-60? Pre and post mods?
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Book figures are ******** for these cars which is why nobody quotes them apart from Honda fanboys who like having arguments. 0 - 60 will be about 7 seconds like the Corolla. I've seen a video of this exact car doing it in about 6, but that seems a bit too good to be true. After mods, who knows. Somewhere between 6 and 6.5 I guess. Acceleration stats aren't my primary concern anymore anyway. I don't care. Celica will feel faster on the butt dyno anyway, lower to the road. :)
 
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Cat D with documented proof of work. Drivers door replaced and paint in 2011 when the car was still work quite a bit. Can't see that anything has happened to it whatsoever. :)

It also makes the price seem less far fetched.

Do I care that it is Cat D? No. Should anyone ever care about Cat D if there is documented repair work? No. Know who elses car is a Cat D? Mrk's beautiful M3. Would you mention it if someone bought it off of him..? ;)
 
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