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Old 12-09-09 | 12:04 PM
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I had no idea this was made. Anyone know more about it? Anyone owned one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Sera

Its amazing how Toyota had all these sporty offerings and went to none!

Old 12-09-09 | 12:27 PM
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Who would buy "greenish yellow mica"?


Sounds like a bodily discharge, like "I'm sorry to inform you that you have greenish yellow mica oozing out of your ***..."
Old 12-09-09 | 12:30 PM
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That looks a lot like a Paseo. Maybe a Euro or Japan market Paseo?
Old 12-09-09 | 12:30 PM
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Neat!!! At least I've never seen a Toyota before with butterfly doors.
Old 12-09-09 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by encore888
Neat!!! At least I've never seen a Toyota before with butterfly doors.
Got em before the Mclaren F1 did too. I think the Alfa 33 would have been the only car to use these doors before Toyota

Originally Posted by FisforFast
That looks a lot like a Paseo. Maybe a Euro or Japan market Paseo?
Both are based on the EP82 Starlet. make for nice quick back mountain road runners with GT starlet turbo engine.

Driven, but never owned one.
Old 12-09-09 | 02:59 PM
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News to me, thanks. The international automotive knowledge brought here is amazing.
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I remember a family friend had a Sera in Hong Kong. I was very impressed with the doors.
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First time I saw this car was in Gran Turismo 4
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Originally Posted by superchan7
I remember a family friend had a Sera in Hong Kong. I was very impressed with the doors.
My girlfriend is from Hong Kong and just told me that one of her family members over there had one of these and it was very nice.
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I'm amazed that was brought to market with those doors and its not an exotic.
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looks like an old Toyota Paseo. I remember when they used to advertise that the car had a massive 100hp
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Reminds me of the old Mazda MX3 and Nissan NX
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Originally Posted by blisiono
First time I saw this car was in Gran Turismo 4
Likewise. Granted mine was not Greenish Yellow Mica.
Old 12-09-09 | 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 1SICKLEX
I had no idea this was made. Anyone know more about it? Anyone owned one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Sera

Its amazing how Toyota had all these sporty offerings and went to none!

Man...that's Toyota history right there! I remember when the car was introduced in the mags back then. I actually wished they brought that car stateside. Sadly they save all the goods for Japan.
Old 12-10-09 | 12:39 AM
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Oh Toyota you used to have such interesting cars haha

I wonder if we'd ever see a car like this come out of Toyota nowadays.



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