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built
from 1973 through 1999, but North Americans had the opportunity to buy new Starlets just for the 1981 through 1984 model years (and then only the three-door hatchback version). The rear-wheel-drive Starlet was cramped and underpowered, but it got the best or close to the best
in the country during its brief American reign. Here’s a frighteningly bent ’82 that I spotted in a Northern California self-service yard.
It looks like a glancing fragile-car-versus-concrete barrier impact ended this Starlet’s 37-year driving career. Let’s hope everyone inside had their seat belts fastened.
We’ll tell you the horsepower of this
, but only if you promise not to laugh. OK, it made 58 hp. Curb weight was a mere 1,724 pounds, though, which was 70 fewer pounds than the flyweight ’82
. The good news is that the rear-wheel-drive layout of the Starlet lends itself to
.
There wasn’t much to go wrong with the Starlet, which benefited from the excellent Toyota build quality of the era, and these cars made excellent penny-pinching Point-A-to-Point-B commuters.
I still
during
, but sightings are getting increasingly rare. Supposedly, automatic-equipped Starlets were sold, but I’ve seen only manual-transmission examples so far.
Don’t
and drive. Please!
Coming just a couple of years after the
, Toyota had a persuasive selling point here.
A decade later, Toyota sold Starlets in Japan with one of the greatest car commercials in human history.
from Autoblog http://bit.ly/2vQN5GQ