with Celicas earning multiple World Rally Championship event wins. The second generation of Celica All-Trac Turbo, imported in tiny numbers, remains coveted by a die-hard group of Toyota fans who ...

Former and current Toyota driver Neal Bates started his rally career over 20 years ago. While that seems like a long time to have been racing, even back then a 1980 Toyota Celica was pretty old ...

Toyota even raced the chassis—the Celica was celebrated for its rallying prowess, with its first victory in the 1982 Rally of New Zealand ... 6-speed manuals and 8-speed automatics.

With a rally-bred chassis, a mid-engined 400-hp 2.0-liter turbo, and all-wheel drive, could a redefined Celica compete with those models for similar money? Most probably, but perhaps Toyota might ...