The seventh and final Celica dropped the notchback coupé body entirely, selling only as a liftback, and, for the first time in the nameplate’s history, offered no all-wheel-drive GT-Four variant.[1] It was part of Toyota’s Project Genesis, an unsuccessful attempt to attract younger buyers to Toyota dealerships in the United States.
The two trims recorded here are the Japanese-market SS-I and SS-II specifications, since the article’s most complete power-and-torque table is for that market; UK and other export versions of the same engines carried slightly different outputs (142 PS rather than 145 PS for the base 1ZZ-FE, for instance), which are not recorded as separate trims here.