Avabomb

That is an absolutely stunning car! I love the SV21 especially the last ones in '92, absolute finest examples of toyota quality and engineering - I don't know why i love them so much =) You rock for being a camry driver Well kept ones still look and drive like they're brand new, compare it with any EB Falcon, TP Magna or VP Commodore which have all gone to crap now. Its like being in a time warp whenever I get into a mates stock SV21 - back to 1992 again, it's probably just childhood memories that make me so fond of the sv21. I think I'm gonna have to get meself one sometime this year. :P

thats right ty my mistake, forgot the VL had the mighty *nissan* rb30 engine in it - we were talking about stock executives here with no turbo that weren't particularly quick but it's usually auto VKs with their heavy 3.3s producing < 100kW that a jap 4 cyl manual of the same era could beat. Still, a badly maintained car with an auto box takes so much time off their factory acceleration times so by 2005 when you're dragging 1985 cars around its whoever was best kept wins :D

hahaha oh my *** i haven't heard a bigger load of **** in my life, I dragged a mate (we planned this properly) in an SV21 auto 2.0 efi (phucken nice car though, so smooth, tight and quiet and nice riding suspension) in my ****box 85' carbie 2.0 manual telstar and up to 100 I beat it by half a car length. SV21s are slow man, I will agree they'll probably beat a VL and other old commos and falcons just cos the things gearboxes and engines go to cr*p after they're 10 years old cos I used to same the same thing about my telstar and nobody believed me. VK/VL, XF/EA are snail cars with their sh*t autos and sh*t engines. as for the OP, yeah I cruise around in my '01 Avalon CSX alot just to keep the k's off the Yaris and its not a bad car, I been in my mates 96 ES300 and there ain't much difference in the way the avalon and the lexus drive - the rolling acceleration is where they 'rip' the commodores (VT-VX) and its a proven fact, 80-120km/h - avalon is the quickest of the aussie 4 for 2001, i love the sweetness of the 1mz-fe from 4k to redline....its beasty, pity about the auto kickdown - i wish there was manual avalon around..

LOL!!! Toyota family hahaah i love it when people have half a toyota showroom in their driveaway - what's better is a family of intergenerational toyotas. I had a mate from school whose dad had a 1990 Camry (those are SO underrated, I've been so impressed everytime I've sat in one by the quietness and rattle-freeness of them even in 2006), his mum had a 1995 Camry (next shape) and his older sister a 1999 one as well - he lived out in the West (Sydney) so they had one of those 3 car driveaways - it looked cool. Too bad they were all different colours. They had an echo sedan that got parked on the street as well - big family and none of the kids had bothered moving out - this was about 5 years ago. I can't keep up with that =) Only an Avalon and Yaris in my driveway - there's this thing called a Holden Astra that takes up room on the driveway as well but that's not a Toyota so its like a ***** son :P hahahha