[viggen]

The 6 cylinder has better torque so it'll pull away from stoplights better than the VTEC 4 or VVTi 4. The VTEC doesn't really start pulling strongly until 4800RPM so if you want to win any drag races, you better be ready to fry the clutch. The Celica's VVTi has a very narrow powerband and so you have keep the engine within this powerband in order to get maximum power. Below 4000RPM, the Celica GTS doesn't feel any stronger than the Celica GT. I've had a chance to drive all these cars and I'll take the IS300's smooth and torquey engine over the other two any day.

 

[viggen]

The powerband on the GTS is about 6000-7000RPM. Yeah sure, a GTS may beat an IS in the quarter mile when it is driven by a professional driver under controlled conditions. However, if you or I were to drive a GTS and an IS, we would both get faster times in the IS. When car magazines run acceleration tests, they do several runs and post the best time. Sure, the GTS's best time may be better than the IS. However, the IS's best time can be repeated very easily whereas the GTS's cannot.

Originally posted by Juggaknot:
thanks for ur input erick although it didn't tell me much, based on the fact that the gts outperforms the is300.

question for viggen: so where is that powerband on the gt-s?

[This message has been edited by Juggaknot (edited October 07, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Juggaknot (edited October 07, 2000).]