1985 Toyota Corona CSi review from Australia and New Zealand

The car blew its head gasket at 250,000km on the previous owner. He didn't top up the coolant and fried the engine. The motor was fully reconditioned by the previous owner and has only had 40,000km since it blew.

Original seat covers a bit worn, no holes, but the previous owner put seat covers through it.

Two dings on the front corners of the car. Left as is, as they are only minor dents.

Roof is in a poor state.

I bought the car after it had the engine fully reconditioned, with 30,000km's on the new motor.

Chews through motor oil when doing a lot of highway driving if you don't use 20/70 oil.

The seats are really comfortable and I could probably fall asleep in them if I wanted to.

The tape deck that came with the car looks to be self installed, and there's a big whole where the previous radio used to be. I replaced the tape deck with a CD player.

The car has a bit of a touchy clutch, but with a bit of practice, you can take off very fast.

The 2.4L engine compared to the normal 2.0L really gives it a lot of extra grunt in all cases.

The car can make it up to 180 according to the speedometer, and as I am yet to test this, the fastest I've had it at is 150, which it handled fairly well. It was only at 3.5 thousand RPM. And it goes of the mark pretty well for an older car.

The car handles well even without power steering.

There's no Air conditioning. So in summer it is a problem.

The car is mechanically A1, doesn't have anything wrong with it, except it uses a lot of oil if you put cheap stuff in.

The car is VERY spacious, seating 5 in the car comfortably, no complaints from the back, even with 3 guys in there.