Return to my Home PageI've owned two Toyota Cressida's, as well as four other Toyotas, over the years. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on the Net, or anyplace else for that matter, about older Toyotas. So I thought it would be a nice idea to have the first web page dedicated to the Toyota Cressida (and related topics).
Both of my Cressida's are 1982 models sold in Canada, with the standard Cressida features: 4 speed automatic transmission, inline 6 cylinder 5M-E engine (SOHC) with a displacement of 2.8 litres, and a conventional rear-drive layout.
These cars have great "sleeper" potential, they are much quicker than their pedestrian upscale family sedan looks lead one to believe. Their similarities to the Camry and the Corona of the same time period can be misleading, as both of those cars had much smaller engines.(The Camry came out in 1983 and had a similar exterior design, yet was actually a 2L engine, front wheel drive machine.) Cressida's are theoretically capable of being fairly good towing cars, the SOHC models generating torque comparable to some small block V8's.
The only options on Cressida's built in Canada were whether you got a sedan or a station wagon, and whether or not you got a sunroof. Everything else - transmission, power locks, windows, brakes, steering, engine size, stereo, etc., was standard equipment. Apparently in the southern states and in Japan these cars were sold with 5 speed standard transmissions (same as the ones in the Supra), but I've never seen one.
Speaking of the Supra, the Cressida and Supra are built on the same general chassis and many parts are interchangeable between them. They share the same engine and brakes, etc, but changes in the model line happened to the Supra a year earlier, i.e. the Supra went to DOHC engine in 1982 1/2, but the Cressida didn't get it until 1983. Think of the Cressida as a Supra with 4 doors and lots of back seat room.
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