Talk:Toyota Tercel

Also sold in Norway
I don't know if it is necessary to mention it in the article, but the second generation Tercel was also sold here in Norway. As far as I know it was only sold as a 4-wheel drive station wagon.

Moved from article space
Comments from User:70.22.253.28: "For the sake of truth and justice, there should exist some wikipedia link which illuminates the fact that this car was named after a type of hawk. A tercel is a bird of prey, they named their car for this. Also, many people have this name, because of the bird, I hope. Just a stub maybe, the avian origins of this name are lost even to a casual google for the love of knowledge....

Please, maybe just a note on the page? Tercel: a type of hawk. Also, there's a car named for it, and a bunch of people... What say?" SkerHawx 01:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

1980 tercel
ok, I actually went to the dudes website (his name is timo) who had the photograph, he said the photograph is scanned from a brochure and that he only has rights to use it on his own website, as such I will dlete this image since he cannot give us the rights to this picture. Someone try to find an ancient tercel clunking around and photograph it, I would try but I do not have a digital camera. TotallyTempo 16:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

1990 5 door hatchback.
This article claims that the 5 door hatchback was discontinued for the 1990 model year. This information is not correct, I own a 1990 5 door hatchback tercel. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.172.135.47 (talk) 02:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

Yeah, and my dad had a 1990 3 door hatchback (nj) 69.112.251.16 (talk) 20:34, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Chile sections
I'm not sure I see anything in there that is particular to Chile. No mention of models being introduced earlier or produced later, no mention of engines which weren't available in other markets, except MAYBE that 1.3 liter carbureted engine in the 1991. Also some text is blatantly redundant, AND I have doubts as to whether ANY of this stuff was exclusive to Chile.

Someone from some other South American country might be able to confirm whether this stuff was South-America-wide. Andy Christ 21:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Worth mentioning?
...that "Corsa" in Europe is a Vauxhall/Opel (General Motors) hatchback that first appeared in the early-mid 90's? could add a link 82.153.230.130 (talk) 23:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Text lifted from press release
Much of the text of the article appears to have lifted from the Toyota Tercel History link listed at the bottom of the article. Otherwise, the article has nary a footnote. 842U (talk) 11:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Coupe vs sedan
There seems to be a disagreement over whether the first gen is a 2-door coupe or a 2-door sedan. Toyota is notoriously unreliable when classifying its body types but generally coupe (or hardtop) is used for frameless windows on the doors or a lack of a B pillar (the pole just behind the door). Sedan normally means the windows have frame and the B pillar is present. Comments?  Stepho  talk 02:37, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Obviously I agree with you, the problem is a German vandal (Flow92 aka Invitto aka Hamburg73 aka zillions of IPs) has a bee in his bonnet - he originally thought that the hatchback was the coupé, and then decided that the 2-door sedan was a coupé. In the US "coupe" is often used in the vernacular for what manufacturers call two-door sedans (often by magazine reviewers and sometimes even by advertising departments), so it is hard to argue anything 100% in this matter. Anyhow, the vandal is only arguing with me about this because he is massively confused about the Nissan Vanette chassis codes and names (an admittedly confusing matter) and so is trying to annoy me by reverting me across several projects. Cheers,  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  23:54, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

American vs British spelling
The spelling has been changed from British to American with the following edit summary "Given this car has virtually no association with the UK, AUS, NZ, but a massive North American association, US spelling is certainly more appropriate, see MOS:TIES."

I know the Tercel was sold in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe (and was reasonably popular in those markets in the budget end of the market). Which means this is an international article, meaning MOS:TIES to America doesn't apply and WP:ENGVAR says we should retain the original spelling used, which was British. Comments?  Stepho  talk 03:52, 14 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The only Tercel sold in Australia was the obscure L50 4WD. The same applies to NZ, although they have presumably have other grey imports there. Again, the L20 was also sold in the UK as the 4WD wagon only . One generation out of five.


 * In North America, each generation was sold there, selling prominently. The fact that almost all the photos are US spec further implies this. Japan also in general favours US spelling, you can see some research I did on the matter in 2012—every Japanese manufacturer used US spelling on their global websites; conversely, every European automaker used UK spelling except Audi. MOS:TIES clearly places this article in favour of US spelling.


 * Finally, applying MOS:RETAIN, the first revision to the article to introduced a regional variance was here and it uses US spelling. OSX (talk • contributions) 05:23, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

RWD?
My sister had a Tercel wagon, I think it was a 1980. It was a Rear wheel drive, Please correct your article. - signed 67.1.183.104


 * Unfortunately, your memory (from how many years ago?) is wrong. Every version of the Tercel was either FWD or 4WD. Your sisters' wagon was probably the 4WD version. However, if you have some proof that it truly was RWD then we would be happy to see that proof.  Stepho  talk 22:23, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The second generation Tercel wagon definitely did not have a RWD wagon, and the first generation didn't have a wagon or RWD. If it was RWD it was not a Tercel wagon. Toyota did have other small wagons that were RWD. Meters (talk) 00:02, 29 July 2017 (UTC)