This was my mom's first car when I was a kid. We took the bus everywhere until she got it. I remember tearing up knowing we had a car. Ours was black with graphics on the side. It felt like an awesome sports car to me, but it definitely isn't that. Good memories.
My mom had one of those too. 1986 Renault Alliance in bright yellow. She only had it briefly though before a hood type guy pulled her out of the seat at a 7-11, beat her up, stole the car, and totaled it in a nearby telephone pole. This was back in '91 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
@@joshaulis8326 iv got a 2002 fiat palio with a 1.3 16v with 85 hp with exhaust, and evrytime i get on the gas its like im on the fastest car on the world ( even if other car just fly past me lol )
"I never took a corner that hard. I just use it to go to work and come home, that's why I bought it" the tone of "wtf are you doing" in his voice has me cracking up
Lol. I do drive this car harder after learning what it can handle. It really is just a cheap, reliable, cheap to fix, cheap insurance, good gas, commuter car though....and that is solely why I bought it. A to B
@@qpwoeiruty850 dude I daily a stick corolla - only car I have that can feel at its limits at 50! RCR can give a long poetic diatribe about a pair of white sox haha
@@qpwoeiruty850 the car looks nice n i would V8, RWD swap it, i have a 97 Lincoln Town Car rust bucket i bought couple years ago, i want to swap the drivetrain to a Nissan Sentra B13 to, thing weighs 2,200lbs, would be a monster on the street..lol
When I saw that the subject was the Toyota Paseo, I unintentionally let out an orgasmic "ugh!" I love this little car, and the "economy coupe" segment as a whole. I firmly believe, if we think about it with total honesty, it's the best type of vehicle for most peoples' daily driving habits. And I will argue that point to anyone anywhere. A couple years ago, I had a neighbor with a teal 2nd gen Paseo with light grey cloth interior, and I couldn't stop looking at it, because I realized that, even though I drive a much nicer car today, I could be perfectly content if that was my daily driver. I want to live in the timeline where we still have that sense of fun, with it's total lack of pretence or insecurity.
I want to live in a timeline where Toyota realized that a car that looks like the Paseo needs some gonads, and put the Starlet’s 3FTE engine in it instead of the ho-hum 5FE. People who have done this swap have loved it.
@@illegal_space_alien it wasn't uncommon for the company to have a hotter version. Most people bought the commuter engine, and the hot one becomes a collector item. So it's not inconceivable, had the car been Civic/Corolla popular. In Europe, there was usually a middle engine option, typically a diesel, that offered the best of both worlds.
I got your point, and it makes perfect sense ONLY IF you already have roomy SUV for your family. Daily driving cars like Paseo just to get to work and back is perfectly reasonable.
The Paseo might be forgettable overall, but I'll never forget it. When I was little, my dad had one. It was black, it was manual and we would go to the grocery store in it and listen to cassettes of The Clash. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then one time it had an unfortunate run-in with some sudden flood waters and it was gone. Dad died last year, rather suddenly, and now I find myself seeking out things that make me think of him. So it was a lot of fun to watch this video and see the little old Paseo again. Thank you for what you do!
@Coby Williams yes I’ve met guys pushing big power out of JDM 3S ‘s & GT4’s , my point applies to the majority of celicas that came with the 5S-fe out of the Camry
@@Bonno95 but that's only because civics are too easy to make power out of. Actually WANTING a 90's shitbox toyota is kind of...rare, cause they're all garbage for anything but getting you around. Damn near every Honda can make solid power, even the single jingle 1.6's can hold 500 ish on the block, and 200 without even touching the internals. They arent interesting because they're too damn easy
when I was a young teen, my aunts boyfriend at the time "Damon" had a paseo. The front fender paint was peeling, the car was silver but the passenger door was black, and the rear wheel wells had rust holes big enough to put a finger through. He had it straight piped, and put a hilariously massive spoiler on it, the kind of spoiler that has cables criss-crossed to keep it stable. Damon himself was exactly the man you would expect to be driving such a car. Pushing 40 but still had the attitude of a 16 year old. His receding hairline pulled back into a pony tail, an attempt at a goatee, and an oversized black t-shirt that he thought made him look like Steven Seagal, who he worshipped as the peak of manliness. Damon drove that car a little too fast everywhere, had about three different radar detectors, and never wore his seatbelt 'in case he had to bail'. As you can tell, my aunt had fantastic taste in men.
It's so poetic you started the fart pipe imitation when the dieselbro Dodge with the "locally hated" sticker passed. And also the Camry who got impatient of being in that line of cars and went hard in the left lane to just barely accelerate faster
In highschool 2 of my friends and I each bought $500 cars, which we got as daily drivers for our broke butts but quickly realized we were perfectly set up for top gear style challenges. The contenders were my w123 300D, a V6 automatic mustang convertible, and a very very VERY beat to shit Toyota Paseo. It became a rule that if we found each other while driving we would have to at least lightly hit each other while driving... good times. Ultimately the Paseo was the only one that blew up before it was junked. Being that his car already had power assisted nothing, rather than tow it to the junk yard i pushed him the 5 miles through town with the w123 panzer. Good times... garbage car.
@@rolux4853 yea the market for them has gone up significantly. Clean examples are a rarity now since unlike most other classics, most w123s actually get driven. I had both an 85 300d (cheap car from story) and a significantly nicer, though not entirely perfect, 82 240d with the 4 speed manual. I daily drove the 240d up until 2017. What other car could reasonably be used as a daily driver for 35 years? Gotta love em.
About 15-16 years ago I remember hiring on a new dude at work to help me with some IT stuff and customer service, fresh out of high school, smart at a button and had been given his mum's Paseo. Without fail at knock off time it was nearly always refusing to work for some reason or another and I suppose to the rubbish POS credit I could usually get it running for him with nothing more than basic tools, WD40 and beatings. Like any car owned by a single mum with no XY parental unit in the family, it had literally never been maintained in well over 12 years by that stage 'because it mostly just kept working' when the road service guy would come out and presumably do the same things I did to it They really are just that bad Thing I never really understood was just how bloody pointless the whole package was, its too small for anyone but the most stunted manlets, slower than a turtle with a hardon over broken glass and not enough space for much more than a small dog and a couple of overnight bags. The rest is just a mess of crap suspension, basic bitch everything and completely awful.
As a guy who ownes a Paseo for almost 4 years now. I will say: I laughed my @$$ off while watching this video. It's spot on. 👍 Still LOVE my loud, slow, silly Paseo though. 😎
Not popular or familiar cars (car clubs be damned). They’re shiny turds of the bottom of the Toyota selection that most will say “Man, it looks alright…” unbeknownst to its bellow par performance and basic yet memorable interior.
The only reason I’d say this is supposed to be “Sporty” is because there was already a Tercel coupe, and this is essentially the sporty version of that.
They made a Tercel Redhawk, which given that it's a Tercel was probably just a decals/nicer hubcaps package but still a special edition Tercel. IDGAF, most Toyotas are limp dick cars for people that pump their brakes going uphill and still pee the bed at night ages 34 and up
@@Foxfloop the rest of the lineup is by and large for the people I described earlier. I run into people all the time spewing their bullshit about some 22RE truck, their 1990 Corolla or 1993 Camry "Ohhhhh it's so reliable, I changed the oil in 2007 and it's still driving" and then you look inside it and the seats are threadbare and split with foam chunks crumbling out, all the symbols in the center console wore away and the arm rests around the door handles have eroded down to nothing. I have a 20+ year old Benz with nearly 300k miles and the only hint that it's pretty old is the body style. Leather seats and wood are still mint.
@@ScubaSteveM45 the Tercel is so underrated, in the US at least. Go to South/central America and 90s Toyota’s are hot shit. Cheap, reliable, fuel efficient, AND fun to drive can’t be beat
Pfft, Autozone? I used to work at a lumber yard around the time when there were only two Fast and Furious movies out. Dumbass kids coming wanting PVC pipe for cold air returns or 1in steel tubing for exhaust (still couldn't understand how they were reducing it down)... and I was only in my 20's then and they were still dumbass kids to me. Told one of them that wasn't a good idea and he's like "why? Everyone else is doing it" and I replied "because if that plastic melts on the engine, it'll catch fire and burn your car to the ground". I probably saved his life.
My parents bought my a Paseo as my first car, it was less than a $1000. It wasn't a fast car, but I was in high school and it was a couple that wasn't a cavalier, so I had a few moments of being cool. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Finally! A video about a PASEO!! A 2nd gen Paseo was my aunts first car, she drove it for about ten years till I turned 18. That same old Paseo became my first car too, best summer I've ever had was with this funky and unpowerful coupe, I instantly fell in love with it, sadly it was in rough shape and had to be scrapped... This brings back memories.. Thank You for this video!!!
What’s „that movie“? I’m from Germany and we don’t have a popular movie with such a car over here. In fact we don’t even have this car over here, I never knew of it’s existence before this video.
May get one as first car too And... Honestly, it fits me, its the black sheep shitty commuter that nobody would give a fuck about (exactly like who i am) and spanish too If i was a car, i would be a paseo... Or a yugo
I still love them cars they were really something different for GM at the time,They didn’t do the Aurora name justice with the second generation though,I always liked the Aurora’s and the Riviera’s and the Buick Reata, I had a buddy growing up that his dad had the old style Riviera from the 80s it had 400,000 miles on it and you couldn’t tell his dad and took such good care of his cars I mean you barely touch the key and it fired right up.
One of the best cars GM ever made. I fell in love with it the first time I ever saw one in an ad in 1995. Apparently the Short Star was a decent V8 too unlike its larger sibling.
I wish so bad they just made those cars RWD. They looked good and had quite a bit of options for a GM, had they made them RWD too they probably wouldn't need to kill off Oldsmobile as it probably would have taken a few buyers away from Lexus, Mercedes, BMW and Infiniti and kept them in action
My sister bought a black Paseo in the early 00's. We had a lot of fun in that thing. Then she sold it to a dude who fart piped it and just ran one center windshield wiper.
This was my first car. My brother sold me his unmodified ‘93 with a stick. Almost identical to the one in the video minus the sun roof. It was the epitome of slow car fast. I did not modify it at all and still had plenty of fun, despite the A/C being worthless under 50 MPH during a Texas summer. The clutch was a b***h too, but that meant that only I had “the touch” to be able to drive it. Thank you RCR for this review. I still remember the 90’s Toyota smell like I’m still sitting in it, sweating while driving my buddy and I to Fry’s after marching band rehearsal to ogle at the new computer crap while sipping Bawls energy drink. It’s 2003 all over again.
Tercel. The small economy car built to Lexus standards. How do I know you ask? I own a 96 sport model. (96 Canada 1 year only) car has 300,000 kms and drives perfect and is more reliable than a new car. It’s so nice that it has collectors plates for low insurance cost . Built to very high standards.
i don't think anybody still reading comments under two years old rcr videos, but i just have to make one. i drive 94 tercel el41 3 doors hatch, japanese model, mechanically it's almost identical to the cynos/paseo, and i love it from the bottom of my heart. it is the happiest car i drove, ever, the lightness, the suspension setup, balance, and, yeah, complete lack of power, makes it fun all the time, my commute is the highlight of the day, i kid you not. as years go by the maintenance and little repairs becoming less trivial, if i ever need to change a headlight i would have to ship it from japan or at least from another part of the country, but at the end of the day I'm happy to catch the tail of that era of cars, cheap, reliable, horribly unsafe (mine has exactly zero airbags), efficient little machines that we won't have again, for that I'm grateful, and I'll try my best to keep it on the road as long as i can
When I had my paseo I would always make sure to but the tallest guy in the back seat and then go and drive the fuck out of the car just to scare the shit out of them. I really do miss that little car.
While this is completely unrelated to the Toyota Paseo and the Chrysler slant-6, there was an Australian car in the early 70s that had the combination of an inline 6, transversely mounted in the front, driving the front wheels; the Austin Kimberley and Tasman, 1970-72. BMC E-series, 2.2L and SOHC, it's related to the engines found in the Austin Allegro and Maxi.
“Mom! Can we get a Toyota Sera?” “We have a Toyota Sera at home.” The Toyota Sera at Home: Paseo. Seriously, the Paseo really IS the Sera without it’s iconic butterfly doors.
Yep the Paseo was also sold in Japan as the Toyota Sprinter Trueno Edit: the people replying to me are correct I was wrong the Paseo is the Cynos in Japan
I remember this car from a book I read when I was a kid, Paseo sounds like “Not tall enough” in French (Pas assez haut) and the guy in the book made a pun So when I see this the first thing I think is “Not tall enough”
"My car is fast because he wasn't willing to do 90 through a double blind intersection. " Every ricer ever in my city. I've been in so many street races that I didn't even know I was racing in. At least until I hear the fart muffler screaming at 6000rpm slowly past me, while I'm cruising at the speed limit. I Haven't won a race yet, shucks.
This happened to me the day I got my $400 Ford Escort wagon. Didn't realize i was "racing" against a riced civic, a beige Camry, and a clapped out accord all in the same night.
I've been the passenger of a few 100hp shitboxes with insane drivers who were eager to prove something to the world. Fast in a slow car is *TERRIFYING* because you're at some multiple of the speed limit for way longer than is comfortable.
@@robotbjorn4952 100 pct. I've been in the same situation. They don't realize that you can be the best driver in the world, but you can't account for Chad up the road running a red because he's too busy updating his FB. It only takes a fraction of a second at that speed to end up dead or worse. Or maybe I'm the asshole for having a 5 litre and driving like a Grandpa.
One of my old roommates had one of these, and she'd try to hotrod it around town even though she weighed as much as the car itself. She rarely bathed, so it reeked of BO and cigarettes.
Oww god, the visual imagery.... It hurts... I see the poor Paseo's suspension over dropping left as she sits down, or the empty water bottles and random crap falling out of the car as a passenger opens the door.
@@CoolTI-Daniel Try two Jabba the Hutt sized megabutch lesbians who must have weighed 45st each getting into a vauxhall Astra - poor thing looked like a Los Angeles class doing a crash dive, even the chassis creaked.. And the mental images of them doing the Ethiopian boredom dance, yarrgh, enough to turn Ellen DeGeneres straight... One of them was my maternal aunt, who has now found God, now the car only looks like Ark Royal having a bad day.... Arrgh, the thought of those two together is enough to cause PTSD.
@@CoolTI-Daniel that’s funny. When I took my Tercel to get emissions tested, the guy looked like he weighed about 300 lbs. No shit my suspension dropped about 2 inches when he got in haha
Reminds me of a hefty friend of mine who had a plymouth breeze years ago, basically a rebadged neon. He actually had to replace the drivers seat because he was so fat that he basically broke it.
Man thank you for this vid. I had a 92 Paseo as my first car back in the day. Bought it with 186k miles, drove the everliving piss out of it, and not once did she skip a beat. I loved that car. (I learned to drive stick on her too) 4 years later and about 120k miles added, I sold her for the same $1000 dollars that I bought her for. Same oil leak, stock everything. I did do my routine maintenance, breaks and alternator, but that's all she needed. Again, thank you for this awesome vid!
@@Just_In_credible6 I don't know why you think he dislikes it. He's quite honest about its weaknesses and strength, and compliments it for succeeding at being cheap, basic transportation. His criticism is of people who.think it's something it's not, a sports car, and a good car for cheap modding.
My first girlfriend had one of these. Car was a blast because just like the review said, it was fun at 50, looked decent, got about 3 billion miles to the gallon, and cost nothing to maintain. I'm sure no one can say the same about her ever...
You must be in your 20's or at least very early thirties. I saw a lot of them when I was 17-25 years old. (I am now 38) The issue is that they were heavily abused by teenagers and didn't get much maintenance or care. Also being from Montreal Quebec with heavy snow and heavily salted roads, the body of those cars would rust to hell... and given the lack of care, they were all scrapped. Not many survivors.
Because they were cheap and simple, that were either nodded to death by ignorant youths, or simply driven to long, slow deaths by the commuters they were designed for. Such is the fate of good, basic transportation.
He's been doing that since right around the quarantine started. Would love to back the channel on Patreon again but the guy's got to come out of his funk.
@@robotbjorn4952 I completely agree. I'm here for the literary bits and the discussions of where these cars fit in the culture, not sophomoric poop jokes that show no originality at all.
Before I even watch the video I'd like to say that a 1996 paseo was my first car I loved it to death it went to 300,000 miles and boy does it have a story. I've been waiting for this video for a long time!
@@iHaveTheDocuments Yeah, it's because I don't know how the RUclips algorithm would behave. I've been shadowbanned by RUclips for no apparent reason before.
I had a 93 with 300,000 miles. Thing started every single day, the AC worked, it was the slowest thing I’ve ever driven and I LOVED it. All four shocks were blown but I was just commuting on local roads so it didn’t matter to me. I’ll always love how great Toyota windows were. Like two turns and it’s all the way down, always smooth
Yo my '07 manual trans Civic coupe is fun at 50 on the back roads too, guess it's a sports car lol. But really, when you brought it back all quiet and said why it actually is a sports car, I got chills. Really great writing there. A good remembrance of an "it's fine" car.
Fun fact: there is a class for cars like the Paseo, Geo Storm, Hyundai Scoupe, and Del Sol/CRX. Econosport. Take one of the most basic cars in your lineup, put a cool coupe body on it, and squeeze all of the fun you can get out of the econobox underpinnings.
Also Nissan Pulsar/NX... and to a certain extent... the Pontiac Fiero (Chevette front end.. FWD Citation/Phoenix rear end with solid tie rods, Iron Duke engine, and GM parts bin interior).
@@Bartonovich52 I can’t believe I forgot the Pulsar and NX, haha, they were the most dominant ones. The MR2 could be considered one too, as most of its parts were Corolla parts.
0:08 No me dejes mi ama, no me dejes mi ama, no me dejes mi ama La bolsa es un sombrero, la bolsa no es un sombrero, la bolsa es un sombrero, la bolsa no es un sombrero Gracias mi amigos!
Made for Asian and Caribbean markets. Lived in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and these were all over the place. Paseo was made for that market -- not mainland 'Murica. It's easy to work on and as the example you've shown should take moon miles.
I do love the little alignments of background cars with the script - a Prius passing the Paseo as you discuss how it could be gapped by one, and a *wide* Dodge brodozer in the heat of the fart noises
The Paseo fit into that faux sports car category with the Honda Del Sol and they Hyundai Scoupe. It's an economy car for people who don't want many passengers. I see quite a few Honda Del Sols that have half of the Advance auto accessory trinkets aisle and most of a JC Whitney catalog added to them much like the Paseos (the Hyundai Scoupes ended up in the crusher years ago).
That engine bay brings back memories… I helped a girl engine swap her Tercel because I thought she was cute. Everything mostly went according to plan, but she ended up banging a guy for money, so we went our separate ways.
I've never understood why people get so confused by the concept of an economy car with swoopy styling. There was (and probably still is) a market for people who want a stylish, aerodynamic looking car that gets excellent mileage, but don't care about winning any stoplight showdowns or driving over 80mph when the speed limit on the fastest road nearby is 70 anyway. I'm not saying it's every care buyer, but they're out there. People short on cash, but want a little flash.
"213,000 miles and she still wants to run!" That made me miss my 1991 MR2 that had the naturally aspirated 5S-FE engine. It had like 135 horsepower but it just wanted to go, and that made a big difference.
This car always confused me as hell, I've seen it for like decades and it always was the same one, which didn't had any badges. It's only like, 5 years later, that i found out what it was after searching on Wikipedia for like 10 hours so i could post it on a car spotting account without being called turbo stupid. Not going to lie, i want one for some reasons...!
@@MegaAwesomedude234 Nope, never did a 3rd. He used to use a first gen for the camera car, and reviewed a 2nd gen at the same time. The 3rd is a bit different, but not all that different to the older Fits, and by extension the older civic hatchbacks, which is what makes it interesting in 2021. Mine is probably very *rare* because it's a manual, but has any new-car feature you'd expect (radar cruise, lane, keep, etc), all wrapped up in a micro-minivan.
12:47 🤣 this perfectly describes all street racing. It's not about skill, or performance. It's just a measure of how stupid you're willing to get, how little you respect your own mortality, and/or how little regard you have for the safety of others. It does not matter if it's a McLaren vs a Tercel. If the McLaren goes to 70 on the residential street, then coasts back down to 35, you know that Tercel owner is keeping their foot to the floor until 15 seconds later they come screaming past the McLaren doing 85. A street race has no finish line except where each driver decides it is, the winner is simply the one who continues racing for the longest period of time. Winning a street race is just a prelude to a Darwin award.
Great video. My grandmother bought a Lloyd’s stereo with speakers that were a paltry 4” but they made a huge fake ring around it to make it look like a 8” woofer, and the tweeter was a 2” ring and just a hole but no speaker. She thought it was great. That was the kind of person that bought a passeo back in the day and thought they had a bargain sports car.
This was my mom's first car when I was a kid. We took the bus everywhere until she got it. I remember tearing up knowing we had a car. Ours was black with graphics on the side. It felt like an awesome sports car to me, but it definitely isn't that. Good memories.
My mom had an MX-3 and I felt the same way about it. Cheap Japanese coupes make for surprisingly good family cars
@@MCTogs Yeah if you only had 2 kids otherwise it was a cramped ride with 3 in the back, then it's Minivan, or SUV land for you!!
Aww bro I feel you
Sure beats walking.
My mom had one of those too. 1986 Renault Alliance in bright yellow. She only had it briefly though before a hood type guy pulled her out of the seat at a 7-11, beat her up, stole the car, and totaled it in a nearby telephone pole. This was back in '91 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“Bargin bin inventory arranged in a sleek container” this makes it the spiritual predecessor* to the altima 2.5 coupe
@@kinnexion my b
@@burnout10567 S'all good brother :)
"It's fast because i drive it fast"
Literally every car guy's argument
i mean if your not racing no one and just racing your self no need to be fast
It's more fun to drive a slow car fast then a fast car slow.
@@joshaulis8326 One of the most true things I have heard on the Internet
@@joshaulis8326 iv got a 2002 fiat palio with a 1.3 16v with 85 hp with exhaust, and evrytime i get on the gas its like im on the fastest car on the world ( even if other car just fly past me lol )
@@maxinnn1 Iv got a 2013 fiat 500 turbo lol fun little car
“I have a 93 paseo in the parking lot”
- Ronald McDonald
You look like you have to take a tinkle! Go on, take a couple drips
I was looking for this
@@MrChanw11 I was going to be very disappointed if this wasn't mentioned when I saw this new Paseo review
Video Edit @7:23 should be Big Macs super sized ...
Legit though, that cartoonist is a genius. His Ed, Edd n Eddy skits are pieces of art.
"I never took a corner that hard. I just use it to go to work and come home, that's why I bought it"
the tone of "wtf are you doing" in his voice has me cracking up
Lol. I do drive this car harder after learning what it can handle. It really is just a cheap, reliable, cheap to fix, cheap insurance, good gas, commuter car though....and that is solely why I bought it.
A to B
@@qpwoeiruty850 dude I daily a stick corolla - only car I have that can feel at its limits at 50!
RCR can give a long poetic diatribe about a pair of white sox haha
😂😂😂😂
@@qpwoeiruty850 the car looks nice n i would V8, RWD swap it, i have a 97 Lincoln Town Car rust bucket i bought couple years ago, i want to swap the drivetrain to a Nissan Sentra B13 to, thing weighs 2,200lbs, would be a monster on the street..lol
Thats when the real video starts and yes then the paseo becomes the poor mans ae86 lolol
Scotty Kilmer is like...
"I finally bought my dream car and it runs like a clock!"
Rev up your engines
"...runs like a dream." is what he usually says. LOL
When I saw that the subject was the Toyota Paseo, I unintentionally let out an orgasmic "ugh!"
I love this little car, and the "economy coupe" segment as a whole. I firmly believe, if we think about it with total honesty, it's the best type of vehicle for most peoples' daily driving habits. And I will argue that point to anyone anywhere.
A couple years ago, I had a neighbor with a teal 2nd gen Paseo with light grey cloth interior, and I couldn't stop looking at it, because I realized that, even though I drive a much nicer car today, I could be perfectly content if that was my daily driver.
I want to live in the timeline where we still have that sense of fun, with it's total lack of pretence or insecurity.
I still have my paseo. IG is hawkeye.paseo 👀 convertible version too
I want to live in a timeline where Toyota realized that a car that looks like the Paseo needs some gonads, and put the Starlet’s 3FTE engine in it instead of the ho-hum 5FE. People who have done this swap have loved it.
@@Noahh_jp and it's red with an underbody neon kit. You sir, have done life right. 👍
@@illegal_space_alien it wasn't uncommon for the company to have a hotter version. Most people bought the commuter engine, and the hot one becomes a collector item. So it's not inconceivable, had the car been Civic/Corolla popular. In Europe, there was usually a middle engine option, typically a diesel, that offered the best of both worlds.
I got your point, and it makes perfect sense ONLY IF you already have roomy SUV for your family.
Daily driving cars like Paseo just to get to work and back is perfectly reasonable.
The Paseo might be forgettable overall, but I'll never forget it. When I was little, my dad had one. It was black, it was manual and we would go to the grocery store in it and listen to cassettes of The Clash. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then one time it had an unfortunate run-in with some sudden flood waters and it was gone. Dad died last year, rather suddenly, and now I find myself seeking out things that make me think of him. So it was a lot of fun to watch this video and see the little old Paseo again. Thank you for what you do!
Sorry about your loss.
Paseo is the interesting man’s Corolla.
And the celica is the interesting man’s Camry
@Coby Williams yes I’ve met guys pushing big power out of JDM 3S ‘s & GT4’s , my point applies to the majority of celicas that came with the 5S-fe out of the Camry
Only if the civic coupe is the interesting man’s civic
which it isn’t
@@activecamoflage6649 so is the Supra the interesting man's Avalon? 🤔
@@Bonno95 but that's only because civics are too easy to make power out of. Actually WANTING a 90's shitbox toyota is kind of...rare, cause they're all garbage for anything but getting you around. Damn near every Honda can make solid power, even the single jingle 1.6's can hold 500 ish on the block, and 200 without even touching the internals. They arent interesting because they're too damn easy
when I was a young teen, my aunts boyfriend at the time "Damon" had a paseo. The front fender paint was peeling, the car was silver but the passenger door was black, and the rear wheel wells had rust holes big enough to put a finger through. He had it straight piped, and put a hilariously massive spoiler on it, the kind of spoiler that has cables criss-crossed to keep it stable.
Damon himself was exactly the man you would expect to be driving such a car. Pushing 40 but still had the attitude of a 16 year old. His receding hairline pulled back into a pony tail, an attempt at a goatee, and an oversized black t-shirt that he thought made him look like Steven Seagal, who he worshipped as the peak of manliness. Damon drove that car a little too fast everywhere, had about three different radar detectors, and never wore his seatbelt 'in case he had to bail'.
As you can tell, my aunt had fantastic taste in men.
what a fine specimen
Now that's a alphaaa
Let me guess. One of them dumped the other and now she goes around asking what happened to all the good men.
It's so poetic you started the fart pipe imitation when the dieselbro Dodge with the "locally hated" sticker passed.
And also the Camry who got impatient of being in that line of cars and went hard in the left lane to just barely accelerate faster
It’s the little things we appreciate
Life imitates art
@ Boxed Fossil
The Camry was going fairly decently. Two overtakes in less than ten seconds?
Don’t let a long lens fool you.
That was a Scion tC, but close enough
Toyotas all look the same.
An entire review without a single high school reference. I’m impressed. Great job.
In highschool 2 of my friends and I each bought $500 cars, which we got as daily drivers for our broke butts but quickly realized we were perfectly set up for top gear style challenges. The contenders were my w123 300D, a V6 automatic mustang convertible, and a very very VERY beat to shit Toyota Paseo. It became a rule that if we found each other while driving we would have to at least lightly hit each other while driving... good times. Ultimately the Paseo was the only one that blew up before it was junked. Being that his car already had power assisted nothing, rather than tow it to the junk yard i pushed him the 5 miles through town with the w123 panzer. Good times... garbage car.
As a former W123 owner, I approve of this usage.
Now the w123 300d got insanely expensive..
and now for the bottom gear high school special!
@@rolux4853 yea the market for them has gone up significantly. Clean examples are a rarity now since unlike most other classics, most w123s actually get driven. I had both an 85 300d (cheap car from story) and a significantly nicer, though not entirely perfect, 82 240d with the 4 speed manual. I daily drove the 240d up until 2017. What other car could reasonably be used as a daily driver for 35 years? Gotta love em.
About 15-16 years ago I remember hiring on a new dude at work to help me with some IT stuff and customer service, fresh out of high school, smart at a button and had been given his mum's Paseo. Without fail at knock off time it was nearly always refusing to work for some reason or another and I suppose to the rubbish POS credit I could usually get it running for him with nothing more than basic tools, WD40 and beatings. Like any car owned by a single mum with no XY parental unit in the family, it had literally never been maintained in well over 12 years by that stage 'because it mostly just kept working' when the road service guy would come out and presumably do the same things I did to it
They really are just that bad
Thing I never really understood was just how bloody pointless the whole package was, its too small for anyone but the most stunted manlets, slower than a turtle with a hardon over broken glass and not enough space for much more than a small dog and a couple of overnight bags. The rest is just a mess of crap suspension, basic bitch everything and completely awful.
As a guy who ownes a Paseo for almost 4 years now. I will say: I laughed my @$$ off while watching this video. It's spot on. 👍
Still LOVE my loud, slow, silly Paseo though. 😎
Me too man.🤣
This is legitimately, the first time I've seen this car.
Same
Yup, same for me.
There was one in a MeatCanyon video called Just Beyond the Golden Arches
Yep, never seen one of these. Or a Tercel. Or a Sera.
Well, I saw the Sera many times... in Gran Turismo 4.
Not popular or familiar cars (car clubs be damned). They’re shiny turds of the bottom of the Toyota selection that most will say “Man, it looks alright…” unbeknownst to its bellow par performance and basic yet memorable interior.
1995 Toyota Paseo, the official car of “Hey, my teenage kush dealer is here.”
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 That was me!!!!!! Same color and everything!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
This has to be the best herburgurbles so far. Reminds me of the "Donde esta el FOUR DOLLA TUBA?" bit.
What episode was that again?
@@TheLaXandro Saturn SC2
@@Skull35 SC2. SC2. SC2. SC2. SC2. SC2! SC2! SC2!! SC2!!!
LA BOLSA ES UN SOMBLELO
@@pedroseba8753 La bolsa no es un sombrero
Mr. Regular: takes a turn at maybe 4/10ths
The owner: *S P E E D Y S P E E D Y B O Y*
"I got a 93 Toyota Paseo in the parkin' lot.
Let's get outta here."
The only reason I’d say this is supposed to be “Sporty” is because there was already a Tercel coupe, and this is essentially the sporty version of that.
They made a Tercel Redhawk, which given that it's a Tercel was probably just a decals/nicer hubcaps package but still a special edition Tercel. IDGAF, most Toyotas are limp dick cars for people that pump their brakes going uphill and still pee the bed at night ages 34 and up
@@ScubaSteveM45 I mean a mk3 Supra can fuckin rip.
@@Foxfloop the rest of the lineup is by and large for the people I described earlier. I run into people all the time spewing their bullshit about some 22RE truck, their 1990 Corolla or 1993 Camry "Ohhhhh it's so reliable, I changed the oil in 2007 and it's still driving" and then you look inside it and the seats are threadbare and split with foam chunks crumbling out, all the symbols in the center console wore away and the arm rests around the door handles have eroded down to nothing. I have a 20+ year old Benz with nearly 300k miles and the only hint that it's pretty old is the body style. Leather seats and wood are still mint.
@@ScubaSteveM45 the Tercel is so underrated, in the US at least. Go to South/central America and 90s Toyota’s are hot shit. Cheap, reliable, fuel efficient, AND fun to drive can’t be beat
@@williamspencer1935 well when it's competing against donkey carts and flatbed trucks yeah I bet the Tercel looks pretty attractive in comparison 😏
Unbelievably reliable, fuel efficient, easy to work on, and still a joy to drive with the 5 speed.
"There's nothing 'Alpha' about a Paseo, a car that a base Prius can gap."
Just as a Prius passes in the passing lane. 10:09, check it out!
I remember getting zoofed by a Prius on my way to work a few weeks ago.
I was already doing 95...
@@Sonic6293 perks of being invisible to cops I guess
That had to be planned. Planned as in adding the commentary when editing the video and seeing that. LOL
Toyota Paseo; the car for the man who doesn't want to admit he likes the corolla
Toyota Paseo; for the man who's tired of trying to convince his friends his Corolla isn't boring
Its the car you traded your corolla for while going through a divorce
Except its a trecel
Wait, there are people that like the Corolla?!
@@ScubaSteveM45 the Corolla is the benchmark of automotive quality/dependability excellence 🐐
"I got a '93 Toyota Paseo in the parking lot, let's get outta here."
I was hoping to find this.
"Our bathrooms are very clean! Hmmm...you look like you have to take a tinkle :) -- go on...take a couple dripss..."
Why didn’t you try the Big Mac?
“Now go ahead, get a taste of that Big Mac it’s really good”.
It was only a matter of time lol
@@Orion-gw7kg he’s the only guy weirder than mr regular lol
“Let’s Get Out of here”
"Why don't you just take a little tinkle?" 🤡🍔🍟🥤
I remember when this thing came out and the marketing blasted the "100 HP!!!" everywhere.
I actually have a 1992 paseo and I swear that thing is just made of happiness
Would you say it would make a fun, good first car?
@@spicywater9284 0-60mph: yes. They love to leak oil. I have a 97.
@@spicywater9284 yes they are. Get on it
I felt the same with my 1993 Toyota Tercel coupe. Only had 82 HP, but it was so light weight that you feel like your driving a go cart.
@@applepoop10 i took off the back seats and passenger as well. It was my lil go kart to fight LA traffic
"A Jizz-Load of Synthetic" is the name of my new Gary Numan tribute band.
As someone who used to work at AutoZone, he hit the nail on the head.
Pfft, Autozone? I used to work at a lumber yard around the time when there were only two Fast and Furious movies out. Dumbass kids coming wanting PVC pipe for cold air returns or 1in steel tubing for exhaust (still couldn't understand how they were reducing it down)... and I was only in my 20's then and they were still dumbass kids to me. Told one of them that wasn't a good idea and he's like "why? Everyone else is doing it" and I replied "because if that plastic melts on the engine, it'll catch fire and burn your car to the ground". I probably saved his life.
My parents bought my a Paseo as my first car, it was less than a $1000. It wasn't a fast car, but I was in high school and it was a couple that wasn't a cavalier, so I had a few moments of being cool. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Suddenly worried that RCR is secretly a drug cartel and we witnessed an execution.
We did...that poor paseo.
My Mom had one of these. And I had a Tercel. Honestly it was a fun little car.
"with the promise of free stick on hood vents for his Cobalt SS"
@@ozzya8057 It's a good car, but please don't put sticker hood vents on it haha
The Paseo actually has engine mounts that will fit the turbo engine. It's a pretty good upgrade path,especially without 1996+ OBD requirements.
Every paseo owner is dreaming of owning a sera someday,
Every tercel owner is dreaming of owning a paseo someday
@@Spicymeatbawls gotta start somewhere...🤣
@@Spicymeatbawls When I had my Tercel, I wanted my mother's Paseo... Yeah, that's accurate.
Nissan NX2000 > Toyota sera
This is very true. Mr. Regular said on the phone that he would let me drive his Sera. Then after the filming he got in his car and drove away :(
Mr. Regular is like that one uncle who you always want to listen to even though he goes on and on for a bit. The stories are always worth it
Just beyond the Golden Arches, a 93' Toyota Paseo sits in the parking lot.
I just don’t know why you didn’t eat the Big Mac
You look cute when you eat those fries.
Don't you wanna know how succulent it can taste?
@@MrDroski100 LOL some funny shit.
@@aspiceronni4462 I've got a 93 Toyota paseo in the parking lot
Finally! A video about a PASEO!! A 2nd gen Paseo was my aunts first car, she drove it for about ten years till I turned 18. That same old Paseo became my first car too, best summer I've ever had was with this funky and unpowerful coupe, I instantly fell in love with it, sadly it was in rough shape and had to be scrapped... This brings back memories.. Thank You for this video!!!
everyone saw "the movie"
..... and never stopped hacking the mufflers off perfectly reasonable cars ever since. Fuck.
Ram air filter plus muffler delete equals at least 50hp. Works especially well if your vehicle is OBD2.
What’s „that movie“?
I’m from Germany and we don’t have a popular movie with such a car over here.
In fact we don’t even have this car over here, I never knew of it’s existence before this video.
@@rolux4853 The first two 'Fast and the Furious' movies, in 2001 and 2003 respectively
@@dodger7183 thanks!
Okay I know them of course but I have to check the German voiceover if they say paseo or something else
The Paseo was my first car I financed. I owned it for 9 years an loved every minute of it. I had a full exhaust on it… yes, header and all.
May get one as first car too
And... Honestly, it fits me, its the black sheep shitty commuter that nobody would give a fuck about (exactly like who i am) and spanish too
If i was a car, i would be a paseo... Or a yugo
I hope to all that is holy that someone has and offers for review a first generation Oldsmobile Aurora. This channel and its subscribers deserves it.
I still love them cars they were really something different for GM at the time,They didn’t do the Aurora name justice with the second generation though,I always liked the Aurora’s and the Riviera’s and the Buick Reata, I had a buddy growing up that his dad had the old style Riviera from the 80s it had 400,000 miles on it and you couldn’t tell his dad and took such good care of his cars I mean you barely touch the key and it fired right up.
I had a 2nd gen 2003 Olds Aurora with the v8; stealth fast.
One of the best cars GM ever made. I fell in love with it the first time I ever saw one in an ad in 1995.
Apparently the Short Star was a decent V8 too unlike its larger sibling.
i'm looking to buy one and i'm definitely gonna try and submit it soon :p
I wish so bad they just made those cars RWD. They looked good and had quite a bit of options for a GM, had they made them RWD too they probably wouldn't need to kill off Oldsmobile as it probably would have taken a few buyers away from Lexus, Mercedes, BMW and Infiniti and kept them in action
My sister bought a black Paseo in the early 00's. We had a lot of fun in that thing. Then she sold it to a dude who fart piped it and just ran one center windshield wiper.
Lol at fart piped it🤣
I was not expecting the Jimmy Neutron theme song.
I was like “no he didn’t”
This was my first car. My brother sold me his unmodified ‘93 with a stick. Almost identical to the one in the video minus the sun roof. It was the epitome of slow car fast. I did not modify it at all and still had plenty of fun, despite the A/C being worthless under 50 MPH during a Texas summer. The clutch was a b***h too, but that meant that only I had “the touch” to be able to drive it.
Thank you RCR for this review. I still remember the 90’s Toyota smell like I’m still sitting in it, sweating while driving my buddy and I to Fry’s after marching band rehearsal to ogle at the new computer crap while sipping Bawls energy drink. It’s 2003 all over again.
The contempt in your voice when you say Tercel is unwarranted.
True a underrated car
Yes miss mine 94 2dr 4 speed had a lot of fun in that car
I’m not sure why he sounds like that, his review of the Tercel was super positive!
Tercel. The small economy car built to Lexus standards. How do I know you ask? I own a 96 sport model. (96 Canada 1 year only) car has 300,000 kms and drives perfect and is more reliable than a new car. It’s so nice that it has collectors plates for low insurance cost . Built to very high standards.
He's saying it that way because the Paseo is a Tercel that's trying to be a Prelude, basically.
i don't think anybody still reading comments under two years old rcr videos, but i just have to make one. i drive 94 tercel el41 3 doors hatch, japanese model, mechanically it's almost identical to the cynos/paseo, and i love it from the bottom of my heart. it is the happiest car i drove, ever, the lightness, the suspension setup, balance, and, yeah, complete lack of power, makes it fun all the time, my commute is the highlight of the day, i kid you not. as years go by the maintenance and little repairs becoming less trivial, if i ever need to change a headlight i would have to ship it from japan or at least from another part of the country, but at the end of the day I'm happy to catch the tail of that era of cars, cheap, reliable, horribly unsafe (mine has exactly zero airbags), efficient little machines that we won't have again, for that I'm grateful, and I'll try my best to keep it on the road as long as i can
I feared for my life sitting in the back seat of Paseo while my buddy was driving like he was on the Nurburgring.
people don't realize just how damn cramped those back seats are. You're just like 'yep, if we get in a minor fender bender, it's still over for me."
When I had my paseo I would always make sure to but the tallest guy in the back seat and then go and drive the fuck out of the car just to scare the shit out of them. I really do miss that little car.
Hahah I had a 92 paseo and it was amazing to throw arround. Really fun on curvy roads. Easy to mantain
@@gunxperp I had a cushion for the back passanger to put betweet the top of the head and the roof glass haha
@@FreedomPhotographs yeah I wasn't that nice. I enjoyed their pain and discomfort.
Me: I wonder if a Chrysler slant 6 will fit in it?
Uncle Tony's Garage: Hold my beer!
While this is completely unrelated to the Toyota Paseo and the Chrysler slant-6, there was an Australian car in the early 70s that had the combination of an inline 6, transversely mounted in the front, driving the front wheels; the Austin Kimberley and Tasman, 1970-72. BMC E-series, 2.2L and SOHC, it's related to the engines found in the Austin Allegro and Maxi.
Rather a 2zz
“Mom! Can we get a Toyota Sera?”
“We have a Toyota Sera at home.”
The Toyota Sera at Home: Paseo.
Seriously, the Paseo really IS the Sera without it’s iconic butterfly doors.
Yep the Paseo was also sold in Japan as the Toyota Sprinter Trueno
Edit: the people replying to me are correct I was wrong the Paseo is the Cynos in Japan
@@patrickmartin3322 That’s the Levin.
@@InfinityR319 no to that too, the Levin was always a Corolla coupe.
@@patrickmartin3322 it was sold as the cynos.
I remember this car from a book I read when I was a kid, Paseo sounds like “Not tall enough” in French (Pas assez haut) and the guy in the book made a pun
So when I see this the first thing I think is “Not tall enough”
"My car is fast because he wasn't willing to do 90 through a double blind intersection. " Every ricer ever in my city.
I've been in so many street races that I didn't even know I was racing in. At least until I hear the fart muffler screaming at 6000rpm slowly past me, while I'm cruising at the speed limit. I Haven't won a race yet, shucks.
This happened to me the day I got my $400 Ford Escort wagon. Didn't realize i was "racing" against a riced civic, a beige Camry, and a clapped out accord all in the same night.
I've been the passenger of a few 100hp shitboxes with insane drivers who were eager to prove something to the world.
Fast in a slow car is *TERRIFYING* because you're at some multiple of the speed limit for way longer than is comfortable.
@@robotbjorn4952 100 pct. I've been in the same situation. They don't realize that you can be the best driver in the world, but you can't account for Chad up the road running a red because he's too busy updating his FB. It only takes a fraction of a second at that speed to end up dead or worse.
Or maybe I'm the asshole for having a 5 litre and driving like a Grandpa.
@@Eric79-f7i I'd like to imagine if you got the cash to buy a monster you're also smart behind the wheel but I have been wrong before.
@@jessehenderson2967 Wellll I think there are more than enough Mustang Videos to prove you wrong there. 😜
Toyota Paseo: The official car of getting ruphied by Ronald McDonald.
"I GOT A '93 PASEO IN THE PARKING LOT, LETS GET OUTTA HERE"
@@ekzilo funniest shit I’ve ever heard 🤣
One of my old roommates had one of these, and she'd try to hotrod it around town even though she weighed as much as the car itself. She rarely bathed, so it reeked of BO and cigarettes.
Oww god, the visual imagery.... It hurts... I see the poor Paseo's suspension over dropping left as she sits down, or the empty water bottles and random crap falling out of the car as a passenger opens the door.
@@CoolTI-Daniel Try two Jabba the Hutt sized megabutch lesbians who must have weighed 45st each getting into a vauxhall Astra - poor thing looked like a Los Angeles class doing a crash dive, even the chassis creaked..
And the mental images of them doing the Ethiopian boredom dance, yarrgh, enough to turn Ellen DeGeneres straight...
One of them was my maternal aunt, who has now found God, now the car only looks like Ark Royal having a bad day....
Arrgh, the thought of those two together is enough to cause PTSD.
@@CoolTI-Daniel that’s funny. When I took my Tercel to get emissions tested, the guy looked like he weighed about 300 lbs. No shit my suspension dropped about 2 inches when he got in haha
I have to know, what kind of cigarettes? If I may guess; they where either really cheap menthols or really expensive menthols.
Reminds me of a hefty friend of mine who had a plymouth breeze years ago, basically a rebadged neon. He actually had to replace the drivers seat because he was so fat that he basically broke it.
Man thank you for this vid. I had a 92 Paseo as my first car back in the day. Bought it with 186k miles, drove the everliving piss out of it, and not once did she skip a beat. I loved that car. (I learned to drive stick on her too) 4 years later and about 120k miles added, I sold her for the same $1000 dollars that I bought her for. Same oil leak, stock everything. I did do my routine maintenance, breaks and alternator, but that's all she needed. Again, thank you for this awesome vid!
Why do I know the outro song? *10 seconds later* “GOTTA BLAST!”
i thought so!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for this comment. I was wondering where the outro parody was from.
This is the most accurate review yet and I watched almost all of them
I had this car in the late 90's. Same color. I loved that car and still miss it. Was reliable and responsive and fun.
They are great cars. I dont know why this douchebag hates them so bad.
@@Just_In_credible6 thats kinda his thing with these cheap cars unless they are famous ofcourse.
@@Just_In_credible6 He spoke well of it....well enough...
@@Just_In_credible6 I don't know why you think he dislikes it. He's quite honest about its weaknesses and strength, and compliments it for succeeding at being cheap, basic transportation. His criticism is of people who.think it's something it's not, a sports car, and a good car for cheap modding.
This was my first car in highschool. I was a Sophomore. Now at 23 I own a Nissan R33 Nissan Skyline.
Fox. The never again mentioned warrior, his name was Fox.
You sir, have provided me a valuable service, for free.
12:09 - it would been hilarious if that Ram was spitting black smoke as this was happening 😂🤣
The official car of the ex military guy that now works at the airport
And says he's "training to fly one of them some day", and nonchalantly waves a hand at the tarmac...
Can confirm
The official car of that weird history teacher. You know the one.
Nah that's a Jetta
The intro was pure excellence hahaha there's no one who does ads like RCR haha love it!
My first girlfriend had one of these.
Car was a blast because just like the review said, it was fun at 50, looked decent, got about 3 billion miles to the gallon, and cost nothing to maintain. I'm sure no one can say the same about her ever...
This thing is awesome. A cheap, stick shift, japanese compact. It may seem underwhelming, but man are they fun.
Lots of cars do this formula better though. Anything more modern in the same category is going to feel a lot peppier.
I'm mad at RUclips for hiding this channel from me for so long. But at least now I get to binge. I can't stop watching your videos.
I've literally never seen or heard of the Paseo
You must be in your 20's or at least very early thirties.
I saw a lot of them when I was 17-25 years old. (I am now 38)
The issue is that they were heavily abused by teenagers and didn't get much maintenance or care. Also being from Montreal Quebec with heavy snow and heavily salted roads, the body of those cars would rust to hell... and given the lack of care, they were all scrapped. Not many survivors.
@@CoolTI-Daniel even in Southern California, these were mostly scrapped by the mid 00’s.
Because they were cheap and simple, that were either nodded to death by ignorant youths, or simply driven to long, slow deaths by the commuters they were designed for. Such is the fate of good, basic transportation.
My first car was a green '92 Paseo with the 4 speed automatic, and I freakin loved that car. Got almost 400,000 miles outta that bad boy.
This whole episode is just mr regular transitioning into an old man.
He's been doing that since right around the quarantine started. Would love to back the channel on Patreon again but the guy's got to come out of his funk.
Sorry you require shit fetish humour to help you pretend you feel young
@@sneakerfreak2002
100%
The *HOT BROWN* bits are the least interesting thing about these reviews.
@@robotbjorn4952 I completely agree. I'm here for the literary bits and the discussions of where these cars fit in the culture, not sophomoric poop jokes that show no originality at all.
Before I even watch the video I'd like to say that a 1996 paseo was my first car I loved it to death it went to 300,000 miles and boy does it have a story. I've been waiting for this video for a long time!
"How much for the strong **** pills? I'm trying to put her in the hospital." Absolute legend
In Scotch Plains, NJ of all places
Just say dick my guy
I had a guy who came in almost every night to get some of those when I worked at a gas station I’m surprised he hasn’t had a heart attack yet
Did you just censor yourself from saying dick?
@@iHaveTheDocuments Yeah, it's because I don't know how the RUclips algorithm would behave. I've been shadowbanned by RUclips for no apparent reason before.
I had a 93 with 300,000 miles. Thing started every single day, the AC worked, it was the slowest thing I’ve ever driven and I LOVED it. All four shocks were blown but I was just commuting on local roads so it didn’t matter to me. I’ll always love how great Toyota windows were. Like two turns and it’s all the way down, always smooth
Makes car/farting noises, I almost spit my coffee out from laughing.
You must be new around here
Yo my '07 manual trans Civic coupe is fun at 50 on the back roads too, guess it's a sports car lol.
But really, when you brought it back all quiet and said why it actually is a sports car, I got chills. Really great writing there. A good remembrance of an "it's fine" car.
14:03 she barked, but she never threatened to bite.
Good girl
A Celica-esque , 200,000+ mile, manually shifted Toyota? I bet Scotty Kilmer would be proud!
Fun fact: there is a class for cars like the Paseo, Geo Storm, Hyundai Scoupe, and Del Sol/CRX. Econosport. Take one of the most basic cars in your lineup, put a cool coupe body on it, and squeeze all of the fun you can get out of the econobox underpinnings.
Hell yeah boi
Also Nissan Pulsar/NX... and to a certain extent... the Pontiac Fiero (Chevette front end.. FWD Citation/Phoenix rear end with solid tie rods, Iron Duke engine, and GM parts bin interior).
@@Bartonovich52 I can’t believe I forgot the Pulsar and NX, haha, they were the most dominant ones. The MR2 could be considered one too, as most of its parts were Corolla parts.
0:08 No me dejes mi ama, no me dejes mi ama, no me dejes mi ama
La bolsa es un sombrero, la bolsa no es un sombrero, la bolsa es un sombrero, la bolsa no es un sombrero
Gracias mi amigos!
Made for Asian and Caribbean markets. Lived in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and these were all over the place. Paseo was made for that market -- not mainland 'Murica. It's easy to work on and as the example you've shown should take moon miles.
I can confirm as a Puerto Rican, we love Toyota’s more then ourselves...
My first car was a 1993 Toyota Paseo with nearly 300,000km. I still miss it
"The frog suit is cool if you're in a water level, but on land you're just hopping around all slow like some kind of asshole"
☠🤣 so true
I wonder if anyone has ever played through the whole game with just the frog suit just for fun?
@@chaseman94 I've tried. There are many places where it is impossible to finish a level with it.
Yeah... world 8 with a frog suit? Not going to happen.
The perfect gun is, at most, a thinking reed
The perfect gun is blood, at water level.
The perfect gun is sufficient unto the day
The warriors and Mario bros. reference, this is why I love this channel.
One of my favorite cars that I've always wanted to own, but have always talked myself out of.....I still love them though!
I do love the little alignments of background cars with the script - a Prius passing the Paseo as you discuss how it could be gapped by one, and a *wide* Dodge brodozer in the heat of the fart noises
The Paseo fit into that faux sports car category with the Honda Del Sol and they Hyundai Scoupe. It's an economy car for people who don't want many passengers.
I see quite a few Honda Del Sols that have half of the Advance auto accessory trinkets aisle and most of a JC Whitney catalog added to them much like the Paseos (the Hyundai Scoupes ended up in the crusher years ago).
Damn shame too. Del Sols are nearly impossible to find unmolested after 25 years of being owned by various high schoolers.
My Del Sol could walk Highway Patrol Crown Vics as a hobby. Barely an economy car averaging mid-20's MPG's.
That engine bay brings back memories…
I helped a girl engine swap her Tercel because I thought she was cute. Everything mostly went according to plan, but she ended up banging a guy for money, so we went our separate ways.
"mom can we get integra?"
"we have integra at home"
integra at home: pAsEo
also it looks like a car from a "flatout 2" game
"Paseo" sounds like the name of a retirement community.
Paseo is a tissue brand in my country
I've never understood why people get so confused by the concept of an economy car with swoopy styling. There was (and probably still is) a market for people who want a stylish, aerodynamic looking car that gets excellent mileage, but don't care about winning any stoplight showdowns or driving over 80mph when the speed limit on the fastest road nearby is 70 anyway. I'm not saying it's every care buyer, but they're out there. People short on cash, but want a little flash.
these are the only guys keeping the 00's vibe alive
It sucks that dirt cheap coupes of the 90s like this Paseo and the European Market Opel Tigra and the Renault Megane Coupe dont exist anymore
They'll come back: AS AN SMALL (ELECTRIC) BOOMER CROSSOVER SUV. See what they did to the Eclipse and the Puma.
"213,000 miles and she still wants to run!" That made me miss my 1991 MR2 that had the naturally aspirated 5S-FE engine. It had like 135 horsepower but it just wanted to go, and that made a big difference.
This car always confused me as hell, I've seen it for like decades and it always was the same one, which didn't had any badges. It's only like, 5 years later, that i found out what it was after searching on Wikipedia for like 10 hours so i could post it on a car spotting account without being called turbo stupid. Not going to lie, i want one for some reasons...!
Its a pretty fun car. they only weigh like 1500lbs
It's kind of cute, and simple in a way no cars can be now.
My dad had this car in college and he often talks about that it was a good car. I can’t wait to show him this
me: "honey, whats for dinner?"
rcr: 2:37 *roasted clutch*
reminded me of those stock Need For Speed Underground 2 clutches
Ooof yeah slippage
This is definitely classic real car reviews
You know what new car doesn't have an engine cover?
Honda Fit. All the glorious plastic intake for you to look at.
(please review my car, lol)
He did twice
@@MegaAwesomedude234 The new ones are reasonably different, at least in the context of what cars are like these days.
Do you know what has an "engine" cover? MY Electric car. Seriously. Why?
@@LazerLord10 how new? He did the 3rd gen IIRC
@@MegaAwesomedude234 Nope, never did a 3rd. He used to use a first gen for the camera car, and reviewed a 2nd gen at the same time. The 3rd is a bit different, but not all that different to the older Fits, and by extension the older civic hatchbacks, which is what makes it interesting in 2021. Mine is probably very *rare* because it's a manual, but has any new-car feature you'd expect (radar cruise, lane, keep, etc), all wrapped up in a micro-minivan.
12:47 🤣 this perfectly describes all street racing. It's not about skill, or performance. It's just a measure of how stupid you're willing to get, how little you respect your own mortality, and/or how little regard you have for the safety of others. It does not matter if it's a McLaren vs a Tercel. If the McLaren goes to 70 on the residential street, then coasts back down to 35, you know that Tercel owner is keeping their foot to the floor until 15 seconds later they come screaming past the McLaren doing 85. A street race has no finish line except where each driver decides it is, the winner is simply the one who continues racing for the longest period of time. Winning a street race is just a prelude to a Darwin award.
"Mom, can I have a prelude?"
My mom: FINE.
Great video. My grandmother bought a Lloyd’s stereo with speakers that were a paltry 4” but they made a huge fake ring around it to make it look like a 8” woofer, and the tweeter was a 2” ring and just a hole but no speaker. She thought it was great. That was the kind of person that bought a passeo back in the day and thought they had a bargain sports car.