Thanks @tflnow for the interview! A great group of guys!

Fun fact: the Cera's doors are the inspiration for the doors on the McLaren F1.

I remember loving this car as a kid reading about it in the Asian car mags. Cars were so much more adventurous in design and colors back then.

@markcoopers1930

Ай бұрын

I know. Today we can choose from black, white, and 5 different types of gray.

@theschof96

Ай бұрын

@@markcoopers1930 Unless you get a Kia Soul! Love that it maintains that Asian quirkiness.

I live on a island, my neighbor had one, I worked with two different people that also had one and used to always see a yellow one parked at the supermarket. America is funny when it comes to Japanese cars.

An incredible find for sure. The color is awesome. Love the unique cars from Japan. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool little classic Toyota.

THAT is a very cool car, one I've never heard of for certain. I'd have driven one of those back when my back would have allowed me to actually get down into it 😂🤣. Thanx, Kase!

Was able to see this car from the same owner out at Phoenix

"Sera" means something like "it's going to be" or "future".

Toyota had a (sister?) car for the US Market called the Paseo. I would think some parts might be interchangeable.

@99unclebob

Ай бұрын

they only looked similar ,the Paseo was different body and engine, you could only get a 1.6 litre N/A with std or auto, no cool doors or backseat like that, i sold lots of Paseos, they were great little cars , one customer and his wife bought one from me, they were new Polish immigrants to Canada and took a trip to Vancouver from Winnipeg and back and said to me , you know at 100mph it got 25mph😳I laughed and said and no speeding ticket, he smiled and reached into his cargo shorts pocket and pulled out a Radar detector ,LMAO, he said it has a very strong engine

@damilolaakanni

Ай бұрын

I guess the Paseo was more related to the Tercel than the Sera. Think of that as a two door Tercel.

@ScuzzySera

Ай бұрын

I consider Toyota Starlet GT is its best family member counterpart as many of the suspension components are a direct part number match. The Paseo and Tercel 5E engine and transmission/gearbox is then obvious as well.

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

Some parts are the same, but more match the Starlet

There are not any video's of the sound system changing to "funky mode" 7:00 so the camera man shows the wrong side of the speaker. LOL

@MultiPurposeReviewer

Ай бұрын

I had the same reaction, but 8:20 shows it going the other way.

@ScuzzySera

Ай бұрын

I've tried to reply twice to this, but KZread's content moderation is a bit wack, I've rebuilt a rear speaker and restored rotation to a broken unit before, I can probably see about taking another video at some point. I've got a video with the front speaker grill removed on the gram.

Most of us watching this have heard of the SERA because of KZread.

@drmcallis

Ай бұрын

Or Gran Turismo 4, I believe was the version.

Cool little car. Kind of reminds me of the AMC Pacer inside with all that glass.

This car is special

Well done on the engine swap, looks great

I've seen two in person and it's something to behold for sure, just have to not focus on the Terdel connection when you're spending $10K or more to get one.

That's pretty cool! Looks like it was well taken care of.

I saw this car on Doug Demuro's KZread channel.

I would love to see Car Audio Fabrication refurbish and update that sound system. I'm sure someone could add bluetooth the factory head unit. For a price.

@ScuzzySera

Ай бұрын

Whilst I don't have the original SLSS unit for the cool factory signal processing, I've gone a bit mad my my Sera audio and got larger door speakers and swapped the dash tweeters and a modern headunit and a bunch of stuff 😅

Yep, the Toyota car I never knew I wanted. Sweet ride.

I think the 90s n early 2ks pimp car for show has nearly been forgotten

I think that is a sweet ride, thanks for sharing!!

I've seen a few of these for sale in California. They go for about 20k fully California legal. Kind of a fun grocery getter.

I see Celica, Paseo and Subaru SVX in it

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

Its closest relative mechanically is the Starlet

Very cool car

Those who play Gran Turismo 4 will definitely know this car, the only car in the game with its door open just to show off the door

Really cool car this is what toyota should have been giving us . This looks like a Subaru SVX baby brother . Funny seeing the two of you in this car and the size difference

These are such cool cars.

You didn't show how back seats can be folded :(

@bshelley234

Ай бұрын

It’s a little bit complicated, but if you pull the levers at the tops of the rear seats they fold down flat, then the rear speaker box has to be unplugged and the whole tray removed, then there’s one last trim panel behind the seat backs to be removed. After all that there’s a pretty large flat cargo area in the back that will fit two large suitcases!

Funky mode likely sounds better with popular Japanese music from that era

Ford Probe competitor model? Well, I suppose there were not nearly enough of these in the U.S. to be a Probe competitor. But upon seeing it I thought it looked somewhat like a Ford Probe! And 1993 is definitely in the Probe era.

When I went to UCL: University College London, I had a girl Friend 😂 not a gf anyway, she had one. Neat little car. No the fella who fancies tape decks & 8 tracks, doesn't shock me 1 bit. That you're fascinated over the Funkymode speakers 😂

Ah yes, Toyota Ceratops

I've seen a few KZreadrs review the Sera. It looks great and I bet it's fun to drive. Kase is right, the color is fantastic! I'm surprised a Toyota blew its engine. It was probably low mileage too because these Japan imports don't get driven far. The owner seems like a nice guy. It's a shame more people like him don't have car channels on KZread instead of guys like Doug DeMuro. I don't know why being annoying, obnoxious, and factually incorrect regularly generates millions of followers. Blows my mind.

NZ got many used ex Japan as being RHD also

It's basically a turbo toyota Paseo with lambo doors

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

Based on the Toyora Starlet underneath, with the doors inspiring Gordon Murray to use a similar design on the Mclaren F1

very cool car, very cool owner!

Awesome!

We had many of this in far east of Russia in 2000's

Nice boys

I seen one on Doug demuro channel ever since then I wanted one but can't afford it

The floor mats look look airport carpet from the 90”s

@volvo09

Ай бұрын

I used to work in an office that had funky carpet like that in the main hallways, and every wing of the building was a different color, it was cool and made it easier to tell someone how to find you "meet me at 1east, it's the purple wing" Then they painted over it all boring white and got rid of the carpet.

Putting tint would look awesome

@ScuzzySera

Ай бұрын

Tint is a must 😅

Sera means evening in Italian

Toyota tried to build a CRX

I had a friend who had a green Toyota Sera, cool but not quick.

Fellow Sera owner here. Anyone know what button/dial on the head unit puts the speaker in funky mode?

@ScuzzySera

Ай бұрын

I belive it's the WARP button, but the rotation mechanism might be busted I've restored one, the rubber band or the microswitches can fail preventing rotation. I don't have the SLSS headunit, but do have the rear speaker and have rewired it for manual rotation 😂

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

Same here!

@mellowgrellow1375

Ай бұрын

Yep, the WARP button on the original head unit selects the modes between Standard/Casual/Funky - it's a cool system to have but not a patch soundwise on modern ICE.

Nice

very Cool...

Parts?😮Toyota should reintroduce a EV version.

Neat.

@CalebHammer spending your money on a car instead of paying of that credit card?!

Será in Portuguese means something like “Will be”

"Never Hear Of!" Fair statement. Since cars from other countries are not advertised in the USA market. Only deep fanatic petrol heads that do their homework on every vehicle ever made in the world would have a clue about this. The doors are the big selling point. IMO. Outside of that... old nostalgic Toyotas from other countries... to each their own.

Doug DeMuro featured the Sera several years ago

This car was designed for the average American

Looks like Renault Fuego

This car was not designed for an average American😅

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

No, it was designed for the average Japanese!

Nothing special lads. Sorry

Props for getting him out of his moms basement and letting us see this epic car.

@bshelley234

Ай бұрын

Back to mom’s basement 😂

Sorry but is this TFL Classic?

The car you own can show you short comings. Big truck = small appendages and jdm car = no social life and boring

@bshelley234

Ай бұрын

Yes, I’m extremely boring, nothing to see here 😂

@sheenat9705

Ай бұрын

This is actually a smaller car in real life than you think, so that doesn't apply!