What's Wrong with the 5th Generation Celica?

Front 3/4 view of a Toyota Celica

The 5th generation Celica runs from the 1990 to 1993 model years and ranks 9th out of 81 eligible generations in reliability with a cumulative PainRank™ of 0.35.

PainRank™ is a relative complaint analysis of the 6 complaints made by owners over at CarComplaints.com A majority of the complaints are about engine problems.

You can compare it with other Celica generations.

What Owners Complain About

Sometimes it helps just to tally up the complaints and see where the biggest stacks are. Use this information to learn about troublespots or to run for the hills.

Worst Issues

Worst Topics

Worst Years

By the Numbers

  1. 3 model years

    Grouping all models by their year can reveal some baddies.

  2. 6 complaints

    Running tally of owner grievances filed to CarComplaints.com.

  3. 9th in reliability

    Overall reliability rank out of 81 eligible generations.