We meet in a WRC service park, not to talk about the new Yaris WRC, but his collection of 1980s and ’90s rally-spec Celica GT-Four ... more like a race car on tarmac. “But it doesn’t have ...

but it wasn't so long ago that the World Rally Championship was populated by cars that slipped and slid across gravel and tarmac using rear-wheel drive. One of those was the Toyota Celica.

Toyota even raced the chassis—the Celica was celebrated for its rallying prowess, with its first victory in the 1982 Rally of New Zealand ... use in the WRC). On that note, the Celica will ...