Bill

Warren; I could be too late to help but if your buying a 97 Soarer Turbo it will possibly be a single turbo VVTi (very nice car), nothing out of the ordinary should cause concern, check the plastic h/lamps for water ingress or discolouration (£250 a side), cracked door trims (£180 per panel), make sure the speedo conversion works correctly (presume it's UK) as some of them where well dodgy.

Hi Guys, Looks like very few Soarer Twin Turbo owners get in here, the Toyota Soarer 2.5 GT & GTTL was only released in the "home" market and not for export. The TT is faster than the V8 versions, lower gearing in first and final drive give the TT a 0.5sec 0-60mph advantage with 280ps (flywheel) over the 260ps for the early V8 4.0Ltr. The TT is the same basic body as the Soarer or SC300/400 and uses the 1JZ-GTE motor, similar in design to the 2JZ engine from the Supra and Aristo, it is easily tuned with boost mods, exhaust, & intake mods taking it to around 330bhp. Anything beyond this will require the ceramic turbos to be replaced with steel items as they tend to destroy themselves at anything over 14psi. Trim levels range from very basic to full option, about the only thing not on the TT is the sat-nav/touch TV screen or Air sprung TEMS, the TT does have TEMS (coil & shocker) as an option. Have a look at my site http://web.ukonline.co.uk/soarertt/ for more info.