Linda My Toyota Cynos (Paseo)

My old Toyota Cynos or Paseo if your being awkward was a brilliant car to drive, I called her Linda. I do think naming a car is extremely gay but Linda practically drove herself so she merited a name. First off a bit of background, the Cynos is rare as hen's teeth, it had to be imported from Japan and is more or less a coupe version of the starlet. It comes as a 1.3L or the more sporty 1.5L with a spoiler, alloys and a badge with the name of a Japenese spirit god or something on it, both engines hail from the Toyota E engine family and so almost all engine parts are interchangeable with the Starlet or Corolla. The Cynos looks magnificent and sporty and handles fantastic, they have all the extra electrical perks like electric windows, central locking, power steering, CD player that you would expect from a Japanese car of the nineties. Mine a 1995 would have no problem being sold in the market today, it had everything you could come to expect from a new car.
   On the shit side of things do the interior was designed with the Japanese family in mind, as a result I often felt the roof on my head, or I found my passengers in the bag dead at the end of a journey from pins and needles and theres no way that boot was big enough for a dead body! Parts were impossible to come across, when my window wiper motor broke I had to drive around for two weeks with a shoelace tied to the wiper and one hand out the window getting soaked.
Linda had a badge that said Juno, meaning she was a 1.3L with a 4-speed gearbox, ridiculous I know but it worked great, my 0-60 was fantastic and my fuel economy well she basically ran on the smell of petrol. But the car lacked something.... Unpredictability maybe, it was a great car to drive but also boring. I would have enjoyed the 100hp 1.5L engine a lot more but these are very expensive and insurance companies will rape you seen as it's an import.

The 1.5l engine will slot into a Starlet without much modification.

Linda did eventually meet her destiny, on her side in a ditch (to be fair do it wasn't my fault, it was lashing rain, the sun was in my eyes, there was ice on the road and a cute little poodle ran out in front of the car....) anyway it wasn't the car for me as it lacked something.... Can a car have balls? If so then that's what Linda lacked.

The Toyota Cynos as standard

A modified Cynos which is self-concsious about it's lack of balls