Toyota Tercel

The Toyota Tercel is a subcompact car that Toyota manufactured from 1978 until 1999 across five generations, in five body configurations sized between the Corolla and the Starlet. It was built at the Takaoka plant in Toyota City, sharing its platform with the Cynos and the Starlet, and was marketed in Japan also as the Corolla II and the Corsa. It was the first front wheel drive vehicle produced by Toyota. The name is an old term for a male falcon, which is smaller than the female, as the Tercel was slightly smaller than the Corolla. The Platz replaced it in 1999, and 4,968,935 had been built by then. Generations with their own pages on this site: the first generation, L10 (1978 to 1981); the second generation, L20 (1982 to 1985); the third generation, L30 (1986 to 1989); the fourth generation, L40 (1990 to 1994); the fifth generation, L50 (1995 to 1999).