
Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #5 R. Verreydt / G. Biar Haspengouw Rally 1990 IXO 1:18

Specifications
- Year
- 1990
- Era
- 1990s
- Body Type
- Rally Models
- Vehicle Class
- Group B & Group A Legends
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4895102337415
About the Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #5 R. Verreydt / G. Biar Haspengouw Rally 1990 IXO 1:18
TL;DR: IXO's 1:18 diecast Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 carries the #5 Verreydt/Biar livery from Haspengouw Rally 1990. The ST165 was Toyota's first turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Group A rally car, and this diecast captures its boxy homologation-special shape with opening panels typical of the format.
The Celica GT-Four ST165 launched Toyota's serious Group A rally program, built to homologate the turbo all-wheel-drive layout that would carry the marque through much of the 1990s WRC.
Diecast Detail on the ST165 Rally Livery
Working in zinc alloy diecast, IXO gives this Celica real heft in the hand and the opening doors typical of the material, letting a collector glimpse the simplified rally cabin behind the roll cage graphics. The boxy ST165 body, with its flared arches and rally lighting pod, holds up well in diecast, where panel gaps sit a touch wider than a sealed resin piece would show but the weight adds a satisfying presence on the shelf. The livery, printed rather than hand-painted, reproduces the #5 Verreydt/Biar graphics cleanly across the doors and roofline, which is the part collectors scrutinize first on any rally subject. At roughly 20cm long in 1:18, it holds its own next to larger touring or GT models without dominating a mixed display.
The Celica GT-Four's Place in Rally History
The ST165 predates Toyota's more famous ST185 and ST205 Celicas, and its Group A homologation run established the turbocharged all-wheel-drive formula that Carlos Sainz and Juha Kankkunen would later carry to WRC titles. A regional entry like the Haspengouw Rally sits outside the headline WRC rounds, but it's exactly the kind of period national event that filled out Group A grids across Europe in 1990. For a collector building a Group A theme, this Celica bridges the gap between famous factory liveries and the wider grid of privateer and semi-works entries that made the era what it was. It pairs naturally with Lancia Delta Integrales and early Subaru Legacy RS rally cars from the same period.















