An interesting stand-out of the still-plentiful Toyota Wish. Its a deep blue, sporty and made most prominent with a seemingly factory body kit.
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I spy with my little eyes… a humdrum but wide Toyota Wish in a bright blue.
This unit was my formal introduction to the Aero Sports Package. But while listings as it was sold said that it was “less than eight” remaining, I couldn’t help but wonder if this meant five “widebody” Toyota Wish was still around?
I was fooled. I never figured it out until I did my digging. This is in fact, not a fully original Aero Sports Package. Let me refresh a bit.
The Aero Sports Package for the Japanese-market cars received a sporty front bumper with more aggressive integrated front lip with foglights, sideskirts, rear bumper lip and a chunkier and sportier rear spoiler. Normally, these Wish would still come standard with the standard 15-inch fat-five-spoke wheels.
Those wide fender arches have little information surrounding them. Or, rather the Wish as whole as little information, but it is pointing most towards being a Toyota Racing Development (TRD) wide arch kit.
Image credit: https://wishedition.blogspot.com/
(Beautiful Singapore-based resource for the Wish! Please check it out!)
So this particular unit stands out the most more because it has some heavy work done to the exterior. As I’d come to find, there is an entire repository of the old Toyota Wish scene back in the day with some extremely chio builds that if given the opportunity, I’d love to feature on this website.
The Aero Sports spoiler, sideskirts and rear bumper are still intact, but gone are the foglights and fitted over is that TRD kit, which makes it even more macho than a Wish should. The wheels actually appear to be optional items for the Wish, a much bigger 17-inch that is incredibly sexy with the sporty additions of the Aero Sports Package (though ill-fitting with the TRD arches).
The badges – the “Z” stuff and the Z-Aerotourer badge on the rear doesn’t seem to correlate to any actual Wish trim, but it does make an appearance on other in-period Toyotas like the RunX or Fielder (though their badges differ in design).
The blue is hard to find a match on but it might be called Sapphire Blue and limited only to the Aero Sports Package. Which by checking other units might also suggest that the widebody arches may have been a Toyota dealer option. It seems unusual for many buyers to turn to TRD to separately buy the arches if it were not sold with it.
Only in 2008 was the Toyota Wish officially imported by Borneo Motors, which was repurposed to be a dedicated Singapore-domestic market model.
The front grille with the Toyota Netz logo was changed into the Toyota badge but accessories once optional would be offered as standard equipment – including a 5-piece bodykit with a rear LED third-brake light, DVD head unit with touchscreen and reverse camera, side mirror indicators, mirror indicators, illuminated scuff plates, window visors and chrome muffler tip.
The SGDM units received a front lip, rear lip, spoiler, sideskirts and likely front bumper (official pictures are tricky to discern). These were extremely short lived, sold from 2008 to 2009 before being replaced by the second-generation Wish in late 2009.
The first-generation Wish is most known for being the 1.8-litre model, the 1ZZ-FE four-cylinder that had some level of kick. It made roughly 130 horsepower at 6,400RPM and 172Nm of torque at 4,400RPM, which for family cars of its application meant good power but not defyingly fast. The 1ZZ-FE was used in other models with varying successes; the Corolla Altis (got kick), Celica (no kick) and surprisingly the Lotus Elise (confirm got kick).
I know many people love the 2ZZ-GE more and know of its application in the Series Two Lotus Elise, but the slower 1ZZ-FE actually was used in the same Elise. European markets had the “base” Elise S that was powered by the 1ZZ-FE that had a 0-100 km/h time of 5.8 seconds, with the higher trim Elise all receiving the correct configuration that is more known and desired.
Not to mention that this 1.8-litre configuration was already close to matching Mitsubishi’s own popular platform across the border – the 4G93 (Proton variant in this case) was around 10 horsepower higher only – can play!
These first-generation Toyota Wish are getting rarer due to the diminishing returns for the older folks holding onto them (as is every car) and stupidly-priced COE killing everything. This exact Wish is being advertised to be renewed the cheaper-yet-expensive 5-year COE, which this writeup gloating its appearance won’t do anything to stop.
Its a nice example that no matter the outcome, could hopefully catch more enthusiasts off-guard, including those who know nothing of it and ex-Wish enthusiasts who will inevitably smile looking at it.
~Efini
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