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difference between starket efi and xli

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  • 16-11-2009 9:28pm
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    corglass
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    Hi,

    As per the title,
    I'm thhinking of buying a Toyota starlet and I've been confronted by EFI and XLI types.

    Can someone please explain the difference? Thanks:pac:


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    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    EFI referred to the engine whereas XLi was a spec levet afaik


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    Owen
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    Nearly certain EPM's right. My Mum's starlet was an XL, and carburetted - so it didn't have the EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection), and I remember seeing other XL's and XLi's on the road at the time.


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    corglass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    ok, but how come some as decribed as XLI and others as EFI? Could a starlet be both?


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    Owen
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    Yes, it could have a fuel injected engine (EFI), and have the equpiment (Elec windows, or whatever else was in the XLi pack) XLi specification. I'd imagine they're described differently because people generally haven't a clue what they drive.


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    corglass
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    thanks everyone. I'm sorted now


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    EPM
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    If you are looking at one GLi is the spec to go for


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,201 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    EFI stands for Electronic Fuel Injection which was relatively new technology in Starlet from around 1992 which also co-insided with the introduction of the cat converter to the range. Non EFi engines were the old 1.0 litre sold up to 1992. All Starlets from 1992 onwards had a 1.3 litre engine with EFi. There would have been a sticker with these letters located in the rear windscreen below the heater elements to identify the EFi engined models.

    XLi was the basic trim sold here, it was previously called XL but became the XLi when the car gained fuel injection.


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    corglass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    thanks baxx26, great stuff!


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    JHMEG
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    EFI wasn't a trim level. It was a marketing badge used by Toyota on all fuel injected cars of the time.


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