Looking to buy a car for making late-night deliveries, specifically up and down windy mountain roads, at night? You need a Toyota Levin AE86 ute/pickup truck, just like this one. The Toyota AE86 series of Levin and Sprinter (pop-up headlights) are an icon of the drifting world. Nicknamed the Hachi-Roku […]
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Toyota GR Heritage Project adds reproduced AE86 Sprinter parts
Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division has announced yet another addition to its GR Heritage Parts Project. This time offering reproduced spare parts for the iconic AE86 Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno. Production of these models featuring the 1.6-litre DOHC, 16-valve four-cylinder engine, known as AE86, ended some 30 years ago. However, […]
Toyota GT86 Initial D concept harks back to the AE86 Sprinter icon
Toyota UK’s special projects department has rolled out a modern, GT86 take on the Fujiwara-spec Toyota AE86 Sprinter from the Initial D manga comic series about drifting. If you haven’t heard of Initial D, basically this kid (Takimi Fujiwara) has an old-school AE86 Sprinter and delivers tofu in it, drifting […]
Toyota AE86 gets insane Honda S2000 F22C turbo engine conversion (video)
The original Toyota AE86 Corolla/Trueno/Sprinter is embedded in folklore and manga strips as the quintessential drift machine. It is the most iconic and well-represented car in the motorsport and a popular choice for engine swaps. This is Darren Brown’s AE86 of KAB Customs in Florida, which is packing some very […]
Awesome Driftworks Toyota AE86 with an LS3 V8 (video)
Driftworks has finalised an utterly awesome drift car project it calls the DW 86, based on the Toyota AE86 Sprinter. It has just about everything you need to go flat-out drifting all day long. Starting with the engine, it’s an LS3 6.2-litre Chevrolet V8. Some how Driftworks has managed to […]