12 DAYS OF DRIFTMAS: Toyota Corolla AE86
Ben Pulman posted in Team DriveTribe
2y ago
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- A generation of drift fans have grown up with this as their icon, especially thanks to cult Japanese manga comic series Initial D, in which Takumi Fujiwara drove a modified AE86
- The AE86 was born from the fifth-generation Corolla, which was the first to feature front-wheel drive. But coupe models like this one maintained rear-wheel drive
- These rear-wheel drive Corolla coupes are frequently known as Hachiroku (or ‘eight-six’ in Japanese) in reference to the ‘AE86’ chassis code
- These Corolla coupes were the last Corollas with front-mounted engines and rear-wheel drive
- Numerous race wins and rally successes, plus its role in popularising drifting, has made this model one of Toyota's most famous models
- Modern-day GT86 very much seen (and marketed) as a spiritual successor to the AE86
- What were you expecting? This is an '80s Toyota
- No turbos here, just a near-8000rpm red line
- Longitudinally mounted 1.6-litre engine drives the rear wheels. Front-wheel drive Corolla that followed has never had the same enthusiast following. Funny that…
- Will do this all day. But would do it more easily if it had around 200bhp
Photography by Dean Smith
Day 7: In short, it's a drift icon – and proves you don't need lots of power to go sideways
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Itsuki from IditialD has this car :)
Hmmm... the engine looks like a 4A-C not a 4A-GE. I don't see the T-VIS which would have given it 118bhp. You may have been working with 87!