How many of you thought it would be nice if the Toyota Trueno AE86 enjoyed a little extra horsepower without altering the characteristics of its lightweight, high-revving, and responsive engine? The ...

Masataka Ikeda started tuning the moment he was legally allowed behind the wheel, which in Japan means he had to wait 18 long years. Attracted to the classic lines and sheer simplicity of inexpensive, ...

Toyota's AE86 Corolla continues to be popular, even though the youngest examples have passed the 30-year-old mark. The compact hatchback with rear-wheel drive and a longitudinally mounted engine still ...

There are few people today who would buy an AE86 Corolla with the intent of driving it, that wouldn't opt for an engine swap. Because let's face it, if you're going to do anything competitively, not ...

The GR Yaris is, among many other things, the most interesting thing Toyota makes. Many decades ago, that honor belonged to the front-engined, rear-wheel drive AE86. Both pair cutting-edge performance ...

When one mentions the AE86, you're often referring to Chinese bootleg copies of Initial D, drifting, or how great the old school was before those POS "Hondas" came along. Arguably the quintessential ...

I don’t know about you, but I adore a good restomod. Restomodding is the practice of taking a classic car and restoring it—while modernizing it at the same time. In the past, that might have meant ...

A Japanese tuning house has already taken the engine from a GR Yaris and dropped it into an AE86, creating an epic drift machine with insane attention to detail. Daddy Motor Works opened in 2013 and ...

Toyota is going back to the future. The automaker has retrofitted two of its iconic sports cars with modern powertrains. The 1980's AE86 was sold in the U.S. as the Corolla Sport, which helped ...

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) announced today that, as part of the GR Heritage Parts Project, it intends to reproduce and reissue parts for the 4A-GE-type engine of the Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno ...