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 ...
Much like how the Mk4 Toyota Supra became famous from the original Fast and Furious movie, the original AE86 Toyota Corolla gained a lot of its popularity from the manga comic Initial D and its ...
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 ...
It was widely reported about a year ago that reproduction shells for the Toyota AE86 generation of cars had become available on Chinese marketing platforms. Reproduction pattern parts such as front ...
If there's one car synonymous with drifting, it's the Toyota AE86. And if there's one track famous for drifting AE86s, it's Nikko Circuit in Japan. This is where you see huge drift trains, running in ...
When Toyota updated its small, economical sports car and gave it a second generation, it decided to rename it the GR86 (in North America), a deliberate nod to the classic AE86 from the ’80s. How, then ...
It's easy to get fatigued by alternative-energy restomods. The thought of taking a beloved enthusiast car and transforming it to ensure continued enjoyment for hundreds of more miles is very enticing, ...
Widely popular for both tuning and rally or club racing, the AE86 series of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno has had a major impact on the JDM car realm. With pop culture help, of course.
Under Toyota’s GR Heritage Parts Project, reproduction parts for the marque’s most widely beloved classics are returning hard and fast. Toyota has so far hit us with new-old components for the 2000GT, ...
The old adage about a car owner seeking out a simple, reliable daily driver, only to modify it so much that it becomes a full-blown project, which in turn requires finding yet another car to serve ...
Every automaker wants to tell you that new is better: The best technology, the most up-to-date engineering, all the premium audio and crash safety that modernity can bring. But there's a certain charm ...
Toyota's Akio Toyoda, announced plans to turn classic gas-powered cars into eco-friendly automobiles, transforming them into electric vehicles or EVs. Peruvian blind driver Jose Luis Cantt drives his ...