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 ...

For A Certain Performance-Minded Minority, There Really Is Only One Mash Up That Matters, An S2000 Engine In An AE86 Corolla. Eric O'Sullivan Recalls How He Built His Cross-Platform Hybrid To Rival ...

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 ...

Toyota's Gazoo Racing Heritage Parts division is adding cylinder heads and engine blocks to its list of replacement parts. Built for the AE86-chassis Corolla, these parts will make restorations a bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the generation who grew up reading Initial D manga and idolizing Keiichi Tsuchiya, Toyota’s humble AE86 is nothing short of legendary, yet it’s hard to believe the original Hachiroku is now ...

The Toyota exhibits at this weekend’s 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon and Tokyo Outdoor Show are broken into three categories: “Making ever-better motorsports-bred cars,” “Carbon neutrality for protecting ...