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FR Sports Royalty: how Toyota's 86 has epic sports car DNA
Why the new-age Toyota 86 had huge shoes to fill
Toyota's Corolla is nearly universally renowned as a cheap, cheerful runabout that runs on the smell of an oily rag and is more reliable than the ever-punctual Japanese public transport system. So how did one version lift itself head and shoulders above its brethren to become a global icon of multiples scenes? This all-time titan of the car scene is known to car enthusiasts by many names: Sprinter, Hachi Roku, Levin, Trueno, but they are all AE86s. Introduced in 1983 for the ’84 model year the Sprinter was the rear-drive variant of the all-new front-drive AE82 Corolla platform, and it...