Name: 豐田AE86 - 您需要知道的一切｜加速發展 (Toyota AE86 - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed)
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I was driving home from a late night on the
mountain,

flying down the Touge, drifting the
turns like the Drift King that I am, when suddenly,

I spoted some headlights in my rearview, and they're coming fast.

I clutch kicked my car around the bend to
shake the little challenger off but I just

couldn't lose it, it's sliding right behind me.

I'm the number two driver of the Akigi Red
Suns God Damn it!

I slow for a turn but the punchy Corolla...

There's a ravine on the other side, he's
gotta hit the brakes!

To my amazement the 8-6 flicks its tail from
one side of the road to the other with ease.

The pulsing Eurobeat ends, and I am left
with is the sight of a white hatchback leaving

This is everything you need to know to get
Up to Speed on the Toyota AE86!

What makes the AE86 so cool is that for a
long time, it wasn't.

While everyone in the world was drooling
over the big dogs: The Skyline GT-R, The RX-7,

The NSX, and The Supra , the Carolla was riding
it's own wave.

Other cars have more power, other cars
are better looking,

Even in Toyota's own line up the Corolla
was a under dog.

The Celica Supra was at the top, the MR2 was
this weird spaceship little brother,

knowing it would blow people's
minds if given the chance.

Back in the 70s You either bought American
or maybe german or british, because A.

It was basically your duty as an American.

But all of a sudden there were Japanese brands:
Datsun, Honda and Toyota.

The Japanese saw the weak points in other
brands and designed their cars to avoid them.

It might have been scary at the time but if
you bought something Japanese, like a Toyota,

you could expect it to be reliable, well-engineered,
and most importantly, affordable.

The Carolla had been all those things for
nearly 17 years.

When first introduced, the Carolla was the
smallest car in 'Yota's US lineup, and

maintained a rear wheel drive layout until
the early 80s.

But Toyota couldn't ignore the benefits front
wheel drive any longer.

It was more efficient, freed up interior space
and was cheaper to build.

So in 1984, Toyota released a front wheel
drive Carolla.

That's what the Corolla is, until this day.

So there you have it, everything you need
to know to get up to speed on the- wait,sorry.

Even though there was a front wheel drive
version, Toyota also kept building

Using totally different layouts and platforms under the same name.

On top of that, the rear wheel drive version
also had two versions, a two door coupe and

And then, There were two styles of each: The
Levin, which had fixed headlights, and the

Trueno...Turino? Truno? Treno? No that was Trueno...

And the Trueno, which had pop up fu**ing headlights.

So, this rear wheel drive Corolla would be
it's swan song, the ultimate culmination

Well, it'll be powered by a 4A engine, I's
an E code chassis, and E80 to be exact, and

Toyota restyled the Corolla's Coupe and
liftback bodies, and dropped one of their

best engines EVER, one of THE BEST engines ever under the hood: The 4A-GE.

This fun size four banger was designed with
two things in mind: powering small cars like

It had a cast iron block for strength, an
aluminum head to add lightness, and a redline

Imagine your neighbor's a beekeeper, making
honey in his backyard.

One afternoon you sneak back there, you want a taste, just a little bit o' taste that sweet sweet nasty goop

You open up a hive to grab some of that sweet
honeycomb but it turns out he's not raising bees...

The 4A-GE only made 128 horsepower BUT the 86 had a curb weight of around about 2300 lbs.

The car had superb balance too, meaning the
weight was evenly distributed between each wheel.

The result was super predictable and agile handling.

To get the power to the ground, the 86 didn't
use fancy independent rear suspension,

this things gotta be affordable, 'member?

It had a live rear axle like a fu**ing muscle car.

This made doing fat skids super easy and pretty unavoidable.

The AE86 had no business being as good as it was.

The 86 was driven in pretty much every kind
of racing you can imagine.

There were 86 racing leagues, it raced in
the British Touring Car Championship and won

And despite being two wheel drive the 86 was
also a killer rally car.

But above the rest, there is one sport the AE86 is most famous for:

The Corolla's small size and snappy handling made it perfect for charging down the mountains of Japan

A young man named Keiichi Tsuchiya would drive
these roads everyday in his own AE86.

He didn't have the money to race professionally,
so Keiichi honed his skills on the mountain.

Keiichi's sweet drift moves made him unbeatable on the mountain, and he gained a huge underground following.

Spending all your time drifting on snowy mountain
roads without killing yourself makes you a

But would sloshing around on a mountain make
you that much better on a track?

Keiichi was so good, he got sponsored to race
professionally immediately.