RE: Toyota Trueno AE 86: You Know You Want To
Discussion
micawrx said:
One of our mates traded in his beautiful Mk.2 Escort RS Mexico for a Toyota Corolla GT Liftback in about 1990.
We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
I'm a bit lost. The beautiful MK 2 Mexico would still be worth twice the price, would it not?We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
micawrx said:
One of our mates traded in his beautiful Mk.2 Escort RS Mexico for a Toyota Corolla GT Liftback in about 1990.
We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
Sounds like the AE92 Fwd AE86 discontinued around 87, The high torque engine was fitted to AE92 pushed 136bhp out of the 4age before adding vvti around 92 and up 170bhp found in the levin BZ-G/R. AE86 were always very popular in ireland as alot of jap stuff got imported into dublin in NI you would have to spend 7/8k to pick up a good one.We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
Honda fans cry on about rev's but the trd formula atlantic tuned 4age 16v revved to 10-12k produced 250bhp from a 1.6 N/A in early 90's no variable valve timing needed.
Edited by dufunk on Tuesday 27th January 16:20
Edited by dufunk on Tuesday 27th January 16:26
These had been big in Japan way before Initial-D - the latter just made them popular again. Keiichi Tsuchya (the 'Drift King') made his name in the Japanese touring car series at the time these were new by comprehensively beating far more powerful machines in poor condition races. By the time of the Initial-D game (then manga follwoed by anime and live-action) it had become a car of the past with a core following (much like the Chevette HS featured last week or the Lotus Sunbeam). It was the manga, then anime that brougt it to the fire again.
mrpushrod said:
Pricey but I want it badly, I was big into Initial D and the noise of the 4AGE will always resonate with me.
Only up to the start of season 3 (?) as he <spoiler alert> blows that engine and it's replaced - can't remember what with but I seem to remember it was not a 4AGE, oh and the new one was race tuned.headrush said:
Freely admits bought for £7k 6 months ago and now looking for £4k profit!
If you did read the advert you would have read that more than £4k worth of work has gone it since it was bought for £7k.Anyway I think the seller will struggle to sell the car in this country. The fan base is too small here. It's like selling a Back To The Future replica DeLorean in China.
s m said:
J4CKO said:
They weren't that well regarded at the time, just another Jap coupe, people were not quite so fixated on RWD then because quite a lot of stuff still was, I think Celicas were more desirable to more people and this competed with the Nissan Sunny ZX Coupe which was similar in looks but FWD and a bit forgettable.
Usually, in group tests of the time in the mags, the Manta GTE was picked ahead of these ( or the UK version of these at least ) which seems surprising nowJust had a look and C155 END, a black one I remember, looks like it died in 2006.....or went to Ireland.
Someone I know still has a white one in great nick - as said already, you either 'get them' or you don't
The Toyota was probably, engine wise more comparable to the BDA engine in the RS1600 but less fragile, and look what they go for !
Sideways retro things go for a lot of money nowadays whichever way you look at it.
J4CKO said:
s m said:
J4CKO said:
They weren't that well regarded at the time, just another Jap coupe, people were not quite so fixated on RWD then because quite a lot of stuff still was, I think Celicas were more desirable to more people and this competed with the Nissan Sunny ZX Coupe which was similar in looks but FWD and a bit forgettable.
Usually, in group tests of the time in the mags, the Manta GTE was picked ahead of these ( or the UK version of these at least ) which seems surprising nowJust had a look and C155 END, a black one I remember, looks like it died in 2006.....or went to Ireland.
Someone I know still has a white one in great nick - as said already, you either 'get them' or you don't
The Toyota was probably, engine wise more comparable to the BDA engine in the RS1600 but less fragile, and look what they go for !
Sideways retro things go for a lot of money nowadays whichever way you look at it.
Shame they didn't put the 2.0 XE in as you say though - with 156bhp it would have offered modern day GT86 perforrmance.
They did sell pretty well, the Corollas were a lot rarer. 2700-ish sold in total over here
Edited by s m on Tuesday 27th January 18:36
Steamer said:
micawrx said:
One of our mates traded in his beautiful Mk.2 Escort RS Mexico for a Toyota Corolla GT Liftback in about 1990.
We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
I'm a bit lost. The beautiful MK 2 Mexico would still be worth twice the price, would it not?We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
yep the mexico mk1 or 2 .. would be an easy 20,00 and upwards ! .. and as you say it actually looks nice ... and drives better ...and dosnt have some geek cartoon about it !
i really don't get this car ...and isn't drifting just a slower way to race front point a to b ?
angelicupstarts said:
Steamer said:
micawrx said:
One of our mates traded in his beautiful Mk.2 Escort RS Mexico for a Toyota Corolla GT Liftback in about 1990.
We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
I'm a bit lost. The beautiful MK 2 Mexico would still be worth twice the price, would it not?We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
i really don't get this car ...and isn't drifting just a slower way to race front point a to b ?
SMcP114 said:
angelicupstarts said:
Steamer said:
micawrx said:
One of our mates traded in his beautiful Mk.2 Escort RS Mexico for a Toyota Corolla GT Liftback in about 1990.
We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
I'm a bit lost. The beautiful MK 2 Mexico would still be worth twice the price, would it not?We thought he was mental - 80 quid for spark plug leads? for a jap car?.. just silly.
In hindsight... how right was he! Bet he wish he still had it....
i really don't get this car ...and isn't drifting just a slower way to race front point a to b ?
which is why mexicos and rs are worth far, far more ..as they have better race history .. drive better
Speedhunters have a good writeup of a carb fed AE86 here: http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/01/taku-n-style-c...
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