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Trivia & Fun Facts · Cars & Trucks

AE86 Trivia & Fun Facts

Toyota did not set out to build a legend. Retooling a plant for front-wheel drive ran to more than a hundred and twenty billion yen, so the conversion went in stages and one coupé was left on the old rear-drive platform. Ninety verified questions — one car sold under two names with two different faces, the engine Yamaha helped design, and the comic that arrived eight years after the last one was built.

90
Questions
10
Themed parts
2
Sources per fact
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Ten parts. Ninety questions.

01The Last Rear-Drive Coupe. Kept because retooling cost too much
02Reading the Code. A for engine, E for Corolla, 8 for the series
034A-GE. Sixteen valves, two cams, a Yamaha head
04What America Got. GT-S and SR5: same shell, different engine
05Tsuchiya and Drifting. A 1987 video, and the licence it nearly cost
06Racing. Two British touring car titles, on 1.6 litres
07Initial D. A comic that began eight years too late
08What Owners Argue About. Codes, axles and forty-year-old shells
09The Second Coming. One car, four badges, twenty-five years later
10What They Cost Now. From scrap value to auction catalogue
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Q15 · PART 2 · READING THE CODE
What is the difference between an AE85 and an AE86?
The engine fitted. The shells are shared, but the AE85 has the smaller unit, drum rear brakes, a different gearbox and no limited-slip differential. Buyer’s guides have warned for years that the badges can be swapped.
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