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- AE86 // LEGACY
From humble beginnings, the Toyota Corolla GT Coupe (AE86) has become one of the most sought after 1980s performance cars.
Motorsport success and popular culture is a path to global cult status that few cars have trodden, and though the AE86 was a masterclass in understated design, what was beneath the surface was a concept last seen in the 1960s when the Mk1 Escort took the rally world by storm.
Once described as Toyota’s evolution of the Ford Escort RS1600, the AE86 Corolla invented a whole new genre of motorsport, and became the star of a cult cartoon, TV and film series, Initial-D.
Get under the skin of this legendary car with the latest classic car story from Paul Woodford’s Car Films channel.
This is the unofficial story, of the Toyota Corolla that changed the world.
📲 CarFilms.co.uk
📼 Written, filmed, presented and produced on iPhone 11 and GoPro Hero 7 by Paul Woodford.
With thanks:
🎥 Special Stage Rally Review - rally footage
🚗 Alex Allingham Cars - use of the AE86 Corolla
📖 Research - Tom Hutchings
🎶 Ross Bugden - “Something Wicked” (other royalty free music also used in soundtrack) - / rossbugden
I saw many around town where I grew up back in the early 90s. I didn't pay attention much until I bought a Option 2 VHS tape, it was in Japanese, and it was about building and drifting them. I was hook and bought 3 GT-S at $500 each. It wasn't a beautiful car or anything special. I went on and drive many better and faster cars: Supras, Evo, STI, MR2 turbo. But strangely they are fast but not as fun as the Corolla GT-S. My friend has one and helping him working on it and hanging out in the weekend. It's bring people together. It's also a time machine to my younger days. I try to drive it once a week if I'm not to busy.
I really love the AE86 and I like that you mostly talked about the rally history of the car instead of focusing only on drifting is a breath of fresh air, also, the fact that this video was published on my birthday makes me like it even more!
Nice bday gift!!! I had a funny story with my ae86 I bought it the night of August 5th so I spent the next day washing and giving maintenance to the car and that day I found out it was the hachi day (August 6th) so it was something beautiful for me as I spent the last year without a car cuz mine was stolen, so it felt like a gift from the universe to finally get my dream car in that precise moment while in the whole world people were celebrating this car’s legacy!!! It was like a party day with my kids that day they really love the car and it’s eyes!!! Mine its a 1985 AE86 Sprinter Trueno Coupé 🥰
How you dont have a million subscribers is beyond me.
Your writing, editing and narration are really quite brilliant.
Aside from all tha tyou have an obvious passion for your subject.
Stick with it. You *will* hit the big time my friend.
Thank you for your kind words - I really appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed the film!
Great gideo love the anime style filter and comic strip bits
Nicely done Paul. Comic strip effect is 👌🏼 - rally car Manga!
It's not only the engine and the suspension but it is also the weight distribution. This was the key factor why Keichi Tsuchiya likes this car's light weight, balanced weight and old school rear wheel drive.
Such a cool video and an amazing car 👌
Really enjoyed that Paul.
Awesome video
Get yourself on to juice box for all your Irish Japanese content
Great editing and well put together as always mate.
Great video and beautiful levin in very good conditions 👍🏼
Brilliant review ❤
Good framing and cinematography really gives a sense of ocassion to what is otherwise a plain looking car.
Really nailed it at the closing frame; excellent work!
Fire video‼️‼️
Well produced 👍🏻
I’ve got a 1985 completely standard Uk car just like this which I’ll be getting back on the road later this year and I can’t wait
Excellent video on this legend, definitely the video I'll be sending to people when the ignorantly say this car is only famous because Initial D, or that the car is only expensive because of the tofu tax. So much more to this car that is such readily available information, but people want to say "£30k for a 40 year old corolla huh huh" to put it down.
Most are now in Ireland. We love them here. They were a very quick 1.6 in their day. Quicker than most off their Euro rivals
In Puerto Rico there’s a shiet load of them through out the island! They love those over there! And you find them in better than new condition!👌😎👍
good video man! love to see ae86 content
Great video with nice car and accurate information, there is escort people and toyota people but both respect each others choice as they both are fun cars
I've seen this car in person 😋 and best mates with the owner 👌 sadly not let me in it yet (wink wink Alex) 😅😅
Una belleza de carro 😮
I had an AE86 GT-S TC-16. The handling was phenomenal. I’ve never driven any car since that had steering response anywhere close to it. The low end torque was dismal which I hated, but the handling made up for it. It was a great first car and I had it for 12 years and 160K miles. I wonder if mine is still on he road somewhere.
It had a rich motorsport history in rally and touring car group A..it was beaten the M3 of the day in touring car.
Hey mad max? When is the new road warrior movie coming out?
Wunderschoehn dieser corolla gt
I would say the appeal of the AE86 and well all small engined (2L and below) Japanese cars in Ireland is less to do with the world off rallying and more to do with Irish motor taxation and crazy insurance which meant driving anything with an engine bigger than a 2l was prohibitively expensive. Back in the 90s and early 2000s the Irish car scene was mostly imprezas, evos and altezzas for those who could afford to insure them and starlets, mirages ect for those who couldn't
Interesting points, see where you’re coming from - thanks for getting involved in the conversation! 👍🏻
No..rally was its start.
@@maxrocatansky5516 the rally thing runs deep in Ireland north and south, yes in South taxation and insurance issues have made owning performance classics and performance cars in general very expensive but the primary reason AE86 is such a cult car here just like the mk2 escorts etc is the rally history (and the sideways rwd culture here) . My friend owned a few in the early 90s and tbh they could hold their own with most hot hatches of the period. Fantastic little cars that had plenty of grip in the dry😎👌
@@ciartdsfa4899 yes spot on..it was down to rally and lads Messi out on the back roads at the weekend and yes I had a few and still own one and still don't know many other 1600cc engine cars that could do 135mph in 1986..
They're surprisingly good on fuel lol
Nice video of the AE86. But somehow I feel like there’s something to do to Boris, now.
Yes - the writing was on the wall, wasn’t it. Purely coincidental however - this isn’t a political statement! 🧐
Great video but 15 grand for a coupe? Where lol. You need 25k to get a rough one.
Tough one - market values currently manipulated by lack of supply!
Not much change building one either, would have been the cheaper option if parts wernt crazy lol
I loved the video, I'm I'm I Ireland and yes they are very much loved by most car guys here, the raffles drove the price of them up also its scary to think of how fast they are going up in value.
I once bought a dim dip 87 blue tweed
s/o/g for 1,500 pounds (but that was back in 2002)
Where can I find a Twincam for £5000 is what I want to know??
Ya might get the interior for 5k..lol
Theres mint ones getting raffled every single week on irish raffle sites.
woops. looks like someone didnt quite read into the initial d lore
Which part doesn’t fit for you?
@@CarFilms takumi made the tofu deliveries at night time around 4am iirc and later having to go to school. so over time he got better and faster going down hill so he could return home asap to get a bit more sleep before school. on the the way up to the hotel at the top of the mountain, his father made him carry a cup filled with water. which he would have to pay attention as harsh driving would damage the tofu, this taught him how to weight transfer with extreme precision. racing is something he didnt do out right . in a way he was forced/ tricked into racing by his peers/father( who was a legend on the mountain roads) after he beat one of the top drivers from another touge/mountain where he was merely trying to get home as fast as possible the thought of racing the other person was not even in his scope. he just wanted to get home fast, the other person just happened to be an obstacle
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