@@anuragss938 interestingly, it's the other way around in the middle east. Car enthusiasts tend to replace the chevy logos on the Chevy Caprice and Lumina to Holden ones. (LHD versions of Holden Statesman and Commodore for those who are confused).
Badge removal is much okay imo but putting on a badge to make your dick seem bigger than it actually is...that's just weird. come on buddy, it's a 318i with an ugly ass wing. You wanted this, now own it.
My 91 AE92 was what got me into tuners. Loved that car so, so much. It was such a blast to drive. It wasn't the fastest car, by any means, but it was still a lot of fun.
The japanese corollas were ae92's as well. They were fwd with 4ag's. They also had a supercharged version that was a 4ag with a slightly higher boost sc12 than the aw11 with the 4agze.
These cars, the "Corolla GTS Twin Cam 16", as they were called in NA were great, and fast. I mean the original, actual meaning of fast. 135hp from 1.6litres, normally aspirated. VTEC that. The most powerful 4AGE we ever got. I drove one that was new (and just broken in) through Montana on I-90 in the day and it flew. Had it at 125 a couple of times and a nice rippy and easy cruiser at 110 for extended periods of time. Montana is a long way across. Very few cars going either direction to even look at. Fun car.
And now you've got massive barges like my 2013 Ford Fusion 2.0L Ecoboost AWD that I mod chipped to get it to boost higher and produce a whopping 305bhp and something near 370lb-ft of torque. It's fast, sure, but you'll never experience speed in it the same way you do in a 90's car. In a car that you knew, for a fact, wouldn't save you in a roll-over. In a car that has visibility for days because you were supposed to avoid crashing instead of have the car tank through it. In a car that was LIGHT because they didn't have the safety regulations that necessitated making them more powerful than they feel because they're hauling around an extra 1000lb of impact protection. A 90's car gives you a very visceral experience of speed. Having said that, I've never managed to find the top speed of my ford just yet. Not because it ran out of power, but because I hit 136mph and decided I didn't want to lose my license on the ever-populated highways around my state's capitol. But it is a stark difference from my 2003 Mercedes C320 which ran out of gearing and torque at that same speed, and a vast improvement over my 2006 Volkswagen Golf 2.0L that struggled to hit 90mph. My Fusion does feel fast at those kinds of speed, but puttering around town, it feels so unenthusiastic. That's something you don't get in 90's cars, especially RWD 90's cars with skinny tires. Even just scooting around town at 45-50, you can tax the handling and derive a feeling of speed from the car, because it just doesn't grip as hard as modern cars. It doesn't feel heavy and indestructible like modern cars. My Fusion takes turns at 45 that would be terrifying and exhilarating in a 90's car at half that speed. I can hit bendy roads at shocking speeds and my car never once threatens to understeer beyond recovery or break traction. But it does lose out in feel. It just doesn't feel as exciting as it should given how well it can perform. But, and lets face it, I'm at a point in my life where I'm acknowledging that I'm older and this is currently my only car, so I don't necessarily want every drive I take to be filled with a slight but omnipresent feeling of anxiety from a fragile old car attempting to chuck me into a ditch if I can't manage its under or over-steering in a bend. When I'm in a financial position to afford a second car, sure. I've got a list of 90's cars that I'd love to own and tinker around with, but for now, a safe and highly performant car is just my speed.
Agree with you! So ironic, they try hard to obtain that today by adding thousands of dollars of options, however, the bone-stock cars were able to deliver better.
@@nerychristian Might be a bit late, a year late, but nonetheless I shall comment. I fully agree with you. I drive a 92 Volvo 240, the visibility is brilliant and it's a blast to drive being that it is RWD.
@Frozened 2h if you ever get the chance you should drive an XV10 Camry DX with a 5 speed manual. It’s the best feeling ever. The most beautiful simplicity & comfort
"I like to lay on my hand until it's numb, then I place it on the small of my back while standing at the top of the stairs. And then I give myself a push, so it feels like someone cares enough about me to want me dead" I almost shit a kidney laughing
Like people who put 370gt Skyline badges on their g37. Like they aren’t technically wrong they have the same chassis code but people will still judge the crap outta them
I have long hair and I drive one of those white vans with no windows, there's candy in the back, get in. (Yeah I know it's not even remotely relevant, but hey, I just woke up).
I found your channel about a month ago and you're awesome! You've reviewed many of my "dream" cars. Also appreciate you sharing impactful, relatable stories. Much appreciated!
GTS came with rear discs. '88 AE92 came with last gen bigport (red/black top), TVIS gives nice midrange grunt, but swapping to the smallport makes for a more entertaining drive (and ITBs are available if you can find the correct ECU and loom from Japan/Australia). Having 2 AE92s (Prizm GSi, Corolla GTS) and having had fast Volvos, all 3 MR2s, WRX, and a new GTi, I can offer an experienced opinion: These AE92 Corollas are FAR MORE FUN daily drivers than anything else I have owned or driven. My Prizm (with 20v blacktop) is a perfectly inconspicuous family commuter... that will HAPPILY rev to 8k rpm and sound like a symphony in doing so. If you want to win straight-line races, find an older Corvette or Mustang; but if you want to ENJOY your drive time, get a Corolla (civic, sentra).
I've always liked the looks of the AE92s and thought they would be a fun daily driver. If I hadn't been essentially handed an AE86 project on a silver platter, I'd be looking for one. :)
Having also owned an AE92 Corolla GTS back in the day I can agree, they may not have been the fasted car for their time but they were quite fun to drive day to day (plus it lasted over 250,000 miles with virtually no maintenance ).
More? None I'd argue the M badges are worse because the gap in performance is not between econoboxes but a luxurious econobox and a formidable sports coupe.
I've had two of these Corolla's (88 and 89, respectively) and both were just shy of 'beater' status. Even still, it was reliable enough to get me through a few years, and spirited enough to put a smile on my face. It's left me with a personal bias for them, but there is an amount of red-headedness that you have to contend with in the Toyota family. The AE92 was also the last of the real performance-biased Corollas until the 00's sometime, at least for us here in the states. The 4A-GE was also a decently high-rev engine. They're getting rarer, too, and more expensive when they can be found. I paid under 3K for each of mine, and they've doubled as I've looked for them in the last decade. tl;dr They're weird, affordable, fun, relatively easy and cheap to fix. I'd have another one. Mr. Regular, you crushed this one.
Omg my first car. I had it in white and got a real trueno bumper from hong kong. That was 1997. Thanks for this xmas gift, my life is now complete and I still think this car looks so good. Great job getting back into your poetic saddle.
Its interesting how you mentioned that you look up economy car in the dictionary and it says "COROLLA". Well, in a few years, that won't be true anymore since the new 2019-2020 Corollas are anything but "economy cars". They're becoming so damn sophisticated and they aren't cheap anymore. Kids in about a decade or so will be rolling around in our current generation Kia Rios and Hyundai Accents.
Kids in about a decade won't be rolling around in Rios/Accents - there won't be any left by then. I feel like the current gen 3-banger Mitsubishi Mirage will still be around within a decade, but mostly they'll be driving worn-out shit from the late 90s to early 2000s - more modern cars aren't going to last that long.
@@lego4virgo they sold well but they've already got a reputation for blowing motors around 110k - doesn't matter how many they sell if they're all trashed. 2009+ Nissans are the same way, with the CVT usually failing between 80k and 120k.
"M Performance"-badges from the freaking factory are waaaayyy worse than putting a "Trueno" one in your Corolla that tbh no one except hard core car-people cares about.
they're both lying, but in terms of significant lies yeah I doubt anyone'd really fully convert a 325 to an M-level, because that'd be silly and all that guy really wants is a circlejerk because his car is fine but not "fine enough." hardcore car people are like fuckin' vultures after hiroshima though, so whaddya expect what a wonderful world
@@kingpeasant5099 they're both blatantly wrong, but I think the general logic/"what makes the trueno worse" is that the trueno's just a JDM right-hand-drive car, yet an M series BMW ends up giving the car a big upgrade in interior decoration, performance, etc or at least that's what I think he's getting at
@@NightKawata Yep, non M-cars with //////////M all over the place, those are what I meant. Bloody 520 diesel "M-Performance's"... Albert Biermann would be spinning in his gr.... Wait, he's alive and making great cars elsewhere.
You should review an AE101 aka 93-97 Corolla DX with the 5 speed, it's basically the most sleeper corolla of all time and there's SO MANY different engine swaps done to them in other countries because they realize their potential
I've been growing out my hair for over 5 years now. I just bought a 97 Corolla this year. Ouch. It was $400, motor and tranny are solid, rust free, sunroof doesn't leak, interior is good, no leaks, only 170k miles on the clock, and it only burns a quart of oil every 5k miles. It needed struts and tires and the college freshman girl selling it didn't want to deal with that. So I really bought an $900 Corolla.... But I started a new job that has me commuting 70 miles a day, largely highway, and this was a much better option that my 97 Cherokee. Safer, fuel efficient, stable on the highway, and much quieter.
@@PacificCoastAuto The GT-S Corollas with the 4A-GE got the AE88 VIN. SR5 Corollas with the carbureted 4AC engine and rear drum brakes have AE86 VIN. Quite weird indeed.
Ah yes the end times. Just as the Corolla GTS, MR2 Turbo , Celica All-Trac, and Supra Turbo we’re reaching their most powerful final forms; the Civic Type R, Prelude Type S, Integra Type R, and NSX Type R were waiting across the start grid.
Dang, 10/10 on this video. From Tetris smut to participation trophy trope assessment and description of spectacular in the mundane, this was a GREAT video from a great channel.
My aunt had the same car but it was a white 88 SR5 Limited Edition with manual windows it came with a vinyl top and a vintage old toyota T hood bonnet emblem like Mercedes and Cadillac have on top of their hoods.
Congratulations on the the way RCR is written. I've been following you guys almost from the start, and it keeps getting better. Greeting from Portugal.
Great review, but the "cable shifter issue" seems really off. One, despite the upsides of solid shifter linkages, cable linkages are used nowadays since they take up way less room, and they can just be routed anywhere. Even Honda switched to cable shifter linkages in the 90s and they still shift great. It's also a benefit with transmission swaps since one can just drill a hole in the firewall, stick two cables through, and hook up the new transmission. Two, shifter slop and play can get just as bad on mechanical shifters as cable shifters if a linkage bushing goes bad from wear and tear. Cable shifter bushing can go bad, but there are less bushings to worry about and they can be easily replaced with brass bushings or spherical bearings (although the same can be done on mechanical shifter linkages). Three, Toyota shifters suck. They just lack feel. It's probably from the crappy shifter box, but I've never done a short shifter box install on a Toyota before. One upside with mechanical shifter linkages is that the shifter vibrates with the engine. I kinda find it amusing.
From my time with a Corolla XRS, a short-shifter(along with brass bushings and a set of aluminum shifter assembly bushings) did a good job of making it feel much more direct. Wouldn't mind doing that to my GT-Four at some point. :)
The best manual cars are rear wheel drive where the stick is directly connected to the transmission Only thing a front drive can really win over a rear on is winter
I used to own a 1991 AE92 Corolla Levin, didn't have the flip up head lights but same as trueno in all other respects. I did a shifter modification in mine to help correct that toyota feel. I remove the stick from the shift box and slid the pivot ball up the stick shaft as far as clearance would allow on top of the tunnel. Ball was on splined section of the stick and then I cut about an inch off the top to shorten the truck length gear stick😂 New nylon bushes and result was next level, felt firm and exact like linkage and halved the throw distance required due to longer shaft from pivot to cables. Changed the entire driving experience just doing that one mod.
Every guy goes through a phase where they think they can pull off long hair, you know what they are driving? A corolla. Holy shit you just described my life
I loved the heroic attributes given to Corollas. From any single point of view Toyota Corollas are THE regular cars. Thing is, it does a remarkable job being regular. I love my Ford Fiesta exactly because every morning it starts, drops me in the office, after 8 hours starts again, drops me in home and waits for me until next morning, 5 days a week. In a weird way I feel like she cares on me.
Had a 1991 AE92 GTS as my first car through college. Even installed the TRD short shifter kit, which tilt the shifter to the RHS because it was for JDM market. So much great memories. 😁👍
Everybody confuses what the VIN says with the chassis code. This generation is the ae92 chassis regardless of region or trim level. Same story with the ae86....there is no such thing as an ae88 that is just part of the VIN, Toyota classifies all of them ae86 in the US.
Man I love my AE92, it is the car o grew up in, I remember my grandma picking me up from school and when she passed away she left it to me, I haven’t done much to it only some LED headlights and the front license plate, so it looks a bit better, other than that I just want to restore the paint . There’s not much videos of this type of cars thanks for putting it up.
The GT-S came from the factory with rear disc brakes only the SR5 coupes had drums. The GT-S also had a different rear suspension and a front anti roll bar.
Don't come for the cars, simply for the beautiful, enchanting tales that accurately describe vehicles in such a way that it actually makes me care. The fact that you wrote an excerpt from a fake Tetris erotica for a joke brings me so much joy
Back in 1988 I had the Corolla FX16 GTS because I preferred a hatchback but I loved this GTS coupe as well. Would love to find a clean FX16 GTS or even one of these so I could relive my high school days. :-)
My corolla belonged to my mom and it has been in countless accidents and looks like a crumpled ball of tin foil. It's trunk is so broken you have to open it with the kidnapping latch via a cable I tied to it. It's front fender is held on with zip ties and bungie cords and the rear bumper got chainsawed off, and has about 200k miles. Still runs like it just got off the lot.
so if the trueno is an otaku then is this a weaboo. also I nearly died fishtailing off a road and you were the first thing I watched when I came back home. so your welcome... I guess.
@@CaroFDoom I am aware, I was saying is that if the trueno is the japanese nerd the the gts is the weaboo who just tries to hard and looks stupid doing it
The cables don't stretch and the cables aren't the reason for the shift slop. The reason is the rubber bushing at the end of the cable. Several people sell brass fitting replacements and after you swap them out, they feel nice and tight. The cable itself is pretty solid.
My wife had an '88 Corolla GTS, 5-speed for several years. No power below 3000 rpm, but it had a surprisingly good ride for such a small car. Hers was RWD, not FWD like this one. Had to replace the clutch slave cylinder a couple of times but it was mostly reliable.
I saw someone with a "CLS 300" badge on a W204 C300. This by comparison to that is nothing. No one believes your C-class is an S-class dude. That's trying to actually trick someone into thinking you have money, this seems more harmless and more like a tribute.
@@antonioakiki3716 I see the S I think S-class. Like how the GLC is supposed the C-class SUV, the GLE is the E-class, and the GLS is the S-class. The CLS would be the S-class variant of the CL model cars like the CLK. (If they still made any other CL cars). That's just my opinion though, but I think they chose those naming conventions on purpose a few years back.
And here you're trying to trick someone into thinking that your FWD econobox is not just an A to B appliance but a legendary sports car. How's this any different or any better?
GravityGames gle is called that because the basic platform is e class, the same with the glc. The cls is just a branding gimick. Before the coupe s class was the cl, and the small version clk was based on the e/c class and was crap. Mercedes nomenclature is a clusterfuck
My beef with the car has less to do with the badge larping stuff and more to do with the car itself with detuned engine and its limpy front wheel drive. Suddenly it stops being that 80s sleeper car and become current grandmamobile I mean, if you got yourself an Alltrac sure it would suck less but then again you might as well a celica alltrac.
@@ShaiyanHossain When you expect absolutely nothing and get a bit something it's sleeper. Just like my Fiesta with Zetec engine is a sleeper, I mean it's '98 Fiesta.. surely it can't have angry noises coming out of it
Corolla all-trac is a puke-pile. Mated to 4a-f engines and not designed to handle any torque. Solid rear axle and extra weight make these cars easy to upset in the twisties and their inability to cope with power makes them worthless for straight lines as well.
I owned one of these brand new. I sold it to get an RX7 my first wife wanted. Then she divorced me 8 months later while I was in Germany. Her new boyfriend then crashed the RX7. I really wish most of that never happened. I really loved the Toyota though. Seeing it in the video reminds me of a time I was young and life was actually great.
Badge swapping is so weird. Like. Putting M badges on a 325i. Normal people won't notice/care. Only car guys will notice, but we know you're lying...
In Australia people replace Holden badges with Chevy badges. It is indeed weird.
@@anuragss938 interestingly, it's the other way around in the middle east. Car enthusiasts tend to replace the chevy logos on the Chevy Caprice and Lumina to Holden ones. (LHD versions of Holden Statesman and Commodore for those who are confused).
It's kind of weird that "straight" dudes are so worried about impressing other "straight" dudes.
@@thewakz car culture is a lot of circlejerking
Badge removal is much okay imo but putting on a badge to make your dick seem bigger than it actually is...that's just weird. come on buddy, it's a 318i with an ugly ass wing. You wanted this, now own it.
When they buried the guy that invented Tetris, the entire graveyard disappeared.
Highly underrated comment.....Internet cookies for rhk!
Not trying to be that guy but the guy who invented Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov) is still alive.
rhkips Best comment here!! 😂
@@Caledon91 What?!?!?!?!?
Liking just for the vr6 manifold.
Did I just listen to an excerpt of Tetris smut
That L block is waiting for a bar
:shudder:
welcome to Regular Car Reviews. hope you enjoy it here
And it was beautiful
My PP HARD
Might as well pick up one of these and not waste all that tofu on an ae86
laowhy86 PewDiePie stole your name lol
Lmaooo one of my favorite asian youtubers on an RCR about a Japanese Coupe, fuckin aye my day is made!
I think I'm the weeb that hates all other weebs like Mr Regular talks about...
At least the popup headlights would pair up well to those on winstons 'vette!
My 92 is instantly better than any 86, lol
Mr Regular: Sets up joke about Tetris erotica, as an excuse to write Tetris erotica.
I mean it wasn't my proudest boner, but I beat off until completion either way.
Hahaha thought the same thing
Guaranteed
HA NICE@@XanCrews
Everyone in this thread is a legend.... Now im soft
Even as a Toyota fanboy, this looks kinda like a Honda.
What honda do you see??
@@haydenhonda9040 Same era Accord
The back looks Toyota
3gen prelude's cousin from the village
Pop up accord look ?
Every Corolla has a rotary and four turbos
It's true.
Love me some OG Corolla!
And all wheel steering
*BRAP*
oh and dont forget the secret abs and advanced power steering system 1000 year ahead of its time to let you get sideways to the maximum
My 91 AE92 was what got me into tuners. Loved that car so, so much. It was such a blast to drive. It wasn't the fastest car, by any means, but it was still a lot of fun.
It's better to drive a slow car fast then a fast car slow
*_"Because in the game of Tetris, as in the game of life, we all get off...together"_*
Poetry is truly beautiful.
I'd say the opposite. In the end, we all get off alone
Guy1:"Is that a true Trueno?"
Guy2:"True?.....no."
Dad joke time
It's a falseno...
The official car of awkwardly answering Chirs Hansens questions in a kitchen you don't belong in.
See, I calls ya Chris Handsome.
@@Kaizoushin "We can do this a easy way, or the hard way, the choice is yours"
I was here to warn them about the bad people.
It's not weird or wrong! *_It's just cartoons!!_*
IDK, I kinda think single men driving old box vans fits that narrative better.
The japanese corollas were
ae92's as well. They were fwd with 4ag's. They also had a supercharged version that was a 4ag with a slightly higher boost sc12 than the aw11 with the 4agze.
the Pearl Jam joke killed me
Ruthlessnoodle tf is your problem lol
r/wooosh
I honestly don’t think anyone knows the lyrics to “Alive” or “Yellow Ledbetter.” Just a few bits and pieces of the discernible parts.
It was a nice setup for the closing song too. Good job Roman.
My 90's nostalgia kicked in hardcore.
These cars, the "Corolla GTS Twin Cam 16", as they were called in NA were great, and fast. I mean the original, actual meaning of fast. 135hp from 1.6litres, normally aspirated. VTEC that. The most powerful 4AGE we ever got. I drove one that was new (and just broken in) through Montana on I-90 in the day and it flew. Had it at 125 a couple of times and a nice rippy and easy cruiser at 110 for extended periods of time. Montana is a long way across. Very few cars going either direction to even look at. Fun car.
Friend of mine goes to school in Montana... I couldn’t believe it when he told me he typically goes 110mph on the highway there
Where can I find this info. I got a 88 gts and I can’t find the specs for mine. Google keeps saying 113hp and I got the 4age
And now you've got massive barges like my 2013 Ford Fusion 2.0L Ecoboost AWD that I mod chipped to get it to boost higher and produce a whopping 305bhp and something near 370lb-ft of torque. It's fast, sure, but you'll never experience speed in it the same way you do in a 90's car. In a car that you knew, for a fact, wouldn't save you in a roll-over. In a car that has visibility for days because you were supposed to avoid crashing instead of have the car tank through it. In a car that was LIGHT because they didn't have the safety regulations that necessitated making them more powerful than they feel because they're hauling around an extra 1000lb of impact protection. A 90's car gives you a very visceral experience of speed. Having said that, I've never managed to find the top speed of my ford just yet. Not because it ran out of power, but because I hit 136mph and decided I didn't want to lose my license on the ever-populated highways around my state's capitol. But it is a stark difference from my 2003 Mercedes C320 which ran out of gearing and torque at that same speed, and a vast improvement over my 2006 Volkswagen Golf 2.0L that struggled to hit 90mph. My Fusion does feel fast at those kinds of speed, but puttering around town, it feels so unenthusiastic. That's something you don't get in 90's cars, especially RWD 90's cars with skinny tires. Even just scooting around town at 45-50, you can tax the handling and derive a feeling of speed from the car, because it just doesn't grip as hard as modern cars. It doesn't feel heavy and indestructible like modern cars. My Fusion takes turns at 45 that would be terrifying and exhilarating in a 90's car at half that speed. I can hit bendy roads at shocking speeds and my car never once threatens to understeer beyond recovery or break traction. But it does lose out in feel. It just doesn't feel as exciting as it should given how well it can perform. But, and lets face it, I'm at a point in my life where I'm acknowledging that I'm older and this is currently my only car, so I don't necessarily want every drive I take to be filled with a slight but omnipresent feeling of anxiety from a fragile old car attempting to chuck me into a ditch if I can't manage its under or over-steering in a bend. When I'm in a financial position to afford a second car, sure. I've got a list of 90's cars that I'd love to own and tinker around with, but for now, a safe and highly performant car is just my speed.
@@mndlessdrwerIn a nutshell, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is a fast car slow.
Could a saved you a monologue.
@@robspear03 I live for the monologues, so you wouldn't have saved me anything. But still, thanks for reading!
6:12 " over 30 thousand miles."
7:31 [odometer shows *315* thousand miles]
315 is over 30...
hwa hwa hwa
He meant 300k, lol
right before he said the floor plan was rusted through, someone was having a bad day.
I can't see it because of my tiny phone screen. I was confused as to why he would boast over 30k miles
Well he ain't wrong.
Dude that end monologue was beautiful! I had one of these in my 20's and it took me across Canada. Legendary car.
I love 80's and early 90's toyotas. So cool, even if its fwd, but still gives me vibes when cars were something more than a transportation.
Agree with you! So ironic, they try hard to obtain that today by adding thousands of dollars of options, however, the bone-stock cars were able to deliver better.
@@tecc9999 yes it was amazing I still watch that review from time to time. that video by it's own is a masterpiece
Cars from the 80s are so fun to drive. The best part of driving them is the visibility. It feels like you are surrounded by windows.
@@nerychristian Might be a bit late, a year late, but nonetheless I shall comment.
I fully agree with you. I drive a 92 Volvo 240, the visibility is brilliant and it's a blast to drive being that it is RWD.
@Frozened 2h if you ever get the chance you should drive an XV10 Camry DX with a 5 speed manual. It’s the best feeling ever. The most beautiful simplicity & comfort
_♫ On the ceiling, on a Porsche, Glitter, Fairy... Landfill... I wanna leave Bennigan's... ♪_
maninredhelm I wish I had that much imagination.
8:06 Thank goodness he didn’t say what I thought he was gonna say...
Same thing...
"I like to lay on my hand until it's numb, then I place it on the small of my back while standing at the top of the stairs. And then I give myself a push, so it feels like someone cares enough about me to want me dead" I almost shit a kidney laughing
6:12 30 thousand miles?
Seems really low for a corolla that old
I think he meant 300,000
7:31 he flashes a pic of the dash. Odo reads 315,573 miles
Rookie numbers for a Corolla
Like people who put 370gt Skyline badges on their g37. Like they aren’t technically wrong they have the same chassis code but people will still judge the crap outta them
skbuoy it does actually
I had long hair and I drive a 90s Corolla.. How do you know my life?!
Because I had long hair, he was making a joke about me, lol
Mr Regular reviewed my 99 Corolla when I had long hair...
@@sleekskyline120 guess he was right about us then
I have long hair and I drive one of those white vans with no windows, there's candy in the back, get in. (Yeah I know it's not even remotely relevant, but hey, I just woke up).
I found your channel about a month ago and you're awesome! You've reviewed many of my "dream" cars. Also appreciate you sharing impactful, relatable stories. Much appreciated!
"bad cosplay" low blow, but strangely fitting. =)
GTS came with rear discs. '88 AE92 came with last gen bigport (red/black top), TVIS gives nice midrange grunt, but swapping to the smallport makes for a more entertaining drive (and ITBs are available if you can find the correct ECU and loom from Japan/Australia).
Having 2 AE92s (Prizm GSi, Corolla GTS) and having had fast Volvos, all 3 MR2s, WRX, and a new GTi, I can offer an experienced opinion: These AE92 Corollas are FAR MORE FUN daily drivers than anything else I have owned or driven. My Prizm (with 20v blacktop) is a perfectly inconspicuous family commuter... that will HAPPILY rev to 8k rpm and sound like a symphony in doing so.
If you want to win straight-line races, find an older Corvette or Mustang; but if you want to ENJOY your drive time, get a Corolla (civic, sentra).
I've always liked the looks of the AE92s and thought they would be a fun daily driver. If I hadn't been essentially handed an AE86 project on a silver platter, I'd be looking for one. :)
Yup I believe you my AE101 with the 20v makes me wish my daily commute was farther away lol these 90s Corolla's feel amazing
Japanese economy cars are fun to drive fast but American muscle cars aren’t fun to drive slow.
Having also owned an AE92 Corolla GTS back in the day I can agree, they may not have been the fasted car for their time but they were quite fun to drive day to day (plus it lasted over 250,000 miles with virtually no maintenance ).
People put “M” badges on 320i’s and “392 Hemi” badges on Jeep Compasses so what makes this so much more sinful?
More? None
I'd argue the M badges are worse because the gap in performance is not between econoboxes but a luxurious econobox and a formidable sports coupe.
WEABOO TAX
Mr Regular likes this car more, that's why.
I put an AMG badge on my 02 Altima 4 banger
Just as sinful.
I've had two of these Corolla's (88 and 89, respectively) and both were just shy of 'beater' status. Even still, it was reliable enough to get me through a few years, and spirited enough to put a smile on my face. It's left me with a personal bias for them, but there is an amount of red-headedness that you have to contend with in the Toyota family. The AE92 was also the last of the real performance-biased Corollas until the 00's sometime, at least for us here in the states. The 4A-GE was also a decently high-rev engine. They're getting rarer, too, and more expensive when they can be found. I paid under 3K for each of mine, and they've doubled as I've looked for them in the last decade.
tl;dr They're weird, affordable, fun, relatively easy and cheap to fix. I'd have another one. Mr. Regular, you crushed this one.
I think I have a new favorite RCR line. "The 1980's began in 1975" hahahha
Omg my first car. I had it in white and got a real trueno bumper from hong kong. That was 1997. Thanks for this xmas gift, my life is now complete and I still think this car looks so good. Great job getting back into your poetic saddle.
Its interesting how you mentioned that you look up economy car in the dictionary and it says "COROLLA". Well, in a few years, that won't be true anymore since the new 2019-2020 Corollas are anything but "economy cars". They're becoming so damn sophisticated and they aren't cheap anymore. Kids in about a decade or so will be rolling around in our current generation Kia Rios and Hyundai Accents.
Kids in about a decade won't be rolling around in Rios/Accents - there won't be any left by then. I feel like the current gen 3-banger Mitsubishi Mirage will still be around within a decade, but mostly they'll be driving worn-out shit from the late 90s to early 2000s - more modern cars aren't going to last that long.
Honda Fit.
And Kia Souls. Those hamsters know how to market.
Trance88- With turboed 3.8 Buick motors in them. Taking down five-ohs.
@@lego4virgo they sold well but they've already got a reputation for blowing motors around 110k - doesn't matter how many they sell if they're all trashed. 2009+ Nissans are the same way, with the CVT usually failing between 80k and 120k.
I had an '88 sr5 manual. Loved it. So suprised to see this, you don't see many Corolla coupes around anymore.
Morgan Beever where in the world are you located? Canada? I’m Bout to buy one
"M Performance"-badges from the freaking factory are waaaayyy worse than putting a "Trueno" one in your Corolla that tbh no one except hard core car-people cares about.
they're both lying, but in terms of significant lies yeah I doubt anyone'd really fully convert a 325 to an M-level, because that'd be silly and all that guy really wants is a circlejerk because his car is fine but not "fine enough."
hardcore car people are like fuckin' vultures after hiroshima though, so whaddya expect
what a wonderful world
its actually a cool mod because it makes it look that more jdm
How are the factory M badges worse than a Trueno badge on something that's not a Trueno?
@@kingpeasant5099 they're both blatantly wrong, but I think the general logic/"what makes the trueno worse" is that the trueno's just a JDM right-hand-drive car, yet an M series BMW ends up giving the car a big upgrade in interior decoration, performance, etc
or at least that's what I think he's getting at
@@NightKawata Yep, non M-cars with //////////M all over the place, those are what I meant. Bloody 520 diesel "M-Performance's"... Albert Biermann would be spinning in his gr.... Wait, he's alive and making great cars elsewhere.
I gotta say: the AE92 is the best looking Corolla to my eyes.
Surge? Were they all out of Crystal Pepsi?
I noticed that green can! Heh fitting!
@@TheBlevinsNetwork what can I say, I love Surge.
When he saw it he was like, "that's so fitting", lol
It came with his Nagano 1998 jacket.
This guy has more props than a Broadway play
Coke started making it again after customer pressure. Member of the Surge movement here checking in
You should review an AE101 aka 93-97 Corolla DX with the 5 speed, it's basically the most sleeper corolla of all time and there's SO MANY different engine swaps done to them in other countries because they realize their potential
E U R O B E A T | I N T E N S I F I E S
Gonna get you like a space boy
Dejavu
Current Gas prices though......
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Roman, that exit / wrap up tune was awesome. One of my favourites yet! Fantastic sound.
the car for a weeb in denial
when the AE86 got very rare , this was a alternative :P
@@AnthroGearhead well I bought it cause it's better :/
Supercharger upgrade when
@@AnthroGearhead trust me, I thought about it. The 4agze is just too expensive
Theres always a 1J or 2J or a 3S
I've been growing out my hair for over 5 years now.
I just bought a 97 Corolla this year. Ouch.
It was $400, motor and tranny are solid, rust free, sunroof doesn't leak, interior is good, no leaks, only 170k miles on the clock, and it only burns a quart of oil every 5k miles. It needed struts and tires and the college freshman girl selling it didn't want to deal with that. So I really bought an $900 Corolla.... But I started a new job that has me commuting 70 miles a day, largely highway, and this was a much better option that my 97 Cherokee. Safer, fuel efficient, stable on the highway, and much quieter.
AE98? The Japanese model trueno's, levins and GTZ's here are all AE92 chassis. Never heard of a AE98.
Yeah he mixed it up. The Vin number says AE98, but they're all called AE92s
In the same way the USDM AE86 is an AE88... weird Toyota... weird
@@PacificCoastAuto USDM stuff gets so stupid sometimes
@@PacificCoastAuto The GT-S Corollas with the 4A-GE got the AE88 VIN. SR5 Corollas with the carbureted 4AC engine and rear drum brakes have AE86 VIN. Quite weird indeed.
USDM and JDM chassis codes on the AE92 are both AE92. Same with the AE86. The VIN on the USDM E80 Corolla GT-S is AE88 and on the E90 it's AE98.
Ah yes the end times. Just as the Corolla GTS, MR2 Turbo , Celica All-Trac, and Supra Turbo we’re reaching their most powerful final forms; the Civic Type R, Prelude Type S, Integra Type R, and NSX Type R were waiting across the start grid.
Pulling an all nighter for finals and all of a sudden a RCR upload.
Finished last week so no rugrats
Dang, 10/10 on this video. From Tetris smut to participation trophy trope assessment and description of spectacular in the mundane, this was a GREAT video from a great channel.
AE92 for the daily; AE86 on the weekend.
...the mullet of JDM.
My aunt had the same car but it was a white 88 SR5 Limited Edition with manual windows it came with a vinyl top and a vintage old toyota T hood bonnet emblem like Mercedes and Cadillac have on top of their hoods.
Hit or miss. I guess you never miss huh? You got a "Trueno", I bet it ain't an 86, ya.
M W U A H
No, just... No...
It gonna throw a rod and it wont miss ya!
Thank you, Mr. Regular, for articulating why I love my Corolla and regular cars in general.
I had a stickshift 87 carola hatchback my year in Australia. Great car.
Congratulations on the the way RCR is written. I've been following you guys almost from the start, and it keeps getting better. Greeting from Portugal.
Great review, but the "cable shifter issue" seems really off.
One, despite the upsides of solid shifter linkages, cable linkages are used nowadays since they take up way less room, and they can just be routed anywhere. Even Honda switched to cable shifter linkages in the 90s and they still shift great. It's also a benefit with transmission swaps since one can just drill a hole in the firewall, stick two cables through, and hook up the new transmission.
Two, shifter slop and play can get just as bad on mechanical shifters as cable shifters if a linkage bushing goes bad from wear and tear. Cable shifter bushing can go bad, but there are less bushings to worry about and they can be easily replaced with brass bushings or spherical bearings (although the same can be done on mechanical shifter linkages).
Three, Toyota shifters suck. They just lack feel. It's probably from the crappy shifter box, but I've never done a short shifter box install on a Toyota before.
One upside with mechanical shifter linkages is that the shifter vibrates with the engine. I kinda find it amusing.
From my time with a Corolla XRS, a short-shifter(along with brass bushings and a set of aluminum shifter assembly bushings) did a good job of making it feel much more direct. Wouldn't mind doing that to my GT-Four at some point. :)
The best manual cars are rear wheel drive where the stick is directly connected to the transmission
Only thing a front drive can really win over a rear on is winter
P77777777 I mean that winter thing is pretty important
I used to own a 1991 AE92 Corolla Levin, didn't have the flip up head lights but same as trueno in all other respects. I did a shifter modification in mine to help correct that toyota feel. I remove the stick from the shift box and slid the pivot ball up the stick shaft as far as clearance would allow on top of the tunnel. Ball was on splined section of the stick and then I cut about an inch off the top to shorten the truck length gear stick😂 New nylon bushes and result was next level, felt firm and exact like linkage and halved the throw distance required due to longer shaft from pivot to cables. Changed the entire driving experience just doing that one mod.
I learned how to drive manual in one of these, not a bad car from what i remember
Wonder why it such a unicorn or really any car with a 4age for that matter
This was my first car. Loved it. Really would like to get another one, one of these days.
Good luck they're rare as fuck now. Still got my ae92 7 years later just turned 33 years old
To be fair, my 2008 Honda Civic also uses braided steel cables for the shifter rather than solid linkages.
The jdm models were ae92 as well not ae98. my dad has a 1989 ae92 corolla Levin and I have a 1988 ae92 corolla fxgt.
Every guy goes through a phase where they think they can pull off long hair, you know what they are driving? A corolla. Holy shit you just described my life
Mr. Regular = Eddie Vedder reincarnated. Yeah he's still alive but who will remember now that Mr. Regular is on the scene?
The bit about sitting on your hand till it gets numb!!!!!! Had me going one way then Bam! Longest time he has had me laughing for.
I need a transcript of that Tetris smut.
I loved the heroic attributes given to Corollas. From any single point of view Toyota Corollas are THE regular cars. Thing is, it does a remarkable job being regular. I love my Ford Fiesta exactly because every morning it starts, drops me in the office, after 8 hours starts again, drops me in home and waits for me until next morning, 5 days a week. In a weird way I feel like she cares on me.
i felt physical pain with the braces comment.
every review leaves me with a smile on my face, thanks mr. regular and Roman.
it makes me feel weird inside knowing that even in the year of our Lord 2017, new base model Corollas have rear drum brakes standard
Had a 1991 AE92 GTS as my first car through college. Even installed the TRD short shifter kit, which tilt the shifter to the RHS because it was for JDM market. So much great memories. 😁👍
Everybody confuses what the VIN says with the chassis code. This generation is the ae92 chassis regardless of region or trim level. Same story with the ae86....there is no such thing as an ae88 that is just part of the VIN, Toyota classifies all of them ae86 in the US.
Its so damn triggering..
"Brought to you by Deltarune fan comics"
Damn, does Mr. Regular ever have a hardon for Toby Fox.
I’ll have you know I was driving a Shelby Z Daytona when I had my long hair phase.
By far one of my favorite reviews! I still come back and watch it sometimes haha
"Anime girls > Real girls"
Man I love my AE92, it is the car o grew up in, I remember my grandma picking me up from school and when she passed away she left it to me, I haven’t done much to it only some LED headlights and the front license plate, so it looks a bit better, other than that I just want to restore the paint . There’s not much videos of this type of cars thanks for putting it up.
Have always LOVED these!!!
Hopefully one day I can find one (in good shape that isn’t 5-6 grand)
@Aaron Hainan: You can legally import Truenos now from Japan.
The GT-S came from the factory with rear disc brakes only the SR5 coupes had drums. The GT-S also had a different rear suspension and a front anti roll bar.
... I had long hair during my impala/cavalier days.
Mr Regular is wrong, folks.
The only thing worse is a full beard
I legitimately can’t pull off short hair so it’s been long ish forever and I have a crown vic and an f150
Yellow Ledbetter... best Pearl Jam Ever. Thank you for bringing me way back. Also, thank you for the weirdness, more please!
I've seen AMG and M badges on Volkswagens and Volvos, so this isn't that offensive.
I get chills just reading that
I see amg and BMW logos on tuk tuk tho
Don't come for the cars, simply for the beautiful, enchanting tales that accurately describe vehicles in such a way that it actually makes me care. The fact that you wrote an excerpt from a fake Tetris erotica for a joke brings me so much joy
Way better than my 01 corolla
Back in 1988 I had the Corolla FX16 GTS because I preferred a hatchback but I loved this GTS coupe as well. Would love to find a clean FX16 GTS or even one of these so I could relive my high school days. :-)
Jokes on you, I look good with my long hair and a FIAT PUNTO!
In all honesty it's been like an electric chair with electrical problems
1.4 8v?
5:33 "because the 1980s were the longest decade.The music , culture and technology reached far beyond 10 confining years"
Agreedx1000000
0:55 That loose plate screw it killing me
My corolla belonged to my mom and it has been in countless accidents and looks like a crumpled ball of tin foil. It's trunk is so broken you have to open it with the kidnapping latch via a cable I tied to it. It's front fender is held on with zip ties and bungie cords and the rear bumper got chainsawed off, and has about 200k miles. Still runs like it just got off the lot.
so if the trueno is an otaku then is this a weaboo. also I nearly died fishtailing off a road and you were the first thing I watched when I came back home. so your welcome... I guess.
if anyone asks to be called an otaku it just makes them a worse weaboo
/Pol/ack The Polack An otaku is equivalent to a nerd.
If anyone asks you to specifically call them an otaku, they're a weaboo.
@@CaroFDoom I am aware, I was saying is that if the trueno is the japanese nerd the the gts is the weaboo who just tries to hard and looks stupid doing it
"Otaku" is a derogatory term in Japan. Weeaboos who call themselves "otakus" are cringey as fuck.
I had a 1989 Corolla coupe and a1990 same body style great cars.Easy to work on . Bought them both used . Great commuters to work and back .
Mmm 90s toyota... breakfast of champions
Favorite review recently! It just gets going, and doesn't stop. Thanks for the smiles Mr. Regular!
These cars had four-wheel disc brakes from factory and JDM models were also chassis code AE92. Stop spreading misinformation please. PLEASE
Tunerdude94 +1 on stop spreading misinformation. 👍🏻
The cables don't stretch and the cables aren't the reason for the shift slop. The reason is the rubber bushing at the end of the cable. Several people sell brass fitting replacements and after you swap them out, they feel nice and tight. The cable itself is pretty solid.
*Maybe now people can STOP IMPORTING cars they already have.*
Probably one of the better written reviews I've seen on here, well done man.
who gives a shit if it has a Trueno badge. its still a Corolla.
Yeah, it's twin cam adds a little oomph but otherwise still drives like an econobox.
The trueno badge just lets u know u got the flip up headlights lol yall make it sound like its a performance package
True? No.
Falseno.
'I put a type r badge on my civic' you are just asking to be made fun of.
cloridan Beauchamps levin = fixed headlights. Trueno = pop ups.
This has pop ups so its more of a Trueno.
My wife had an '88 Corolla GTS, 5-speed for several years. No power below 3000 rpm, but it had a surprisingly good ride for such a small car. Hers was RWD, not FWD like this one. Had to replace the clutch slave cylinder a couple of times but it was mostly reliable.
Must of been a 87 they all turned fwd in 88
I saw someone with a "CLS 300" badge on a W204 C300. This by comparison to that is nothing. No one believes your C-class is an S-class dude. That's trying to actually trick someone into thinking you have money, this seems more harmless and more like a tribute.
GravityGames cls is more e class than anything
@@antonioakiki3716 I see the S I think S-class. Like how the GLC is supposed the C-class SUV, the GLE is the E-class, and the GLS is the S-class. The CLS would be the S-class variant of the CL model cars like the CLK. (If they still made any other CL cars). That's just my opinion though, but I think they chose those naming conventions on purpose a few years back.
@@GravityGames15 You think wrong sir!
And here you're trying to trick someone into thinking that your FWD econobox is not just an A to B appliance but a legendary sports car. How's this any different or any better?
GravityGames gle is called that because the basic platform is e class, the same with the glc. The cls is just a branding gimick. Before the coupe s class was the cl, and the small version clk was based on the e/c class and was crap. Mercedes nomenclature is a clusterfuck
Dude, I like your videos so much. I don't even care about most of the cars you talk about but you make it so interesting. Keep up the great content!
My beef with the car has less to do with the badge larping stuff and more to do with the car itself with detuned engine and its limpy front wheel drive. Suddenly it stops being that 80s sleeper car and become current grandmamobile
I mean, if you got yourself an Alltrac sure it would suck less but then again you might as well a celica alltrac.
Lmao since when was an AE86 a sleeper
@@ShaiyanHossain When you expect absolutely nothing and get a bit something it's sleeper. Just like my Fiesta with Zetec engine is a sleeper, I mean it's '98 Fiesta.. surely it can't have angry noises coming out of it
Corolla all-trac is a puke-pile. Mated to 4a-f engines and not designed to handle any torque. Solid rear axle and extra weight make these cars easy to upset in the twisties and their inability to cope with power makes them worthless for straight lines as well.
Have you ever driven this car?
@@adamstanford9998 I have :)
2:03 unless it's really ironic. In my city there's a villager mini van with a "turbo" badge and a "4x4"
You get stuff wrong so often it hurts.
@All Impact Garage: Exactly.
Hater
I owned one of these brand new. I sold it to get an RX7 my first wife wanted. Then she divorced me 8 months later while I was in Germany. Her new boyfriend then crashed the RX7. I really wish most of that never happened. I really loved the Toyota though. Seeing it in the video reminds me of a time I was young and life was actually great.
*It seems like Mr. Regular has been a bit constipated with the videos lately doesnt it..?*
Can some tell me what shoes the owner is wearing? They look clean. 3:46