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Living The 86 Life
This is such an interesting commentary on the Corrolla GTS factory build out. While to casual inspection someone like me, born in Detroit and kind of ‘car aware’ would notice features like the front air dam, and other signals that these cars had special tuning, I never knew and would not have imagined, that many of these cars came from the factory with locking differentials, panhard rods, oil coolers and an engine with a red line well above 7,000 rpm.
Here is a video of an AE86 at the Nurburg Ring capably driven by Jorge Azcoitia, doing a respectable 9 minute lap of the Nordschleife course in a ‘tourist’ group rally. Prior to this Petrolicious video I had no idea that the AE86 is such a capable car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDH-Lhs4d20
A lot of different reasons, actually. The big one is definitely the style. Tsuraichi, meaning that the top edge of the tires are flush with the fender, so it doesn’t look tucked in. Widened track of course improves the handling, theoretically, of course, and the negative camber helps turn-in and increases grip level during corner. In theory. There is a lot more, way more to it, of course. For a road car that’s bein driven on the normal road, you could often tell if it’s for a show or go. Generally if you can see from outside a car reacts like a tarmac spec rally car, it means it’s probably for a go.
