Oh my god this sound
You guys can hear that in the top
This is like a racing car sound
Awesome
Hi guys and welcome to another episode of jdm masters car reviews and today we are in
Lake miyagase and this is a national park located in the north part of kanagawa prefecture and you can see here from the shots
It's a beautiful view you have the bridges running through
and it's also a great fishing spot people coming for canoeing and today we have a very
Unique toyota, levin ae triple 1 and we're going to be talking about this. So come join us
Oh
So we're going to talk a little bit about the history of the ae triple 1 corolla levin
and as I said, this is the last iteration of the
Oh my god
A sprinter trueno
Just pulled up
And this is actually the grandfather of this car
They got the first version of the 4ag engine and how nice for him to come and join us
So we have a perfect chance to talk about the history of the 4A-GE engine
And we're going to be comparing it and looking to this
Hai okay, Stop
So, let's talk a little bit about the history of the corolla 111
Now as you all know the name Corolla, or karora in Japanese, which is actually a Spanish word
And it's based on the consolation. I'm not going to go too much detail, but i'm not very knowledgeable
But I do know that the Corolla
Had a coupe version and this is the seventh and final generation of the Levin now. There's a little bit of a complication here
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My left is called a Trueno now in Japan very often
There were two versions of basically the same car and they were sold in two different dealerships
And it was more like a sister car and here we can see in this reference Hyper Rev that you have both of these
Levin and Trueno, of course. This is the very famous
AE86 version, uh, for those of fans of Keiichi Tsuchiya's drift the drift king his car and of course
Initial D
a lot of you car fans came into knowing JDM cars through Initial D
And we have a little reference even in this first book about Initial D
Here we are
so the iconic AE86
which is
Not really the same version this is a two-door coupe the more popular three-door hatchback which is featured
in popular manga and
A lot of of course, you know if you watch Best Motoring or  Hot Version, uh these this car always comes out. However,
today we're here to talk about the ae triple one, which is quite often the
forgotten child or the forgotten generation of the entire Levin Trueno series, but
There's something really special and valuable about this car and that's directly related to this
So let's talk a little bit about the AE triple one. So we have here the catalog of the AE triple one
Corolla Levin
And you can see here this is the final face lifted version
And you can see here
The final edition BZ-R and the BZ-G and so what we have here today is the
BZ-G or B zee G spec not the BZ-R the slight differences. Are that the
BZ-R has the Super Strut Suspension, which is also the same carried over from the Celica
ST202 and 205 generation, but they also put that Super Strut Suspension into this model
But there's also a cheaper simpler model without that super strut suspensions as a normal strut suspension, but also came without a helical
without a Helical LSD. but what makes this model
really stand out from
All of the other Toyota Trueno Levin is the engine
and as you can see here right here at the top the
Lasre 20 valve 4A-GE, it's a 1.6 liter four-cylinder engine and
It's the last of this particular generation now. let's.. to talk about this engine
We've got to go a little back in history to this car's engine. Now, what makes this?
Generation also special is that it was the last to come with the rear wheel drive configuration
in the same generation
They also had a front-wheel drive of a different design for the four-door and the two and the five-door hatchbacks AE92
Levin Trueno after that became a
Front wheel drive as you can see from this reference photos
and then after that the AE101 was the first to come with the
20 valve engine
with VVT and also 4 throttle, Individual Throttle bodies and then finally the blacktop version in this
AE111. Now it's a little trivia here
the
AE111 actually doesn't only apply
To this model with the 20 valve. The normal 1.6 without the high horsepower was also called the AE triple one
Name was also applied to the Corolla GT which was the four-door sedan model
Of this car as you can see in reference photos over here
It basically looks like your retiree's
Or a normal family sedan of that generation, but it had the same drive train and the six-speed
Manual transmission. That car is not really known. let us know in the comments
If you want us to review that that car as well and this engine also appeared in the wagon version of the AE101
and in the AE triple one wagon version called the Sprinter Carib and so in japan, um
there were various iterations of it which explains why there's a lot of these engines going around for transplant usually into
The AE86 and that is the exact spec or the form that appears
in Takumi's
AE86
AE86 engine which is correctly called the A4
GEU
And also, the 92 was called 4A-GEU
And the 20 valve version the full name is called the 4A-GELU
Also the same G and there's also a Supercharged version for the 92 and the 101. Now all the horsepower are
varied and as I explained earlier
here in the early version
The Gross horsepower which takes power from the crankshaft. So in reality
It's a lot lower
When you put in the transmission
and from
The late 80s onwards they started to quote NET horsepower
Which is a more realistic measurement with all the accessories on there wasn't much of an increase was 120
But this is where it starts to get a little interesting from the AE101 generation
the
cylinder head was designed in cooperation with Yamaha Motors which
Toyota has also worked with them a lot to design their sports engines in particular
Also the 3S-GE and the 1JZ-GTE and of course not forgetting some of these the Lexus engines, especially on the LFA
But that Yamaha technology comes from their motorcycle history
And what makes this unique is it uses not four valves per cylinder, but actually five valves per cylinder
So that's three intake valves and two exhaust valves very tight squeeze over there
But the whole objective was to get as much air as possible into those cylinders. This actually comes from Yamaha's racing motorbike technology
This is the more interesting part of the car, which everybody seems to want to take that engine
And put it in the rear-wheel drive 86 now
Why do that what's wrong with the front-wheel drive car? And we're going to explain to you in a little bit. Why?
Maybe if you do want to buy one of these
underrated classics
You should just keep it as it is. So let's talk a little bit about the basic design of the coupe Corolla
Levin AE triple one
You can see from reference photos here how it's quite different from the four-door sedan
The mask of the front mask is completely different in design and so is the rear the interior is also different interestingly
On the face lifted version of the AE triple 1 sedan Corolla
The dashboard design is more streamlined
But the interesting part about the a triple one coupe is that it's all bespoke parts now underneath it shares the same floor plan
the suspension components
And the same sort of low level body line
Which if you compare it?
Body line is still kept very low the profile of both these cars are lowered and we can also see how the smooth
long bonnet design
Sort of tapers into a sharp, but very purposeful looking
Front mask and it's not too different from the Trueno version of the Corolla the Corolla
Levin AE86 had a more square cut-off
front but with the
Trueno's pop-up headlights. Of course, this is up. Now. Imagine that at least this is a straight line
There is a kind of similarities like the same design language
flowing through the actually the final generation looking at reference photos of the AE101
It seems a bit more bubbleus more kind of like rounded but for the ae triple one, um, they made it a lot sharper
Reminiscent of the of the 86 now going on to the back. It's a two-door coupe
And the inside interior the roof line is kept really quite narrow
And coming down to the rear windscreen. It's really wide
and and tall
But also the angle
of both the front and the rear
isn't that much varied unlike the DC2 Integra Type R
Which and if you look at the rear wing the overall shape kind of looks
Very similar to the DC2 Integra Type R maybe this is on purpose
We're not sure but it does suit the body line of the levin very very much now
What's interesting here is that if you look at the boot lid
Very typical of 90s cars how there's a sharp
but very
Contoured angle coming down. You see this line here all 90s cars have a prominent bumper
That comes out
It's not flush
like later models, and so this combination
of
a bumper a very contoured rear trunk and the wing
Gives it that distinctive look which is only possible of course of that age
line comes out
Tapering from the rear of the car and you can see two lines
and it's
like a nicely chiseled diamond now, you really have to come to this side to the rear to really appreciate how
How chiseled and streamlined this car is the line goes all the way to the front
It's so high at the back and low in the front which gives it a very aggressive
sort of stance lowered a little bit and
Design wise it really doesn't lose out to more popular cars like the honda civic or the integra
What is different though, Is that the body size looks long
But the wheelbase is actually a lot shorter than the Civic Type R the EK, which is in the same generation
So this car came out in 1995
Which puts it at the same timeline as the EK Civic, which also came out in 1995
And it was on sale until 2000
So it was the last of the 90s generation the wheelbase of the 11 triple 1 it's 2.4
All right now compared to the Civic and Integra the wheelbase of the Toyota Corolla is actually a lot shorter at
2465 millimeters. It's almost 20 millimeters shorter than the EK
Civic EK4 that's quite typical of those 90s cars between 2.4 2.5 but it also means it gives it a more nimble
And more agile turn in the body width is also the Japanese 5 number classification which puts it at a maximum of
1700 millimeters wide which means it's going to be very easy to park and go around in Japanese cities
um
basic
car was
Also sold in the lower end models with a bread and butter engine 1.6 liter and also 1.5 liter
which a lot of normal people bought
Maybe as a grocery getter but I don't know why you would buy a two doors a grocery getter
But it's also interesting that in Japan
The a triple one now is quite
Underappreciated prices haven't really gone up that much
They mostly take it for the engine but it's such a waste because the dynamics of the 801 is actually pretty good
let's talk about the
4AG
Engine, which is very famous in the world of JDM tuning and of course
it has a lot of folklore not only from initially but also
from keiichi tsuchiya our very famous car which you see a lot of the internet but also
The AE86 is well loved around the world as a lightweight sports car
And it's there's a lot of tuning parts for it
There's a lot of different configurations between so let's have a look at the basic technical
Specifications of the 4ag engine it's an iron block a small four-cylinder
with a 16-valve Twin Cam head and Twin Cam or
DOHC was something that Toyota didn't really use that much
Uh in 70s now coming to the 80s
They had two different versions of twin cam engines. And if you look at the code here a Toyota's nomenclature of 4A
So it's the A series engine
and the 4 signifies
the capacity size
Usually as the numbers go down. The engine sizes go bigger. So four this in this case is a 1.6 but of interest
Are these two letters after the hyphen the G
and the G the E
Stands for like with fuel injection, but the G is where it makes a difference
There is another engine called the 4A-FE stands for the more economy
Um style head it was narrower in width. So the head is a lot smaller, but it's not tuned for horsepower
It's meant for fuel economy and better response in everyday driving. This FE engine
You find a lot in normal Corollas or Coronas in?
all over the world
But what we are interested in is why this GE head is very very different you find the GE
in a lot of other sports engines as well like the like the 3S GE
the
2JZ, 1JZ they're all GE engines now
Some people say that the 4AG engine was derived from the Ford Cosworth BDA engine, which had very similar
bore and stroke and also
It was iron block but in reality
It's quite different the 4A GE engine the maximum size of 1.6 liters from the factory
And the BDA engine was a maximum size of 2 liters
Quite different in size. Although the thinking at that time was the same rubber belt driven
Twin Cam head which
For the early 80s was sort of cutting edge technology now twin cam is nothing really special as we mentioned the GE head
Uh is a lot bigger which means the valve angles are wider in order to incorporate more
flow of air into in order to create more power now this is before
like Honda had VTEC or anything the the way to develop more horsepower and response from this engine
Was to use first of all a well-designed pent roof construction style
cylinder head the 16 valves
and this was also something that coming from uh,
The economy cars of the 80s used usually 12 16 valve was something that was reserved mainly for sports engines
the intake manifold of the 86 uses a
TVIS mechanism
Which can vary the air flow
Length of the runners and so it was a short. It was a long ram
Longer airflow for the lower end torque and it's there's a butterfly valve which switches to a shorter
path to introduce more power
now as much as it was advanced in the 1980s you had a distributor you had
electronic fuel injection, which was also
something quite revolutionary for
1983 getting about 120 horsepower from this basic engine
was
Quite revolutionary at that time. Let's go to the last iteration, which is basically the same
Iron block aluminium head, but what was the method that toyota use in order to get more power from?
Basically 80's design. So here you can see that this is how the
Valve head cover should look like uh Beiti's car. Um, it's got a different color and this is missing the
valve cover which says Twin Cam 20
Believe us there are 20 valves in this engine the three for the intake
Now coming from motorcycle technology
If you have an extra valve to introduce more air into the engine
At a higher velocity you're going to create more power
But in order to supplement that the engine needed to be in a higher state of tune
Which meant coming from the silver top a lot of things were different the crankshaft the pistons were
better designed for higher compression
in fact up to
11.0 which is very high for an a engine. The integra type of DC2 B18C was 11.1
They're very close to that
um
The cams were also more aggressive lighter con rods a lot of things in the internals were different but starting from the a101
The basic design was the same now in order to make full use of the five-valve technology to introduce more air
They had to create an air intake system different from the TVIS
In order to give it much higher airspeed
At a higher rpms the more you can rev the engine to higher rpms the more top end power
You're going to get while Honda had VTEC Mitsubishi had MIVEC in the 1.6 liter class using the Mirage and even
Pulsar
VZR had a kind of
Double cam switching system Toyota stuck to a conventional cam system
But they introduced this
Very expensive and costly component
in order to draw more power and if you look carefully here you can see
That this is actually an ITB also known as individual throttle body. So it is
One throttle body for each cylinder if we quickly switch back, you can see mechanically how different it looks
from
A conventional engine which has only one throttle body and you can see here. This is the wire that operates
The single throttle it goes into an intake plenum and the runners flow into the intake side of the engine now
Let's go back here. You can see
Physically how different it is air filter is right here. You have the tube and it goes into an intake plenum
and
each
Cylinder has its own throttle body in fact if we move this
If I move the main mechanism you can see that
Each cylinder's
Throttle is moving on its own why having an individual throttle body is better than a single throttle body
by having
Air going individually into each cylinder. There is an advantage of
Having better throttle response now, let's imagine this
When your throttle is closed in a normal single intake?
There is no air going into the intake plenum all the air that comes from the atmosphere
Goes and waits at this
At the entrance of the throttle body when it opens all the air rushes in and it has to fill all of the cylinders
in
A short time and that does create a lag
Before it goes into the four cylinders and it's of course the travel path until the very most cylinder takes a little bit of time
But if you could have a throttle body on each of the individual cylinders
like 20 valve
There is no
Waiting at all. The response is immediate. It's because air
Is already at atmospheric pressure inside this intake plenum, the air gets sucked in here. There's no restriction here at all
It's just waiting at the entrance of each of this four cylinders the moment, the throttle is cracked open all that air just rushes in
And it fills up the cylinders instantaneously now it's because of this response
That which is needed especially at high rpms where everything is spinning really quickly and you want to get in that air
To fill up the cylinders in order to create that power
As quickly as possible. That is why this system is used mainly on racing engines or engines with a very high state of tune
and so
Because the 20 valve technology with also vvt
on the intake
side of the cams
Also is able to help it vary the timing
of
the camshaft opening cycle
Now vvt is a little bit different from vtec
because
Vtec has two cams
This is just one cam the difference. Is that vvt was used to
Open it earlier at lower rpm so it can get a little bit more torque
This is the way to balance
Um low end and mid-range torque with high-end power now a little note about using full throttle so you think well, okay
Why not? just put an individual throttle body on any car
In order to get the full benefits of a full throttle or individual throttle body
The engine needs to be in a relatively high state of tune which means aggressive cams
Pistons which gives a very high compression in order to make use of that high flow
characteristics that individual throttle bodies I
Just slap it onto any engine without actually tuning it up a lot more
But it's quite a testament that how yamaha is using their motorcycle technology to make you know
Basically a road engine that gives let's get this 165
Horsepower from an engine that doesn't have a vtec mechanism this is
1995 even earlier for the 101 version. Let's have a look at this catalog specs
Another interesting thing about the 4ag's basic design. Um, it's also very similar to the b16a with the bore size of
81.0 and a stroke of 77.0
uh the difference by point zero one anyways
It's a short stroke engine, um, meaning there's less stress on the crankshaft
Uh the lower piston speed so you can rev higher without having a lot of stress
So the b16a and the mitsubishi's mirage develop its torque at almost 7000 rpm
Not too much difference from the peak power
But this is where the 4ag
has a little bit of an advantage because it develops its peak torque at
5600 rpm
It's 2000 rpm lower and you really feel it
When you drive the car, uh that mid-range torque comes out nice and strong
Although it does taper off a little bit towards the top end. Maybe it's a lot more easier to drive. Um
In in in daily traffic and then light toge or or even on the circuit
So it's got a lot of similarities between the 16 valve
What makes the 20 valve special is that you didn't really need to do anything. You could get really good response
Um and and good torque enough horsepower
And this is the reason why
The 20 valve the favorite swap into the ae86. So try to imagine this. Just try to imagine how
this engine
Is just replaced inside here and you could have reliable 160 horsepower
In a rear wheel drive car and this was basically the Initial D formula
So let's talk a little bit about the drivetrain now. It's very conventional
Um strut suspension in the front and also strut suspension in the rear of the front there were two different versions on the bzr
Had the carry over from the celica super strut suspension
This was an original toyota design to give it more
Of active camber as it was going to the corner mimicking a double visual suspension without actually
redesigning the entire uh suspension system
There's a little curve that goes down from the bottom and a different lower arm
To give it a slight camber characteristics as it's going to the corner
however, the superstrut suspension is also very expensive as aftermarket parts, whether it's original or if you want to buy a
coilover set much much more expensive than a conventional strut because it's more complicated now the
car we have today is the
slightly lower grade spec called the BZ-G which comes with a conventional
Uh strut suspension and the advantages of this is that it's a much lower cost
uh to do upgrades although the turning characteristics might not
equal that of the super strut
The other problem of the super sprout is that the lower arms of bushes do need to be replaced, uh at regular intervals
If not, the system doesn't actually work
So some people actually preferred regular version which is why toyota offered it in their range at the same time
You could choose between these two
And if tuned properly and set up properly
It would not lose at all to other rivals like the mitsubishi mirage
Now the rear suspension we're going to take a look over here. Let's go under the car
So here we can see the rear subframe and you can see two rods coming out
Uh, there's actually one at the back and one at the front. This is very similar to the setup of the
impreza
wrx which is also a rear strut suspension and
Situated near the wheel is the trailing arm and these are all rods. You can see the adjustment points
and you can see how long these arms are which are usually
very important for a strut suspension
Rather conventional design of the strut suspension may give the impression that it's not really going to handle well compared
to let's say the double wishbone suspension of the civic integra series, but on the ae 1
The setup and was proved to be very competitive
in n1 racing
in the 1.6 litre class
In fact, it did a little bit better than the cheaper torsion beam design of the nissan sunny and pulsar
Mitsubishi mirage also had a multi-link suspension
Which is also very good for rally balance of the strut suspension went well with the body dimensions and the wheelbase tuning it
It's very very easy
Managing camber setup and tow. It's very stiff. It was also a very popular car for amateur
circuit racing, uh back in the 90s in the early 2000s in fact
You can still buy a lot of these parts
for this car
And a lot of it's interchangeable even with the four-door sedan the transmission for the later version that came out in
1997 they switched it to from a five-speed to a six-speed uh in an ff body, I believe this was one of the first
Front-wheel drive six-speeds to come out of japan
honda and mitsubishi were still using five speeds went into the 2000 generation and everyone was basically using six speeds, but this was
quite unique for the mid 90s generation six-speed manual
which has good ratios, uh from one to four quite different from the honda setup where toyota's usually have a longer ratio for
More better highway cruising so six is not really used that much but it suits the mid-range
Uh, high torque characteristics of the 20 bar 4ag, okay
Now Beiti's car
is not completely stock we can see here that he has a seat a recaro seat actually taken out from
Integra type r dc2 it's black and the familiar red stitching
The passenger seat however is the original item sort of a semi bucket design and that 90s
Pattern that looks a bit like the le mans recaro. It makes an attempt to be
Quite supportive on the side with the shape. It's actually quite soft the rest of the interior, please excuse
the little scruffiness here's a
file photo of
the
From the catalog how it should look like
More or less the same
the interior is just a conventional 90s corolla, which is similar to the
four-door version on option they even had actually a similar shape sr-3 recaro with the
Le mans pattern same one. They offered in the 80 supra and also the st205. Celica gt4 that's
was an option
and
here's the
interior and you can see
how the gear shift knob um
Looks like this with a little aluminium plate in the center looks a little bit like the r34 gtr's design
The original steering wheel is exactly the same design as the altezza and also the late version supra
In fact, all of the toyotas had this exact same steering wheel design t-shape
The only differences were the trim on the side
but otherwise
it's a very
simple very toyota 90s good quality plastics
soft touch
And the controls are exactly where they should be. It's a front wheel drive car hit room. Of course. It's not that much
It's simple everything is where it should be the controls of the of the aircon vents, uh, the stalks the gear shift position
um, it's not that
Low, uh, in fact it's a little bit. It's a little bit higher than uh, some of the hondas of that generation
and
The meters the gauge over here, you can see it's orange only for the 20 valve version
and the red line is at 8 000 rpm now you look at this and
You're sure that this has the 20 valve engine rear space
I'm going to try and get into that
Being slightly shorter than the saloon version
It's not bad at all, um
It's better than the r35 gtr or actually even this 32 or the 34 gtr
um
As it is usually with some coupes hip position of the cushions. It's lower
I'm 178 centimeters tall and I can I hardly have space here
um
Head sort of hits on the rear windscreen like that. So i'm not going to want to ride in this car
When my friend's going around the tokyo, it's gonna sit like this
Actually, no, you know what? I'm not even gonna sit in the rear at all
But there are two car holders here, which I can have. Why do you have two cup holders for one passenger?
So hang on I can have a mineral water and a little coffee
at the same time two passengers
There should be more couples in the front than you think not in the rear. This is something really interesting. You look here
It's an air purifier switch. Wow, I believe that was an option
auto high low
And so that's supposed to be built into the air conditioner system
You know what?
You see a lot of modern cars and lexuses have this but it's funny to see how it appeared in the 90s basic corolla
Wow
Anyway
um
Yeah
it's
It's a typical 90s car
Okay, so we are with Beiti. Who is the owner of this ae triple 1?
Sprinter Trueno. Thanks for
Letting me review your car
By all means actually, um, he's in our group, uh, well group of friends
We all got to drive a lot and you know, it's very rare to actually
meet anyone with this car even japanese people and um
Something about bailey. He loves toyota. So tell me a little bit about your toyota fascination, mate
so my first car actually in japan was a oh
Oh, okay. Yeah, and I really love the car and I had a great time with the first one
and
then I decided I want to get another altezza a
manual
Oh, so the first was the automatic the first one was an rs200 the automatic variant, right?
because I managed to get one for a really good deal right at the time and
So that was my first purchase, but I loved the card so much and I just realized that
Having it as automatic. I just felt like it just took away some
The pleasure from the car definitely definitely that place it's a completely different experience
so that's why I got the the manual variant and
I really love the Altezza, but I wanted something a bit more
You can say like sport focused. Okay. Okay. This is a little raw right right lighter
Like the altezza is a great car, but it's a bit more on the luxury end. You know, right?
So I wanted to get something a bit more raw as you said so this is why I picked up the 11
so it had to be a toyota so like within that kind of like front wheel drive or like a
High response engine. Yes, a triple one is the answer
It is and i'm also a big advocate for getting cars which are great in terms of price to performance ratios
you know like uh
I think as we mentioned earlier the
AE86 is also a great car, but in terms of like price to performance in my opinion at least
It's a bit
Its a bit much
and for a person like me who's a university student i'm not really able to have the budget to
afford that and
I did some of I did some research and seemed like the a triple one was
A great car for the price and yeah, I haven't looked back since then
I see. I mean it's relatively inexpensive in the same class any Civic SiR
Or Type R they're way more expensive, but you're not getting
You know a big difference in complete performance actually
The the Levin doesn't really lose out in my opinion to the SiR
uh, maybe 15 20% less than the Type R, but
What I love about the 4ag engine is it's fat mid-range torque. It's
It just picks up very very well. It's pretty fun. Right? Yeah
Yeah, and the ratios for the second third fourth are really nicely suited for um for street driving
Oh my god, the sound!
You guys can hear that way in the tunnel
This is like a racing car sound
Even just for that sound it's worth it. It's worth it
That sound man. if the road is smooth, it's fine actually this is just
Don't do that
In a straight line there's no chance at all
Let's have a look at the
AE86, um this particular example on this young enthusiast Yes. we had the
Opportunity to meet him right here as we're reviewing it
immaculate condition, um
What is overused a lot but the condition of the interior? I've only seen one small little crack here usually, AE86's of this age
the whole dashboard
Gets tattered and torn and cracked up, but this example is particularly
In good condition considering that it's never been restored
at all, which means the previous owner, uh, whoever it is has kept this in
this condition
Is this original? Look at this material on the roof? It felt
and also on the wings
Yeah, the panda design. Yeah, that's the panda design
um, you look at this 80s design it has the
The slow reaction there's like two seconds delay this is neutral position
it's all neutral position is slightly offset to the driver's side on the on the
Right. So the first gear
Will be looks like it's straight. The other car that has this. Um is the altezza?
because the engineer for the 86 and the is
the same person
Now in the in 1980s, like electric windows were an option usually wind-up window so it's quite rare to see um,
still the original
Electric power window the switch has just been like bolted onto the to the door trim. Very very interesting
Yeah, even electric mirrors. Yeah here wow
automatic air conditioning
auto mode
And you have the econ mode. That's that was also quite quite rare
And another interesting thing is this car was an automatic before so you have the power button
and the other the
Manual function, but it was converted to a manual from automatic. That's probably one reason why it's in good condition
Probably that's the reason low mileage. Yeah, if you look at the rear
Toyota Sprinter seal, the seal the decals is one piece. So this
is definitely
From the original car you can't get these decals anymore
Because they're just sold out a lot of people who restore these cars actually have to get like cutting stickers
and
It's it's just amazing. Even this wing was an option. It's original. It's not painted
another interesting thing about the panda color is
This is painted. This is painted painted not painted
So when people uh, do the panda color?
repaint
They they sometimes paint this in black. It's not supposed to be painted. It's matte black
Mud flaps, all these original has the word Trueno down here
And you can also see
The sticker here one piece
optional side skirt
optional front lower spoiler, but that lowest ball apparently is from the
(should be Kouki) version. RS watanabe
iconic
shape of course front wheels
What impresses me most is how clean?
this emblem is
There's no scratches whatsoever. The owner says this car
His inspiration was actually Initial D final stage
the final battle between takumi fujiwara and shinji inui is
the same
Zenki (sorry Kouki)  two-door. It's a Sprinter Trueno GT apex
uh coupe
That he uses because everyone has the three-door. It has fujiwara tofuten. So it's very nice to see
Um the coupe version, of course
The coupe version also has the advantage of having better body rigidity because it has a rear parcel shelf and rear
Firewall. Thank you for having me
Very very nice car
AE86
Wow. Um, so guys, um,
I had a chance to drive along in a 86
sprinter
Trueno that it's not a three-door
It's a two-door coupe and it looks exactly the same as the one that appeared in final stage initially. We have the owner here
Thank you for letting us drive your car
The reason I bought this car was because of Initial D. I liked The anime
Most fans like the 3 door hatchback
So I thought i would be a bit different and get a 2 door coupe
After all, I prefer the shape of the coupe
I see
Could you tell me how you got into cars besides Initial D?
Actually at first I wasn't that into cars,
but I watched Initial D with my Dad
and I got to really like the AE86 and thought it was really cool looking
I really love the sound of the engine
Right, the feel of old cars is something
Yeah, the 4A-GE sound
its just so appealing
Oh yeah, its so cool
Spine tingling
So you got to like the car after watching Initial D
so after that how did you learn about cars?
right, I started to learn about the AE86 from various sources
like the specifications and technical aspects
and about parts or how it works
how the car behaves or drives
there are so many things I looked at on the web
naturally I gathered all those information
I see, mostly from the internet right?
Yes, from the internet. But also from books
because books tend to have more accurate information
and they also have more detailed information than the internet
even small details that we would not know
as these cars are old, the information from books I feel have more
authority and accuracy which is important
I see, do you watch You Tube?
Oh yes, I watch Best Motoring
Right , Best Motoring is the one to watch right?  And Hot Version
Yeah, those old videos of Keiichi Tsuchiya
and images of his AE86 driving hard
I was impressed very much by that
I had an AE86 before actually
Of course the design of the car is superb
But its so expensive now
Unless you are really a fan and into this car
you can't easily afford one now
I guess if you are willing to spend about 3 million yen
and then the cost of repair and restoring will be high
after all, the AE86 is an old car, and many things will break
yeah agreed, its getting hard to find parts
guess it can't be helped
Ohh! The 'pinging' sound!
This is the sound that 80's cars makes when it goes over 100kmh
What a feeling of nostalgia
A lot of foreigners love this bit
It's only in Japanese cars I think
Thank you very much!
Wow, so coming to the end of our review of the ae triple 1 corolla, we're going to ask this hard question
Minus the initial d hype minus the initial attacks of the ae86
Is the ae triple 1?
With its very able front wheel drive suspension setup
the best and final edition of the 4g of racing technology
Put into it
The high cost for the for the engine with yamaha technology. Is it worth it?
Which would you actually buy the 86 while being very iconic in its in its heritage and its shape?
Is actually quite an old car
the technology
And the suspension parts and basic design was carried over from the 70s liver axle
Um body rigidity is not that great. That engine doesn't actually have a lot of horsepower. It's not really that fast while it's being fun
On the circuits or on the road. The atrium is a way more capable car
Despite it being a front-wheel drive. Let's say they were the same price. Which would you actually buy?
So this is the question that I leave to you guys
Let us know in the comments we at jdm masters
We do appreciate these old 90s cars and we hope that more people can appreciate it. Uh for what it really is
So let us know in the comments again, uh what other cars you'd like us to reveal more toyotas, maybe an mrs
Maybe a celica whatever
and
That's all from us until next time. Peace out
