The car in this two-part test is a legit AE86 Sprinter Trueno from Japan. It's right-hand drive and is mostly aesthetically correct as a replica of Takumi Fujiwara's car from Initial D .

Toyota AE86 widebody kits are nothing new, ... protagonist Takumi Fujiwara takes great pleasure from touge racing, ... The last Sprinter Trueno auctioned on Bring a Trailer hammered for $22,000, ...

He had only ever read the word Trueno at the rear, as AE86 is just the internal code name at Toyota. And there were actually several AE86s in the 1980s. AE86 to the Power of Three ...

Takumi, the hero of the story, develops his racing skills to be one of the fastest drivers in the Kanto prefecture while driving his dad's old Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86.

Camshop. The original Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno was in production from 1983 to 1987, alongside its mechanically related sibling, the Corolla Levin. Both cars shared a front-engine, rear-wheel ...

Toyota AE86 BEV Concept – 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon. ... “a vehicle that offers even greater driving pleasure than the original,” but we can’t imagine Initial D‘s Takumi Fujiwara would approve.

This is a 1986 Toyota Corolla.But the world can't be normal about rear-driven mid-'80s Corollas, thanks to a little show called Initial D, so this one is done up as a replica of Takumi Fujiwara's ...

To honor Initial D's influence, Toyota U.K. has created a show car based on the current Toyota 86. Initial D tells the story of Takumi Fujiwara, a young man working for his father as a tofu ...

On display at the Tokyo Auto Salon, the Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno are Japan-market variants of the sporty yet economical U.S.-market Corolla GT-S of the era.