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There are a number of other smaller differences of course, but the headlights are the easiest way to tell the two cars apart. The key difference between these two cars is their lights, the Trueno has pop-up headlights and the Levin has fixed headlights. The AE86 was released in two major variants, the Corolla Levin and the Sprinter Trueno. The Toyota AE86 – Corolla Levin + Sprinter Trueno Tsuchiya worked closely with Shuichi Shigeno, the creator of Initial D, as a consultant and he would later work as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.Ībove Video: This onboard footage of Keiichi Tsuchiya behind the wheel of his own AE86 gives fascinating insight into his unique driving style.Īlthough Tsuchiya is best-known for his drifting and touge driving he also enjoyed a significant amount of success in more traditional forms of motorsport – he finished 2nd in the 2001 All Japan GT Championship and he’s a two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner.

Tsuchiya himself drives a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno and large parts of the central Initial D character Takumi Fujiwara was based directly on him.

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Keiichi Tsuchiya is a Japanese racing driver who is perhaps best known today for his work popularizing drifting as a form of motorsport.

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The car has a white over black two tone paint job and black alloy wheels, many clones of the car have been made over the years as a result, but the series has significantly lifted the values of all AE86s worldwide. The series is showing no signs of losing its popularity.īoth the manga and the anime Initial D feature the Sprinter Trueno AE86 driven by lead character Takumi Fujiwara.

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The Initial D anime (animated) series began appearing on television in 1998, the full catalog now includes individual episodes and a number of feature films, with the most recent being released in 2022. This cover of an Initial D manga shows both the now-famous Sprinter Trueno and lead character Takumi Fujiwara. By the time the series ended in 2013 there had been 719 individual chapters across forty-eight tankōbon volumes. In 1995 the Initial D manga (graphic novel) first appeared in print in Japan, it was written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno and it rapidly exploded in popularity across Japan. It’s finished in a red over black two-tone with Minilite-style wheels and four front-mounted spotlights.

The car you see here is a 1987 Toyota Corolla AE86 that has had a recent £20,000 restoration.

The AE86 would win the 1986 European Touring Car Championship Manufacturer’s Title, the British Touring Car Championship in 19, and a slew of other race and class wins around the world.

Unlike the majority of E80 variants (and the Corolla variants that would follow), the front-engine/rear-wheel drive layout of the AE86 combined with its near 50/50 weight distribution and low curb weight made it ideal for performance driving.

The Toyota Corolla AE86 is the two-door, rear-wheel drive version of the Toyota Corolla E80 – the fifth generation of the popular economy car.

The car was used by the character Takumi Fujiwara, a street racer and tofu delivery driver on whom the series is based. The AE86 became a Japanese pop culture icon thanks to its inclusion in the Initial D anime and manga series. The car played a pivotal role in the establishment of drifting as a sport, it became a multi-championship winning race car, and today it enjoys a cult following around the world. The Toyota Corolla AE86 is one of the most influential of Japan’s many modern classics.