It was 2013 when we heard the first rumors of Toyota considering a shooting brake incarnation of the 86, but the practical rear-wheel-drive machine didn't land until earlier this year. We got the ...

The Toyota AE86 is a legend among drift fans. “AE86” is actually the internal code for rear-wheel-drive models from the fifth-generation Corolla family, launched in the 1980s. The models became ...

Thanks to their front-engined, rear-wheel drive layouts, great weight distribution, and basic construction, the old Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86 were (and still are) favored by petrolheads all over the ...

Drifting has become a cultural phenomenon that has long outgrown its status as a niche motorsport and entered the mainstream zeitgeist. We can thank a man named Keiichi Tsuchiya for this, and today ...

With the Internet having spread the cult of the Toyota AE86 way past the borders of Japan, keyboard drifters simply assume monstrous sliding is guaranteed whenever Toyota's old school sportscar's name ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...