On japanese used car sites most listings are mostly in the the ~50000 km range and prices drop steeply as they approach 100,000 km

The toyotas just need some persuasion.....

The Au-spec double cab SR with the 2.8 has a curb weight of 2080 kg. The Icelandic market Hilux only received the 2.4 and may have different equipment to the australian one so 2075 kg sounds about right

the only thing going for it is that it is the only hot hatch sold in my country have a manual transmission for those who like those

its S15E2 they had ADAC perform an MOT on the cars :

I think that high strung engines are less marketed back then than they are now but they do exist back then as a 1.6l B series honda engine makes 160hp in 1989 and with the more stringent emission standards that its more impressive that a economy oriented 1.6l engine from toyota in 2017 makes more power than the high…

I think the 86 was a popular choice with circuit and street racers at the time and the fb would likely be too expensive for a lot of the racers in japan back then to consider although the kp61 would be cheap to be considered as well.The association with drifting and ae86 likely had to do with the guy that made it…

I think the AE86's association with drifting has to do with how it got popular in japan back in the day as the guy that popularize it, in his early racing years Keiichi Tsuchiya taken by Kunimitsu Takahashi’s driving style begun practicing on mountain passes using one and a video was made by magazines showing him…

moar powerrrr!!!

that trunk looks pretty bad even by 17 year old econobox standards

they plan to use the quattro drivetrain but someone tried to cram a v8 into a 89 polo but it was unfinished

this ?

I guess honda’s move to macpherson struts coincided with their slump that they are trying to get out of and they were making mostly double wishbone when superstruts came out in E100 corollas and ST205 celicas at their prime

Corolla wagons

That particular van is special case as it was designed by a local coach builder here using a single cab chassis after mitsubishi discontinued the van bodystyle in 2014 i guess trying to cash in the commercial shuttle market which the previous van was unpopular and dominated by the current gen hiace and E24 nissan…

Mitsubishi new for 2014:

maybe a 13b could fit ? if all else fails there’s the hacksaw:

isuzu did better on their truck

i’d take this one