Despite of its bland perceived image any Old School Corolla could be converted into a successful racing car beast and particularly V8 bashing car at many local Rally competition events. Though unlike Celica GT4 it has not achieved any driver title at WRC, but Toyota did win the manufacturer title championship in 1999 on the underdog Corolla.
That year the 3S-GTE engined Corolla WRC was amongst the top three rankings on the whole twelve rounds including a second title position at the WRC Round 4 Portugal driven by Carlos Sainz.
Toyota Motorsport GmbH has had managed, tweaked and produced in total 57 works Corolla which many are still raced by private team today. Although Toyota withdrew from WRC in the subsequent year to concentrate further into F1 competition, it did not however diminish the popularity of the largest selling model in the world.
And the extend of Old School Corolla’s popularity did not stop at the mere 10 years old Corolla WRC, on the contrary the bulk of it lies in the older model which were produced in early 1970s. KE 20 and KE 30 are the most popular choice for Beginner's rally car. Furthermore somewhere along those 30 odd years span there was once a legendary AE86 generation of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Toyota Sprinter Trueno or at some region known as Corolla GTS which helped catapult the Drifting Sport Competitions in late 1980s.
Owing to its dependable character the AE86 was also dubbed as one of Old Reliable Drifting Cars to these days. Originally it was powered by the sweet revving 4AG engine DOHC 4 valve, but many have been undoubtedly converted by other type of more powerful engine.
Though surprisingly quite a few has managed to put older pushrod, 2 valve engine back into with specially developed Engine Management accompanied by Turbocharger capable of producing 310 hp. And that is out of 1702cc 2TC engine, read this 1985 Corolla GTS Turbo for Road Racing for further info! This engine was produced alongside to another yet legendary Yamaha developed head 2TG DOHC.
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