'Spiritual Toyota AE86 Replacement'

[barryogen]

ooh ooh... puleeze ooh puleeze give it that oh so special panda paint... that wouldn't be ghey at all... no, not at all.


/sarcasm

[MR2SIK]

Theres been various articles about a 'new' AE86 floating around for a while. Wouldnt there be something on the toyota website?
Toyotas of late have been soft, anything remotley sporty has a Lexus badge on it, and Lexus = $$$

I'm gonna vote bs

arnt the sportevo camrys gettin a v6 supercharged donk to fight falcon commodore

nuf sed

[rollaholic]

pfft it can hardly be the spiritual sucessor without the panda paint scheme at least being an option...

but i reckon the main appeal (for me at least) to ye olde AE86s is the fact that its a nice basic, reasonably balanced car, with that classic 80's look. any new car is gonna be full of air conditioning, airbags, abs, etc etc, and look like it was made on mars or something.

[Adoom]

It looks like a boat tbh (or a Audi A3).

Blerg, horrible.

Modern cars will always be boats. It because of all this 'safety' junk that has to be put in cars these days. Blame America.
Personally I think one of the reasons AE86's would have been great is the lack of weight adding safety rubbish.
Can anyone think of a sub 1000kg modern car that isnt a motorised shopping trolley?
And what rollaholic said too.....

Aye? AYE!?
I'm bored and I cant be bothered making my tea........

[snwtoy]

Liking it here. Needs better engine options though.

[Grrrrrrr!]

Surely they will make some uber beams goodness to go under the bonnet...

Shall i start a trd supercharger group buy thread now or wait?

Meh, BEAMs or not its still going to be an under powered POS motor until you add one of the off the shelf turbo kits. Greddy, TRD etc already make em for that motor in a fwd format so it wouldn't take them long to make the RWD format kit i'm guessing.

If you want uber BEAMS goodness may as well throw a 3sge in and be done with it.. or a 2JZ

[Adamal]

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

if only they bring back 80's pop up head lights,

QFT 3-Combos.

You guys are awesome. Popups would be true spiritual sporty experience time!

[Alex B]

Pretty sure they cant with modern frontal impact laws. Im sure i saw that somewhere.

[MasCam]

Why has no one mentioned that they should put the 2zz into it??

It would be a great revvy motor and would make parts available for RWD conversions on other cars

[pidge]

Why has no one mentioned that they should put the 2zz into it??

It would be a great revvy motor and would make parts available for RWD conversions on other cars

Then the Celica wouldn't sell.

Oh, hang on...

[DJ]

OH SNAP.

[barryogen]

Then the Celica wouldn't sell.

Oh, hang on...

The celica has been pulled from market, so it's not going to sell anymore anyway.

[frost]

i was reading that the engine design of the ZZ wont allow it to be faced north south, something about the alloy block, it will put it self apart or something, thats why it hasn't been done in a ae86 conversion, i'll try and find the web site.

[solitaire]

i was reading that the engine design of the ZZ wont allow it to be faced north south, something about the alloy block, it will put it self apart or something, thats why it hasn't been done in a ae86 conversion, i'll try and find the web site.

They have been putting 2zz's in lotus seven replicas for ages though...

[frost]

oh really didn't know that, it seems its never been done to the ae86, and a few people have tried in the states but didn't get past the mock up stage, alteza 3s beams engine is easer then ZZ conversion, even f20c, wonder if honda would lend a had and say "hey you take this engine" haha that would be sweet,

that pic of the rear end is really high, not just the body hight but the body lines make the rear high like it wants to be taken up the...

[frost]

wow just saw a action where its a de-reg rolling body AE85 and someone is willing to pay 1500 WTF!!! cant believe the price hike, i got a shell for $340 and its mint no rust, are they really getting that hard to find that its worth 1.5k for a dead shell!!!

[solitaire]

wow just saw a action where its a de-reg rolling body AE85 and someone is willing to pay 1500 WTF!!! cant believe the price hike, i got a shell for $340 and its mint no rust, are they really getting that hard to find that its worth 1.5k for a dead shell!!!

If its deregged its useless isnt it? i thought you couldnt reg them anymore if the reg lapses

[Punter]

No, you should be able to re-reg. pricey though.

[rollaholic]

a re-reg is only $400 iirc, provided it passes the inspection (slim chance for a de-reg'd 25 y/o car)

but $1500 for a de-reg'd shell is outrageous - maybe if it was an AE86 in good nick but no mechanicals or something, but an AE85?

[rolla_fxgt]

I was sitting in a class today & they were talking about entrepreneurs & how all they need is an idea, a niche market, & a shit load of money & balls.

I was thinking about this & wondering why no one has brought or try'd to buy all the presses etc for the origional Ae86 off Toyota started manufacturing new ones with exactly the same chasis & body (as much as current regs allow) with either the same engines or perhaps some more modern engines with more power. Kinda like they do in the us with the GT500 Shelby's, but with brand new chasis.

I guess the negatives of this idea are do the presses etc still exist, would toyota even sell them, cost.