The AE86

The Toyota Sprinter Trueno is one of two generations of toyota cars with the AE86 chassis, it has many nicknames such as the AE86, Hachi-Roku, or Simply 86. It has a 1.6 liter Dual-overhead cam 4-cylinder twin cam fuel injection engine, limited slip differential, and rear-wheel drive.
The AE86 was exceptionally fast when it was first introduced and considered as a car with excellent performance.

The AE86 became famous all over the world because of a Japanese television series called Initial D which featured an 18 years old high school student named Takumi Fujiwara who is forced to deliver tofu everyday in the hotel at a mountain called Mt. Akina at 4am in the morning by his father in his place for five years, he has developed extraordinary driving skills in the span of five years due to the secret training method done by his father who was ones the fastest downhill racer in Mt. Akina while he delivers tofu, his father puts a cup of water on the cup holder of the car and instructs his son to drive without spilling  the water for the reason of not damaging the tofu with another hidden reason of developing excellent control of the cars balance, he began to develop his skills and quickly became incredibly fast at the downhill of the mountain each year using amazing cornering speeds and braking techniques to the point of drifting with perfect control and leaving only a few centimeters between the car and the guardrail and finally, he encountered the number two driver of the fastest racing team in the region after a delivery and defeated him using an inertia drift despite the opponent having a far more superior Mazda RX-7 FD3S and won the following races he participated in despite refusing to compete at first and having far superior opponents, he gained reputation as the fastest downhill racer in the Gunma Area known as the Akina's 86.

The AE86 became an icon of drifting being regarded as the essential vehicle appropriate for drifting due to it having the limited slip differential which is considered essential for drifting and the tranny gears which are mainly used for rallies and excellent at attacking hairpin corners due to the second gear capable of providing excellent torque and provide excellent control during a drift in tight hairpin corners. It is still currently popular to this day in the 21st century and being used in drifting competition despite its age mainly because of the television series and proof of its popularity is the large number of replicas of the AE86 featured in the television series. Even with age and outdated designs, the AE86 is still incredibly popular and can compete with the performance   and appearance of numerous japanese sports cars on this day.