SEMA hasn’t even fully kicked off yet and already Toyota has come up with what could be the build of the show. A GR86 decked out in classic WRC Celica livery and fitted with the entire engine and all-wheel drive transmission setup from a GR Corolla hot hatch, it pushes more buttons than a 1940s switchboard operator.
Good as this car looks on the surface, and we’ll get to that in a moment, the heart of the project is that powertrain swap. And it can’t have been an easy one because the GR86 is designed around a longitudinally mounted boxer four that drives the rear wheels only and the GR Corolla is a transverse-engined hot hatch that sends power to all four corners.
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