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Coming soon to TC America: GR Corolla TC race car

The Toyota GR Corolla will go racing in the 2025 TC America series.

You Need This: Toyota Sera, a JDM with butterfly doors

The Toyota Sera certainly isn't a run-of-the-mill JDM.

You Need This: A first-year Toyota Supra looking fresh off the boat

When was the last time you seen a 1979 Toyota Supra this clean?

You Need This: Japanese-market, AE92 Corolla Levin Supercharged

The successor to the famed AE86–the AE92 Corolla–may have lost its rear-wheel-drive platform, but this Japanese market example features Toyota's supercharged 4A-GZE engine.

You Need This: Manual-swapped, 6M-GE-powered Toyota Cressida wagon

The family Truckster, but make it Japanese. Add in a 6M-GE inline-six and a W58 5-speed manual, and you have this Toyota Cressida wagon for sale.

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Features: Exploring the more humble roots of the Toyota Supra

Before “Fast & Furious,” before the current BMW-based offering, the Supra came from more humble roots.

Features: Restored, wrecked and rebuilt: Toyota Tercel Wagon rally racer

First in class and second overall at this year's Rally Colorado? No, not a Subaru or even an Evo, but a 1985 Toyota Tercel Wagon.

Features: Experts reveal how to make a first-gen BRZ faster

The Subaru BRZ works well in a lot of places–the street, autocrosses and, yes, the track.

Features: Does a manual make the Toyota GR Supra a better sports car?

We put the new six-speed manual Toyota GR Supra on track to find out if rowing your own gears really makes the Supra a better car.

Shop Work: Can bigger brakes make an older car perform like a modern machine?

Brakes should both correct speed and balance the chassis. The brakes on our MR2 Turbo did virtually none of that, so it was time for a change–a big brake change.

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2010 Tundra

We were so impressed by a Tundra we test-drove that we went and bought one for ourselves. This might be one of the few times a loaner ended up costing us …

1991 MR2 Turbo

No, it’s not a Ferrari–close, though, as the SW20-chassis MR2 also marries beautiful lines with healthy power. This Turbo Toyota is destined for SCCA’s new Xtreme Street autocross class.

1986 Corolla GT-S

Our 1986 Toyota Corolla GT-S had formerly been part of Toyota Racing Development's fleet and had picked up some neat items along the way, like a fiberglass rear hatch, flashy …

1994 Celica ST

The Celica ST, like the rest of the sixth-generation Celicas, isn't widely known for its performance potential. That's kind of a shame, as it's a very competent car that has …

1985 MR2

Art Director JG Pasterjak takes on restoring this modern classic.

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How to stop rats from eating our Toyota Tundra?

While we love our 2010 Toyota Tundra for doing truck stuff, doing truck stuff is not an everyday occurrence. Our Tundra will occasionally sit for as much as …

This simple mod gave us 5 horsepower for free

The 3.5-liter 2GR-FE V6 that will soon find a home in our 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo (which will, of course, no longer be a turbo, but we’ll probably …

How to use air/fuel ratios as a tuning tool

Turbocharged engines are a double-edged sword. More power is readily available through more boost, but so is more disaster. So, when you even vaguely consider adding boost to an engine, …

Can a racing seat unlock more speed?

So, just before our MR2 burst into flames at Daytona, it was running well. Really well.

[How to react when your car catches fire | Project …

What is causing our MR2's shift linkage to keep binding?

It would be nice if we could shift our MR2’s gears, right?

In the last update on our 2GR V6-swapped 1991 Toyota MR2, we left …

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Toyota Readers' Rides

Nov 30, 2024 by Gs76gt
1976 None Celica

20/22r hybrid engine, w50 trans. T3 suspension, poly bushings, softly sprung. R&p conversation soon

Sep 25, 2024 by Arcoleoka
2024 None GR86 Trueno

TRUbRED Trueno used for Autocross and Track Days, Full Build, Wheels/Tires, Coilovers, Alignment, Exhaust, Oil Cooler, Tune, Harness…

Sep 24, 2024 by ATP Garage ATL
2002 None Solara

The reliable daily driver. Toyota Solara with over 260k miles.

Sep 21, 2024 by ae86andkp61 (Forum Supporter)
1986 None BJ70 SWB

Imported from Europe by a former owner and Land Cruiser enthusiast. This is a heavy-duty, LHD, 3.4-liter four-cylinder turbodiesel, manual-transmission, short wheelbase, 2-door, hardtop 4x4 with two-speed transfer case. It …

Sep 18, 2024 by modemtones
2024 None GR Supra

45th Anniversary Edition, 6MT

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