The best & last factory 4A-GE car. Toyota Levin AE111 & AE86 History and Review | JDM Masters

(Please turn on English captions for also edited in Japanese subtitles in the later part talk with the AE86 owner)

Join us as we look in-depth into the Toyota Corolla Levin / Sprinter Trueno series. As a sporty 2 door variant of the 4 door Corolla, the Levin / Trueno was designed as a low-cost sports car below the specialty Toyota Celica and Supra sports car. Using a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder engine since 1972 with the TE27 using a 2T-G engine. In 1983 the 4th generation AE86 debuted with the next-generation engine called the 4A-GE which is also the last Levin / Trueno to be configured in Rear Wheel drive. For the next generations, AE92, AE101, and finally AE111 which is the focus of this video, the models were all Front Wheel Drive. Many AE86 fans, especially those that follow popular Japanese manga and anime 'Initial D' will be familiar with the main character's car being transplanted with the AE101 4A-GE 20 valves high power engine. While it is also a trend to use the final 'blacktop' 4A-GE from the AE111 as a donor to improve the AE86 as it is a Rear-Wheel Drive, perhaps we forget to look closer at the actual performance of the native car. with it's late 90's sophisticated design and advanced suspension. mated with the Japanese industry-first transverse engine 6-Speed manual transmission, the AE111 Levin / Trueno was a worthy rival to the EK Honda Civic. Find out in this video the full history and technical details of this last 4A-GE model. We had the opportunity to encounter an AE86 two-door coupe owner for a comparison review as well. Check out his original and well-kept condition historic car.

00:00 Driving Summary
00:45 Introduction
1:55 AE86 pulls in!
2:33 History of Levin
2:56 Ad
4:05 Trueno
5:36 AE111 Catalog
6:56 Variations
10:53 Design
16:01 4AGE Engines
27:22 Drivetrain
31:13 AE111 Interior
35:08 AE111 Driving Experience
39:30 AE86 Interior
43:20 AE86 Driving Experience
47:51 Conclusion

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AE86 owner : @suu_4ageAE86 (Twitter)

[darrentantono]

The criminally underrated Sprinter Levin

[adarsh]

It's surprising a relatively small country with limited resources are able to make so many great reliable and comparatively cheap cars. Japanese are unreal and am not just bragging about it.

[swedishdriller]

Sold my 1987 Celica in 1997, lost my interest in Japanese cars. Two weeks ago, I found this channel and everything changed. Now at age 44 I’m totally sold for JDM cars. Thank you Captain Bradford and the rest of the crew for delivering excellent content every week. Now I’m hooked on touge driving!!!!

[jiewolf]

And it also just happens that the bridge in the background is right between the two cars. How symbolic

[Eggsplanepls]

It looks like a civic EJ coupe and an R33 skyline had a baby

[BeastinCanti]

Oh, man. You just made my Wednesday morning 100% more interesting.

[sunnygrail]

The ae111 is my favourite car, I currently drive a BZG 5 speed AE111 levin freshly rebuilt for my daily, aswell as 95% of my friend group 😂

[dejan.]

Sending AE101 love!
Aussie here with a completely modified AE101 Levin, love it and have owned it nearly 14 years and it has let me down exactly zero times.
It's amazing how a 27 year old car can still outperform most modern vehicles.

[SATOSANNN]

I saw a 50 minute video and thought I'm gonna skip through it all.

I ended up watching the entire video. Very well done with excellent knowledge and history.

[Jared_Plays]

F - compact dohc (economy) - 2 cams, one cam gear

E - fuel injected

G - hi performance dohc - twin cam, twin cam gears

Z - supercharger

Numbers - generation of the engine series

e.g 4A GE : 4th gen, A series hi performance twincam, fuel injected

:)


Info: yamaha collabs with toyota since the 2000gt was debuted in the 60's

[GebreMMII]

Damn, when I saw the sponsorship that's when I noticed this channel has gotten big 😭😭

[KT-kzko]

人とは違う車として一部のマニアにうけた車。

乗っているととても楽しい車だった。

動画をありがとう！

[badass]

AE110/111 is awesome, I wish sedans/coupes were still this light and slim and having these nice proportions.

[collinyearsley]

The TOM'S ae111 was my favorite car in gran turismo 2. I Bought a 1990 AE92 GTS with factory small port 4age in 2003. Still have it, it's been the best car I've ever owned. I Also own a 1976 TE37 hard top coupe and an ae85 with 4AGZE swap making 170whp. Corollas are the best! Keep up the great work JDM masters.

[arthurwong]

The AE111 is my favorite of them all. Blacktop 20v 4A-GE, 6 Speed transmission. The pinnacle of the 4A engine!

[PinkPyroGame]

gotta say, what an amazing park to shoot the video and you are spot on when revving the engine all the way to the top it does sound like a race car! and i'm so happy to see that you guys are sponsored! congratulations!

[JunsMiniGarage]

Always love your car reviews, the information is so detailed and educational. The knowledge and research that each video contains are amazing! Thank you JDM master for making them!

[pgtmr]

5 valves per cylinder making it sing. Probably the best 4 cylinder I've ever heard. Not counting motorcycles and nothing specific. I have another love now, Mazda KLZE v6. Tons of that race car sound echoing around and off of everything as you drive. Tunnels and parking garages being a treat.

[ReggieNoble]

Appreciated that you did what's necessary for the sponsors (cause sponsorship is a good thing for longevity) and got right back to the fun that we relish

[CHRacer]

This video is my favorite from you guys! One of about 10 ae101 levin gt apex owners here in America, definitely a criminally underrated car 101 and 111 both