Rear-Drive Dreams
MOTOR Magazine Australia|May 2018

An 86 Is Great, but What if You Like Straights More Than Corners?

Rear-Drive Dreams

THE TOYOTA 86 is rightly viewed as one of smartest ways to spend $30-odd grand on a fun set of wheels. But fun means different things to different people. The 86 is perfect if you want to carve some corners, but if you crave $30-odd grand of grunt (sorry, Russell Crowe) then you're going to need to look elsewhere. Thankfully, a quick trawl of the classifieds at tradeuniquecars.com.au revealed that the used-car world is your eight-cylinder oyster.

This story is from the May 2018 edition of MOTOR Magazine Australia.

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