1990 Corolla GTS: Regular Car Reviews 

In Australia people replace Holden badges with Chevy badges. It is indeed weird.

@@anuragss938 interestingly, it's the other way around in the middle east. Car enthusiasts tend to replace the chevy logos on the Chevy Caprice and Lumina to Holden ones. (LHD versions of Holden Statesman and Commodore for those who are confused).

It's kind of weird that "straight" dudes are so worried about impressing other "straight" dudes.

@@thewakz car culture is a lot of circlejerking

Badge removal is much okay imo but putting on a badge to make your dick seem bigger than it actually is...that's just weird. come on buddy, it's a 318i with an ugly ass wing. You wanted this, now own it.

That L block is waiting for a bar

:shudder:

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And it was beautiful

My PP HARD

Highly underrated comment.....Internet cookies for rhk!

Not trying to be that guy but the guy who invented Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov) is still alive.

rhkips Best comment here!! 😂

@@Caledon91 What?!?!?!?!?

Liking just for the vr6 manifold.

laowhy86 PewDiePie stole your name lol

Lmaooo one of my favorite asian youtubers on an RCR about a Japanese Coupe, fuckin aye my day is made!

I think I'm the weeb that hates all other weebs like Mr Regular talks about...

At least the popup headlights would pair up well to those on winstons 'vette!

My 92 is instantly better than any 86, lol

I mean it wasn't my proudest boner, but I beat off until completion either way.

Hahaha thought the same thing

Guaranteed

HA NICE@@XanCrews

Everyone in this thread is a legend.... Now im soft

I'd say the opposite. In the end, we all get off alone

What honda do you see??

@@haydenhonda9040 Same era Accord

The back looks Toyota

3gen prelude's cousin from the village

Pop up accord look ?

It's true.

Love me some OG Corolla!

And all wheel steering

*BRAP*

oh and dont forget the secret abs and advanced power steering system 1000 year ahead of its time to let you get sideways to the maximum

See, I calls ya Chris Handsome.

@@Kaizoushin "We can do this a easy way, or the hard way, the choice is yours"

I was here to warn them about the bad people.

It's not weird or wrong! *_It's just cartoons!!_*

IDK, I kinda think single men driving old box vans fits that narrative better.

Friend of mine goes to school in Montana... I couldn’t believe it when he told me he typically goes 110mph on the highway there

Where can I find this info. I got a 88 gts and I can’t find the specs for mine. Google keeps saying 113hp and I got the 4age

And now you've got massive barges like my 2013 Ford Fusion 2.0L Ecoboost AWD that I mod chipped to get it to boost higher and produce a whopping 305bhp and something near 370lb-ft of torque. It's fast, sure, but you'll never experience speed in it the same way you do in a 90's car. In a car that you knew, for a fact, wouldn't save you in a roll-over. In a car that has visibility for days because you were supposed to avoid crashing instead of have the car tank through it. In a car that was LIGHT because they didn't have the safety regulations that necessitated making them more powerful than they feel because they're hauling around an extra 1000lb of impact protection. A 90's car gives you a very visceral experience of speed. Having said that, I've never managed to find the top speed of my ford just yet. Not because it ran out of power, but because I hit 136mph and decided I didn't want to lose my license on the ever-populated highways around my state's capitol. But it is a stark difference from my 2003 Mercedes C320 which ran out of gearing and torque at that same speed, and a vast improvement over my 2006 Volkswagen Golf 2.0L that struggled to hit 90mph. My Fusion does feel fast at those kinds of speed, but puttering around town, it feels so unenthusiastic. That's something you don't get in 90's cars, especially RWD 90's cars with skinny tires. Even just scooting around town at 45-50, you can tax the handling and derive a feeling of speed from the car, because it just doesn't grip as hard as modern cars. It doesn't feel heavy and indestructible like modern cars. My Fusion takes turns at 45 that would be terrifying and exhilarating in a 90's car at half that speed. I can hit bendy roads at shocking speeds and my car never once threatens to understeer beyond recovery or break traction. But it does lose out in feel. It just doesn't feel as exciting as it should given how well it can perform. But, and lets face it, I'm at a point in my life where I'm acknowledging that I'm older and this is currently my only car, so I don't necessarily want every drive I take to be filled with a slight but omnipresent feeling of anxiety from a fragile old car attempting to chuck me into a ditch if I can't manage its under or over-steering in a bend. When I'm in a financial position to afford a second car, sure. I've got a list of 90's cars that I'd love to own and tinker around with, but for now, a safe and highly performant car is just my speed.

​@@mndlessdrwerIn a nutshell, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is a fast car slow. Could a saved you a monologue.

@@robspear03 I live for the monologues, so you wouldn't have saved me anything. But still, thanks for reading!

315 is over 30... hwa hwa hwa

He meant 300k, lol

right before he said the floor plan was rusted through, someone was having a bad day.

I can't see it because of my tiny phone screen. I was confused as to why he would boast over 30k miles

Well he ain't wrong.

Agree with you! So ironic, they try hard to obtain that today by adding thousands of dollars of options, however, the bone-stock cars were able to deliver better.

@@tecc9999 yes it was amazing I still watch that review from time to time. that video by it's own is a masterpiece

Cars from the 80s are so fun to drive. The best part of driving them is the visibility. It feels like you are surrounded by windows.

@@nerychristian Might be a bit late, a year late, but nonetheless I shall comment. I fully agree with you. I drive a 92 Volvo 240, the visibility is brilliant and it's a blast to drive being that it is RWD.

@Frozened 2h if you ever get the chance you should drive an XV10 Camry DX with a 5 speed manual. It’s the best feeling ever. The most beautiful simplicity & comfort

Dad joke time

It's a falseno...

Ruthlessnoodle tf is your problem lol

r/wooosh

I honestly don’t think anyone knows the lyrics to “Alive” or “Yellow Ledbetter.” Just a few bits and pieces of the discernible parts.

It was a nice setup for the closing song too. Good job Roman.

My 90's nostalgia kicked in hardcore.

Because I had long hair, he was making a joke about me, lol

Mr Regular reviewed my 99 Corolla when I had long hair...

@@sleekskyline120 guess he was right about us then

I have long hair and I drive one of those white vans with no windows, there's candy in the back, get in. (Yeah I know it's not even remotely relevant, but hey, I just woke up).

skbuoy it does actually

More? None I'd argue the M badges are worse because the gap in performance is not between econoboxes but a luxurious econobox and a formidable sports coupe.

WEABOO TAX

Mr Regular likes this car more, that's why.

I put an AMG badge on my 02 Altima 4 banger

Just as sinful.

when the AE86 got very rare , this was a alternative :P

@@hybridAbsol well I bought it cause it's better :/

Supercharger upgrade when

@@hybridAbsol trust me, I thought about it. The 4agze is just too expensive

Theres always a 1J or 2J or a 3S

maninredhelm I wish I had that much imagination.

Same thing...

I've always liked the looks of the AE92s and thought they would be a fun daily driver. If I hadn't been essentially handed an AE86 project on a silver platter, I'd be looking for one. :)

Yup I believe you my AE101 with the 20v makes me wish my daily commute was farther away lol these 90s Corolla's feel amazing

Japanese economy cars are fun to drive fast but American muscle cars aren’t fun to drive slow.

Having also owned an AE92 Corolla GTS back in the day I can agree, they may not have been the fasted car for their time but they were quite fun to drive day to day (plus it lasted over 250,000 miles with virtually no maintenance ).

Kids in about a decade won't be rolling around in Rios/Accents - there won't be any left by then. I feel like the current gen 3-banger Mitsubishi Mirage will still be around within a decade, but mostly they'll be driving worn-out shit from the late 90s to early 2000s - more modern cars aren't going to last that long.

Honda Fit.

And Kia Souls. Those hamsters know how to market.

Trance88- With turboed 3.8 Buick motors in them. Taking down five-ohs.

@@lego4virgo they sold well but they've already got a reputation for blowing motors around 110k - doesn't matter how many they sell if they're all trashed. 2009+ Nissans are the same way, with the CVT usually failing between 80k and 120k.

Yeah he mixed it up. The Vin number says AE98, but they're all called AE92s

In the same way the USDM AE86 is an AE88... weird Toyota... weird

@@PacificCoastAuto USDM stuff gets so stupid sometimes

@@PacificCoastAuto The GT-S Corollas with the 4A-GE got the AE88 VIN. SR5 Corollas with the carbureted 4AC engine and rear drum brakes have AE86 VIN. Quite weird indeed.

USDM and JDM chassis codes on the AE92 are both AE92. Same with the AE86. The VIN on the USDM E80 Corolla GT-S is AE88 and on the E90 it's AE98.

I noticed that green can! Heh fitting!

@@TheBlevinsNetwork what can I say, I love Surge. When he saw it he was like, "that's so fitting", lol

It came with his Nagano 1998 jacket.

This guy has more props than a Broadway play

Coke started making it again after customer pressure. Member of the Surge movement here checking in

they're both lying, but in terms of significant lies yeah I doubt anyone'd really fully convert a 325 to an M-level, because that'd be silly and all that guy really wants is a circlejerk because his car is fine but not "fine enough." hardcore car people are like fuckin' vultures after hiroshima though, so whaddya expect what a wonderful world

its actually a cool mod because it makes it look that more jdm

How are the factory M badges worse than a Trueno badge on something that's not a Trueno?

@@kingpeasant5099 they're both blatantly wrong, but I think the general logic/"what makes the trueno worse" is that the trueno's just a JDM right-hand-drive car, yet an M series BMW ends up giving the car a big upgrade in interior decoration, performance, etc or at least that's what I think he's getting at

@@NightKawata Yep, non M-cars with //////////M all over the place, those are what I meant. Bloody 520 diesel "M-Performance's"... Albert Biermann would be spinning in his gr.... Wait, he's alive and making great cars elsewhere.

Gonna get you like a space boy

Dejavu

Current Gas prices though......

69 likes

Finished last week so no rugrats

Morgan Beever where in the world are you located? Canada? I’m Bout to buy one

Its so damn triggering..

...the mullet of JDM.

M W U A H

No, just... No...

It gonna throw a rod and it wont miss ya!

Seems really low for a corolla that old

I think he meant 300,000

7:31 he flashes a pic of the dash. Odo reads 315,573 miles

Rookie numbers for a Corolla

Wonder why it such a unicorn or really any car with a 4age for that matter

Good luck they're rare as fuck now. Still got my ae92 7 years later just turned 33 years old

@Aaron Hainan: You can legally import Truenos now from Japan.

From my time with a Corolla XRS, a short-shifter(along with brass bushings and a set of aluminum shifter assembly bushings) did a good job of making it feel much more direct. Wouldn't mind doing that to my GT-Four at some point. :)

The best manual cars are rear wheel drive where the stick is directly connected to the transmission Only thing a front drive can really win over a rear on is winter

P77777777 I mean that winter thing is pretty important

I used to own a 1991 AE92 Corolla Levin, didn't have the flip up head lights but same as trueno in all other respects. I did a shifter modification in mine to help correct that toyota feel. I remove the stick from the shift box and slid the pivot ball up the stick shaft as far as clearance would allow on top of the tunnel. Ball was on splined section of the stick and then I cut about an inch off the top to shorten the truck length gear stick😂 New nylon bushes and result was next level, felt firm and exact like linkage and halved the throw distance required due to longer shaft from pivot to cables. Changed the entire driving experience just doing that one mod.

I get chills just reading that

I see amg and BMW logos on tuk tuk tho

The only thing worse is a full beard

I legitimately can’t pull off short hair so it’s been long ish forever and I have a crown vic and an f150

Yeah, it's twin cam adds a little oomph but otherwise still drives like an econobox.

The trueno badge just lets u know u got the flip up headlights lol yall make it sound like its a performance package

True? No. Falseno.

'I put a type r badge on my civic' you are just asking to be made fun of.

cloridan Beauchamps levin = fixed headlights. Trueno = pop ups. This has pop ups so its more of a Trueno.

if anyone asks to be called an otaku it just makes them a worse weaboo

/Pol/ack The Polack An otaku is equivalent to a nerd. If anyone asks you to specifically call them an otaku, they're a weaboo.

@@CaroFDoom I am aware, I was saying is that if the trueno is the japanese nerd the the gts is the weaboo who just tries to hard and looks stupid doing it

"Otaku" is a derogatory term in Japan. Weeaboos who call themselves "otakus" are cringey as fuck.

1.4 8v?