Watch This! Testing a 1969 Toyota Corolla Powered by a Lexus IS F V-8

What’s wrong with a vintage Toyota Corolla? Not much. They’re handsome

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00:00 There's no launch control, there's no traction control, there's no ABS.

00:03 So this is sort of old school meets new school.

00:06 We've got the modern ISF engine and driveline and chassis, but it's left to our own devices

00:23 how we get the performance out of it.

00:26 So the launch was a little bit of wheel spin, but it was good, but too much is too much.

00:30 Hitting through the launch, we get up to 60 in about 4.3 seconds.

00:35 I haven't crunched it yet, but that's what I'm guessing.

00:37 And the quarter mile was at 12.99 at 1.11, uncorrected, which I'm expecting will come down to 12.6.

00:43 Mile per hour will probably go down a little bit, like 1.10, something like that.

00:53 It was a hell of a ride. Sounds great, but it's really disorienting to look at that car and hear that sound.

00:59 It's like, "Whoa, what the hell?"

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