Watch: GT 86s go drifting

Two professional racers take the rear-drive Toyota on a sideways odyssey…

Posted by: TopGear.com, 07 February 2012

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Toyota GT 86

We've said it many times before, and we'll say it again: the Toyota GT 86 is refreshingly easy to get sideways. We told you as much when we drove it last month in Spain.

But if you still don't believe us, watch the series of moving images below, captured for posterity via a recording instrument for the entire Internet to see. It is a pair of Toyota GT 86s having some fun in a deserted car park outside the Makuhari Messe convention centre just outside Tokyo.

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The chief instigators of said fun are Mssrs Nobuteri Taniguchi and Manabu Orido, two Super GT racers and expert driftologists.

Like we said, refreshingly easy to get sideways...

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yes. very nice. always loved toyota sportscars.

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i like toyota 86 now..

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Are these standard cars? Imagine what they'll be like when some tuners get hold of them! It'll be like the old days with the AE86!

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Not bad, but in the Gran Turismo driving game, they are impossible to drift on the grippy standard tyres. Are the tyres here aftermarket or did Polyphony Digital get it that wrong?

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I love this car.But I'd never dream of drifting it about.But that's just me :)

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