<![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> freaking sweet!

donkeyassman

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> Got to love the rural norwegian hoons. They are plentyful I was parked at that parking spot earlier today. It's pretty much always full of fresh hoon trails.

cat0

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @rexplex: No, an APR chipped 2.7t A6. White seems to make it invisible to cops, so an already low insurance rate won't increase from getting tickets.

Turboner

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @ash78: Guy I know is slowly killing one. I hate the kid.

On a more related note, of COURSE it beat the Volvo. More power, plus no structure whatsoever, and the weight of a Coke can... Incidentally, I was more excited by the 242.

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> A friend's dad had a Euro repair shop. They took a '91 Volvo wagon and put Audi Quatro gear under it with a modded turbo 5 cyl. Wasn't a beater but it looked like every other soccer mom in town.

joneez

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I bet they put that motor in the beater car so they have money left over for new back tires once a week. And a clutch every now and then....

nassin2 now with pleasant burnt rubber smell

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @ash78: Any 2.0-liter SAAB with the Mitsu spool can reliably be cranked up to 280hp, though I've seen kits for 320+. Insurance rates get skewed by location though.

@dearthair: Good point...insurance companies tend to forget about marketplace flops from established names. Don't get me wrong. I love the Corrado...best looking VW ever made.

brandegee

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I'm not down with the sickness. but the car's cool even though it will probably never exit a turn forwards.

dolo54

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @YankBoffin: I think I may be in the running on that one. The insurance on my Corrado is $780/yr, covered for almost everything except some of ICBC's silly ones. Apparently they don't really have a category for it, so they lump it in with old Golves and Jettae. Toss in a few grand in engine mods, new suspension, and Jeremy Clarkson's admiration, and you've got a decent performer for dirt cheap insurance rates.

Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I have a feeling that the best insurance:performance ratio will be some classic car insured under Haggerty or the like. Classic car insurance would have to be excluded given that the owner stipulates the car's worth.

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> Nice car. Too bad I could barely hear the engine and turbo under the lame OOOWAKAKAKA soundtrack.

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @rexplex: Great call. I bet a lot of the turbo Saabs (er, SAABs) are up there, too. Any mainstream sedan with a small turbo engine that can be chipped.

The Name's Ash78, Housewares

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @YankBoffin:
Insurance / Performance ratio - Passat 1.8T

rexplex

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> bet this car has a fantastic insurance-rate-to-performance ratio.

Say, that could be a great QOTD: Which of your cars had the best insurance-rate-to-performance ratio? (modded cars allowed)

YankBoffin

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @no_slushbox: ZING!

Are we sure that was in the US, though?

Unevolved

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> Why do the soundtracks to these "look what I did to my car" videos inevitably suck?

jnostalgics

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> You haven't lived until you turned lonley I-80 Nebraska construction barrels into a impromptu autoX course.

They always seemed to be spaced nicely for 45mph.

-chet

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> The best part is the dyno run with the little tree air fresher swinging gently from the mirror.

commander205

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @staaave: Daves not here man

@no_slushbox: Don't mess with the 80's 3-Series

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I like that they specify the bad clutch on the opponents car in the second "race". LOL

TheTooth

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I love the beater-esque look.

Classic.

Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> A 1980 Corolla powered by a BMW I6 already exists, it's called the 1980 3-series.

no_slushbox

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> @Rock517: Wait, what?

staaave

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I like the offset intercooler. Looks like it's missing teeth.

racerx

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> love those corollas, but i think they might be the next "ae86"....used to see them for sale here (nyc) for a few hundred bucks, but lately people have been asking 3-5 grand for them. i think theyre perfect for bombing around the city

ohms

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> I think I need an old RWD compact. I'm not allowed to drift like that in the Benz.

Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> As long as there are homos doing that to POS cars in this country, the terrorists will never win.

Rock517

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> The roof racks just set it all off.

Duffman

]]> <![CDATA[1980 Toyota Corolla Somewhat Repowered With BMW I6]]> Nice combo.

Super sleeper.

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]>