Toyota Sports 800: The Featherweight That Taught Toyota How to Build a Sports Car

Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_aQUjydtZp4l1ROeoHBpg/join Toyota Sports 800: The Featherweight That Taught Toyota How to Build a Sports Car There is a popular myth that Toyota only discovered how to build exciting cars sometime in the late 1980s, when the Supra grew a turbocharger and the AE86 started terrorising mountain roads. It’s a pleasant story, but it’s complete nonsense. Long before the horsepower wars, long before anyone thought the words “Toyota” and “sports car” belonged in the same sentence, the company quietly produced something small, fragile-looking, and utterly brilliant. A car powered by what sounded like a lawnmower with ambition. A car that, in its own modest way, laid the groundwork for every Toyota performance machine that followed. It was called the Sports 800. Or, if you’re Japanese and feeling affectionate, the “Yota-Hachi.” #Toyota #Sportscars