Toyota updated the 86 last year by giving it a visual refresh and a stiffer body structure, but beneath its still pretty skin, it remains pretty much identical to the car that debuted in 2012.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as we have come to know over the years, for the two-door coupe has proved its drifting abilities numerous times, with the most significant one seeing German Haral Muller setting a world record in Turkey, in 2014, after going sideways continuously for 144.126km (89.55 miles).
However, Muller’s record has just been shattered by South African journalist Jesse Adams, who managed to keep the car’s rear out for an impressive 168.502km (104.7 miles), registering an average speed of 29km/h (18.02mph) after doing going round and round a wet ski pad more than 1,000 times, for almost six hours!
Toyota says that “the premise of the record is that the driven wheels are not allowed to stop spinning at any time during the run”, and “a change of direction is permitted, as long as the driven wheels stay in motion.”
The results, which were achieved in a stock Toyota 86 fitted with an additional fuel tank in the spare-wheel-well area, were verified through the analysis of two independent GPS-based VBOX dataloggers, and they have been sent to the Guinness World Records for official verification.
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