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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, well-built, and by today’s standards, impossibly twee. But one man—Toyota’s exclusive distributor in Costa Rica—decided to underpin that cute, old car with the full chassis and drivetrain of a 2010 Lexus IS F, complete with V-8. Luckily, we got to wring it out.

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