For more than twenty years, no car has been available with pop-up headlights, but that is changing now. Or at least a little, because a Japanese tuner is equipping a Toyota GT86 with a retro nose featuring ‘pop-up peepers’.
The Japanese tuning scene is so bizarre that we occasionally can’t resist posting such a creation on the site. Cars tackled with a retro theme especially often achieve this. Usually, these are small hatchbacks that – not infrequently with European inspiration – emphatically hark back to the past, but today Result Japan is looking in a different direction.
The company transforms a Toyota GT86 – indeed, the predecessor of the current GR86 – into a car clearly inspired by the driving legend from which it derives the number in its name. That AE86, as a Trueno, also had pop-up headlights (not as a Levin), and it is that Trueno nose that has been grafted onto this GT86. Of course, not one-to-one, although the wider nose on the modern car is clearly inspired by the 80s icon. We see a similar angular bumper, classic turn signals and fog lights, and of course, those pop-up headlights, equipped with delightfully old-fashioned rectangular halogen lamps. The rest of the car, with its fender flares and color scheme, is also clearly inspired by the most iconic appearance of the AE86, although it immediately becomes clear here that it is a GT86.
The source of inspiration: Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86