The Toyota Corolla iM, formerly the Scion iM, is a perfectly acceptable little hatchback, but it lacks the verve and vigor of our favorite economy hatches. Papadakis Racing took care of those issues when building Fredric Aasbo's latest Rockstar Energy-sponsored drift car. It's a Corolla iM with an incredible 1,000 horsepower and rear-wheel drive.
In case you hadn't guessed from that line alone, there isn't a whole lot of Corolla iM left under the drift car's widened body. But it does still have a Toyota four-cylinder under the hood. It's a 2AR engine whose less burly cousins are found under the hoods of the RAV4 and Camry, among others. It produces the aforementioned 1,000 horsepower and 850 pound-feet of torque thanks to both a turbocharger pumping in 33 psi of boost and nitrous oxide injection. The power goes through a four-speed dog box transmission to the rear wheels, and the car features large fender flares at all four corners.
(AutoBlog.com)
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