Publication: Motor Fan
Format: Test Drive Report
Date: November 1972
Author: Tadao Suzuki

Nostalgia for the “RT55”

A well-equipped hot model with a 120ps 2-liter engine, 5-speed transmission, rear stabilizer bar, and a body weighing less than 1000kg–it immediately brought to mind the old RT55. And yet…

A Genuine Sporting-Car Specification

The Toyota 1600GT–better known as the RT55 and fondly remembered as one of Japan’s great sporting sedans–was derived from the Corona. Its popularity and success in competition have long since become part of the Corona’s proud history, while the twin-cam engine that defined its character has since grown in displacement and found a new home in the larger Mark II GSS. Likewise, much of the Corona’s sporting role seems to have been handed over to newer models such as the Celica and the Corolla/Sprinter.