1980 | Toyota Corolla GP2 Rally

“My Toyota is Fantastic”
Accepted entry into the Eiffel Rallye festival 2025
1980 Toyota Corolla GP2 rally car
New engine by Gerd Dicks
Completely serviced and ready to go
FIA HTP, Belgian Registration, RACB Yellow Book

Back in the 1970s, when Toyota was small and essentially being looked down upon outside Japan, Swedish rally driver Ove Andersson and CEO Eiji Toyoda decided to join forces and use rally sport to gain publicity and demonstrate Toyota's fabulous reliability. In 1975, Andersson founded the Team Toyota Europe (TTE) rally preparation center in Cologne. TTE would ultimately develop into the current Toyota Gazoo Racing team, and together they won just about anything there is to be won outside of Formula 1. Apart from TTE, many local importers were also motivated to enter converted road cars in national rallies, which was greatly helped by Toyota Japan's efforts to homologate as many cars and as many modifications as possible with the FIA

The car for sale is inspired by the 1983 and 1984 Team Toyota GB Corolla TE71 driven by Per Eklund and Dave Whittock that won the British Open Rally Championship twice.

Professionally built in Finland, this TE71 was imported to Belgium in 2018 and participated in two mild road rallies in 2019 until Covid stopped many events. Recently, the car has benefited from a new engine built by former TTE Technical Director Gerd Dicks in Germany, widely recognized as the best Toyota engine specialist in Europe.

Since then, the car has only driven 600 km in the VHRS 65 Spa Rally in 2023, where it performed excellently. Following the Spa Rally, the car was completely inspected and serviced by International Motorsport in Theux, Belgium

We found the concept of the Corolla great, and the car is very well balanced and can be driven hard in all conditions. The car would be an ideal entrant for The Monte Carlo Classic, The Eiffel Rally, VHRS, the increasingly popular FIA Historic Rally Championship, as well as any other speed or regularity event.

Some specs:

-2TG 1600 cc engine, approx. 170 hp. Proprietary build by Gerd Dicks

-2 x Weber 45 DCOE

-Exhaust headers

-Sintered clutch

-Quick shift

-LSD differential 5.13:1

-Ventilated discs front and rear

-Fly-off handbrake

-Welded in roll cage

-Competition seats and belts

-Bilstein front springs with adjustable camber plate

-Bilstein rear shock absorbers

-Brantz International 25 trip meters

-19 spare rims including new dry/wet tires

-Save engine by separate negotiation