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When you read up on this question you run into a lot of hokum about how Toyota high-performance projects going back fifty years had the number “86″ somewhere in their nomenclature.
Ya, maybe…
But here's a much more compelling explanation.
I think Toyota's branding department went into the history books and dug up the story of an authentic street-racing culture that was thriving fifty years ago on Highway 86.
Right in front of my house.
Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?