01 — Engine detail
Enginedetail.
- Engine code
- 4A-GE
- Manufacturer
- Toyota
- Configuration
- Inline-4
- Displacement
- 1,587 cc
- Valvetrain
- DOHC 16-valve (later 20-valve versions)
- Aspiration
- Naturally aspirated
- Production
- 1983-05 – 2000
- Applications
- Toyota Corolla Levin / Sprinter Trueno (AE86) / Toyota MR2 (AW11) / Toyota Corolla (AE92) / Toyota Celica (AA63)
- 01
Introduced in May 1983, it replaced the 2T-G as Toyota's most popular twin-cam engine; 16-valve versions ran to 1991 and 20-valve versions to 2000.
Source: Toyota A engine — Wikipedia (English) - 02
It was built at Toyota's Shimoyama plant.
Source: Toyota A engine — Wikipedia (English) - 03
The AE86 was the last rear-wheel-drive Corolla to use it; the AW11 MR2 used it mid-mounted.
Source: Toyota A engine — Wikipedia (English)
02 — Applications in the archive
03 — Sources
- 01Toyota A engine – WikipediaWikipedia · reference · accessed 2026-09-26