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2020 Toyota Corolla GR Sport heralds sportier variants

With plans to build performance variants for almost its entire lineup, Toyota is indeed serious about injecting some passion back into its cars and what better way to showcase its intention than on its most popular model, the Corolla with the new GR Sport treatment. So what is GR Sport? …

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2019 Toyota Corolla Ascent Sport Hybrid Review

The Toyota Corolla is a bit like a set of jump leads – almost everyone has one in the garage, and if they don’t, they’ll know someone who does. I myself might not have ever owned a Corolla, but both my parents owned Corollas from the days of them being …

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2019 Toyota Corolla Hatch pricing and specification

Toyota has announced the pricing and specification of its all-new 2019 Corolla hatch, promising dynamic performance, premium ride comfort and advanced safety and driver support systems from $22,870. Sitting on Toyota’s new TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform, the popular hatch features bold exterior styling, an upscale interior, plus advanced …

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New Toyota Corolla to pack class-leading safety features

Active cruise control, pre-collision safety system, seven airbags and reversing camera will all come as standard across the three-model 2018 Toyota Corolla range when it arrives in showrooms next month. Toyota Australia vice-president sales and marketing Sean Hanley said the new generation model offers outstanding driver assistance technologies that significantly …

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First image: New 2019 Toyota Corolla leaked online

Updated with official photos and information. Following a recent teaser, the upcoming all-new Toyota Corolla has been officially unveiled. Toyota’s Golf-rival sports a more emotive sheet metal with stylized LED headlights, large air intakes similar to the new Toyota Camry and a two toned roof. Looking distinctively more upmarket than …

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735kW/1,152Nm rear-drive Toyota Corolla Hatch, anyone?

This is possibly the craziest and most desirable Toyota Corolla. Ever! What you’re looking at is Papadakis Racing’s 735kW/1,152Nm nitrous-boosted Corolla for the upcoming Formula Drift season. Yes, it isn’t a typo. This is a drifting Corolla Hatch! Officially known as the Rockstar Energy Drink/Nexen Tire Toyota Corolla iM, the …

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2016 Toyota Corolla Hybrid Review

The new Toyota Corolla Hybrid must seem like the answer to a closeted greenie’s diligent prayers, marrying Toyota’s proven hybrid technology with a conventional hatchback that is as distinct as a bathroom tap. It is the fifth hybrid model in Toyota’s local green brigade, joining the Camry, Prius, Prius C …

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2015 Toyota Corolla Hatch Review

Toyota’s most popular car, and Australia’s number one selling vehicle – the Toyota Corolla hatch – has been given a nip-tuck for 2015. The mid life update not only brings revised styling but also a two-tiered model strategy to cater for all tastes. The entry-level Ascent and Ascent Sport variants …

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2014 Toyota Corolla Sedan Review

White goods on wheels; Grandma’s taxi; pensioner’s wheels. I could go on and on about how some describe the Toyota Corolla. However, if such sentiments reflect the majority view of the population, the “Rolla” would not have found home in 40 million garages worldwide since its introduction in 1966. A …

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New Toyota Corolla sedan on sale now from $20,740

The new Toyota Corolla sedan has arrived in Australia to join its hatch sibling, priced from $20,740 RRP for the Corolla Ascent – $250 more than its archrival, the new Mazda3 Neo. Sporting a crisper styling than the outgoing model, the Corolla sedan has grown in most dimensions. It measures …

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2014 Toyota Corolla images leaked online

These leaked pictures posted on the Subdriven forum are purportedly of the upcoming 2014 Toyota Corolla. Looking more chiselled than the current model, its front facia shares styling element with its hatch sibling, as well as the recently unveiled Toyota Furia concept. The slim-line grille on the new car integrates …

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Leaked images of 2013 Toyota Corolla sedan

A series of images purported to be the new 2013 Toyota Corolla sedan have leaked onto the internet. Published by Brazilian website, Noticias Automotivas, the images were supposedly scanned from a Japanese brochure and shows the popular Japanese sedan’s evolutionary styling. It shares the Corolla hatch’s (Auris in European markets) …

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Toyota considering high-performance Corolla

With renewed verve under current Toyota President and self confessed car enthusiast, Akio Toyoda, the company could launch a hot-hatch version of the latest Toyota Auris (Corolla in the Australian market). According to Toyota Product Planning Chief, Karl Schlicht, to spoke to Autocar magazine in the UK, a high-performance Auris …

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