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| 2014 Toyota Corolla USA specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla USA specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla USA specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla USA specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla USA specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla Europe specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla Europe specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla Europe specification |
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| 2014 Toyota Corolla Europe specification |
Toyota has
finally released some details and plenty of images of the all-new Corolla sedan. Redesigned completely from scratch, the new Corolla is based on the
Furia Concept but has been significantly
watered down. The Corolla name has been around for 47 years now, selling over 39
million units so far.
New Corolla has grown slightly, as cars seem to do with
every successive generation, to 4.639 metres in length, 1.776m in
width, 1.45m in height and the wheelbase is up to 2.7m. This makes it just slightly
smaller than the last Camry (Camry
Australia) we received in Mzansi back in 2004. It weighs in at under 1 400kg in total, which is quite grand.
CEO Akio Toyoda
is a modern Japanese leader who got his MBA
in the USA. He’s also very much a racing enthusiast who believes one of the
ways that Toyota, his granddaddy’s
company, can be exciting again, is through design and sportiness. You see this in
the new Lexus products, as well as,
to a lesser extent, Toyota brand.
So with the new Corolla some boundaries were crossed. You can
see it’s sporting the company’s new-look front grille with some piano black
finish, LED headlamps and a very
shapely rear end. The interior is quite an upgrade from the current model, but
is already quite familiar since it
resembles that of the new Auris.
Unfortunately Toyoda has not yet given the directive to use
small turbo engines like the rest of the motoring world, and so Toyota is stuck
with old school naturally aspirated engine technology. In this case it is the 1.6-litre 4-cylinder with 97kW and 160Nm of torque, a 1.8-litre
with 108kW and 180Nm as well as the Hybrid
model which can be expected sometime in 2014. There should also be a 2.0-litre D-4D turbo diesel 91kW and 310Nm later.
Brand new Corolla launches in Mzansi in early 2014. More details will appear as we approach
this very important date.
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