When the current generation of Toyota Corolla came out a few years ago we thought it.
was the best driving Corolla ever and of course Toyota is now
building on this with a super hot hatch called the gr Corolla but I think it’s.
going to be like 80 grand what if you only want to spend I don’t know 37 000
well this is how much Toyota Corolla you’re going to be able to get for that
kind of money this is the SX hybrid Hutch totally mid-range car here in
Australia and in today’s video I’m going to take you through what’s really good
1:about this Corolla and what’s not so good where it could be improved.
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it’s an important time to do a Corolla review because it’s just had a bit of a
midlife upgrade in particular the hybrid system that’s in this car actually got
quite a lot more power it’s going from 90 kilowatts to 103 Screaming kilowatts
and as we’ll find out. in today’s article that makes it usefully faster
in the real world we’ll do the zero to 100 we’ll test them the brakes we’ll look at
the boot we’ll talk about the running costs everything but before we get
started hit subscribe down below jump into the cabin of the 2023 Corolla
and you find largely the same interior as when this version of the Corolla
launch but there are a couple of changes if you look closely but the overall
theme in here is a little bit gray a little bit conservative but the build
quality is fantastic and virtually everything is where you would expect it
to be so absolute par for the course for a Toyota in that case and that’s fine
because you just get what you think you’re gonna get out of a Toyota Corolla
and that kind of gets the job done but if you’re looking for a small car with a
2: little bit more Flair inside you’re going to want to look at something like a Mazda 3.
however let’s go through what we do have here we’ve got a new
touchscreen it’s only eight inches in size and so it has this Mega bezel a bit
like a ye oldie first gen iPad or something but thankfully the software
that runs within it is really good it’s Toyota’s new infotainment system you’ve
got quick shortcut keys running down the right hand side Wireless Apple carplay
but only wired Android auto however you get built-in navigation dab radio and
Bluetooth everything works just great the car also has a data connection which
is pretty cool and it can show you your trip information you can do a multimedia
link and you have some Safety and Security functions as well however it’s
only free for the first 12 months after that it becomes a subscription service
so clearly a Toyota have looked at what BMW are doing and have gone yep we want
some of that sweet sweet recurring Revenue
beautiful looking forward we also have a relatively sort of medium-sized digital
instrument cluster that works fine but if you go for the Corolla ZR you
actually get a 12.3 inch digital instrument beneficial which is really
Mega the ZR is also the Corolla with the coolest interior it gets sport bucket
seats with power adjustment here in the SX we’ve got a much more standard seat
it does have kind of a pocket design it’s gray fabric it’s very great but the
seat itself is fairly comfortable and supportive I wish there was adjustment
for the thigh angle however and the driving position is good but not great
something like a golf puts you in a more supportive more ergonomically sound
position for long drives but I think I would get on just fine with the Corolla
as for storage we’ve got Wireless smartphone charging here medium sized
cup holders and a door beam which will stretch to fit a big bottle it kind of
feels like you’re going to break it while you’re doing it but you can get it
in there and the materials well they’re actually hard on the door which is a
shock but it’s all soft and Squishy up here on the dashboard
as small cars go the Toyota Corolla hatch is pretty small something like a
Kia cerato is going to be roomier but it’s also a bigger car on the road which
makes it more difficult to park and a little bit less fun to drive the Corolla
3: is great at that stuff but the back seat is not one of the biggest and you can.
See that for me at six foot I am okay I’ve got enough room but it’s not
luxurious so Headroom it’s good enough legroom I’ve got an inch or two tow room
is a little bit tight but I get bite in terms of fifth person well there’s a
tiny middle seat so you could I guess use it if you had to unfortunately
there’s no rear air vents there’s like a space here for a useless cubby hole
where there should be air vents but you don’t find any hard materials on the
doors no USB ports back here and you do get to put that armrest
though in every single Corolla hatch in the range gets that which is cool now
all this is not really a problem because Toyota has about 50 different SUV models
that they can sell you if what you want is a roomier car or something like a
Camry in fact there’s the new Corolla cross for growing families so I’d
actually say the Corolla is going to be your bag if you’re a single a couple
you’ve got a dog you’re not actually going to use these back seats all that
often well there had to be a major downside
somewhere and unfortunately it happens to be to do with this rather pert
looking behind open up the manual tailgate and you find nothing Well 217
liters of boot space which is pathetic when you consider that something like a
golf has 381 liters in a similarly sized package.
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