corolla xrs

[andyman61]

me and two buddies went around looking at cars today, and when we finally got to toyota, i knew what car i wanted to look at and mabye test drive: the corolla xrs. i got in there and the lady and the front desk asks us if we need anything and i said i was looking for information on the corolla xrs. she looks over at a salesman sitting nearby and he says they don't have one and that there's basically no info out there for them to the dealerships other than it has the 2zz and it's gonna be around $18-19k. other than that, they said they're not gonna stock any and that they're only gonna come in when they're ordered by someone.

after all the commercials i've seen on tv, i figured they'd be out in dealerships by now. anyone here work at a dealership and know when they're supposed to start coming in? have they started taking orders yet?

[cam2Xrunner]

We've gotten about 5 of them and sold 3 of them. Call around they're out. Awesome car to drive. I like driving it better than the tC.

[Deuce]

i've already seen 6 or 7 on the street, and about 10 at the largest dealer we have here in Sacramento.

[mattskav]

Yeah i was going to say - I just bought a blue one tonight.....

[cam2Xrunner]

Congrats. Awesome car man.

[kenratboy]

Looks like a nice car.

Car & Driver liked it.

[silver04rollas]

I have a lot of those on the lots and a lot of people are buying them. I drove it 2 times and loved every bit of it. It is a sweet car and hitting the lift is a bash. I am trading my 04 Corolla S for an XRS soon.

[Deuce]

wow...toyota's only sports car is the XRS. Don't let them come out with AWD for it, it'll be over for the Evo eventually

[Talisman]

Originally posted by B Deuce
wow...toyota's only sports car is the XRS. Don't let them come out with AWD for it, it'll be over for the Evo eventually

If they are gonna make it awd, they better do a serious engine upgrade first.

[Deuce]

i think they will since Evo's selling so well stateside, as long as the XRS puts out some great sales numbers

[02RSX90camry]

nah, it'd be cheaper to bring over the caldina than to cmopletely remake the corolla to accomodate awd.

[andyman61]

wow, now i REALLY want to test drive one. i figured they'd be pretty bad ass. everyone is gonna think you're some kind of dork driving a corolla and then you smoke their (insert ricer car name here).

it doesn't need to be awd, just rwd. i mean, aren't there other cars out there that have less power and are rwd?

[silver04rollas]

Originally posted by andyman61
wow, now i REALLY want to test drive one. i figured they'd be pretty bad ass. everyone is gonna think you're some kind of dork driving a corolla and then you smoke their (insert ricer car name here).

That is what makes it so fun, but it sounds nothing like a Corolla. It has a sweet sports motorbike like sound especially at 8000 (Toyota built the 2zz engine in collaboration with Yamaha Motorcycles co.) RPM that gives it away it is not your regular-joe Corolla. I have read some guy who smoked a prelude with the Corolla XRS and the Prelude guy could not get over it.

[plowboy17]

That sounds pretty sweet

[mattskav]

oh man - I love this car - i just picked it up tonight I have to try so hard not to take it up the hot cam! it's the motor has 3 definate zones - 0-4 is meh 4-6500 is sporty 6500 on up is nutz.

my only complaint so far is that they did NOT match the lights inside - it has the electrolumenescent (OPTITRON in toyota speak) gages which are fine but its got like a 1980 quartz clock in green and all the lights to the right (for the radio et.al.) are green it looks really messed up like they just threw it all toghether and never bothered to try it at night. that and the back seat does not fold down...