Hi Ahmet
The great thing about MMT transmission is that consumption doesn't suffer -
if you get hold of a brochure you will see that the 1.4 diesel MMT has the
same fuel consumption figures as the petrol version.
However, as with all figures in brochures, they are laboratory tests and do
not reflect true day-to-day use. They are only helpful in comparison with
other vehicles. But I am very well pleased with consumption. I have kept a
detailed running cumulative chart of fuel used, and overall from day 1 it
works out at 52.643 mpg. Incidentally I have kept the computer consumption
on the car set on 'overall' and it shows a remarekably close figure of
52.6 - so that seems to be very reliable, unlike other cars I have had
previously. My previous car was a 1.9TD Skoda Octavio, but this version has
a very heavy clutch, a real pain. I had always wanted an automatic, but fuel
consumption put me off. It was almost by chance that I got to learn about
the Toyota MMT cars. So now I have the best of both worlds, excellent
consumption combined with automatic.
You ask about acceleration. I have not tested against official figures but
will say that it is very lively and pretty impressive going up hills - I
often leave other cars wallowing behind. There is a switch to flick to put
the car into 'sports'mode, but I have never seen the need to use it. The
idea of a diesel that is only 1.4 having any life at all seems unlikely, but
the engine is made of aluminium and is very light. If you are thinking of
getting a new one, go for the Colour Collection. It is actually a T3 model
plus, but costs less than a T3 ! But you may have great difficulty finding
one to test drive. I shopped around and dealers were not interested to get
one in - but I eventually found one who would.
Hope this helps
John
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> "John Lee" <jandj.lee@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> I have a Corolla D-4D 1.4 5-door with MMT and have done 6000 miles +, and
>> am
>> completely satisfied with it in almost every respect. It does not have an
>> automatic gearbox, but instead an automatic clutch and I find that the
>> gear
>> changes are very intuitive and smooth. You can let the automatic part get
>> on
>> with it by itself (and it does this extremely well), or you can select
>> gears
>> yourself. When in manual gear select position just flick forward for down
>> shift (the lever springs back) and backwards for up shift. Each flick
>> changes to another gear.
>>
>> You can also change from auto to manual whilst going along. For example,
>> if
>> you want the car to stay in say 3rd going down a steepish hill, just
>> flick
>> the lever to manual slot and it will hold - flick it back afterwards to
>> auto
>> when you wish - anytime. In other words you can change from automatic to
>> manual and back again at any time just with a flick of the lever.
>>
>> The gear changes in auto work fine, and are very smooth, but you can make
>> them even smoother by momentarily slightly lifting your foot off the
>> throttle when you want to change up - this fools the system, which would
>> often want to hold in present gear position for a little bit longer.
>> There
>> is no delay whatsoever in the changes. For quick acceleration to
>> overtake,
>> use kickdown just as in a normal automatic. I have to say that the 1.4
>> diesel engine is surprisingly lively and pulls very well. I can storm up
>> over a local long hill in top, whereas with my previous 1.9 TDdiesel
>> Skoda
>> Octavio I had to get down into 4th before the summit.
>>
>> The only slight drawback with MMT (as with a normal auto) is in start
>> stop
>> traffic where you don't have the personal fine clutch control. You just
>> have
>> to use the footbrake. But this is only a small price to pay for the
>> convenience of not having to mess around with a clutch all the time. The
>> other practical point is that when you do stop, say at lights, slip the
>> gear
>> into neutral to avoid wear on the clutch, because as with a normal
>> automatic
>> the car will creep without there being any pressure on the throttle. Am I
>> pleased with MMT? Yes. Would I want to go back to a manual? No. John[/color]
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> John,
> How is the acceleration and gas milage on this diesel Corolla. I would
> love to hear your opinion on
> this. The cataloq says 14.3 seconds from 0 to 100 kms.. Does that take
> that long?
> Thanks..
>
> ahmet
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