That is one... eyecatching design.

I see a lot of Avalon in the side and rear 3/4 profiles.

 

The JDM version usually if history is any indication is very bland. So I don't think ours will look like this. It looks like a VW in front and a Suzuki Reno sedan (which I know is a Daewoo) in the back:facepalm:

 

That's not it.

 

headlights from previous gen Impreza, doors from '90's Civic, old Kia rearend. overall looks a little better than new Versa sedan :headbang:

 

Anything looks better than a Versa sedan.

 

Zzzz...

 

We don't get the Axio at all, so we shouldn't care since the Axio is strictly for the Japanese folks (probably won't matter because Prius sells better). If this were the Corolla Altis, TMS and TCI would be very afraid to sell it.

 

:facepalm::facepalm:

 

Fugly. USDM Corolla had better not look like this or Toyota can kiss it's remaining subcompact marketshare goodbye.

 

Curiously enough Toyota Headquarters sent me an email a couple of weeks back asking for customer input about ways to improve the Corolla and what I thought of the current model. Here is what I told them.

1. Drop the hubcaps regardless of the model. Hubcaps make a car look cheap. There's no reason for a Camry to be sporting hubcaps or a Corolla for that matter. In this day and age they can probably put rims on a car just as cheaply as they can put steel wheels on one.

2. Move the clock. The clock in the Corolla is at the bottom of the center stack. A terrible location. I advised moving it into the instrument cluster or an overhead console by the rear view mirror.

3. Four wheel disk brakes. It's not that the disk / drum combination doesn't work. I find that my Corolla has plenty of stopping power. But a 4 wheel disk setup would make the car much nicer.

4. Soft touch materials in the interior. Lets face it, there's too much hard plastic in the Corolla and cars in this segment are getting a lot more refined. Lose the cheap plastic.

5. Better stereo options. The base stereo is pretty meager. Also I told them that bluetooth should be standard on all models.

6. Five or six speed automatic. Pretty obvious.

That was about all I could think of at the time. They never asked about a sport model or model with an engine that offered higher horsepower so I didn't throw it out there. But personally I think if you're going to have a "S" model that it should have more hp than an LE. I could see keeping the regular models at 130 hp because it enables the car to get good mpg and lets face it, that is becoming more and more important. But the S models should be somewhere around 160 to 170 hp. The new Camry is putting out 275 so I don't think a 170 hp S model Corolla is going to trample on anyone's yard.

 

Curiously enough Toyota Headquarters sent me an email a couple of weeks back asking for customer input about ways to improve the Corolla and what I thought of the current model. Here is what I told them.

1. Drop the hubcaps regardless of the model. Hubcaps make a car look cheap. There's no reason for a Camry to be sporting hubcaps or a Corolla for that matter. In this day and age they can probably put rims on a car just as cheaply as they can put steel wheels on one.

yeah, but the ricers like the black steelies

 

A friend of mine who works for Southeast Toyota saw the new Corolla. His words "unlike anything Toyota has ever built." He said it was sporty, and looked awesome. I showed him these pics and he said definitely not it.

 

A friend of mine who works for Southeast Toyota saw the new Corolla. His words "unlike anything Toyota has ever built." He said it was sporty, and looked awesome. I showed him these pics and he said definitely not it.

:banger: does it look like a baby camry?

what was his reaction when he saw these pics?

 

current MB lineup is ugly except for CLS.

 

 

this is a joke, right?

http://www.carspyshots.net/showthread.php?t=20990

 

Looks like it will give the Nissan Versa a good run for its ugliest car for money title.

 

Here is the Modellista version, looks like they didn't have much to work with. Wonder what the TRD version will look like

 

So really not a far departure of the current Rolla in looks. jk. This is the JDM, i don't think for Toyota's sake this is the new Rolla. We have to wait until the Corolla Altis comes out, that's our USDM version.