Wouldn't take much to stick a TRD Scion tC supercharger or the Greddy turbo kit on this car or a Solara or Camry or anything else with the same 2AZ-FE engine.

I can see it becoming a aftermarket body kit and upgrade add on though.

Really, this is where the true tuner segment is, if not smaller. Modern compacts are approaching the size of late 80s small cars, and tuners may one day jump down a level from small cars to compacts just so they can keep weight and size down.

how much would the 2azFE be boosted? Since a supercharger is an easy install, it really shouldnt have a version of its own -_-

Yet another popular compact car gets forced induction. Are you paying attention, Honda?

The gain from the supercharger will mostly be lost in those 20in rims.

Looks like a Ford, with the 3 bars on the grill

Body lines are what the regular corolla should be. Smooth and focused. As for the obnoxious FMIC, put a smoke grill cover over it smoke out the F150 grille and then you're in business. Toyota doesn't really have a car performance compact like the MS3, neon SRT-4, etc. And tell me if Toyota did, people wouldn't be lining up to buy them.

I did not even notice the 3 bar grill, but it is there isn't it? And I do agree that 20" rims are way to big for this car. Maybe if they were some new super-light material that made them weigh less than the normal rims than sure, but even then, wouldn't it be better to just use smaller rims with the lighter material?

As for performance compacts, people have been tuning the Corolla for years, but I do think the Si is a better tuner anyway. The best tuner was the Nissan Silva, or maybe the 350z (but as its not cheap yet, not to many of them are being tuned like the 10 year old cars are).

those are some ghetto rims.

Personally, I'll not buy a supercharged Corolla.

understeer more plz

understeer more plz

They have better upgraded the suspension heavily. My 04 Rolla' will spin tires if you are going in anything but a straight line. Frankly I think it should be more of a penalty for car manufacturers to build cars that handle poorly than not having safety features. The stock tires on my Corolla were extremely unsafe in wet weather, which explains why 75% of people drive so slowly in barely wet weather. Look a decent set of tires later, wow I just improved every handling aspect of this car, and that's ashame.

Toyota makes some boring cars I tell ya. Not including the Lexus line, which they seem to leave all their sport models too, there's nothing in their linup that comes close to what they had in the Supra. That car is a legend, and they need to bring it back. And stop teasing with cool cars you never plan to make! Ugh...what a waste of 2 minutes to read this article.

Those wheels are hideous. Overall though the rest of it looks good. Too bad they insist on keeping the Corolla so dull that even Mr Rogers is bored by it.

Yea! Bored to death!

Mr. Rogers

Wow, that grill screams Ford.

Both the Matrix and the Corolla have a serious affliction of the uglies. The S3 styling is very nice.

What is Toyota thinking? All of their recent models are a step way down from their predecessors in styling, including Scion and Lexus. It wasn't that the predecessors were all that great looking either, but the new ones are worse.

The took the boxy but somehow charming Scion model and turned it into a bloated and thoroughly ugly rounded box instead. Then there is that really ugly SUV that pays homage to the old Toyota Landcruiser but somehow ends up hideously ugly with HUGE vision-blocking pillars. The nice exterior colors hardly make up for the bad styling.

If you want a Toyota, but don't want the uglies, the GM Pontiac division sells the Pontiac Vibe, which is very good looking and is made along side of the Matrix in California.

This is all too bad because Toyota makes great cars. But the styliing of the past two years has been really disappointing.

GeeWhizBang:
f you want a Toyota, but don't want the uglies, the GM Pontiac division sells the Pontiac Vibe, which is very good looking and is made along side of the Matrix in California.

Dude they are identical, so how the hell does it looks better with a Pontiac badge as oppose to Toyota. Also no matter how hideous it looks I'm sure the Matrix will still outsells the Vibe.

Looks ghey, no point in giving it a bigger engine, the car was slow to begin with.. now its a normal speed car... with the looks of a normal car, advertised as a fast car... lame.

Haha....it's funny reading these articles. Why is everyone so bent up on the performance and styling? It is a Corolla! The market for this car ISN'T drivers who want it at the track, nor is it meant to compete with a Ferrari for styling. It is meant to be practical, affordable, and reliable...or considered cute by girls. Sure, they stuck a supercharger and some other goodies on it for SEMA, but it is still a Corolla and always will be. To be honest, I think it looks fine for what it is. I'm sure it would give a lot of similar cars some competition, but would make you look like a fool when actual performance cars blow you away, even with the supercharger. Don't bash it because it isn't what you want it to be...go find a car that is actually marketed as a performance car...without SEMA upgrades.

@HanZ

What you said is sadly true. The two cars are identical in almost every way, and yet for some reason the Toyota will outsell the pontiac. Read the threads on these forums and you'll see the problem. Without even looking at the numbers or driving the cars a vast majority of "car enthusiasts" on this site bash american made cars as if somehow americans can't make a reliable car. Those same idiots forget that hondas and toyotas are made (and a surprising number of times also designed) by americans.

When will consumers become educated and learn to look at hard facts instead of listen to what their daddys told them about foreign vs. domestic autos? A long time I suppose.

~Carter

I hope it gets 100mpg cause the price of gas ie killing me slowly.

Hope it gets 100mpg cause the price of GAS is killing me slowly.

Mike M. is right, it's just a Corolla, not the new competition for Ferrari.

Hanz is also very correct, but look at the situation from another perspective. Back in the early and mid- 90's(almost til 2000), all Toyota cars we're either built or designed in Japan. A few mass sellers like the camry and corolla were built here in the US, but the design came straight from Japan. Cars like the Supra, MR2, Celica, and IS300 were almost exclusively designed and built in Japan. We can all agree those were some very likeable cars(the celica had a GT4 version which the US never received).

Fast forward to now, most of the Toyota cars sold here in the states are designed and built here. Quite a bit of the design is from California, and the Toyota factories are scattered throughout the US.
We can all agree Toyota has a fairly lackluster lineup right now... and is now also falling a little is reliability and quality.

The point is... it seems that the American automotive workforce itself is behind the rest of the world. Not only are the American factory workers doing a sub-par job(look at the people on the floor of these factories, the job is only a paycheck to them), but the design is horrible. I mean, the only good design I've seen come from the US is the Saleen S7, the new Viper, the Panoz Esperante, the Cadi CTS, and that's about it. Every other car is from a foreign design or just plain ugly. There isn't a single Toyota made now that looks good. All Mazda cars are still designed in Japan, along with Nissan, Honda, and Mitsu. Case in point with Mitsubishi, the Eclipse has been an America-only car since 1994. From 89-99 the car was designed by japanese designers over in japan. From 2000 and up, Mitsu had Americans design the car. The car has looked like a rolling garbage can ever since. This is subjective, but the DSM community feels the same way.

Either way, it seems Toyota started going downhill when it decided to move over to the US.

Oh come on guys, this is thetorquereport.com, any car that can't pull 1.5gs and handle like a Ferrari or out accelerate a Veyron must be junk.

Jason:

"Saleen S7, the new Viper, the Panoz Esperante, the Cadi CTS"

Jeez you have some pretty high and snooty standards there. What do you drive?

Seriously, you believe every car should compare to a Viper or S7? You're just as bad as the Euro guys always bashing and comparing Mustangs and Cavaliers to the Veyron or a AMG Mercedes.

Lets compare cars like the Focus and Impala to cars like the Civic and Camry. It's absurd to think every passenger sedan should smoke a Ferrari F50 in every category for $15,000 to be a "good design"

I am not going to pay 25G for a blown Corolla.

Anyone notice that this car could pass for a VW Jetta? Throw a VW logo on there and you couldn't tell the difference.

CS:

Anyone notice that this car could pass for a VW Jetta? Throw a VW logo on there and you couldn't tell the difference.

actually VW Jetta copied off the old Corolla, while this toyota is just a slight change from the old Corolla.

VW may have copied the corolla with their Jetta design, however, after driving both cars, the Jetta is a much nicer car. Much faster and a much nicer interior. However when you throw in the options, VW gets expensive quick. Mine was $29,000. People buying budget cars will more than likely go for the Corolla than the VW.

I agree with the fact that the car was and IS targeted at the who the hell cares what I am driving as long as its reliable audience. I think they would be better off making a high performance version of the camry. Stiffer suspension, 6 spd manual, the 306hp engine from the IS350 and change out the body work/wheels. Sort of like the Altima SER but make the difference more pronounced.

i<m disapointed by toyota, given their history of great cars... remember :

supra, celica, toyota pickups (whoa!), even people were doin rally racing with corollas,

i would go pass 50 with that new corolla.. car ( form all manu)

seem to go for bigger wheel less tire... lets me just say : i live in montreal and the road are a battlefield, i have 17" with 205-40-r17 and everything in my protege i s about to collapse..

they need to revamp the old integras, civic sir, and all and all,
lets take the tegs 1.8 gsr engine, with todays cam timings and electronics fuel injection and optimisation.. those would be some damn little screammer. : keep em in the lows for everyday use, and downshift to the high for some serious highway shifting....

or do what european do. little turbocharged block.. ( audi, VW, volvo*, saab*, even mazda did realize the future of engine is in FI engines, ( same turbo engine in all of theur lined-up )
mazdais taking the 2.3 turbo and puting it in most of their car , making it in great quantities, lowering cost... THAT is an effective production.

my dream car right now would be a nice but modest 4door sedan with great handling,4x4, 2L supercharged ( ~200HP) for about 20k

that would outsell everything.... ( im thinking subarus... but they are not cheap..) cmon car makers cut us some slack and let the little worker get his share of the bread... we are not all like that rich moron would bought a multimillions dollar home theater system... i am that poor, that like to think that my cold air intake is giving me more power, while the only thing is a company took 300$ of my hard earn money just to let me believe i got what i always dreamed of... a perfomance car..

thing is, i still look that guy passing me in his amg mercedes, that understood how selfish the world is and started his own company that sells hope to poor peoples, sucking all heir money so that he could finally affort that dream car that US can only virtually have in image like we do with women supermodels..

keep hope alive friends, we will soon all have a great car, great babe, great house, great .... great..... great...

...just keep giving away all your money to the corporate world!

Sam from Canada

i<m disapointed by toyota, given their history of great cars... remember :

supra, celica, toyota pickups (whoa!), even people were doin rally racing with corollas,

i would go pass 50 with that new corolla.. car ( form all manu)

seem to go for bigger wheel less tire... lets me just say : i live in montreal and the road are a battlefield, i have 17" with 205-40-r17 and everything in my protege i s about to collapse..

they need to revamp the old integras, civic sir, and all and all,
lets take the tegs 1.8 gsr engine, with todays cam timings and electronics fuel injection and optimisation.. those would be some damn little screammer. : keep em in the lows for everyday use, and downshift to the high for some serious highway shifting....

or do what european do. little turbocharged block.. ( audi, VW, volvo*, saab*, even mazda did realize the future of engine is in FI engines, ( same turbo engine in all of theur lined-up )
mazdais taking the 2.3 turbo and puting it in most of their car , making it in great quantities, lowering cost... THAT is an effective production.

my dream car right now would be a nice but modest 4door sedan with great handling,4x4, 2L supercharged ( ~200HP) for about 20k

that would outsell everything.... ( im thinking subarus... but they are not cheap..) cmon car makers cut us some slack and let the little worker get his share of the bread... we are not all like that rich moron would bought a multimillions dollar home theater system... i am that poor, that like to think that my cold air intake is giving me more power, while the only thing is a company took 300$ of my hard earn money just to let me believe i got what i always dreamed of... a perfomance car..

thing is, i still look that guy passing me in his amg mercedes, that understood how selfish the world is and started his own company that sells hope to poor peoples, sucking all heir money so that he could finally affort that dream car that US can only virtually have in image like we do with women supermodels..

keep hope alive friends, we will soon all have a great car, great babe, great house, great .... great..... great...

...just keep giving away all your money to the corporate world!

Sam from Canada

i<m disapointed by toyota, given their history of great cars... remember :

supra, celica, toyota pickups (whoa!), even people were doin rally racing with corollas,

i would go pass 50 with that new corolla.. car ( form all manu)

seem to go for bigger wheel less tire... lets me just say : i live in montreal and the road are a battlefield, i have 17" with 205-40-r17 and everything in my protege i s about to collapse..

they need to revamp the old integras, civic sir, and all and all,
lets take the tegs 1.8 gsr engine, with todays cam timings and electronics fuel injection and optimisation.. those would be some damn little screammer. : keep em in the lows for everyday use, and downshift to the high for some serious highway shifting....

or do what european do. little turbocharged block.. ( audi, VW, volvo*, saab*, even mazda did realize the future of engine is in FI engines, ( same turbo engine in all of theur lined-up )
mazdais taking the 2.3 turbo and puting it in most of their car , making it in great quantities, lowering cost... THAT is an effective production.

my dream car right now would be a nice but modest 4door sedan with great handling,4x4, 2L supercharged ( ~200HP) for about 20k

that would outsell everything.... ( im thinking subarus... but they are not cheap..) cmon car makers cut us some slack and let the little worker get his share of the bread... we are not all like that rich moron would bought a multimillions dollar home theater system... i am that poor, that like to think that my cold air intake is giving me more power, while the only thing is a company took 300$ of my hard earn money just to let me believe i got what i always dreamed of... a perfomance car..

thing is, i still look that guy passing me in his amg mercedes, that understood how selfish the world is and started his own company that sells hope to poor peoples, sucking all heir money so that he could finally affort that dream car that US can only virtually have in image like we do with women supermodels..

keep hope alive friends, we will soon all have a great car, great babe, great house, great .... great..... great...

...just keep giving away all your money to the corporate world!

Sam from Canada

"I think they would be better off making a high performance version of the camry."

I'd prefer them to just make a REGULAR performance of the Camry. The standard Camry is so dull that it's not even funny. You CAN make a car that's reliable, gets good mpg, AND doesn't drive like it's stuck in a tar pit.

My god they're both so ugly. I think I'll keep my 2000 Corolla, thanks.

There's little body shaped changing from corolla 2000 version. and toyota makes the new one very ugly. I will change my wife's car Corolla 2004 with another cars.

There's little body shaped changing from corolla 2000 version. and toyota makes the new one very ugly. I will change my wife's car Corolla 2004 with another cars.

plz corola 2009 come soon in pakistan on this month bz al the 2008 corolla r sell

why wouldnt they make an S3??? i think toyota should come out with an s3, cuz i own a corolla and its garbage when it comes to horsepower and torque!!! I would automatically buy one corolla S3 version!!!

I am interested to buy new model of Toyota Crolla.
If you can send me detail of all new model with price list

I will be thankfull to you

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