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Now in its twelfth generation, the world’s most popular type of car, the Toyota Corolla. With its truck body, it proves to be a family car, and with off-road accessories, it also tries to offer an attractive alternative in SUV fashion. Our test shows what everyday life is like with hybrid propulsion, which is famous for its reliability, but not exactly known for its dynamism, and whether the average consumption of just 5 liters can be maintained according to the WLTP measurement.
In Europe, VW Golf and its legendary predecessor, the Beetle, often come to mind when it comes to the car sold in the largest number of units. However, at the top of the list is certainly not Volkswagen, not even the Ford F series of trucks, which has not been heard in the United States for decades, but the Toyota Corolla, which has reached almost 45 million units in the market. road since its launch in 1966.. Furthermore, it is at the forefront, or at least among the best, not only in sales figures, but also in various reliability and satisfaction surveys.
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The twelfth generation was introduced in 2018, and perhaps our regular readers are not familiar with the car either, as we previously featured a larger, 184-horsepower hybrid unit in a five-door test version. This time, Toyota also visited us with a much more popular and practical truck in Hungary, namely the standard hybrid system (i.e. lower power). Its special feature was the Trek design, which follows the off-road school of Allroad and Outback styling with unique accessories.
For a long time, the Corollas were able to combine an extremely reliable and no-nonsense exterior-interior design with exceptional reliability. But by now, Toyota has realized that it needs to give some character, life around sophisticated technical content. The older generation has already shown some willingness to do so, and the current series has already become really visible on the street scene (by the way, it is also well on the sales charts here in Hungary). The Auris name, used on the five-door and station wagon versions of its predecessor, was also dropped by the Japanese, and now they are running uniformly under the Corolla name with the hatchback again – the family has reunited.
Regarding the design, it is worth noting that the sedan version has apparently been given a more conservative and sober look, but there is no problem with that either. In the case of the five-door and the station wagon, the designers were freer. Perhaps its most distinctive face is the Corolla, the “alien snout” on the Lexus hides the grille, and an interestingly shaped headlight is paired with it.
A spectacular pickup truck was carved out of gray eminence
The plastics also continue to the side, reminiscent of SUVs, the wheel arches and the entire threshold were also wrapped, the latter also receiving some silver. The unique 17-inch wheels are nice, and the test car’s ‘off-road’ paintwork fits well with all this, of course other colors can be requested. What is perhaps less obvious, all-wheel drive isn’t even available at extra cost, but this little perk can come in handy in getting past lying police, banks, and various road bugs.
From the profile, a decent combo shape emerges in front of us, only a single and fairly light edge runs along the plates, we can’t even find chrome anywhere. In addition to the rhyming headlights at the rear, the trim that starts at the bumper and ends at the tailgate can be raised. Well of course the bottom tank, which is Trek’s, which also has a silver part here. On the plus side, the exhaust end of the fork has not been forced, the tube is discreetly and modestly hidden behind the bumper.
There was also a noticeable jump on the interior compared to its predecessor, but it doesn’t hurt that the driver and front passenger pay attention to their knees when getting in and out, as the bottom of the instrument panel sticks out strongly and It can be a painful memory. Overcoming this, however, we are greeted by an educated eye. The dashboard has improved a lot over its predecessor, not only in design but also in material quality. Most of it is covered with soft materials, the front of the passenger has a leather effect, stitched decoration, but the wood effect insert for the Trek version is quite shabby, but since only a thin strip was used, it is not very upset.
A meeting of classic and modern solutions
Pleasure The autonomous climate panel, unlike the Eighth Golf and others, here does not distract the driver from the road with a simple operation such as changing the temperature or the direction of the blow. And for everything else, there’s the rather clunky touchscreen. The on-board system is still not a strong point for the Japanese, the Corolla software is graphically at the level of Windows 98, but its speed and manageability are not bad at all. There is no navigation built into this design, but there is smartphone mirroring so this is not an issue.
The instrument unit combines tradition and the modern world, as there are analog gauges aligned on the edge and information on a larger digital display in the middle. Toyota’s engineers didn’t try too hard, nor did they graphically, it’s lined with characters of varying sizes, colors, and graphics, and customization is pretty minimal. The mustache switches and buttons on the heated steering wheel, on the other hand, work precisely – there’s a bit of the latter, but after learning a bit, they’re easy to use.
I was struck by the fact that the front of the gimbal is raised very high, and since we found the cell phone storage at the beginning, in this case with a wireless charger, it is quite difficult to put our device there. This is where the seat heating switches got their place, and we can easily turn them on too. The USB connector is so hidden that I haven’t found it for days and tried to connect my phone to the other connector on the armrest, but it is just for charging. Other than that, the ergonomics are basically fine in the car.
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