Here’s the thing, though.īecause the Corolla and Auris share pretty much all of their mechanical components, the Corolla handles just as well as the Auris does –not eye-widening fun, perhaps, but certainly responsive, grippy and well controlled. So what we have here is a saloon version of a car I didn’t care for much to begin with. The Corolla name might not mean much to most Europeans but in Ireland it’s one of the top sellers, which is why the tenth derivative is being sold here in Ireland (and in Turkey) while the rest of Europe goes without. The reason I tell you this is because right after I dropped the Auris back I collected a new Toyota Corolla, which is essentially a booted Auris from an engineering point of view. Sometimes marketing has a way of backfiring, I think. That would be fine if I hadn’t been built up to expect so much more. It’s a tall, wide hatchback that doesn’t drive badly and is well equipped, but has an overwrought centre control and rather lacklustre plastics. Toyota’s spin doctors would have us believe it’s a true segment buster, just as the Yaris was, but alas it’s not. I had expected the Auris hatchback to rock my world but instead it just rocked me to sleep. I’ve just been out in the Toyota Auris for a week and found it a touch disappointing, I have to confess.
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