Test Drive Toyota Corolla 2007 - 2009 Hatchback

Test Drive Toyota Corolla

Toyota is one of the most promoted brands, not only in the automotive area. As-nothing in the world's largest automaker. But the Corolla model is also a brand. After all, over the 10 generations and over 40 years has been released more than 34 million Corolla! If you try to imagine how much it is, remember that even in the peak hours with a full road collapse on the Moscow streets, it can simultaneously be a maximum of 800 thousand cars anymore can not be placed anymore. And if all this is Corolla, Corolla and so 40 times! What about? And it's still difficult to imagine.
The current model appeared in the spring of last year. And immediately accounted for the buyer. Despite the fact that he has grown in price (from 495,000 rubles) and, most importantly, in size. Now it looks like a small Camry, and according to external dimensions reached a living age on the conveyor AVENSIS 2002 model year. Which is characteristic, the Corolla has to be registered in the queue almost a year! They love this brand. And sedans love. This is me to the fact that for the European, preferring hatchback, not four-door Solla is offered as the main version, but a separate Auris model. For Russia, the priority is considered sedan. Engines for sweet couple Corolla / Auris offered two: starter 1.4 liters (97 hp), and the main 1.6 liters (124 horses). More powerful gasoline engines in the gamma, alas, no. A two-liter power unit exists only in diesel performance and the Russian market is not supplied to the fact that our diesel brand does not reach quality. The opinion is not indisputable, but the Japanese are eternal reinsurers. But the lack of traditional automatic transmission can not be called an impeccable solution, although Toyotovets usually do not undertake not calculated market moves. With a 1.6-liter engine, in addition to ordinary mechanics, a robotic gearbox is offered. So we had a chance to ride.
I repent, it began with a shame. I take the keys, unpainted from the block, I sit, adjust the chair and the steering wheel, which is now regulated in two planes. All is well, but how is the engine start? Yeah, button! Quite fashionable, sports. Although, what about the Lesmet Sport, if in the most powerful version of Corolla gives 124 hp? Okay, trying to start. Does not want. Game with a remote control on / off. Does not help. It seems that the brake pedal pressed, and the seat belt near the hip for complete confidence snapped. Does not want to run, silent the engine. Allo, Help Mi! Good Toyotovsky people, smiling, suggested, what was my mistake. In the classical AKP, the furthest position of the selector means Parking, R. And here, the robot no parking is not a handle moves from R through N in D. and to start, it should be put in the middle, neutral position. So everything immediately happened!
Well, well, gas to refusal, try what acceleration. It is quite good up to 50-55 km / h jerk on the first even cheer than you expect. But then a sharp nod, the heads of the rides are sharply twitching, and a sudden pause occurs. Batz! The second gear turned on, again pickup, and then again jerk, before moving to the third, but not so hard. Yes, this is the costs of a robotic mechanical gearbox instead of a full-fledged machine. The main question is whether it is possible to deal with these intelligible feelings? Yes, you can, with two ways. The first is not so quickly accelerated. When you give gas in flooded, switching occurs quite gently, without overloading for the neck vertebrae, but within reasonable from the point of view of the speaker. The second option to use stealless switches. Right petal plus, left minus. Playing them, you can shorten the time of thought for the transition from transfer to transfer and in addition to feel yourself the master of the situation, not the mistress, the subject of action, and not the object. The most correct algorithm is to predict the moment of shift over the moment before switching transmissions and slightly sing the accelerator pedal.
How much is the driver's new Toyota Corolla in terms of manageability? Here our estimates again look somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, this machine has a soft enough, up to the valve of the suspension configured primarily on the comfort of the rides. On the other hand, Corolla rulits surprise exactly and obedient. Any nuance of driving movement responds with adequate and predicted change in the trajectory. And, by itself, all this in pronounced insufficient turning, characteristic of preime produced. But overlook, the lightweight steering wheel does not give an answer to the angle of attacks that managed wheels have been taken now.
Toyota has always been famous for the high quality finishes against the eclecticity of the interior design. It is a feeling that each element in the cabin developed his gifted and promising employee who, after 30 years, has chances of taking a Big Boss chair (the Japanese do not recognize the Varyagov) or rush forward by the head from the 45th floor due to the next production stress. The chairs are definitely good, at least their pillows and shorty. The instrument shield is expressive, beautiful and easily read by this boy-designer put five with a plus, not in vain him praised Sensei. I must say, two small gloves instead of one, big and capacious not very reasonable solution.
Even a quick look at the new Corolla will tell the flowering here at the head of the corner. Gasoline, of course, from this I will save already whole half a hundred. But the losses in ergonomics also accompanied to sit down, thoroughly bending the head, and the roof sunsets do not allow high people to be placed in the second row. Yes, and passenger's legs are closed. Is the Japanese measles internal dimensions for the world model? Although because after all, children or women are really riding more often, as a rule, more modest in growth.
Probably, you ask why is it so picky for Toyota Corolla? After all, this is a standard. Other manufacturers are equal to its appearance, design and decoration, first of all Japanese. But after all, from the standard and demand is stricter! And summarizing, not without some oscillations, I will say, Corolla is a conscious choice between quality, perfection, compromises of the design and price. The choice that few of the competitors will be able to kill their arguments.

Debut: 2006.
Length / Width / Height: 4540/1760/1470 mm.
Base: 2600 mm.
Curb weight: 1245 kg.
Engine volume: 1598 cm3.
Power: 124 hp at 6000 rpm.
Maximum torque: 157 HM at 4250 rpm.
Maximum speed: 195 km / h.
Acceleration up to 100 km / h: 12.1 sec.
Middle fuel consumption: 6.9 l / 100 km.
Price from 494.000 rubles (as of 12.2007).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: autolet.ru.