Test Drive Toyota Corolla 2007 - 2009 Hatchback

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Test Drive New Toyota Corolla, 2007

Follow the highway A-2, towards Tarragona, the navigation orders the iron voice, and due to the turn jumps a series of rocky peaks, and the sun hits the face through the palm trees. On the road is a new Toyota Corolla. It turns out that by car you can just go, without listening to the engine, without causing it to root and squeeze the rubber and without checking her notorious maneuverability, jumping like Orangutan, from a number of in a row.
Japanese engineers seem to be fascinated by the artistic modeling, so the latest models are similar to the plasticine crafts of kids from kindergarten, progressive time before a quiet hour. Corolla lines are too smooth and rounded, and the headlights seemed to be carelessly crushed by plastic knife. It seems that Corolla's body can be sold with a finger, it seems soft. If it is serious, then Corolla turned out to be solid, on such a car is not amusement and to drive up to the office, and to the house of her parents. From Camry, she inherited a concentrated and extreme view, while becoming less cumbersome and nervy than the predecessor.
Waving the cherished keys from Corolla 1.6 from the militant colleagues from other countries with a robotic mechanical transmission MULTIMODE, we go to look for your fellow traveler among cars built into a row. The immobilizer goes into a small box under the armrest: in the most expensive configuration in the car there is a STOP-START button. The look stops on the instrument panel, which are burning, as it seems at first, one bright orange stain. Little figures and light bulbs in front of the eyes, and

the speedometer arrows and the tachometer is not visible due to too bright backlight. But the person is an adaptable creature, and already after a tett of kilometers, reading fuel consumption indicators on a small display inside the speedometer does not seem such a problem. The only thing that persistently attracts attention is the so-called tip, which in the car with mechanics shows the arroders, where and when it is necessary to switch, generating an offend sense of inferiority from the driver.
The central panel is made in gray-black tones and on elegant bending places a modest magnet and climate control. It is no need to talk about the convenience of the buttons and the adjustment of the adjustment, everything is completely predictable, but it does not cause delight, nor rejection as it should, in Toyotovsky. Despite the presence of a large number of all sorts of pockets and boxes, it is possible to place here for a couple of bottles with water and an umbrella, which is more than arranged a city inhabitant.
10 minutes 10 had to customize the seat, which did not obey, being confident that a long-legged volleyball coach was sitting behind the wheel. But then it turned out that the head could be thrown into the headrest and at the same time see the road as ahead and back to two large side mirrors.
Now it is possible to turn to the floor, especially since few people go to the left strip in the Spanish autobahn. As usual, the robot thought, threw the transfer, and the engine at the same time began to roar. Auto with an engine 1.6 liters should go to the documents, as 124 horses, up to 100 km / h it accelerates for 10.4 seconds.

However, you can not get rid of the female Moscow habit of one day, so we press the sport button and leave the motorway on the desert mountain paths. The car begins to roar threatenly and bring the tachometer arrow to 5.5 thousand revolutions, switching becomes less thoughtful. The lightweight steering wheel responds very well, and even in steep turns you feel safe: the car, only slightly tilted, passes their flawlessly, and most importantly, gives an almost childish feeling of power over the car. Only here in turns are not very convenient to adjust the gear shift with steering wheels, which are located on the steering wheel and turn together with the wheel, so that in the most responsible moment you have to convolcely feel the entire steering wheel. But the gearbox itself with short moves between the few modes allows you to lightly switch to the back and, for example, to turn in a small alley such a luxury can give not every machine. Finally, to consolidate the impression of Quality, which should have already happened, let's say more about the brakes: a little heavy pedal grasps, though not immediately, but reliably, and somehow confident.
From day to day, Corolla sales should begin in Russia. Japanese bridge 1.4 and 1.6 liters with mechanical and robotic gearboxes will bring here. According to the representatives of Toyota, a new car will be located on Polclass higher than its predecessor, however will be in the same price range as the main competitors. The lower price plan will fix at $ 18,600, Corolla, starting with a button, with cruise control, cast discs and light and rain sensors are estimated at $ 24,600. Only except for cash units, the buyer must have European excerpt and excessive calculation, as Corolla, like many other foreign cars, is just a car, which Russians are often forgotten.
Specifications Toyota Corolla:
Equipment: 1.4 MT 1.6 MT / AT
Price: from $ 18,600 from $ 19,950
Engine volume (cm): 1398 1598
Max. Power (hp): 97 124
Torque (nm at rpm): 71/6000 91/6000
Maximum speed (km / h): 170 195
Acceleration 0-100 km / h (sec.): 13 10.4
Fuel consumption / city (l / 100 km): 8,6 9
Fuel consumption / R / 100 km): 5,7 5.8
Fuel consumption / mixed (l / 100 km): 6,7 6.9
Dental mass (kg): 1225 1240
Volume of fuel tank (L): 55 55
Length (mm): 4540 4540
Width (mm): 1760 1760
Height (mm): 1470 1470
Wheel base (mm): 2600 2600