2014 Toyota Corolla has arrived!
 

We finally got some 2014 Corollas in and I was able to make a video of them. In my opinion, they drive a lot better and feel much more solid. I was surprised there was that much of a difference between the new version and the outgoing model. Granted, it's still an economy car and I won't be trading the FRS in anytime soon, but it's definitely a more refined vehicle.

Walkaround/Review/Features

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHgMwmb7rI"]2014 Toyota Corolla Review Walkaround and Features - YouTube[/ame]

First Driving Experience

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D_w94ryhJk"]2014 Toyota Corolla First Drive - YouTube[/ame]

Ruskymx

here is my review from a couple of days ago.. i posted this in the "random thoughts" thread

post 1:

Got a chance to bomb around in a 2014 Toyota Corolla yesterday when I went to have lunch with a friend who works at a dealership.

What a fucking piece of shit car.

Is it safe, fuel efficient and roomy? Yes.

But the interior quality, the ergonomics, the relative positions of all the little knobs and switches.. OMG WTF MANG.

It felt to me like the very bright young individual, who had spent many hours toiling behind the computer designing a proper car interior, was fired by his manager (let’s call him Joe) just a few hours before completion. Joe, who has as much understanding of ergonomic design as a pebble, resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, has of the origins of life, but is the 2nd son twice removed of the asshat in head office, decides to take the credit for himself and submits the plans… not realized that just a few moments before a cat with a magnet strapped to its neck had decided to faceroll on the computer and keyboard, completely corrupting the image and files.

When the top brass looked at this Picasso-of-a-masterpiece, they had little choice to do anything because Joe is buddy-buddy with our friends here, they were running out of time and quite frankly not giving a flying fuck about anything. “They’ll buy whatever barf we put in the show rooms because we’re so fucking awesome”

During the 90s Toyota had made an amazing Corolla. The car was baller. It had everything anyone ever needed and they lasted to some astronomical lengths of time, surviving winters, sandstorms and an occasional meteorite.

Then they just had to go and fuck it all up.

I don’t understand.. car manufactures of the world.

Why, why must you butcher your supposedly forward designs, year after year.

And don’t say “cuz we want to make bags of cash”, because no amount of greed can explain why you would build ugly and uncomfortable shit.

Bsadfjkhasjdhfasdfh

/rant



post 2:

the arm-rest in a brand new car WOBBLES like someone put it there with scotch-tape

the guy who designed the steering wheel seemed to have forgotten to leave a place where you CAN PUT YOUR HANDS

the door cards wobble

sharp, uneven and intrusive angles on all the dashtrims

door handles requiring midget hands

door handes in rear of car requiring t-rex hands

rear door card and handle design completly counter-intuitive to a human being


everything your hands touch feels out of place and everything your eyes look at makes you cringe

horrible, horrible design.


but i'll agree it looks okay from the outside.

refined?

you mean recycled

if i put you behidn the wheel of a factory fresh 1998 corolla you wouldn't tell the difference, in fact i'd bet money that exterior aesthetics aside, you'd pick the older model.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence"]Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

i can think of a handful of business models that, if the car industry and local governments would take on together, would increase government revenue, increase build quality and longevity, increase the bottom line for the car manufacturers and decrease emissions.

...

they took the pansy ass way out

Probably might test drive it next week to see for myself

Damn, I had a good reply but got timed out at work.....not typing it up again, but it seems to me that someone didn't just piss in his Cheerios this morning but left steaming pile of shat in them. Cynical Pessimist is right!

Daemano's post is accurate too. This generation will be around for 5-6 years at most and then redesigned again for people to whine and complain about.

We all have our own opinions.

I do agree that pretty much any Toyota from the 90's will outlast anything built by just about any manufacturer today.

Ruskymx

let me relay the thoughts of 95% of this forum on this particular topic...


WHO THE F CARES.

and you are?

Meh I'd go for cost cutting over Toyota actually sitting down their engineers and saying "make sure it falls apart after 5 years", the same thing can be said about a lot of companies "they don't make them like they used to!", but in reality it's "hey I can save five cents on every switch by reducing the wall thickness and round edges, across a bazillion cars that's a lot of money!" Yay capitalism!

1993 Corolla MSRP: $11.2k
2014 Corolla MSRP: $16.8k

Adjusting for inflation the '93 would cost $18.1k now, with steel wheels, no power steering, no ABS, no airbags, etc. etc.