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Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering
I agree.
The Yaris GR4 has a lot of character, which is tough to find these days. It's a completely absurd car which is why it's so exciting to me.
And I'm not anti-FWD...had a 2005 Mini Cooper S and loved it.
- Andrew
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I'm mostly anti-fwd. I had a Yaris and that was fun, I had a Saab Viggen and that was amazing, but for me to want another front wheel drive car it needs to be Fiesta ST good. My next car will most likely be some sort of full time all wheel drive, because that's the only thing I really have not owned yet.
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Originally Posted by strat61caster
If they stick the 257hp AWD in the Corolla it would be as heavy as a new WRX with less horsepower and more expensive. FWD is the only way to keep the Corolla GR from being an uncompetitive pig imho and should line up nicely with the Veloster N underneath the Civic Type R, Golf R and STI while being just a touch 'more' than the WRX by virtue of being >100# lighter with a hatchback.
As long as they stick a real LSD in it I'd love to slide one around some day. And I bet that 3-pot sounds neat.
What made the Yaris interesting was the weight, 257hp @ 2800 lbs with AWD. There hasn't been a fun AWD car that light in 20 years since the first gen WRX.
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If they screw the Corolla that bad by just adding the engine on a normal version it will be a useless piece of garbage no one will want. If they make it there better be work on it to make it just as good as the Yaris, or what's the point?
2800 pounds is a fat pig for a Yaris, I wonder what they did to make it that heavy. Early Yaris weighed closer to 2200 or so pounds, and all wheel drive did not add 600 pounds to that.