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Old 01-14-13, 11:09 AM
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Definitely not your grandma's corolla.
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Old 01-14-13, 12:29 PM
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The concept looks great, I hope the production car does as well.
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Water it down for production and it will look like an Auris with a trunk. Not a bad thing mind you.
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If that's what we can expect from the future Corolla I approve.
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WTF - so the Corolla itself won't be revealed, but the concept is instead?! /shakeshead
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Originally Posted by ST430
WTF - so the Corolla itself won't be revealed, but the concept is instead?! /shakeshead
There are 3 kinds of concept cars you know, one that is so futuristic that no one will possibly confuse it with a production car and is used only to demonstrate certain design or technologies in the works, one that breaks new grounds for the automaker in certain aspects and is used to gauge public interests from the audience's reactions before committing it to production, and one that is simply a production car disguised as a concept car with some fancy parts in order to gain some marketing hype before the actual release. I'll bet you anything that this Furia "concept" is the latter of the 3, and that the production version will follow really, really soon.

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Old 01-14-13, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ST430
WTF - so the Corolla itself won't be revealed, but the concept is instead?! /shakeshead
Corolla will start selling late 2013.... so i dont think they will show it that soon.
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Old 01-14-13, 02:34 PM
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loooks decent. if it looks anything like this in production form, it will certainly be a vast shift from this...

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Old 01-14-13, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by spwolf
Corolla will start selling late 2013.... so i dont think they will show it that soon.
Oh man, that sucks! I thought it was going to be a Spring '13 release! God knows, the present Corolla is soooooo outdated, it's not even funny anymore (and heavily discounted at that)...
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Old 01-14-13, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ST430
Oh man, that sucks! I thought it was going to be a Spring '13 release! God knows, the present Corolla is soooooo outdated, it's not even funny anymore (and heavily discounted at that)...
yeah, but they sell craploads of them due to the price... in fact they have low inventories and their sales went up 20+% last year in NA.... thats probably why they slowed it down.
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Originally Posted by spwolf
yeah, but they sell craploads of them due to the price... in fact they have low inventories and their sales went up 20+% last year in NA.... thats probably why they slowed it down.
I just saw some being in the local newspaper selling for $13988 this past weekend, and thought it was a fire sale before the new model. Unfortunately, looks like this will solider on for another half-season...
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Old 01-15-13, 07:24 AM
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Toyota seems to be fully awake and not resting on laurels. Good.
 
Old 01-15-13, 10:59 AM
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Wow, no more appliance looking

Unveiling at the 0:59 sec

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Looks great from all angles!

However, it looks nothing like the Corolla spy shots caught earlier, or at least the profile doesn't. Wonder what model exactly the Furia will become in the end.
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2014-...lla-spy-shots/
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Interior is what I want to see
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