Tests and Features

I know you think I’m kidding, but the fact of the matter is that, in a weird twist, I’ve already driven both cars. Toyota was gracious enough to allow Michel Deslauriers and I the opportunity to sample these cars before their launch for the le Guide de l’auto 2019 buyer’s …

The Toyota Corolla is one of the highest-selling vehicles of all time. It enjoys foolproof name recognition and a well-deserved aura of bulletproof reliability. It’s because of these facts that Canadians continue to buy the car in droves. For fiscal year 2017, the Corolla was the eighth most popular vehicle …

While the automotive press sings the praises of cars that offer driving pleasure and a sporty character, the vast majority of today’s consumers don’t seem to care too much about that when shopping for a car. Toyota understood that a long time ago and has been selling vehicles that are …

Oh wait, small typo in the headline. This week, The Car Guide is driving the Toyota Corolla and the 86. We’ll also be getting behind the wheel of the 2017 Sienna, Prius Prime and Highlander. That’s a lot of test drives! However, there aren’t many changes to speak of in …

Not only are compact cars increasingly popular in our market, but this segment is constantly evolving. To prove the point, we decided to assess—and compare—the seven most popular compacts. This time, we took a simpler approach than usual and tried to simulate a real vehicle purchase. Form and function The …

To state that the Toyota Corolla is the most important model in the Japanese brand’s stable would not be an overstatement: Toyota sells more Corollas than anything else in North America, and always has. It’s somewhat puzzling, then, why we had to wait so long for an update, as last …

The new Corolla launched a few months ago, and since Akio Toyoda, top dog at the world’s number one automaker, decreed that the brand’s cars had to have panache, Toyota’s stylists have become bolder – to a certain extent. The Furia concept vehicle introduced in Detroit in January 2013 foreshadowed …

The Toyota Corolla was introduced in 1966 and since then more than 40 million have been sold around the world. Throughout the decades the Corolla name has become synonymous with reliability, efficiency and value, if not for engaging driving dynamics. It’s the car you use to get the groceries, to …

If you want to make Toyota reps happy, talk to them about the Corolla. Their eyes will light up, their body language will be more dynamic and they’re sure to bring up the fact that the Corolla is the most-sold vehicle in history, with more than 40 million units on …