Toyota Corolla/Auris review (21/08/2013)

IT might be fashionable in some quarters to poke fun at the Toyota Corolla; endlessly dull, designed by someone with a white stick, zero fun and nada on the street cred front. All of these barbs have been thrown at the Corolla down the years, but they merely bounce off the legendary Toyota — as its sales figures show.

At the launch of the new car recently, Toyota illustrated some of the highs of the Corolla’s nearly 40-year career, including that there have been 40m of them built; 100,000 of them are sold every month — one every two minutes — 200,000 have been sold in Ireland; and, in the last 10 years alone, 50,000 new Corollas have been shifted off Irish dealership forecourts.

You’d have to be impressed, would you not, that the car is a monster when it comes to its worldwide popularity.