Toyota is bringing a hot hatch to the U.S., and it looks like it will be Corolla-based.
posted to the Instagram page of Toyota's U.S. arm shows for a split second a camouflaged Corolla with a"GR" emblazoned on the side, the branding of Toyota's Gazoo Racing motorsport and tuning division.
An earlier version of the video showed the car in full but the current version only shows the front end. Fortunately Motor1 was able to take a screen shot of the full car, which is shown main. The most potent powertrain in the Corolla at present is a 2.0-liter inline-4 good for 168 hp, but any GR Corolla will likely feature a serious step up in performance.
One possibility is the 1.6-liter turbocharged inline-3 that delivers 268 hp in the GR Yaris. The GR Yaris also features all-wheel drive and a 6-speed manual transmission, and with any luck we'll see these elements migrate into the GR Corolla as well. Interestingly, Toyota engineer Naohiko Saito hinted at the possibility of the GR Yaris' all-wheel-drive setup making it into more models during an interview with"It’s wasting time to use a four-wheel-drive system and this 1.6-liter engine ,” he said. “Personally, I’d like to use this powertrain for each of the other models."
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