Corolla XRS road test

Corolla XRS road test

Another awesome review of the Corolla XRS. Check it out.

http://www.thecarmagazine.com/en/in...ota&artid=25157

I want one so bad, but I just bought my 04 less than a year ago

thats the first good review ive read for the xrs

I am exactly in your situation. I have an 04 Corolla S and I am looking into trading it in for an 05 Corolla XRS in the next few months or so. Gotta discuss with Toyota financing.

ive been looking for an xrs there is one in pa thats it they are hard as hell to find

Don't worry your state will have them soon. Just keep Checking. If you want to see some pics here is a link:

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/619100

k I see and yea the XRS still lacks power lol I just test drove one this morning lol, it's horrible

thats in canadian dollars

Price Range (MSRP $24,185

goddamn..I'd never pay that much for a corolla...you can get a much better car for that money

omg...lol i feel stupid =P

lmao Zero, didn't you find that a little funny when quoting the MSRP of an SRT-4 well over 20K?

24 grand. Shit. A WRX base starts at that. If that is what toyota is charging for that, they will not make it.

Man I just think that Toyota should've made this car a coupe. My reason for saying this is because the car would be way lighter and then with the 2zz which is more power and more top end speed of course it would make this car more of an IMPORT than a family car but I guess Toyota ain't thinking too much on how to make money lately :-\. Toyota has had problems with styling this past few years in my opinion but I have to admit the only good looking cars they made where the Supra (93-98) and the mr2 like from the 93 and up I think but from there on it wasn't that good. Now days the mr2 looks like crap even though some ppl encouraged themselves to upgrade it and make it look a little better and not talk about the Celica with the long headlights and the really short lights on the back, I mean come on why not make a car that is gonna be proportionally right and just for the record it's not that I have anything against Toyota because I've owned/own a few but anyways I dk in my opinion Toyota should think about the "Import World" just a tad more man and I bet their sales would be out the roof just like when the Supra first came out.........but again that's just me .

P.S>>> but I have a question though before maybe making an ass out of myself with this comment......... IF they were to make it a coupe someday would it raise the base price if this ever happened?

They do a 4 door probobly for insurance reasons. A lot of the consumer report type websites and magazines say a lot of single males buy the new corolla. So with that in mind 4 door = cheaper insurance.

But enough blabing. If the corolla was 2 door yes it would probobly be more then the sedan. The civic coupe is 13,4 for the base model. The civic sedan is 13,0 for the base model. Why? i have no clue

My mom would always tell me a coupe is more in every aspect of the purchase. I really don't know why either. Insurance is more because they consider it sportier.

i dont know about this xrs, ive read 3 reviews already sayin that they are kinda "weak" in the power department...one guy saying at the end "someone give us a camry engine please...." i dont know about you guys-but i bet the scion tc can smoke this thing...AND its starts at 16.5 k

p.s. "Dodge's SRT-4, with class-leading performance starts at $26,950." thats the biggest freakin lie in the world-this reviewer sucks! srt-4's start at 20995 http://www.dodge.com/srt-4/index.ht...ype=vehicle_nav what a turd...

Without sounding like a sales guy for Toyota. Here are some hardcore facts:

- Corolla XRS will have one of the best insurances for sporty cars ( I have already asked my insurance company and it is exactly the same as my 04 Corolla S, which is super low. Much lower than my friends 1996 Honda Accord EX. Unless, there are
too many young tuner dudes crashing the XRS like hell, it will stay the same for years to come)
- One of the best resales in sporty compact segment
- One of the best reliability, quality, longest list of standard features and the refinement of cars far more expensive
- One of the best gas mileage in sport compact segment
- Performance and handling will be nonetheless scintillating, if not better.

Power is a relevant term. Now you are driving a Supra so ofcourse it will feel slow to you. I have posted 3 reviews so far on this site and two of them were postive and one of them was mixed. The guy who gave mixed reviews was a poster who was a regular joe driver like me. A lot of his analogies were BSing. Like one mentioned that it should have had 2.4 Camry engine, just for the sake of having more torque and that a 1.8L engine is too small. That is total BS. True the torque numbers are not very impressive, but high revving engines do not require a lot of torque since it backfires against the high end power. S2000 with 140 foot pounds of torque and 240 HP of power, Integra GS-R with 117 ft-lbs, Mazda RX 8 with less than 140 ft-lbs of torque and 238 HP and the list will go on forever. That guy had beef with the thicker midrange torque as well. A few years ago I read review of Matrix XRS, which had peak torque at 6800 rpms. The reviewer bitterly criticized high revving just to get the car moving. Toyota listened and made the mid range much more powerful. Now there is criticism for the subtleness of the VVTL-i kick in because of the mid range by this reviewer. Plus, if engine size dictates the performance, Toyota Supra would never be the king of racing with an engine size half of that in domestic so-called muscle cars, which rips to shreds easily. Wait till you see the reviews posted by car and driver and motor trend, auto week and other major players in the game. You will see for yourself.

By the way, I am not sure if you are noticing it, but coupes are fading away with time in sporty cars that can be driven everyday. Everything is moving towards 4 door sedans. Look at all the Acura lineup. How many 2 door coupes do they have ( TL, TSX, new RSX), look at Lexus ( Lexus said they will include a 2 door coupe IS300 in the next generation, but that is about it) and BMW ( 330i vs. 330ci, which one do you see more?0 etc. All these people sell far more 4 door sedans than their respective 2 door coupes. Coupes are dying since the whole sport sedan concept that BMW introduced in 1971 has now been dominating the automotive industry after 30 years.

It is $17K US. This is a Canadian review.

heres a 2dr sports car for ya.. scion tc
They haven't brought a 2dr rolla over since 92 and they never will.. even the newer corollas in japan has horrible styling.

Way to compare the rolla to honda's torqueless vtec.. it's so true

The European/Japanese Corolla design is awful!( including Corolla XRS's European sibling Corolla T-Sport) Totally dreadful! and I have seen people from Australia on car domain saying they wish they atleast had the NA design.

i just got done test driving one at the dealer here in Charlottesville, VA. Someone had just bought it as a matter of fact, but it was some young dude, so he didn't mind me takin it out.

overall, i like it. torque does suck, but first gear is the only gear you need torque for racing or anything....the rest of the time will be spent in and just shy of lift. you can definitely feel the lift...great feeling in a corolla....: DDDDD at any rate, i'm positive that i'll be getting one. The dealer's MSRP (sticker price) is just over $20K. I'm sure i could get em to bring it down a lil bit. It's just a matter of when i would be able to afford the monthly payments and such.

I'd be keeping my 97 DX as a project car/extra car for insurance multi-car discount.

awesome! how high did you get to rev it?

I got my chance to rev it right up to the 8300 RPM redline Acceleration was awesome, but above all the sweet melodic sound is what has made this car inevitable for me. I am trading my 04 Corolla S for an 05 Corolla XRS in August or so. Total blast.

actually, i didn't quite pay attention. : - /....but it was right after it gets into the red on the tachometer...so...wherever that is.

i just took it up in first gear all the way to lift and a lil beyond...then shifted to second....haha....i was already nuttin my pants so i wasn't really paying attention to the tach....



but then....the dealer was like....don't take it above 4000 rpm in the first 1000 miles.

yeah-"you break it, you buy it!"

You would not want to take a brand new car that is driven already. Would you?? It would not be brand new then ;-)Toyota actually takes every 50th engine off the line and it is redlined 200,000 times by a computer ( ofcourse, it does not go by back on the assembly line ).

first 1000 miles....break in period....it's the same with any new motor....what i don't understand is why don't they just fuckin put a thousand miles on the engines when they build em.....grrrrr. hehehehe

Actually yea it was Canadian dollars, either way at the dealership by my house they were goin for $17635 to $18000... I couldnt test drive it since it was 5pm and rush hour traffic, Ill drive it tomm more then likely when I take my car in... It sure did look better... I think I would rather turbo mine tho, then buy an XRS, but thats just me... I was thinking about selling mine for an XRS, but I doubt it..

BTW I saw about 6 or more XRSs on the lot when I went... I think I only saw 1 or 2 S... I would rather buy XRS over a new S tho...

Same here. If you would turbo yours then get the XRS and turbo that one. They should be comming out with a kit soon.