Stranger things have happened, you know. We're about a week and a half away from the 2009 Toyota Corolla's official debut at this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas, and media will get to preview the new small car this week. It could just be, however, that a dealer somewhere spilled the beans by accidentally publishing a pic of the new Corolla in its weekly circular. Do we think that's the case? Hardly. It's probably just a Toyota model of which we're not aware, perhaps a Camry derivative. But hey, we've been wrong before. Muchos gracias to anyone who can correctly identify the car if it is, in fact, a current model.
Thanks for the tip, Peter!
[Source: Carspace]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Aetius @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:03AM
It doesn't look like the Camry. MIGHT be the Corolla.
geo.stewart @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:05AM
gee, I wanted the one in the picture
Uh, not responsible for typos, car pictured may not be represenative of car offered, we sold that one yesterday, we cant sell that one for that price...
FThorn @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:15AM
Camry
Michael @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:16AM
Yes that is the Corolla sedan in Australia, See http://www.toyota.com.au/toyota/vehicle/Gallery/0,4667,4267_1634,00.html
ale @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:16AM
Euro-Corolla perhaps?
http://www.toyota.fi/cars/new_cars/corolla/index.aspx
berlin @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:30AM
This is European Toyota Corolla. In Europe Corolla is only available in sedan version. HB version is known as new Toyota Auris.
Daniel @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:17AM
The car pictured in the ad is a European Toyota Corolla sedan. Nice car, nothing special though, you can buy it here (Hungary) with a 1.4 and 1.6 liter inline 4 petrol engines, and a 1.4 liter turbodiesel. In the past, the US and European Corollas were different models, now probably Toyota will sell the same car worldwide.
Geddar_Thei @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:28AM
http://www.toyota.kz/index.cfm?uid=C7A87AD4-C29B-9598-A0A41288FF8C79A2&docid=24&CFID=8135473&CFTOKEN=64569258
2007 corolla sellin here from fall 2006
ugly like a camry 40
alphabeta777 @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:38AM
It IS the new Corolla. I'm Australian and I own one.
Pics of my Corolla.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/alphabeta777/IMG_6191.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/alphabeta777/IMG_6189.jpg?t=1193056443
Boring, yes, but improved on the old model.
North America have to be one of the last markets in the world not to have even seen this car, let alone have it released for sale...
Atomicbri @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:41AM
Just looks like more of the same boring type cars to me.... Yawn Toyota....
Calebe @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:56AM
That is what happens when the Newpaper does a Google seach for a pic and copies it into an ad. I have seen it done locally. The person doing the ad doesn't know anything about cars and just went off of the seach.
I_Hate_China_2 @ Oct 22nd 2007 2:47PM
Whoever owns the copyright on those pix should sue.
Solo Racer @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:54PM
Dealers supply the art their ads.
calebe @ Oct 25th 2007 8:49AM
Not according to my friend who works for a local newpaper. They take the info and set up the ad, Any typo's fall on them.
David W. @ Oct 22nd 2007 9:35AM
I don't like the front end...
Solo Racer @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:04PM
I wouldn't judge it from a crappy black and white photo.
G @ Oct 22nd 2007 9:39AM
Are you guys kidding me? You don't know what it is? For an automotive blog which has actually covered this car its pretty bad... its the new Corolla, which we likely will be getting here very soon. How could you say Camry?
Paul @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:46AM
Yes it's the new Corolla, but this is not an Australian ad. Aussies use the metric system officially so the reference to miles gives it away. Also, in Australia it's called the Toyota Ultima - but essentially the same car.
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chris @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:03PM
Um, it's called the Toyota Corolla. I saw a commercial for it like 15 minutes ago. I've lived in Australia all my life and have never heard of any car called the Toyota Ultima. It's an American ad where they just took pictures of the Corolla sedan from Australia/Europe to use in their own ad.
Paul @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:58PM
You're right. Seems I was talking out of my arse there. Ultima is actually just a Corolla trim level, according to the website. I've lived in Australia at some point too - I should know better. :)