I had more fun in my 1994 1.3 Toyota Corolla estate than any other car I’ve owned. I bought it at 60k and got rid of it at 276k. Did nothing but change brakes tyres and oil and thrashed it every day I drove it. It never let me down and surprised many a boy racer. It was predictable handling, forgiving when pushed to the limit, fast, comfortable, spacious, cheap to run and ultimately the one I would choose of all the cars I owned. Yes the 1340 mini was more fun, as was the supercharged BMW E18 but I was constantly working on them to maintain them. The Toyota? Just drive it hard and put it away wet and it was always ready for more. So yes, best car ever.
Toyotas are not perfect, they have their faults but in the main, people buy them, me included because they are well made, reliable, nice to drive and long lasting.
My dad has had a 1986, 1987 and 1985 toyota corolla, my mother had a newer one and my grandma still has one. Hers is a 98 with over a quarter of a million miles on it, if everything goes right i will be getting her car because it isn't getting used anymore. I took it for a drive and it ran and transmission shifted just like it did years ago when i was in grade school, needs a little suspension work. None of the corollas my family had/has have given many problems, just normal things like oil, power steering hose and simple things like that. Why have a fancy car when you can get a simple one that will get you from A to B for many years to come?
Still driving my 2000 Corolla - it has NEVER given one bit of trouble (the BMW 323 I had for 18 months is a different story). Probably will still be driving it in 2030 - before the Government forces it off the road.
Jeremy has said many times that he's the world's most impractical man, so of course he would hate the Corolla. I've had one, and he's right, it is quite dull.....but people don't buy the Corolla for excitement, they buy it because it's reliable.
When I become wealthy, even if I have a garage full of luxury cars, I'll still have a Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic in the fleet. Because those luxury cars will be money pits in 5 years, while the Civic or Corolla have a long life ahead. Due to friction and gravity, eventually some parts in the Civic or Corolla will break, but the fortunate advantage is that the parts are readily available, affordable, and I won't be bound to the mercy of the dealership for parts. Can't say the same with the luxury brands, for example: Mercedes Benz S-Class owners in Australia either can't get parts or take forever to get parts from Germany.
corolla and camry are the best care you can get - get them cheap, take good care of them and they will last you forever - and you wont have to stress about people denting your car and stuff. fuck cars, from childhood we are brainwashed by society that a car defines our worth - and in the end cars become one of the biggest wastes of money in our lives.
Superb transportation appliance. About as exciting as a washing machine. It gets you where you want to go in a reasonable amount of time, fairly comfortably and cheaply, with no fuss, every single time. I love it. I hate it. I've owned two, and have one now. I'm almost 65, and it may be the last car I ever own.
I love my 25years old Corolla. The most passionate car because i had many girls in the back seat all this years all over Greece and islands and never had a problem.Thats why a i love it.I know i can go everywhere do whatever i want to all weather and never betray me.Long live Corolla.
Two of my cousins were sitting on a two lane two way highway trying to a take a left turn when a full size suburban rear ended them at 40 mph. Luckily my cousin some what saw it coming and was able to steer away from incoming traffic. That little Corolla left both of them with zero injuries while the whole trunk crumpled and took the impact. Amazing cars that saved two of my family members lives. Me and my brother also shared a corolla that was a generation before this platform and what a awesome car. 30+mpg, half million miles on and just wouldn't stop. Sold it to an idiot for $300 and he blew it up somehow. But I now have a 3rd gen 4runner (best SUV ever!) and 3 supras. Best of both worlds as far as toyota's go.
I have a 1992 celica GT convertible. It has a 2.2l 5SFE engine which is also in most Camry's and Corollas. It is designed purely for longevity. I love that it always works and I can work on it myself. in 2017, she will be a classic. A new paint job for her : D
Im pretty sure no Corollas came with anything higher than an 1.8 engine in its lifetime. I have a 1996 1.8L Toyots Corolla LE with 229907 miles on it (370000 Kilometers) and its reliability is never in doubt as I continue to beat on it in canadas harsh weather conditions, but man i always wanted a Celica lol.
Actually,you're not going to believe this! Just yesterday,while driving in Vancouver,I spotted in the front of me.Tenth generation (E 140),Corolla XRS. It had deep black paint and spoilers,all around the car,and set of nice aluminum wheels. So today I went to check on "Wikipedia",to find out,is it really high-perfomance grade of Corolla,(Like XRS ninth generation),or just a badge. The XRS (North American tenth generation,2006-2013),grade is equiped with the 2.4-liter 2AZ-FE I4 engine,the same used in the Camry. It has 158 hp @ 6 000 rpm,and Torque is 162 Ib-ft @ 4 000 rpm..
Yes! I have 2006. Corolla with 140 000 kilometers on odometer. Excellent car. For long distance highway driving,I would like to have that 2.4 liter engine in Corolla.And off course,6 speed manual transmission.
Same here mines a 1.8 5 speed sedan white .I made my own cai since these cars don't come with them it's a long one not that stupid lil one u can buy.made a loud exhaust 91 only.15inch rims .195/60/15. No passenger seat 😎. empty trunk.clean egr.clean tb.kn cone .etc
After having, Renault, Mazda, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet, Porsche my second car which is a Corolla, which I raced it (Yes autocross), driving it daily, my kids learn how to drive, did some mods, 165000 miles and keep going strong, this car just don't die is the most reliable car ever, every time my mind try to make me sell it, I just spend some money on it and calm down
The only thing I hate about my 1996 Corolla DX: it is red. It is red and it's all mottled, faded and nearly down bare to the metal in numerous places. Oh, and the plastic (WHY?!) interior door handles have all broken... the headliner is in tatters with rotted gritty adhesive free to blow about all over, trunk lever snapped off, seat belt receptacle doesn't latch (passenger's is what I've used from 2008 and it's going too), basically all of the cosmetics/interior is deteriorated and falling apart in live time, the 15W factory speakers suck and have long since blown (and what the hell was with 4" speakers in the doors, man?) and she also doesn't see quite 32mpg anymore either... probably not even 26mpg... dunno, because the trip meter stopped working in 2006... *HOWEVER* I never, but I mean never ever, have engine trouble (*unrelated to routine maintenance as like hoses, belts and seals/gaskets, battery, PCV valve etc. etc. EVEN THEN, it's once in a blue moon). Not bad at all for $6,000 secondhand in 1998. Can't score like that anymore, tell you what. She blue books for MAYBE $800 in "pristine condition" today... but in reality, she's absolutely priceless. I have literally had people beating down the front door to buy her but I won't sell (I am no fool). I'm running her until she's legit totaled... but 218,000 miles and that is STILL green for these 7AFE's. Been best buds since I was 8 years old and the day she dies, that's the day I finally go in for two wheels (I loathe all cars made after 1998, you see. Case in point, ALUMINUM blocks? ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME? AND FOR $20,000+? OH, HELL NAW!!!)... but I'll more likely than not be pushing 40 years old by then, no joke. OH! And we've put MAYBE $4,000 into her for ROUTINE MAINTENANCE... she STILL hasn't cost more than we'd bought her for. THAT is why you'd choose a Toyota... but a 1997 or earlier. New ones aren't what they were... still head and shoulders above the rest, but still not as good or better than they ought to be now, very sad to say. Toyota certainly has shifted focus over to eye-candy and needless luxury amenities, sacrificing some parts and build quality and reliability for them, same as all the rest of them. It really is a crying shame, that. Look, you're still better off buying a 1990's and fixing it up than you are a brand spanking new model. By very far. It'll be a better vehicle and cost you less than the abomination they're asking for the newer, inferior model years. Believe it.
I've only seen one for sale on Facebook market, dont know if its still available, but its in white with 1.6 petrol engine and in automatic, its 1996 model, im thinking of buying it if its available as I need to sell my current car, but I need a toyota somthing relible like this. Good old cars.
I don't know for sure about the UK, but here in Australia, that particular model Corolla seems to be much like a 1990s version of the original VW Beetles. They're quite compact in size, yet so many people have been keeping them alive and you still see so many people driving one, and it's not mostly just P-platers and old people that drive them either.
Jon S your car is just out of the dealer bud! I have a 2009 corolla 178k miles and drives like a dream! They just refuse to die! I haven’t had a car payment in 6 years and 60$ insurance a month! Cold ac and everything works amazing cars!
The Toyota Corolla was a boring square box. But then so was the VW Golf! Seriously, take a look at it, I always thought the Golf at the time was just an insipid box on wheels. So were many cars of that era. But over the decades, Toyota learnt and improved the shape of the Corolla and so did VW with the Golf. I now like the look of the modern Corolla and the Golf.
6:55 Clarkson actually do have a point on that question. Sure, I wouldn't mind owning a sensible and reliable car for everyday. But if it looks like that Corolla, I'll just pass. I don't want to buy a car as just a mere tool of transportation. If I wanted to use vehicles as a tool of transportation, I would rather get a bus or an LRT!
Scotty Kilmer watching this with a smile on his face...
He says that there's no passion in the design but I think the Japanese put their passion into the build quality, old Toyotas are just so reliable.
Very true specifically older models some 70s, some of the 80s, and of course the 90s and early 2000s models.
Good investment cause it helped them build a great reputation
Corolla for life
amen! my '99 corolla has 250K miles and is still going.
Jimmy Figueras welcome to the club
Corolla is the Nokia of cars.
hope it's a short one
the new one looks incredible, outside and inside. good review, too. i want one
4:30 My heart began beating out of my chest, I thought he was going to drop a piano on it or some shit
Hahaha 😃 you hilarious
Your comment made me skip forward to see if that happened
I had more fun in my 1994 1.3 Toyota Corolla estate than any other car I’ve owned. I bought it at 60k and got rid of it at 276k. Did nothing but change brakes tyres and oil and thrashed it every day I drove it. It never let me down and surprised many a boy racer. It was predictable handling, forgiving when pushed to the limit, fast, comfortable, spacious, cheap to run and ultimately the one I would choose of all the cars I owned. Yes the 1340 mini was more fun, as was the supercharged BMW E18 but I was constantly working on them to maintain them. The Toyota? Just drive it hard and put it away wet and it was always ready for more. So yes, best car ever.
Should have kept it man.
Reliability is all. As Basil Fawlty said to his car "If you don't go, there's no point in having you"
Toyotas are not perfect, they have their faults but in the main, people buy them, me included because they are well made, reliable, nice to drive and long lasting.
Simon George nice to drive? clealy you have never drivin a nice car then
You have obviously not heard of the older corollas Mr2 or Supra
and GT86 (:
My dad has had a 1986, 1987 and 1985 toyota corolla, my mother had a newer one and my grandma still has one. Hers is a 98 with over a quarter of a million miles on it, if everything goes right i will be getting her car because it isn't getting used anymore. I took it for a drive and it ran and transmission shifted just like it did years ago when i was in grade school, needs a little suspension work. None of the corollas my family had/has have given many problems, just normal things like oil, power steering hose and simple things like that. Why have a fancy car when you can get a simple one that will get you from A to B for many years to come?
Well new Toyota's drives nicely
This is the definition of a fine car, a car that operate every day. Not machine that need to fix regularly
Still driving my 2000 Corolla - it has NEVER given one bit of trouble (the BMW 323 I had for 18 months is a different story). Probably will still be driving it in 2030 - before the Government forces it off the road.
May I ask, is your last name really Coomber? Badass
best car ever. its such a timeless vehicle
Jeremy has said many times that he's the world's most impractical man, so of course he would hate the Corolla. I've had one, and he's right, it is quite dull.....but people don't buy the Corolla for excitement, they buy it because it's reliable.
yep most of my family has bought a corolla for reliability
Thats becouse you havent driven an ae86 yet 🥀🤫
İ used Toyota Corolla in 1991-97 y.y. it was a best car in my life. I loved that car & still love...
When I become wealthy, even if I have a garage full of luxury cars, I'll still have a Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic in the fleet.
Because those luxury cars will be money pits in 5 years, while the Civic or Corolla have a long life ahead. Due to friction and gravity, eventually some parts in the Civic or Corolla will break, but the fortunate advantage is that the parts are readily available, affordable, and I won't be bound to the mercy of the dealership for parts. Can't say the same with the luxury brands, for example: Mercedes Benz S-Class owners in Australia either can't get parts or take forever to get parts from Germany.
Your luxury car would be an Lexus LFA, an Accord and a Camry
Car is not a girl, You choose it not for how it looks.
I have to agree for reliability and cheap to own
corolla and camry are the best care you can get - get them cheap, take good care of them and they will last you forever - and you wont have to stress about people denting your car and stuff. fuck cars, from childhood we are brainwashed by society that a car defines our worth - and in the end cars become one of the biggest wastes of money in our lives.
TheRoshan89 You can have the best care on any kinds of cars, literally.
Btw, I -1 on your last sentence.
i have no fucking idea what shit you posted
Lopaka Volmer i
TheRoshan89 can't forget about a Yaris, Camry and previa
Couldn’t have said it better 🙌🏻
had no clue i could have smoked the gti guy at my school
A car that's just a reliable car, nothing fancy about it. Good gas mileage and never breaks down.
Superb transportation appliance. About as exciting as a washing machine.
It gets you where you want to go in a reasonable amount of time, fairly comfortably and cheaply, with no fuss, every single time. I love it. I hate it. I've owned two, and have one now. I'm almost 65, and it may be the last car I ever own.
Lmao that Golf just got an education in _Gapanese_
I see what you did there 👁👄👁
I just realised how old my corolla really is...
Jeremy Clarkson: "Any mechanical, electrical or miscellanious problems?"
Me: (Answering for my now 24 year old Corolla) "I don't have any".
i have a 93 corolla gli and its my first car and will never sell my car! parts are very cheap! and very easy to upgrade and modify! and very reliable
I love my 25years old Corolla.
The most passionate car because i had many girls in the back seat all this years all over Greece and islands and never had a problem.Thats why a i love it.I know i can go everywhere do whatever i want to all weather and never betray me.Long live Corolla.
Two of my cousins were sitting on a two lane two way highway trying to a take a left turn when a full size suburban rear ended them at 40 mph. Luckily my cousin some what saw it coming and was able to steer away from incoming traffic. That little Corolla left both of them with zero injuries while the whole trunk crumpled and took the impact. Amazing cars that saved two of my family members lives. Me and my brother also shared a corolla that was a generation before this platform and what a awesome car. 30+mpg, half million miles on and just wouldn't stop. Sold it to an idiot for $300 and he blew it up somehow. But I now have a 3rd gen 4runner (best SUV ever!) and 3 supras. Best of both worlds as far as toyota's go.
Speed isn't everything
I love my 1993 toyota Corolla, no faults totally reliable a sheer joy to drive
I have a 1992 celica GT convertible. It has a 2.2l 5SFE engine which is also in most Camry's and Corollas. It is designed purely for longevity. I love that it always works and I can work on it myself. in 2017, she will be a classic. A new paint job for her : D
Im pretty sure no Corollas came with anything higher than an 1.8 engine in its lifetime. I have a 1996 1.8L Toyots Corolla LE with 229907 miles on it (370000 Kilometers) and its reliability is never in doubt as I continue to beat on it in canadas harsh weather conditions, but man i always wanted a Celica lol.
Actually,you're not going to believe this!
Just yesterday,while driving in Vancouver,I spotted in the front of me.Tenth generation (E 140),Corolla XRS.
It had deep black paint and spoilers,all around the car,and set of nice aluminum wheels.
So today I went to check on "Wikipedia",to find out,is it really high-perfomance grade of Corolla,(Like XRS ninth generation),or just a badge.
The XRS (North American tenth generation,2006-2013),grade is equiped with the 2.4-liter 2AZ-FE I4 engine,the same used in the Camry.
It has 158 hp @ 6 000 rpm,and Torque is 162 Ib-ft @ 4 000 rpm..
Broj 1 what the fuck. The more you know i guess
Broj 1 rarest car in the world
Yes!
I have 2006. Corolla with 140 000 kilometers on odometer.
Excellent car.
For long distance highway driving,I would like to have that 2.4 liter engine in Corolla.And off course,6 speed manual transmission.
When he said "2.0 Golf" I knew the Corolla would win 😂
I don't see why people think they are boring they are fun to drive I have a 1996 corolla sedan race car
Same here mines a 1.8 5 speed sedan white .I made my own cai since these cars don't come with them it's a long one not that stupid lil one u can buy.made a loud exhaust 91 only.15inch rims .195/60/15. No passenger seat 😎. empty trunk.clean egr.clean tb.kn cone .etc
After having, Renault, Mazda, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet, Porsche my second car which is a Corolla, which I raced it (Yes autocross), driving it daily, my kids learn how to drive, did some mods, 165000 miles and keep going strong, this car just don't die is the most reliable car ever, every time my mind try to make me sell it, I just spend some money on it and calm down
Toyota All the Way 😮😅😅👍👍😎😎!!!
That corolla look better than the vw it was tested with
it looks best in sedan and wagon form
If I didn’t have a Toyota GT86 I’d have a Toyota Corolla
The only thing I hate about my 1996 Corolla DX: it is red. It is red and it's all mottled, faded and nearly down bare to the metal in numerous places. Oh, and the plastic (WHY?!) interior door handles have all broken... the headliner is in tatters with rotted gritty adhesive free to blow about all over, trunk lever snapped off, seat belt receptacle doesn't latch (passenger's is what I've used from 2008 and it's going too), basically all of the cosmetics/interior is deteriorated and falling apart in live time, the 15W factory speakers suck and have long since blown (and what the hell was with 4" speakers in the doors, man?) and she also doesn't see quite 32mpg anymore either... probably not even 26mpg... dunno, because the trip meter stopped working in 2006... *HOWEVER* I never, but I mean never ever, have engine trouble (*unrelated to routine maintenance as like hoses, belts and seals/gaskets, battery, PCV valve etc. etc. EVEN THEN, it's once in a blue moon). Not bad at all for $6,000 secondhand in 1998. Can't score like that anymore, tell you what. She blue books for MAYBE $800 in "pristine condition" today... but in reality, she's absolutely priceless. I have literally had people beating down the front door to buy her but I won't sell (I am no fool). I'm running her until she's legit totaled... but 218,000 miles and that is STILL green for these 7AFE's. Been best buds since I was 8 years old and the day she dies, that's the day I finally go in for two wheels (I loathe all cars made after 1998, you see. Case in point, ALUMINUM blocks? ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME? AND FOR $20,000+? OH, HELL NAW!!!)... but I'll more likely than not be pushing 40 years old by then, no joke. OH! And we've put MAYBE $4,000 into her for ROUTINE MAINTENANCE... she STILL hasn't cost more than we'd bought her for. THAT is why you'd choose a Toyota... but a 1997 or earlier. New ones aren't what they were... still head and shoulders above the rest, but still not as good or better than they ought to be now, very sad to say. Toyota certainly has shifted focus over to eye-candy and needless luxury amenities, sacrificing some parts and build quality and reliability for them, same as all the rest of them. It really is a crying shame, that.
Look, you're still better off buying a 1990's and fixing it up than you are a brand spanking new model. By very far. It'll be a better vehicle and cost you less than the abomination they're asking for the newer, inferior model years. Believe it.
Im looking into buying an 8th generation corolla 98-02 or the e10 corollas 95-98 but i know that emissions testing will be a pain in the ass.
Very true best car specifically 1998 to 2002 year models, well the 70s and 80s too, but those models mentioned were the best.
I've only seen one for sale on Facebook market, dont know if its still available, but its in white with 1.6 petrol engine and in automatic, its 1996 model, im thinking of buying it if its available as I need to sell my current car, but I need a toyota somthing relible like this. Good old cars.
Any 1994 Corolla LX Limited owner here? Is rhe car still running strong?
Md. Ehsanul Haque Kanan Mine still is 76k miles still running strong.
Toyota Corolla = boring but reliable
Hard to broke down
Performance good enough
Easy to maintenance
Good economy
Good control and feeling
It still beat most of the car nowadays
I have the exact same car 👌👌👌😂
I have Toyota Corolla 2014 s model and it has 86k miles and still runs brand new
My cousin owns a 95 Corolla and still running strong.
I don't know for sure about the UK, but here in Australia, that particular model Corolla seems to be much like a 1990s version of the original VW Beetles. They're quite compact in size, yet so many people have been keeping them alive and you still see so many people driving one, and it's not mostly just P-platers and old people that drive them either.
Same in new Zealand even three years later, plenty of these on the road still
*AE111 Blacktop enters the chat*
Toyota Corolla 6th generation is one of the best model ever.
recorded with potato
Mr Clarkson you bellend
Too bad this was 30 some odd years ago and now Toyota is damn near as bad as GM
Just bought a 2003 Brad Pitt Corolla and drove 700 miles...not a single problema, not to mention how great it feels.
Reliable!!!!
The body is a device for keeping the occupaNT dry
I love my 1997 Toyota Corolla
The Nokia 3310 of Cars
"We shall stage a race:"
*Corolla vs Naked Man*
Billy- Japanese Cars are 200% better your American Cars especially American pride Ford 🤪
Title should be changed to 'Jeremy Clarkson failing miserably to diss the best generation of the Toyota Corolla' >:)
I just bought a toyota corolla 2002 vvti 1.400...this car i loved it from the first sight.
Oh well, I was like Jeremy in the beginning. I hated Corolla, but in the end. This car is awesome now. *only if you forget about other cars*
Got a looooooong way to go on my 2013 corolla with 72k miles.
Jon S your car is just out of the dealer bud! I have a 2009 corolla 178k miles and drives like a dream! They just refuse to die! I haven’t had a car payment in 6 years and 60$ insurance a month! Cold ac and everything works amazing cars!
I LIKED COROLLAS FROM 1970-1974. 1974-1976. 1976-1983. 1983-1992
Only Jeremy will compare a corolla with luttuce
The Toyota Corolla was a boring square box. But then so was the VW Golf! Seriously, take a look at it, I always thought the Golf at the time was just an insipid box on wheels. So were many cars of that era. But over the decades, Toyota learnt and improved the shape of the Corolla and so did VW with the Golf. I now like the look of the modern Corolla and the Golf.
I think the corolla are quite stylish actually the camrys seem dull
This model never dies. Got it from my father.
Deposits him at his destination does it? Better that than halfway and stranded.
I'm gonna buy a 1995 Corolla .. never breaks
Great video
WOWWWWW
Great car, great persenter - pity they didn't get on.
Old ass cars
That's what rice is for bro. Fart can!
I gt a 1994 saloon and they are rare in here uk
What’s the air date of show.
Compare an apple with an apple. Lol.
Anyone would know what are those recording artists in the video called?
PENGCHONG JIA spice girls
best car ever made
Lol how old is this
I LOVED IT
Bad ass vid
Corolla=Power
6:55 Clarkson actually do have a point on that question. Sure, I wouldn't mind owning a sensible and reliable car for everyday. But if it looks like that Corolla, I'll just pass.
I don't want to buy a car as just a mere tool of transportation. If I wanted to use vehicles as a tool of transportation, I would rather get a bus or an LRT!
I love my Carolla! 2013, manual transmission. I love it!!
Bur what about your Corolla?