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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: GR Corolla

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Toyota GR Corolla test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So this is different. We're actually at our local track for once. That's pretty cool. This is cool

0:04.4

We're at Utah Motorsports campus in the Toyota GR Corolla

0:07.4

There's three flavors the core the circuit for 2023 only and the mariso

0:11.9

We're going to try to do them back-to-back

0:13.5

We're starting off in the core. We've already had some familiarization laps

0:17.2

But now we get to actually go out and drive and I can tell you right away the only problem

0:21.3

I've found with the core so far because you can spec it up like the circuit is these base seats are not

0:25.9

Really great for tracking that's that's not enough. That's not great

0:29.4

But otherwise and those up seats upgrade theoretically are coming but we're talking right now

0:34.2

You can make this this has limited slip diff

0:35.8

It has all the other stuff of the upper level

0:37.8

That's right on the core the core does come with open discs to start with

0:41.9

But you can get the performance back and get the LSD's front and rear which is what this car does have

0:46.7

So all of the cars here have LSD's I'm in track mode, which is the 50 50

0:50.9

I'm working a Corolla just so you know. Yes, I am tracking a Corolla. Yes

0:55.9

300 horsepower 273 pound feet of torque having to brace myself. Yeah, you do but look at that you can play with it

1:02.5

I'm playing with it. Definitely. I mean I'm in 50 50 mode right now the track mode is automatically 50 50

1:08.4

I'm going to go to 70 30 or 30 70 here in just a second because I actually do prefer that mode

1:14.1

There's subtle changes you can still tell even in the 30 70 mode

1:18.1

You can still tell this thing for real drive design chassis. Yeah, so the front always involved it never is like

1:24.3

Whoa, it's a rear-wheel drive car. It's not doing that the other limitation that we have here is the fact that thing on

1:32.7

We are only getting one hot lap at a time right now

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