It’s just a little identified indisputable fact that petrolheads secretly love a sports activities wagon. It’s akin to that one responsible pleasure Taylor Swift tune – a.ok.a. Shake It Off – that you just’ll instantly skip when you’re within the automobile with different individuals, however jam at full quantity by yourself. As such, it appears to be like like Toyota may be trying to launch a spicy GRMN model of its Corolla Touring.
Earlier than we begin, we’d be remiss to not point out that the Corolla Touring isn’t presently accessible within the states. Nevertheless, that shouldn’t subtract from the car’s credentials or the truth that a sportier model could possibly be on the way in which.
For the uninitiated, the GRMN callsign interprets to Gazoo Racing Meister of Nürburgring. Whereas the GR signifies a few of the Japanese automaker’s racing DNA has been injected into the car, we are able to solely guess what updates the Corolla will get.
In keeping with Spyder7, the outside will seemingly embrace a large-diameter matrix grille to offer optimum cooling efficiency. Together with the brand new entrance fascia, different mods might probably embrace an below spoiler, rear spoiler, rear diffuser, and aspect skirts. Whereas we’d wager the outside alterations are principally for aesthetics, issues will seemingly be a bit totally different below the pores and skin.
Beneath the hood, it would seemingly sport the identical turbocharged 1.6-liter inline-three-cylinder engine from the GR Yaris. And that’s a great factor, as a result of with 257 horsepower (192 kilowatts) on faucet, it’s essentially the most highly effective three-cylinder engine ever fitted to a manufacturing automobile. Following the identical sample, the brand new mannequin will seemingly additionally obtain the GR Yaris’ AWD system.
Whereas the Corolla Touring GRMN is predicted to debut someday round September of 2021, let’s wait and see what occurs. Ought to the sporty wagon materialize, we’d wager that fanatics would chunk your arm off to get behind the wheel.
