Toyota treats the GR Corolla like its favourite child. Yearly to this point, there’s been a tiny replace that ensures a minuscule enhance in efficiency, and for 2025, it’s one other brace of refined adjustments that add as much as make a tiny distinction. Oh, and there’s a brand new entrance fascia that appears like Shredder.
For 2024, the GRC received nerdy stuff like reshaped air curtain ducts and strips of aluminum tape behind the entrance bumper to extend aerodynamic effectivity by decreasing static discharge. And it’s an analogous story for 2025–a slight enhance in rear anti-squat helps enhance rear stiffness, rebound springs within the dampers enhance general traction, and a retuning of the clutch pedal makes the clutch engagement extra optimistic and springier.
The one vital adjustments are a bump in torque: 295 pound-feet from 273, because of the ECU tune from the Morizo version, and an non-obligatory computerized gearbox that I didn’t get to check. But.
Of the three fashionable sport compacts–Hyundai Elantra N, Honda Civic Sort R, and GRC–the GRC was all the time probably the most charismatic of the bunch, and the least apologetic. There was all the time one thing to the three-cylinder rumble, the slight dinkiness to the inside, and the beautiful steering calibration that made it straightforward to fall in love.
Fortunately, that’s nonetheless true of the 2025 GRC. You’ll simply have to look at our newest YouTube video to search out out why.
