My Toyota Corolla Cross rant

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Foxhound5366

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Nothing I say here is new, and I’ve seen @FiestaST alluding to this on the main thread, but damn … after test-driving a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid XR (the top trim), I am fuming at Toyota.

Firstly, the good. The Corolla Cross is assembled in South Africa, which makes it have a relatively amazing price (around R530 000 for the top-spec XR Hybrid is pretty good by modern standards).

I have no problem with local assembly. I was very happy with my locally-assembled Volkswagen Polo and never felt it lacked a thing or was sub-standard in any way (I had the Highline model).

Toyota’s methodology is very different. Driving the latest Corolla Cross Hybrid locally and listing all the differences with the international model for which there are glowing reviews, you get this laundry list of places Toyota had cheapened the car locally:
- No sunroof
- No option for powered boot
- Manual foot brake (instead of electronic parking brake)
- No JBL sound system
- No 12-inch wireless Apple Car Play capable screen (we get a ten-inch wired screen)

*sighs*

Yes the car gets 5.5l/100km which is amazing, so I can only imagine Toyota at least put their international hybrid system into the car, but what other shortcuts did Toyota South Africa take?

Apparently there’s a facelift on the way which fixes the shortcomings locally, but how could they do this in the first place: https://www.carmag.co.za/news/new-models/toyota-corolla-cross-gets-significant-update/

Aaaaaaaargh!

Ok I feel better, thanks.
 
Scuderia1 said:
so you say its a relatively amazing price and amazing consumption but want to rant that its missing a few luxuries?
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I want to rant that the top-spec here doesn’t have the same luxuries available on the top-spec overseas. Also not sure that a manual foot brake is “normal”. These days electronic parking brakes are pretty standard. If Toyota want to offer cheaper trims they can do that, but why strip out kit from their top-spec XR trim?

Making stuff in SA and then cheapening it … is not a good look for South African pride in our manufacturing capability.
 
epah said:
I dont think you understand what a Corolla cross actually is, it’s basically a Polo Vivo of a real Corolla. If you went to the dealership with that thought it mind then you would be a bit more forgiving.
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On the contrary, you don’t understand. Quest is not Cross.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Nothing I say here is new, and I’ve seen @FiestaST alluding to this on the main thread, but damn … after test-driving a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid XR (the top trim), I am fuming at Toyota.

Firstly, the good. The Corolla Cross is assembled in South Africa, which makes it have a relatively amazing price (around R530 000 for the top-spec XR Hybrid is pretty good by modern standards).

I have no problem with local assembly. I was very happy with my locally-assembled Volkswagen Polo and never felt it lacked a thing or was sub-standard in any way (I had the Highline model).

Toyota’s methodology is very different. Driving the latest Corolla Cross Hybrid locally and listing all the differences with the international model for which there are glowing reviews, you get this laundry list of places Toyota had cheapened the car locally:
- No sunroof
- No option for powered boot
- Manual foot brake (instead of electronic parking brake)
- No JBL sound system
- No 12-inch wireless Apple Car Play capable screen (we get a ten-inch wired screen)

*sighs*

Yes the car gets 5.5l/100km which is amazing, so I can only imagine Toyota at least put their international hybrid system into the car, but what other shortcuts did Toyota South Africa take?

Apparently there’s a facelift on the way which fixes the shortcomings locally, but how could they do this in the first place: https://www.carmag.co.za/news/new-models/toyota-corolla-cross-gets-significant-update/

Aaaaaaaargh!

Ok I feel better, thanks.
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had the XS hybrid the last year and hit 4.8kl/100 in winter

I hear the complaint but been happy with mine over the last year
 
Snyper564 said:
had the XS hybrid the last year and hit 4.8kl/100 in winter

I hear the complaint but been happy with mine over the last year
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But it doesnt have:
- No sunroof
- No option for powered boot
- Manual foot brake (instead of electronic parking brake)
- No JBL sound system
- No 12-inch wireless Apple Car Play capable screen (we get a ten-inch wired screen)

so how can you be happy?
 
epah said:
But it doesnt have:
- No sunroof
- No option for powered boot
- Manual foot brake (instead of electronic parking brake)
- No JBL sound system
- No 12-inch wireless Apple Car Play capable screen (we get a ten-inch wired screen)

so how can you be happy?
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I came from a corsa lite :p

if it had electric windows I would have been happy :P
 
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