2022 Toyota GR Corolla

Test figures: Toyota GR Corolla automatic

We strapped our test equipment to the Toyota GR Corolla automatic to find out how it fares on our test strip.

In August 2024, Toyota whipped the wraps off the updated GR Corolla, which introduced more torque and the firm’s eight-speed Direct Automatic Transmission (DAT) to the Japanese automaker’s pinnacle hot-hatch package. Now officially available in SA, we strapped our test equipment to the DAT-equipped GR Corolla to find out how it fares on our standardised test strip. The updated model’s 1.6-litre turbo-triple produces 210 kW and 400 N.m of torque – the former and latter available from 6 500 and 3 250 r/min, respectively. Power is delivered to the road via Toyota’s GR-Four all-wheel-drive system.

Toyota GR Corolla automatic acceleration times

On our test strip, the (1 497 kg, tested) GR Corolla press unit completed the 0-100 km/h sprint in 5.98 seconds; nearly seven-tenths of a second off its maker’s 5.3-second claim. Our test equipment recorded 0-120 and 0-140 km/h figures of 7.86 and 10.31 seconds, respectively. The test car covered the quarter mile in 14.07 seconds at a speed of 165.14 km/h, before breaching the 1 km marker 11.38 seconds later, at 25.45 seconds, with a speed of 208.87 km/h. In the overtaking acceleration stakes, the GR Corolla automatic sprinted between the 80-100, 100-120 and 120-140 km/h increments in 1.64, 1.89 and 2.45 seconds, respectively.

0-100 km/h – 5.98 seconds
0-120 km/h – 7.86 seconds
0-140 km/h – 10.31 seconds
Quarter mile – 14.07 seconds
1 km – 25.45 seconds

Toyota GR Corolla automatic specifications
Price: R1 020 800
Powertrain: 1.6-litre, three-cylinder, turbopetrol
Transmission: eight-speed automatic
Driven wheels: all
Power: 210 kW @ 6 500 r/min
Torque: 400 N.m @ 3 250-4 600 r/min
Claimed 0-100 km/h: 5.3 seconds
Tested 0-100 km/h: 5.98 seconds
Top speed: 230 km/h (claimed)
Fuel consumption: 9.5 L/100 km (claimed)
CO2 emissions: 215 g/km (claimed)

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Test figures: Toyota GR Corolla automatic

We strapped our test equipment to the Toyota GR Corolla automatic to find out how it fares on our test strip...
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Hardcore Toyota GRMN Corolla unleashed

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division has whipped the wraps off its most focused Corolla yet. Boasting more power and aero enhancements, meet the GRMN Corolla.

Gazoo Racing (GR), Toyota’s motorsport division, has revealed the GRMN Corolla. Developed as a more extreme version of the Japanese automaker’s midsize hot hatch, the GRMN is lighter, features enhanced aerodynamics and boasts more power than the “standard” GR Corolla. The new apex model was fine-tuned at the Nürburgring by Toyota Chairperson and Master Driver Akio Toyoda, aka Morizo, who also had a hand in the GR Yaris Morizo RR limited edition.

The GRMN Corolla retains the GR’s 1.6-litre turbo-triple. However, in this application, the three-cylinder unit has been tuned to produce 224 kW and 415 N.m of torque – increases of 14 kW and 15 N.m over the GR. Peak power output is available from 6 500 r/min, with the full complement of torque on tap between 3 600 and 4 800 r/min. The GRMN Corolla benefits from an intercooler spray system, improving cooling on top of the cool-air duct that’s already found in the GR Corolla.

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Hardcore Toyota GRMN Corolla unleashed

Toyota GR has whipped the wraps off the most focused Corolla yet. Boasting more power and aero enhancements, meet the GRMN Corolla...
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Hot hatch king? This is the carbon-obsessed GRMN Corolla

Toyota unveils its “ultimate GR Corolla”, but we still won’t get it in the UK

Well, aren’t the Japanese, Americans and Australians lucky? They’re the fortunate ones that'll be able to buy this GRMN Corolla, with deliveries set to begin at some point next year.

What actually is the GRMN Corolla? Well, Toyota describes it as “the ultimate GR Corolla” and that elongated badge stands for ‘Gazoo Racing tuned by the Meister of Nürburgring’. So, while the standard hot hatch was already rather special, this one has been honed at the Green Hell to be even better.

On the outside that means new aero spec body panels, with the bonnet, front wings, side skirts and adjustable rear spoiler all made from carbon fibre. Most of those bits were actually developed from the hydrogen-engined GR Corolla that competes in the Japanese Super Taikyu Series, with ‘fine-tuning’ at the ‘Ring.

The GRMN also gets bespoke monotube shocks at the front and rear “for improved inner-wheel traction during cornering and for enhanced high-speed cornering performance”. Nerdy stuff. There are also Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres that are 10mm wider than the GR’s, and both the four-wheel drive control system and the electronic power steering have been tweaked for on-track performance.

 
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