New Corolla debuts … in China

[thegriffon]

While Japan gets a boring facelift based on the old model, the longer Asian Corolla also built in the US has been replaced by a new wide-body model sharing styling cues with the Camry.

http://auto.sina.com.cn/photo/cpublish/154916.shtml

[Intrepidation]

You know, it ain'y half bad, especially from this angle:

[Northstar]

I see Camry in the front, Accord in the side, and a terrible c-pillar.

[Z-06]

It is still FUGLY.

[!!!TED!!!]

Awwww, its a baby Camry. Cutchy cutchy coo!

Actually, not bad. Better than the Japanese model.

[sciguy_0504]

The Accord-esque sides are horrible and the "Camry mated with a tC" front end could be better. I'd like to see the back but there are no photos I believe.

[aaaantoine]

The grille blends between a Yaris and a Camry.

Aside from that I could have sworn I was looking at a Camry in Dodgefan's post (and thus I thought Dodgefan was cracking a joke about its similarity to the Camry).

[Guest YellowJacket894]

Yeah. I'm not feeling it, especially the weird lines on the front 3/4 panel.

I'll be fair here: the headlamps do look decent. The shape isn't that bad.

[Paolino]

What's with the 3D gauges?

http://auto.sina.com.cn/photo/cpublish/154932.shtml

[Drew Dowdell]

it's a Camry that they ran into a brick wall a few dozen times.

[frogger]

Meh its decent... I don't really like any compact economy sedans except the Mazda.

[regfootball]

it's also jetta like from the side.

the design mediocrity in this segment is amazing.

it's ok....and i guess ok flies here.

it IS better than the new Elantra. I like the Sentra better. Jetta is better. Mazda 3 still is the class of the field.

[thegriffon]

More pics and info from the European debut in Helsinki:

http://auto-report.net/WordPress/?p=276

[ToniCipriani]

From that side profile:

Front looks like a 2002 Protege, rear looks like a Kia Amanti.

[FAPTurbo]

All new, and it still will make everybody nearby impotent because it is STILL boring.

[frogger]

It looks large. Meh only Honda and Mazda attempted to put any style into their 4 door sedans in this segment. The rest get a D at best for effort.

[Drew Dowdell]

Considering the Astra is on it's way..... uhm... no

[ehaase]

Toyota will have no problem selling 300,000 of these per year in the U.S., even if the Mazda3 and several others are superior.

[thegriffon]

Toyota will have no problem selling 300,000 of these per year in the U.S., even if the Mazda3 and several others are superior.

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Toyota could sell 300,000 Model Ts a year if they had Corolla badges.

[carman21]

Please! Please GM! Kill this bitch of a car with the next Cobalt.

[Sixty8panther]

This is a solid F in terms of styling.

70% Camry

20% Accord

10% Civic

Add those up & it leaves you 0% for any originality!

[gm4life]

Hey it ain't bad better than the ugly new Camry. Its pretty good. Still its a Toyota so I dislike it.

[ponchoman49]

OMG a bodyside molding! I thought those were outlawed with every new car design. Must be Toyota is sick of all the complaints from consumers hense the $195.00 option on all Camry and Avalon models built after October. Too bad they grafted on the Miss Piggy grille from the Camry.

[Sixty8panther]

It still looks HORRIBLE!!!!!