Mention the small steel cannon, the appearance rate of the Golf GTI is relatively high. It should be known that the car has decades of historical qualifications since its launch in 1976, and with a short wheelbase, lightweight body, strong power, and a racing-like chassis, many groups pursuing a sense of control love, and even many core players will spend a lot of money to modify the car. Wherever there is a market, there will inevitably be competitors, as strong as the Golf GTI, in fact, there are many fierce competitors, familiar with the Honda Civic TYPE R. It is reported that this car has been in the world-class competition New North Loop, with 7 minutes 43.8 seconds of data, created the fastest new north front-drive mass production car record, suddenly famous, and deeply favored by performance enthusiasts, at the same time, even with the regular version of the Civic has also become a regular customer in the modification market, some of them will be Civic to make major changes, there are also many Civic users, the regular version of the Civic logo replaced by a very representative red label and other small changes, the heat is not worse than the Golf GTI.
In fact, in the Japanese car camp, Honda is not the only one who has achieved a lot in the performance car market, to know that Nissan has launched a Juke-R with the same power as the Nissan GT-R, Toyota also released a high-performance sports brand GAZOO Racing, and after the GR SUPRA, GR YARiS and GR 86 three models, and launched the fourth "small steel cannon" - GR Corolla. Judging from the information released a while ago, GR Corolla will launch two versions of Core and Circuit Edition, of which the Core version is expected to land in the US market at the end of this year, and the latter is expected to be launched next year, which shows that the Golf GTI will usher in a new rival.
It is reported that GR Corolla recently unveiled at the 2022 New York Auto Show, the car's uneven cover, but also equipped with two black air intakes, fork shape of the headlight size is not small, and with the flat shape of the upper grille integrated, narrow and wide black lower grille, the size is still quite exaggerated, the upper mesh upper layer using a banner design, the middle by the sealed black mesh combination, the lower is equipped with a hollow design of the black mesh, but add a lot of layering. In addition, in the right front of the closed mesh middle mesh, there is a special logo of GR, and the lower ends are equipped with round hole fog lights, and the illuminated front of the car is sharper.
Although the car is provided with four doors, the side of the body is still tight, the front fenders are equipped with a black vent design, the body surface is multi-line design, 18-inch multi-spoke wheels, which are blackened and fixed by 5 screws, in addition, the red calipers inside occupy nearly half of the brake discs, which really improves the sporty atmosphere of the body part. The tail light shape of the rear of the car is similar to the headlights, the large size of the rear bumper slightly beyond the upper layer, the bottom is also equipped with an irregular large size black skid plate, and at the bottom of the guard plate, you can also see the diffuser divided into two of the original three outlet exhaust ports, the overall view, the design of the new car is indeed quite sporty, exaggerated.
GR Corolla car is the main color of pure black, in the three-frame multi-function steering wheel, you can see the GR logo, the front of the LCD instrument screen in the middle, also show the GR logo, the recognition is indeed not low. The center console seems to be wrapped in leather, the central console in front of the slope is slightly open, the large LCD central control screen is integrated with the air conditioning control panel, and the two ends of the air conditioning panel decorated with black bright boards are also left with physical buttons. The gearbox console doesn't seem to be connected to the center console, the manual gearbox occupies a lot of space, and the rounded gear handle provides a good grip. The one-piece racing-style seats, the cushions are made of turned fur, the backrest and the cushions are wrapped in leather, and the GR logo can be seen on the headrests, which really strengthens the intensity of the sporty atmosphere.
As for power, the new car is equipped with a G16E-GTS 1.6T three-cylinder engine, matched with a 6-speed manual transmission, bringing a maximum power of 300 horsepower, and in order to improve handling, the GR-Four four-wheel drive system will not be absent, not only that, circuit Edition models will also be equipped with front and rear limited slip differential locks. It should be known that although the Golf GTI is equipped with a 2.0T engine, the maximum power is only 220 horsepower, and compared with the two, it can be found that the performance advantage of the GR Corolla is not small. Not only that, but the Golf GTI on sale is equipped with a front-facing drive drive, while the GR Corolla is equipped with a four-wheel drive system, and when the original factory is shipped, the GR Corolla is slightly better than the Golf GTI.
Summary: At present, young people's interest in the power performance part is not small, plus they are the main consumer force of the market, so many car companies are also willing to cater to their tastes, and then launch a lot of good performance coupes. But to be honest, compared to the small steel cannons such as the Golf GTI, the coupe is still less interesting, and because of this, the audience of this type of model is gradually increasing, I think this should be one of the reasons why Toyota is willing to launch a new brand. From the perspective of GR Corolla's existing product strength, it has brought threats to the Golf GTI, that is, I don't know whether the new car will be introduced into The Country, or whether it will be like the Civic TYPE R, which is mainly based on overseas markets?