2026 Toyota Corolla sedan facelift in Guangzhou – new face, interior, large touchscreen, coming to Malaysia?

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Sitting successful a quiescent country of FAW Toyota’s Auto Guangzhou booth is the facelifted 12th-generation Toyota Corolla sedan – astonishing fixed this is the astir fashionable mentation of what is inactive the best-selling conveyance of each time. The deficiency of attraction to this car belies the important changes that person been made, aimed astatine keeping it caller aft a whopping 7 years connected the market.

As seen successful a erstwhile leak, the Corolla receives an all-new beforehand extremity that takes a leafage from the latest Prius and Camry, sporting Toyota’s latest “hammerhead” plan lined framed by C-shaped headlights. Lower down, you’ll find L-shaped bumper corners with integrated fog lights starring into the slimmer centre aerial intake.

The cross-spoke alloy wheels are besides new, looking suspiciously akin to the rollers connected the facelifted sixth-generation Lexus ES from 2015 – they adjacent person the aforesaid 17-inch diameter. Also added is simply a achromatic triangle astatine the trailing borderline of the rear 4th airy windows to visually lengthen the glasshouse, portion astatine the rear, an illuminated reddish portion has been added to link the (now smoked) inverted L-shaped taillights.

Even bigger changes are to beryllium recovered inside. There’s a acold much modern dashboard and doorway paper plan incorporating full-width aerial vents and different enactment of centre vents underneath. Below this you’ll find a wider centre console with dual smartphone holders (one of which houses a Qi wireless charger), arsenic is present successful manner successful China.

The Corolla continues to employment an 8.8-inch integer instrumentality display, but the centre touchscreen is present a floating portion measuring a monolithic (by Toyota standards astatine least) 12.9 inches across, moving connected a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip. Controversially, the carnal air-con switchgear has been replaced by in-touchscreen controls; it remains to beryllium seen if this volition beryllium carried implicit to planetary markets wherever the car’s emblematic purchaser illustration is usually overmuch much conservative.

It’s each alteration nether the bonnet arsenic well. Out spell the Chinese-market 1.2 litre 9NR-FTS four-cylinder and 1.5 litre M15B-FTS three-pot engines, successful favour of a 171 PS 2.0 litre M20E-FTS naturally-aspirated mill that’s apt mated to a CVT. There’s besides a hybrid exemplary that uses a 98 PS 1.8 litre Atkinson-cycle motor and dual electrical motors, on with a caller nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery. Toyota claims this variant is susceptible of a combined substance depletion of 4.13 litres per 100 km and a scope of 1,041 km.

Could we spot the facelifted Corolla successful planetary markets specified arsenic Malaysia? Such a far-reaching upgrade is surely necessary, fixed the 12th generation’s property and the information that the out-there next-gen model inactive seems a ways distant from reaching production. However, we volition astir apt person a little fancy infotainment strategy and a antithetic motor – apt the aforesaid 139 PS/172 Nm 2ZR-FE 1.8-litre Dual VVT-i mill arsenic before.