GR Corolla – will it be performance car of the year

The sensational new Toyota GR Corolla hot hatch has sped into our Sydney City Toyota showrooms with a choice of four colours and a pre-order list that’s growing by the moment. Hot on the bumper of the GR Yaris which has been a sell-out, the GR Corolla has even more power (221kW) and torque (370Nm) and a wider rev band to make it even more fun.

It’s the most powerful Corolla we’ve ever experienced. It joins our growing GR (Gazoo Racing) range of GR

Yaris, GR86 and GR Supra – all of them designed to be spectacular on both road and track.

The GTS GR Corolla is a true five seater.

At the wildly enthusiastic media launch at Sydney Motor Sport Park, journalists learned there’s also a limited edition two seat version coming.

It’s to be called the Morizo, the racing pseudonym of Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda, and just 25 will be available in our market.

Toyota has announced plans to launch at least three electric vehicles in the next three years, starting with the bZ4X. Electrified vehicles, including our top selling hybrid electrics will account for more than half of our entire fleet by 2025.

In 2022 our guests, nationally, bought a record 72,815 hybridelectric Toyotas representing almost a third of total deliveries.

By 2030 Toyota globally plans to release 30 new electric vehicles and lift global deliveries to 3.5million a year.

All of which is great news – but is it enough?

At Sydney City Toyota we thought we could do a lot more to get on board the ‘green machine’.

So, we’ve gone solar.

Our massive pre-delivery and holding headquarters at Banksmeadow has just had 114solar panels fitted to its roof – and that makes it totally free of the electricity grid.

The panels will power 75,206 kilowatt hours of power each year, and that’s more than Banksmeadow requires.

We’re feeding the surplus power to our Glebe and Waterloo showrooms as well.