Originally posted by Pine
It's got a supercharger...
...but it can't rescue the car
...but it can't rescue the car
The Corolla T-Sport is about to be decommissioned thanks to emissions fiends, so as a final fling Toyota has bolted a supercharger to 250 examples and given them a name that sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
On the cut-and-thrust lanes of middle England it's the motor that lets the Corolla down first. Go to overtake from 30mph in second and the Compressor gives an initial surge as you floor the throttle, but that subsides quickly and you're left watching the rev-counter until it passes 6000rpm, whereupon it starts to sound and feel like it's coming to life. Unlike the Civic Type-R's VTEC, it isn't aurally seductive, sounding harsh and unhappy at high revs.
The steering feels like there's too much sproing and rubber in the system and as pace increases it leaves you without any useful information. You can persuade the back end to play but it hardly feels like second nature.
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