I have ordered myself a new Toyota Corolla Hybrid saloon, due in a couple of weeks. Does any one own the new Corolla and if so, any comments, (good or bad)?
Not a Corolla but I've had a couple of Toyota Hybrids. First the Auris and now a RAV4. No complaints about either of them. I would still have the Auris if someone hadn't shot a red light. The RAV4 is great because it is easy to get into with my bad back - no bending double. Happy motoring.
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Great reply, even though I'm increasingly impressed with what I read about hybrid cars.
But that doesn't really matter much to me either. :)
:beers:
Not a Hybrid but my wife's car was a RAV4 which we had from new for 16 years, the car never missed a beat.
Toyota's compared to other manufacturers out there have got it right when it comes down to reliability their engines are pretty much bullet proof.
Something else to to take into consideration Toyota's must be good because the Taliban and Arabs use em! ;)
I drove two Toyota Aquas on holiday in Japan last year.
Very impressed with them despite them being low powered city cars!
The second one we drove for about 100 miles and the fuel gauge didn't move, so the hire company didn't charge extra for fuel :-)
Hi @dannyboy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=4209)
I am sure you will be very pleased with your purchase. I was considering a hybrid myself but was put off when the government announced that they too would be included in the combustion engine ban in 2035.
I know this is 14 years away, but I may now hold on to see how the electric market pans out.
I hope you enjoy your new car.
Kind regards
Paddy
I'm still tempted to get a second hand i3 though just to see if I can get on with an all electric car.
Quote from: dannyboy on March 03, 2020, 11:42:48 AM
I have ordered myself a new Toyota Corolla Hybrid saloon, due in a couple of weeks. Does any one own the new Corolla and if so, any comments, (good or bad)?
The Corolla Hybrid is one of the cars on my Comapny's car list and I'm trying to find a way to order one for myself, well the estate version as I need the space, but my company are being a bit a**y about mileage, apparantly because I do more than 20k a year and spend more of my time on motorways I should be ordering a Diesel, with the BIK of anything from 25%-32% whereas the Corolla is less than 20%.
Also I had a look at the hatchback version and the boot is not a great size, but I've not had managed to look at an estate, although I have seen some on the road and they do look nice, also with being Toyotas they are pretty packed with Tech.
looking forward to your report on them, might sway my choice in a couple of months time ;) ;) ;)
Cheers
Neal.
@Calnefoxile (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=619) The delivery is scheduled for 17th March - which is St. Patricks Day! Not sure how that is going to work in Ireland - normally, most places are shut! However, once I do get the car, I will let you know my thoughts. :beers:
I'm not sure about electric cars. I was stuck in a traffic jam after an accident on the motorway a few winters back when we had snow. I had to keep running the engine to keep warm. I was only held up for 40 mins, but what if it had been overnight? How would you keep warm in an electric car without flattening the battery?
That is one reason why I never fancied getting an electric only car. The Corolla is a hybrid, so has both an electric motor and a 'conventional' petrol engine. I am still reading up on the car, but the 'conventional' engine keeps the battery for the electric engine topped up.
so finally doing what the railways have done for decades >:D
One thing to remember is that they don't have a starter motor, so if your hybrid battery goes flat, even if the 12v battery is OK, you won't start it. Unlikely to happen though.
I have a Mercedes C Class 300h (hybrid) estate and it is great more economic than my Skoda Citigo city car was on mixed driving I get a real world 54 mpg. So I am a confirmed fan of Hybrids.
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I had a 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid until August of last year (2019). Drove it for 180,000 reliable miles. Wonderful vehicle. Because of the two electric motors, the acceleration was great (at the time it was the fasted 0-60 Toyota sold in the US). Originally I used it for commuting (roughly half highway at 70+mph and half city stop-go) getting decent mileage for an SUV (about 36 miles per imperial gallon), but after retirement and moving away from the city, that dropped by 20% as most of the driving was on straight highways. I would imagine Ireland would make the hybrid very practical from a fuel economy point of view.
Not diesel economy, but in the US if the urea solution is too low or the NOx sensors go bad the car is disabled (won't start), so diesels are somewhat risky. I found that out the hard way when I traded the Toyota for a Diesel Range Rover Sport and discovered that the dealers were incompetent to work on them...car had availability under 80%, so was traded for a petrol Audi Q5 3.0 that's returning 31.5 miles per imperial gallon.
I suspect you'll love it!
Jon
I must admit I'm sorely tempted by a used top of the range Auris estate (Sports Touring) hybrid, but I'm not sure spending £18K on a 3 year old car is a wise move. It's only got 16K miles on the clock, and is £zero car tax, and is spotless, but I need convincing it's a good buy by someone who has one.
I have driven Lexus hybrids for 7 years and think there great. The eCVT is so smooth. Do not take any notice of the press saying it is noisy. That is only if you thrash it and want to drive like a twit. My commute does not include two laps of the neurunburg so it doesn't bother me. It's a great car to waft in. Take a test drive and you will see.
I'm having a test drive tomorrow, should be interesting as I haven't driven an automatic for over forty years. I'll let you know how I get on.
Well I collected the car yesterday. A solid, comfy, smooth car. Without looking at the dashboard, it is impossible to know if I am driving in electric or petrol mode, there is no difference whatsoever. The gearbox, (e-CVT), is seamless and the only way to hear any change in gearing is to 'floor' the accelerator, then you can feel the gears change a bit and there is a 'roar' from the gearbox until it catches up with the engine, (or is it the other way round?). Loads of safety aids and a good sound system, although I am having to transfer all my music and videos to a new USB stick as the one I had in the Astra is not compatible with the Corolla - I seem to recall I had to alter all the settings to play videos in the Astra, so it is more likely an Opel thing than a Toyota thing. I will not know until I do the first fill-up, (the dealer put in half a tank of petrol), but it looks like the MPG is going to be good. First impressions - excellent. :thumbsup:
@Calnefoxile (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=619)
Welcome to the enlightened minority.
I picked up my Auris Hybrid yesterday also. Not new like yours David, but three years old today. 18000 on the clock, a couple of paint chips but nothing serious, spotless inside, electric everything. As you say, seamless! I've done less than 20 miles so far, but the computer says I've managed an average 94 MPG. Being realistic, I really don't expect it to be that good all the time, but if I get 50 plus, I'll be more than happy. And a bonus, because it was first registered before 01/04/2017 (just), it's eligible for £zero road fund license.
Sadly, I've spent this afternoon polishing it, even though it didn't need it.
"I've spent this afternoon polishing it, even though it didn't need it."
if you lived round here you'd have been better employed welding RSJs onto your suspension to reinforce it driving along the pothole ridden roads the council 'can't afford to repair', note 'repair', their contractors 'patch' which generally means a couple of shovels of tarmac and back the lorry over it to flatten.
by next week it will be as bad, or worse, than before, but the contractors, and no doubt some councillors, will have made a nice profit.
Round here we are much more refined. For a start, the council do the repairs on the local roads. A wagon, with a driver and second man come along, the driver sprays tar (?) into the hole, the second man puts in a shovel full of chippings, the driver has another squirt of tar(?), then the driver shoves some more chippings on top, and then hits the chippings with the back of his shovel. Job done!
some years ago, a council 'contractor' came up our road and 'repaired' the potholes ...
literally left the rubble in them, filled with tarmac, and backed the lorry over the patch, then on to the next one.
so the next day I phoned WSCC Highways and asked when the potholes in our road were going to be repaired ...
'where do you live'
told him....
'they were done by our contractors yesterday'
no they were not ...
'and what do you know about it'
back in the 70's I worked for a while for WSCC Highways, and was sent to Hailsham, the training centre in East Sussex, on a roadman course which taught us, among other things, how to correctly REPAIR a pothole.
I went on to explain what their cowboys contactors had done, then explained how we had been taught to do the job properly, and asked if he could see any similarity...
three days later the contractors came back, drove up the road past several 'repaired' potholes, then about 100 feet before our house, stopped and proceeded to repair, properly, the six or so potholes between there and about 100 feet past our house, then packed up and foxtrot-oscared past a pile more 'repaired' potholes and away. :veryangry:
I expect they were even paid again for doing the job properly that they should have done in the first place. :censored: