Say hello to the 2024 Toyota GR Corolla Circuit Version, now accessible in Blue Flame on your colourful consideration.
Sure, it might simply be one further colour added to the palette for the 2024 GR Corolla, however it’s an especially good and vital addition contemplating the choices for 2023 had been pink, black, white and two shades of grey. We’ve seen Blue Flame utilized to Toyotas prior to now, with its most up-to-date and thrilling availability being on the GR86. The one means you’ll be capable to get it on the GR Corolla is in the event you get a Circuit Version, although.
Along with the blue paint on the Circuit Version, Toyota says this mannequin now will get lighter-weight 18-inch BBS solid wheels which might be just like these discovered on the Morizo Version for 2023. Blue vehicles (you too can select white for the Circuit) will get distinctive black aspect rocker graphics. Flip your consideration inside, and Toyota provides blue stitching all through the inside, a blue-striped shift knob and a blue-striped emergency brake deal with. The inside remains to be largely black, however the splash of colour offers the GR Corolla’s cabin a slight improve to raised compete with the Civic Sort R’s stunning pink insides.
As for efficiency updates, Toyota shared some minor particulars with us. The steering gear field is now mounted to the entrance suspension sub-frame with new ribbed flange bolts. Moreover, the flange bolts that mount the rear suspension to the sub-frame are wider by 2 millimeters. And lastly, Toyota says an unpainted bolt now grounds the battery to the body for direct metal-to-metal contact. Toyota attributes these minute updates to the GR workforce’s pursuit of perfection in refining the automobile over time. Different updates executed in an identical pursuit are aero-related. Toyota says the ducting that lets air move by means of the aspect grilles and behind the entrance wheels and out has been redesigned. And lastly, aluminum sheets have been positioned beneath the entrance and rear wheel wells to help car stability.
The whole lot else is mechanically the identical as 2023. Each the Circuit and Core are nonetheless rocking the identical 300-horsepower, 1.6-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine mated to a six-speed guide transmission.
Toyota says pricing for the 2024 fashions will come at a later date, and the up to date Circuit Version with the Blue Flame paint is anticipated to grow to be accessible “this coming winter.” With the demand for limited-production sizzling hatches just like the GR Corolla being sky-high, we’d recommend getting in contact with a seller now. Or yesterday. Yesterday in all probability would’ve been higher.
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