- Hey, yo guess what, it's 2022 and not everything's bad.
- No - Because
unlike every other automotive manufacturer this year,
someone did something right.
- Toyota.
- Hell yeah.
- After the Supra.
- Yes. So if you guys have been living under a rock
you've probably seen that we got some news recently,
honestly really quick.
- I could not be more excited, this is huge,
this is groundbreaking. - Yes.
- One of the cars I'm most excited for going into this year.
I think they took like Nissan's approach to the Corolla GR
with the Z, enthusiast driven.
This car is all about the enthusiast,
which is what needed to be done.
And Toyota kinda' like, they shook the dust off,
they're like, we're getting a little weird,
we're getting a little funky.
We need to get back to our roots,
we need to make a dope car.
Everything's going electric.
Let's make one more gas driven beast.
- Yes.
- And they did it.
So we're taking a review at the Corolla GR.
- Yeah, if you couldn't tell.
That's what we're talking about.
- That was in the title.
- All right, so before we just dive right into everything
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We're bringing the dab back?
All right, let's go ahead and take a look
at the the video that they released.
So March 31st, kind of just introducing everything
a little bit.
Yeah, let's run it.
- We'll talk about what's good, the bad.
I don't think there is much bad.
Why do the seats look better in this
than they do in my Supra?
- That's interesting,
'cause like you were all about like, you know,
BMW making the Supra get good interior.
- Yeah.
- Then Toyota's like, yeah, we can make good interior too.
- Honestly.
- Hey, yo!
- The hand break, pause.
Wait, that's huge.
Everything comes with electronic hand break nowadays.
- [Man On Left] Yes, it's stupid.
- But this, they're like put it back.
Put it back!
(banging sound)
- [Man On Left] No electric car, no electric brakes,
all manual.
Including the transmission.
- Yeah the transmission's manual too.
Another very important piece here.
- Jesus.
- They show it jumping.
- This is what it looks like, that's crazy.
- Obviously has some rally heritage.
We just watched Formula Drift over the weekend,
we seen Ryan Tuerck win with the Corolla GR,
that was super sick.
Dude, I love the hood vents.
Now I believe there's gonna' be two additions,
probably more, but that's like the circuit edition,
the one we're seeing and everything with the vents.
It has like the forged carbon fiber roof, which is insane.
- Yeah, a little more aggressive than your,
what I would imagine be like, just like the base model
or whatever.
- They're really promoting the (beep) out of drifting too
with this thing.
Like it's all wheel drive,
but they are really pushing the drifting.
- I feel like, you know,
Ford kind of did something similar with the RS.
They were like, yeah, we got the drift mode, yeah.
- And then everyone crashed them.
- All right, so there's a little intro video.
So what I think is super cool like, if you guys watch
like the focus group commercial for the new GR 86, right.
- Yeah.
- And they're like, yeah, you know,
we need one more car and
- [Both] Then they teased it.
- That was like last week.
- Yeah.
- And then like they're right away like,
all right yeah, here it is right away.
They didn't make us wait.
They weren't like teasing it up
or anything like, they're like, yeah, no, here it is.
- Yeah.
- So starting with, you know, the overall specs here,
like we said, it's a 1.6 liter, three cylinder turbo.
- I'm interested to see how that sounds
with the after market exhaust.
- I know.
'Cause you know, I feel like
those like odd number cylinders,
everyone's like, oh yeah we got the five pod engines,
they sound really unique, really cool.
I wonder how that three cylinder's gonna' sound
when you really open it up.
- I can't wait.
Intake,
charge pipes - I wonder why they went with
the three cylinder, though.
- Three cylinder was, well, they already had the GR Yaris,
which has the three cylinder in it too.
But yeah, it was interesting.
It's definitely interesting, but I like it.
It's a new take on it and they're able to pull
that much horse power out of it.
I'm really interested to see with bolt ons, and a tune,
and maybe some flex fuel, where this thing's gonna' stand
because it's gonna' be a beast.
And what's really interesting about this too,
they don't have the weight here,
but this car is pretty dang light.
It's lighter than the (indistinct),
it's lighter than the WRX, lighter than the EVO.
Like, all of it's main competitors,
- Got them all shaking in their boots.
- Yeah, the thing, it's a beast.
I can see the engine contributing a lot to that.
With such a small engine you're able
to keep the weight down.
- We're looking at 300 horsepower,
273 pound feet of torque.
That's impressive. - So, obviously
300, I'm assuming that's from the crank but still,
impressive numbers, nonetheless.
And that's bone to stock.
- You look at, you know, the new GR 86 and everything it's,
damn, all right.
- She's scooting.
And what's exciting is I was a big fan
of the Corollas already.
Like Max has one here.
He put some wheels on it and stuff like that.
And they're good looking cars.
So the fact that they just boast it up,
they make it wider, and thicker, and then add some power.
It's all it really needed, they didn't change a ton.
Obviously the fenders are a bit wider,
you got some hood vents on that circuit edition,
the carbon fiber roof, a big opening on the grill,
and I think it has a little bit of a rear diffuser.
- So I remember we were watching Formula Drift this weekend,
we were talking Ryan Tuerck, they had his car there.
It was like the unveiling of like GR Corolla.
They actually had like the one there,
they like brought it out and everything, it was super cool.
They had someone from Gazoo Racing, or Toyota,
announce it.
They had it up on the announcement,
and they were talking about it,
and how they said it was really cool.
They delayed it a year,
it was actually supposed to come out last year.
They delayed it a year
because they were just like, it's not wide enough,
and it it's not wild enough.
They're like, we want it to be wider,
they want it to be crazier, more horsepower.
You know, they want it to be something good.
I think, you know,
this whole GR Gazoo racing thing for Toyota it's,
dude, it's like the saving grace
of enthusiast vehicles right now.
Because you know, even though you look at the cars
like the Supra, and the 86, and stuff like that,
they're utilizing different components,
different drive trading platforms.
You'll look at, you know, like the BMW power plant,
the Subaru power plant,
here we got Toyota built power plant.
Three cylinder turbo charged car, 300 horsepower,
that's pretty freaking nutty.
- Yeah, it's exciting to see the direction of all the brands
and they're going and then Toyota veering off
and kind of doing their own thing, which needed to be done
for, from like an enthusiast perspective.
Like you look at Subaru
and they made that monstrosity of a WRX that,
now I say that but a lot of people are giving it
good feedback from a driving stand point,
cosmetically it looks horrendous.
You put those square plastic wheel arches on anything,
- It's terrible.
- It just looks God awful.
What's going to be interesting though, is the price point.
And I don't know exactly where it's gonna' stay,
- A lot of speculation.
- We can speculate.
The circuit edition I would say is gonna' be over 40 MSRP
and then it's gonna' be hard as hell to get a hold of.
- Yeah, you know, there's a list of people already
chomping at the bit to get this thing,
that, you know, it's gonna' go way over MSRP.
- I think it's gonna' be limited production.
- 'Cause I think, you know, kind of looking at it here,
they're doing the whole like launch edition
or launch series.
Kind of like they did with the Supra.
You know, that's gonna' have, for sure,
the forged carbon roof, the vented hood,
the bigger wheels, stuff like that.
I wanted to talk about the actual drive train in this
for just a second, 'cause they're interested in like,
their GR four all-wheel drive system,
Which is really, really unique.
- You don't hear a lot about Toyotas all-wheel drive system.
- You don't, not since like back in like what,
the 90's with like the Celica and stuff.
It's the first time we've kind of really seen it.
GR four all-wheel drive system, we're looking at.
You got that 50/50 distribution
that goes up to a 30/70 front and rear.
So you're really looking at some, you know,
rear wheel drive dominant.
- Normal sport and track modes, baby.
This hot hatch is more than ready to rally.
- Straight from Toyota themselves, they say.
So that's super cool.
To be able to adjust that differential in there
to really kind of put some power down
to different areas of the car with those different modes.
- Suspension, comes with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires.
Those are really nice tires that come from the factory,
same ones that came on the Supra, as well.
- [Man On left] Got a limited slip differential, obviously.
- Yeah, nice.
Big performance brakes.
I didn't see if they were Brembos or not.
- [Man On Left] I don't after the big GR.
- [Man With Beard] Dude, they put GR all over the car.
It's on the front grill, it's on the side,
it's on the calipers, it's on the seats,
it's on the interior, on the steering wheel,
it's on the back.
They are very proud to bring a,
- I would be too, like this thing's freaking hot, man.
- When you pay, you know, extra for that level trim
it's not a bad thing to have those badges.
You're kinda' like, yeah I like it.
I spend the money.
The 18 inch wheels look decent, too.
- Yeah. I mean, yeah.
I think that's what they really,
I think people will stick with eighteens.
- It needs wider wheels though.
Like that car is so wide,
and I'm sure due to just like the stuff and specs
that needs to come out from the factory,
but they're sunk in pretty bad, especially the rear.
Throw in an after market set of wheels,
is mandatory to me.
- Honestly, they do look good. - They don't look bad
for OEM wheels, but they're just too narrow.
I mean, you could run a spacer, that's lame.
Just get some wider wheels on this thing, it'll be dope.
It'll be interesting.
Now, I don't know for sure if it has the adaptive suspension
like if you put it in sport and then,
- Oh, it'll like stiffen up the damping and stuff.
- I don't know if it has it, if it does,
you're probably gonna' see a lot more lowering springs
come out for this,
rather than people hopping right over to coil overs.
- 'Cause that's gonna' take a bit for those, you know,
guys to develop like the actual,
either A the cancellers for it
or to be able to bring that technology over.
- So that'll be interesting.
I'm assuming it'll have some type of electronic damping.
It seems like they're kind of going all out with this car.
The GR lineup coming out swinging though with the 86,
the Corolla, and the Supra.
Toyota's doing it right,
and I feel like it might be kind of a last hurrah
as everything moves towards electric.
- [Man On Left] Yeah.
- I think this is the game.
- I hope not, but agree.
- We're looking at this photo of it in the rain,
the only thing it needs, some rain guards, am I right.
But what do you think?
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Man, it's an exciting year for cars,
we got the Z, the Corolla, oh baby!
- The new 86.
- The 86 is pretty dope, people are liking 'em.
We'll talk to you guys later.