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Toyota Corolla Touring Sport Review
How this modest car is almost the perfect vehicle for Brexiteers
These days we expect cars to be reliable and, even in the dire UK climate, to resist rust. Toyota has built its reputation on rock-solid reliability over several decades and although other manufacturers have to a large degree caught up, it’s still the gold standard for everyday get-in-and-go. So what makes the harmless Corolla estate car an almost-perfect mode of transportation for the UK’s sizeable population of folk who think it was a smart & stable genius idea to leave the greatest union in Europe since the collapse of the Roman Empire?
It starts from the outside.
Nowadays, most electronic fobs tell the car when the driver is close, so the doors unlock according to pre-programmed instructions. For example, for the security conscious or the terminally single, only the driver’s door unlocks. For the family driver, all the doors unlock. But while the Toyota does have pushbutton starting, and hence we know the fob is radiating its I’m Here! signal, the driver must fish the fob out of a pocket and press the unlock button before all the (non-programmable) doors unlock. This is perfectly retro, just like brainless Brexiteer drooling dull-eyed over the slogan “take back control!”
