Real dyed-in-the-wool car enthusiasts don’t have many places to turn these days if they’re looking for some good old-fashioned fun. The era of seriously hot hatches and rally-bred road machines seems long gone, and that’s why enthusiasts get very excited when the likes of the Toyota GR Corolla appear. After all, Toyota has kindly given them something compact, turbocharged, all-wheel drive, properly engineered, and with a manual stick to play with, too.
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