This is the definitive review of the Toyota GR Corolla, for the first time tested against the GR Yaris, the FL5 11th-generation Honda Civic Type R, and Mk8 Volkswagen Golf R — all with manual transmissions.

As always, award-winning automotive journalist Jason Cammisa brings perspective and insight into this review, starting with Volkswagen inventing the hot-hatch segment with the original Mk1 GTI, Lancia inventing the super-hatch segment with the homologation-special Delta Integrale.

SCCA Hall of Fame race-car driver co-stars in this full-length review, setting a new record lap time at the Streets of Willow racetrack in Southern California, even though he's still coughing after a battle with COVID-19.

In fact, it's the Coronavirus that sets the stage here — the global pandemic was a reminder that life is too short to take anything seriously, including drifts, sliding, understeer, and Toyota's GR-4 All-Wheel Drive system.

In the process, Jason falls through a bush, a Lancia Delta blows flames out of its exhaust, we drag race a GR Corolla Morizo versus a GR Yaris, we race them around a track, listen to Typhoid Randy coughing, Randy sets new FWD and hot-hatch lap records, the Corolla calls 9-1-1 on us 9 times, we learn who Mr. Morizo is, and Jason realizes, thanks to Adam Sandler, that he's actually a nobody.



Chapters:
0:00 Intro: How did we get to Hot Hatch Nirvana in a Toyota?
1:34 Volkswagen invents the hot-hatch with the Volkswagen GTI
2:05 Hot-Hatch versus Super-Hatch
2:40 The World Rally Championship and homologation cars
3:17 Review: the Lancia Delta Integrale Evoluzione ("Deltona")
6:12 Toyota's COVID Glimmer of Hope: the GR Yaris WRC
7:22 All about the GR Yaris street car
9:18 Why no GR Yaris in America: A Billion Dollars
9:53 Making the GR Corolla happen
10:43 Drag Race: GR Corolla Morizo vs GR Yaris
11:23 Track Battle: GR Corolla vs GR Yaris
12:08 GR-Four Understeer (Corolla and Yaris)
13:27 Honda Civic Type R Introduction
14:42 Lancia Deltona vs GR Yaris Lap Time
15:12 Morizo vs CTR Lap Time
15:37 CTR Track Mini-Review vs. Ferrari 458 Italia
16:23 Mk8 Golf R Track Mini-Review
16:51 ICONS Streets of Willow Laptime Leaderboard
17:03 Golf R's AWD system: drift-mode promise delivered
18:04 GR Corolla Morizo vs Golf R Track Battle
18:54 GR Corolla in Wet Weather
19:50 Toyota's Emergency Response system calls 9-1-1
20:32 Comparing GR Yaris vs GR Corolla Circuit vs GR Corolla Morizo
21:37 The Meaning of the Morizo Name
22:24 GR 86 and GR Supra together with GR Yaris and GR Corolla.
23:00 Even the Toyota Prius Got Hot!
23:41 Conclusion: You survived a global pandemic. Go have fun!
24:07 Taking Life Too Seriously — The Outtakes


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