Old Top Gear Toyota Corolla

Old Top Gear from 1997
Jeremy Clarkson roadtests the Toyota Corolla to see if it deserves the title of the most satisfying car to own in the U.K

This clip was extracted from the episode that was first broadcast on the 24th April 1997

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• 1997
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[mrcrtking]

I had a 1994 black Corrolla and it had done 367,000 miles at its life end, went though 5 cambelts and 3 clutches, was serviced every year from 1994 when new, truly a work hourse, agree its boring as hell but cheep, reliable and built like a brick shit house, only reason I got rid of my Corolla is it failed MOT on rust at 17 years old (passenger side door sill full of tin rot) engine and everything ells still worked fine, the corrolla was a legend in my opinion, now have 1995 Toyota MR2 Turbo !

[altern8ive]

ok in true TG style, who else was waiting for a piano to fall on it during the side shot? :)

[TheMrkiddi]

i bet that this corolla is still going strong today, but that Golf has been Tossed...

[aingaran2003]

its hard to compare a gti to a corrolla... gti cost much more

[VOLVORULEZ1995]

Song at beginning when car is driving is "Dark Therapy - Echobelly".

[lifeinhd]

@tompointzero If this is your attitude towards cars and driving, may I ask why you're commenting on a Top Gear video? It seems you'd be more at home with Consumer Reports.

[tompointzero]

@lifeinhd

shut the hell up, if you tune a corolla up it can be amazing race car

[Alakuzy]

Corolla 1992-1997 E100 are the best cars ever build. Starts every time and never broke down.

[sometimeswesit]

To everyone below and above me, you are all wrong. German/Japanese/American cars are no different. They are all the same exact thing with different shaped parts. The reason the fall apart and break has NOTHING to do with where it is made. It has more to do with the life it's lived. Metal rusts, parts fail, and owners neglect their cars. Some are hard to work on, and some are easy to fix. Sure, some cars are junk (Fiesta, anyone?) but that has more to do with lazy design that country of origin.

[1troyman1]

@98770 and german cars are a pain in the arse to fix and are the worst design in the world, and buddy ur Audi, the audi A4 to acess the drive belts u must take the whole bumper of and rad of an headlights because they make no space to get tools in to fix it, unlike commodores and corollas^ where there is plently of room to get ur tools and shit in the tight spots to fix things