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Good commuting car
Coy, 01/11/2017
2017 Toyota Corolla iM 4dr Hatchback (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
18 of 22 people found this review helpful
I bought the Corolla iM for three main reasons – gas mileage, Toyota reliability, and hatchback (also a second car for commuting). I do not want to go into the detail because info is available everywhere on the web including Consumer Reports if you have access to. I have driven the car for about three weeks now and overall it is a decent car for commuting and running errands. I am a 55 years old, picky, and simple so all the fancy features the car has are irrelevant except the backup camera. I am in fact bothered by the Eco Mode flashing, too distractive, affecting my attention to traffic, road condition, or maybe thinking about something interesting. This is a useless function because my brain controls my foot, so I should know which mode I am driving. I had been waiting for years to get a perfect Honda fit, but I read about the not so user friendly touch-screen of Fit and that discouraged me from even giving the car a chance. There is no perfect hatch back out there for me, so I am planning on keeping it as long as it goes. This morning I thought of a solution, I will cover the Eco Mode with a piece of black electrical tape. Hopefully I will enjoy my new car better.
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Surprise!!!
Thomas Cizmar, 01/04/2017
2017 Toyota Corolla iM 4dr Hatchback (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
High quality, High performance, very reasonable price.
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Great car
Dave, 04/21/2017
updated 05/04/2023
2017 Toyota Corolla iM 4dr Hatchback (1.8L 4cyl 6M)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
very good fuel economy. One of the few cars of this decade offered in manual transmission
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Sporty looking car
Allan, 03/30/2017
updated 10/08/2020
2017 Toyota Corolla iM 4dr Hatchback (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
I've had the car for 3 month. So far, I love the car. I read the reviews by the pros and I think they have no idea what they are talking about. The acceleration on I-95 is great. The car is very comfortable. My gas economy is outstanding. Nothing appears cheap in the interior as I read in some of the reviews. I had a compact Chevrolet Sonic prior to this car. The Sonic had twice as much trunk space as this car. The only problem that I ran into is insurance. I'm 62 and a perfect driving record. With all the advanced safety features in this vehicle, my insurance went up $166 a year. WHY!!! I thought it would go down. The only features that I added to the car was painted on pinstripes and tinted windows. I purchased the vehicle for $17,100 (CVT). I now have the car for 18 months. No problems.
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What a Lemon
Kevin, 04/04/2018
2017 Toyota Corolla iM 4dr Hatchback (1.8L 4cyl 6M)
7 of 11 people found this review helpful
I bought this new 5/17 with a 6 speed manual. I test drove many other cars from domestic and import manufacturers and decided that after my wife's good Corolla experience to mimic purchase. She has a 2014 with the CVT trans. Although in general I like the car for its hatch back, basic interior and reasonable road holding, driving this thing is the worst experience I have ever had. At 47 years old I have a CDL license and have owned and driven many cars, trucks, motorcycles and commercial vehicles with mostly good experiences. This car has some serious flaws with the manual trans and fuel programming which has made it dangerous for me to drive. For one thing it has an unstable idle at red lights. It will not settle down to about 750 RPMs, instead it roams from 400-800 and when it is dipped low I frequently stall it at lights trying to take off. Second, it has a hesitation off of idle which makes it difficult to feel for clutch engagement again when trying to take off from a stop. The result is either stalling again or slipping the clutch to the point I cannot see getting 50K out of this clutch. The fuel management is again flawed when accelerating beyond 3800k RPMs. This engine makes its highest torque at 4k and highest horsepower at about 5.4k. On my car when you hit 3.8k or higher RPMs the idle hangs at that RPM and will not lower for several seconds in between shifts. If you let the clutch out it makes the car jerk badly or you have to hold the clutch in until enough time evolves until the idle lowers to safely engage the higher gear. When trying to downshift there is great difficulty in revving the motor due to the hesitation off of idle so again the car jerks badly due to too low of RPMs in the downshift. It has never produced any fault codes for these issues. When brought in for service the dealership here in Albuquerque, NM downplayed the issues by claiming it runs the same as another new car on the lot. Currently my car has 1.3k on it, it's not even broken in by a long shot. As others have noted the engine is extremely low powered and I feel well below the stated 136 HP and 126 Torque ratings. I did not buy it for as a sports car for sure. The brakes are somewhat spongy but according to the dealership all is well again compared to some other car. In retrospect I wish that I had not purchased this vehicle as there is no way I will be able to solve the fuel programming and idle issues on my own and the lifespan of the clutch and transmission will be severely short lived due to Toyota's design.
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