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Corolla SE 2020 - better than the older models
MRC, 10/20/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Excellent sporty little car. Power and handling are much better than Camry! I Love it!
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Built for bad drivers
RG, 04/17/2021
2020 Toyota Corolla L 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Clunkylane trace assist, intrusive cruise control, poor features on base and LE models, (no Android Auto, no moon roof, no smart key, etc.) Knee-well lighting controls are almost inaccessible, CVT trans on 1.8L model performs poorly below 1000 RPM,
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- LE SedanMSRP: $17,713In-stock online
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David Loves His Corolla
David’s 2020 Corolla , 11/02/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Great vehicle Rides well Handles great Love it
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Great car for a great value
R Kaur, 12/08/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla LE 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
If you need a car to commute and last for a very long time, it is your car. Very roomy with a lot of really great feature that come standard with it. Ride is smooth. I love my Toyota. Previous Corolla used for 14 years and it was still working fine. It only needed just your regular maintenance
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Like a slightly smaller Camry.
PaulC, 04/27/2020
2020 Toyota Corolla LE 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Compared to a dozen 2018-2020 4 cyl Camry's I have rented and one that I own, the 2020 Corolla sedan is similar in many ways. Bump absorption is good and almost as good as the Camry, but road and engine noise suppression is slightly worse. Seats of the Corolla are actually more comfortable than the Camry due to better shaping that reduces pressure points. Acceleration is better too due to the ability of the continuously variable transmission to multiply torque. Corolla also feels more nimble due to its smaller overall size. Still, on longer trips I would chose the Camry for it's slightly smoother ride and less road noise and vibration as long as I had a memory foam seat pad to put on its front seat to reduce pressure point pain and fatigue.
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Blue baby
Glen, 12/28/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla XSE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl CVT)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Its a good commuter & very comfortable for long trips!
burn it to the ground
Mark, 10/29/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl CVT)
38 of 95 people found this review helpful
I had a Corolla before and absolutely loved it. I loved it so much, when it needed a new engine, I didn't even question it, I just asked how much and do it. I THOUGHT i would get close, NOT. This 2020 corolla SE is by far the absolute worst car I have had in my entire life. Where to start with the problems, before, or after, you start the engine. I guess, before. If you get in at night, door controls are hard to see controls to open other doors for passengers, black on black is hard enough, much less shadows from hand hold. Back door did not open wide enough for comfortable entry for kids, or driver’s property for work. Once inside, the seats are uncomfortable when driving for more than 30 minutes. Also car needs two apps to connect with the car, not one app but two. Radio controls are not easy to figure out, it can be done but not ‘intuitive’. Once driving, leave the radio alone, you will wreck trying to change channels or settings or anything. A\C controls are workable after a time or two. Two apps always run in the back ground to drain phone battery, unless you delete the apps every time after you park the car. Leaving the apps on the phone, it CONSTANTLY asks if you want to connect to the car, 9PM or 3 AM. ALSO, you need the physical cable to connect. Brings me to the USB chargers. Question: if a charger does not charge , increase voltage or decrease time to full charge, can you honestly call it a charger. I tried two USB’s one under the dash and inside the arm rest both did not increase voltage level. I DID get the thunder bolt and my phone did say ### until full charge, so it was connect. However, time to charge increased and percent of charge decreased. A charger that does not charge is not a charger. Maybe it is designed to maintain the charge not actually charge the phone. Brings me to a charger that doesn’t charge… Additionally, lane assist is hazardous. There are times which mandates moving to the side. Lane assist will nudge you where you do not want to go. Problem is after an hour of fighting power assist with cruise control on, your arms feels like you had a workout before getting to work. I drive an hour, I am glad to get out of the car. An hour is all I can stand, between the seats and cruise; I can’t wait to get out. I don’t want to get back inside the car. I couldn’t imagine a road trip fighting the steering. Also, driver’s controls on door rest are not ergonomically or comfortably located. When arm is resting in what is a natural position,. The controls are not by the fingers. I have to move my hands, and then feel around for what controls I want to adjust. The black on black and lack of lights at night, makes it harder. I drive early morning, dusk and mid night, controls are black on black. My car has the moon roof. So I have approx. 10 buttons in a 4 inch by 4 inch space, 4 buttons for the same lights, two for driver, and two for passenger to operate the same lights. Two for roof, and SOS buttons. All ten buttons are inside a 4X4 space. The only button I can locate easily is the SOS button. Not to mention the controls are horizontal to the eyes. So you need to bend your head down to check the right buttons. (of course time and experience will help with that I suppose, maybe a month time isn’t enough.?? I don’t know.) I DID like the Auto up\down buttons to raise the window without holding the button, always could to lower but not raise. That is a nice option, because I need to badge into the parking lot, holding my badge, hold the button same time is awkward, possible but awkward.
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Run away fast
Derek Welch, 10/27/2021
2020 Toyota Corolla LE 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
3 of 6 people found this review helpful
I leased my car on March 20 of 2020 and this car has been nothing but a disaster since day 1. I first noticed that the welding on the muffler was rusted or appeared to be. Come to find out, it’s just a really crappy welding job. Then I start hearing a gurgling sound from the AC a month later. I Google it and it says that that’s normal for AC’s. Less then a month later I smell something and notice a CRAP TON of mold under the passenger carpet. I bring it in and the service manager spends 5 seconds (yes, only 5 seconds!!) with me. He puts on a glove, touches the carpet and says we won’t cover this, Toyota won’t cover this, call your insurance and then he walked away…………. He walked away because another service tech was screaming at the top of his lungs in anger that he was busy!!! Like how unprofessional do you get? So… I spent the next 16-17 days with no car. Toyota and progressive insurance wouldn’t cover it. Progressive claims Toyota didn’t do their due diligence in proving what the issue was. Toyota refuse to cover it because they claim they know what the issue was and they don’t cover this issue. They claim something crawled into my AC unit and flooded it out. The screwed up part about that is that I live in a city nowhere close to trees and I just bought the damn thing. How can they prove this wasn’t an issue when I bought the car. After waiting over two weeks I came in fuming 😡. It was at that moment they decided to pull the AC apart but lied to me. They gave me a rental car for 24 hours that was disgusting.. It had a ton of trash in the trunk, fresh coffee stains in the cup holder and dried spit marks all over everything. Touch screen, rear view mirror, steering wheel, etc all had dried spit on it. After the 24 hours, they called me and claimed they flushed out the system and found a spiderweb. I called back and said they had to prove it to me. It was at that moment he told me he was going to have a specialist come with a camera called a borescope to send down the drain tube. Wait???? You blew out the line? How are you going to see anything if you knew it out? Yea….. That was the first lie… ::eye roll:: In the end toyota refused to cover the damage and my insurance had to cover it with a $500 deductible. I got the car back after about 33 days or so. No credit was given to me on my car payment or anything. Not even a month after getting my car back, I went outside and my whole right side is melted. It’s like someone took a huge lighter or something to my siding. I bring it to the auto shop and call the police. We all just assumed that it was vandalism and it was fixed. That’s another $500 deductible… I got the car back about a week after that. Not even another month goes by and the siding is melted AGAIN in almost the SAME away!!!! It was so identical that the autobody shop staff were left speechless. I contacted the police, a fire marshal, my insurance and the auto body shop and they all mutually found out that it’s the windows of a building I park near. The company who has those windows won’t even give me the time. They ignore me or just claim that don’t care. Now I’m out another $500 deductible. Mind you, it’s not only been 4-5 months that I’ve owned this car and it’s flooded once and melted twice. Within that time and all the months up till now I’ve had a good 6 or so more issues. The dashboard touch screen keeps going 9/10ths black on me like it’s glitching. I took pictures to prove it. Toyota keeps having to do system updates to fix it. The back speakers barely play any sound and it makes it weird to be in the back seat listening. The tire noise on highways in INSANE. The plastic covering for the speaker on the driver side dashboard is peeling up or warping if you want to call it that. All of this on top of the transmission skipping as well. About 1-2 times a week the car jerks forward about 1-3 times like it’s about to stall out or something. It does this at about 30-40mph and usually when I’m slowing down or in slow moving traffic on the highway. I’ve brought this to the attention of Toyota multiple times and they basically tell me there’s nothing wrong or they can’t find anything. I found the same issue reported by many others and Toyota refuses to listen. I should also note that I’ve brought my car to 3 Toyotas and I called one more Toyota for assistance. All of them have given me attitude or been passive. At no point have I been rude or aggressive. Even when I came in fuming that day I calmed down quick. I’m not an angry person and have always been kind. That’s what makes this whole issue worse. Nobody is willing to help. Even corporate Toyota offers 0 help. You can’t even file a claim for the Better Business Bureau because they don’t do business with them. They force you to contact Toyota corporate so Toyota corporate can basically tell you to go F yourself. Needless to say I will never buy a Toyota again after how I’ve been treated. I understand that things happen in life and that things are not perfect. My issue is the lack of care. They claim all this Toyota reliability but when it isn’t reliable they don’t help. At one moment I wanted to go to the news but because of Covid there wasn’t really any easy access to getting a hold of anybody. This car has been nothing but a nightmare to say the least. The fact that I leased it is making things even harder. Toyota is denying everything and lawyers keep telling me I have no claim on a lemon law because everything happening isn’t affecting drivability. Only the transmission issue can be targeted and I can’t re-create the issue on the spot to prove that it’s happening. Basically I’m stuck with this piece of SHI* till the lease ends. On that day I’m throwing a legitimate party and positing it for all to see. It will be one of the best days of my life and I’ll never go to Toyota again..
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Not Satisfied
Ellie, 08/08/2019
2020 Toyota Corolla L 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
15 of 38 people found this review helpful
I can't seem to get the drivers seat adjusted to be comfortable. I also don't like the fact that the console and door arm rests are cloth instead of vinyl or leather. It's very easy to steer though.
Passenger seat?
Linda E. , 05/02/2020
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2020 Toyota Corolla LE 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl CVT)
5 of 12 people found this review helpful
Toyota has weird decontenting patterns. I remember when the LE had plain, plastic, ugly handles. That never set well with customers. Now, the passenger seat has no adjustments, other than moving forward and back for legroom. And this is in every trim level. To hell with passenger comfort. Seriously? An awesome car, for one person. For two, you now need a Camry. Or, hey...go buy a Mazda 3. Great mileage, sporty to drive, and more content. C’mon, Toyota! You should do better. I walked away from the vehicle for this reason.
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