2014 Toyota Corolla Altis coming to Malaysia soon
In Cars, Local News, Toyota / By Paul Tan / 2 November 2013 5:17 pm / 27 comments
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Done with the launch of their B-segment car the Vios, UMW Toyota will now focus on the introduction of their C-segment contender, the Toyota Corolla Altis. The current Corolla Altis on sale has been removed from the Toyota Malaysia website and replaced with an outline of a car with the text ‘coming soon’.

The new generation Toyota Corolla was first unveiled in June 2013. There were two different Toyota Corollas unveiled simultaneously – one is the North American model and another is what at that time Toyota called an ‘Euro’ model, which has gone into production at a Toyota plant in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Left: Global Corolla, Right: US Corolla
None of the ASEAN countries have received the Corolla yet, but the ‘Euro’ car has been launched in Taiwan as the Toyota Corolla Altis so it’s most likely the car that we’re going to get. After all, our Camry is different from the US market Camry.

The new Toyota Corolla is longer and wider than the current generation car, and it has a full 100mm longer wheelbase, which should translate into greater interior space. Measuring 2,700mm, the new Corolla has one of the longest wheelbase lengths in its class, matched by the new Sylphy and the Elantra/Cerato.

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In Turkey, the new Toyota Corolla is available with 3 different engines – a 1.33 litre Dual VVT-i making 99hp and 128Nm of torque, a 1.6 litre Valvematic making 132hp and 160Nm of torque, or a 1.4 litre D-4D diesel making 90hp and 205Nm of torque. Engines available in other markets include a 122hp 1.6 Dual VVT-i, a 132hp 1.8 Dual VVT-i and a 140hp 1.8 Valvematic. No 2.0 litre sighted so far.

The new Corolla is available with various transmissions – 6-speed manual boxes, 4-speed automatics as well as CVT transmissions. The 4-speed auto is even employed on the US market car. In Malaysia, our current Corolla line-up uses CVT on all models save for the basic 1.6 litre which uses a 4-speeder.

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From the images that we’ve seen so far, the Corolla comes with both reflector lense and projector lense headlamp options, similiar to what Toyota did for the Vios, which reserves the projector headlamps for the highest spec models only. We expect UMW Toyota to do the same with the Malaysian Corolla.

Built in daytime running lights mean UMW Toyota doesn’t have to resort to tacky aftermarket-looking daytime running lights positioned low on their ‘stick on’ bodykit bumper bits. There’s already a bodykitted Corolla Altis in Taiwan called the Corolla Altis Z.

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The new larger interior is also new, with minor differences between US and Euro cars. The Taiwanese car follows the US car’s interior in terms of digital clock and air cond vent positioning although it follows the Euro car’s exterior.

Since UMW Toyota has already found it necessary to tease the car, it could mean the new car is coming very soon. Could we be looking at a January 2014 launch just in time to capture the Chinese New Year sales period? It does seem a little fast, considering it hasn’t been introduced in any other ASEAN country.



http://paultan.org/2013/11/02/2014-toyota-...a-altis-teaser/

Not bad.

maybe Toyota new strategy is to built bigger car.

did u notice except nissan. altis is longer by about 100mm. which make other car look small


do notice also on VIOS CAMRY as well

Yeah, new Vios is bigger/longer than the previous one.

Nissan....Teana looks kind of big to me.

prefer 2014 mazda 3

I find it competitive against Civic.

IluvCorolla

lately been dissappointed by alot japanese car makers. perhaps too much demand after comparing to conti/korean cars.

inb4 preve has to compete with these overseas.. can fight ar?

pretty bad move here since altis make very alike with VIOS. hence ppl will make saying VIOS bigger version

Mazda 3 is the best Japanese. I sat on Elantra days ago, I was pleasantly happy.

Engine macam let down je?

Ahhhh

Toyota stalk lowyat liao


Semua say vios godlike dei also make altis like vios d...

for me, i don't know mazda to me sumlike 1/2 asian 1/2 american

elantra slapping alot japanese car maker with their cars. badly hurt. i can say at least i can spot few elantra everytime i go out
comparing with 5 years ago which hardly see any hyundai

look much better weh

who have been designing the altis and camry interior, it look terrible compare with the competition

only copy the bmw door handles... that's all .. i dont think they have a designing team

it's called "look like brand new after 5years" design language..
contributes to the high RV effect..

i don't understand why T&H can't put in more new features ? like auto light / rain and etc? oversea is a standard