That's where Takeshi Yoshida, the chief engineer assigned to the 9th-generation Corolla, stepped in. Yoshida knew that the Corolla still had immense value as a model, with a legacy of reliability ...

The eighth-gen Corolla straddled the new millennium with a more advanced 1.8L inline-four that would ultimately adopt VVT-i and individual coils by model year 2000. From 2003 to 2008, the ninth ...