Toyota Motor Corporation - 2009 Corolla Is The Camry’s Mini-Me

(AP) - What’s better than America’s best-selling car, the Toyota Camry? These days, it just might be a baby Camry. It’s an apt description for the new-generation Toyota Corolla sedan debuting this year. While smaller and lighter weight than a Camry, the 2009 Corolla comes to showrooms with the exterior styling of a Camry, many of the Camry’s amenities, a Camry-like quiet interior and, best of all, fuel mileage that’s better than the Camry. The five-passenger, compact Corolla with base four-cylinder engine has a federal government mileage rating as high as 27 miles per gallon in city driving and 35 mpg on the highway. This puts the Corolla near the top of small cars in fuel mileage and compares with the 21/31-mpg rating for a mid-size 2009 Camry with four-cylinder engine.
Best of all, Corolla’s starting price is nearly $3,500 less than a 2009 Camry. Coming to dealerships some 40 years after the first Corolla arrived in America, the 2009 Corolla marks the 10th-generation of one of Toyota’s best-sellers.
Corolla is on track in U.S. sales this year to rank No. 2 among all Toyotas, after the Camry.

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