Did toyota send Corolla designers back to the drawing board when it saw our 2006 Car of the Year, the Honda Civic? Toyota says no, the story we've reported for two years isn't true. Sources say otherwise, that designers tore up an earlier design to make the 7/8ths-scale Camry look edgier. Yes, well, six years is a long time between new Corollas. Toyota counters it's not that long, because it's selling nearly 400,000 a year even as the car ages. Whatever you believe, the 2009 Corolla is what you'd expect from Toyota: good news if you need only a highly refined economy car with unimpeachable reliability; not such good news if you were anticipating an avant-garde challenge to the Civic.
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