Writing a high brow essay about the ingenuity and hard work of import car culture while driving a modern Corolla iM and paying a mechanic to install a cold air intake. Lol.

Pinnacle of modern internet car guy is cosplaying as a F&F tuner while paying for a Reddit-approved aesthetic via catalogue and never dreaming of driving hard harder than a spirited on-ramp pull.

Self describing a basically stock corolla as a sleeper, just lol. Cargo cultism.

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unregistereddev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That is not a modern Corolla iM. The iM had about 130hp. The GR has 300. The iM had comfortable, "sensible Corolla" suspension. The GR has race suspension.

This is not a "basically stock" corolla. It's actually a really cool car with a fun story behind its design. Toyota's then-CEO Akio Toyoda is a big car nerd and an accomplished race car driver. The GR Corolla was his dream car. He was directly involved in the design and development of the car, and personally took the prototypes to the track for test drives to provide feedback to the engineering team.

It's ok that this is not your thing, but please do not be condescending towards other people's hobbies.

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cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a whole lot of words to say "Corrola with a bigger turbo and a hard durometer poly bushing kit".

	▲	xyzzy_plugh 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They should not have called it a Corolla at all. It's nothing like a Corolla.
	▲	rootusrootus an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Corrola Corolla. And I suspect Toyota put a little more effort than that into the GR.