Manual seat adjustment always wins. Power or no power, you can still fix your seat position, it’s easy to repair because it’s mechanical, and it’s always soooo much faster to adjust.
Yeah just look at the market...if you just recently got into cars you might not know but cars are selling for massively inflated prices right now due to low supply. If you can avoid buying a car right now you should, but if you can't or you have to sidestep into something more fuel efficient to deal with gas prices be smart and buy something that isn't suffering from some sort of markup and that will hold value because it's desireable. A standard Corolla is going to appeal to a wide audience, a stiffly sprung Corolla with a raspy exhaust isn't.
XSEs in general are rare. When I went shopping for my 2020 Corolla, all I could find was an SE. out of 50 or so SEs there were maybe 2-3 XSEs available at the time, all in colors I hated. I rarely see an XSE Corolla on the road too.
What is the deffinition of „cheap“? Cheap for who? Probably still unaffordable for 50% of US-population. And for the upper 50%, for many it‘s still an expensive investment…
Insight from someone who has driven these: So I daily drove an 07 Civic Si coupe for the past 5 years, but my father got the CVT Corolla apex and I’ve driven it countless times when I got sick of driving stick. A few days ago I bought the new civic sport touring. It’s technically more powerful than the Corolla apex, but it feels bigger and slower (which is fine, I kept the Si lol) If you are interested in the apex, it feels remarkably nimble and light for a modern compact and has the best steering I’ve felt in a modern Toyota, but it’s not as nimble as my old Si and the apex is STIFF. Like entirely unnecessarily stiff. If you want fun, I suggest it over a non-Si civic, but I would be interested to drive the new one.
It's nice to see Toyota's return to sporty offerings. For far too long, they had an amazing race program but made nothing but 4 wheeled appliances for the masses.
I like how the auto ones move back so you can get in and out easy, but have to agree, manual seats are easy. I never feel more wack, waiting for seat to move forward so I can fit something on the car 😂
People don't realize that 169hp is more than enough for driving normally, this is what i got in my Audi and it can gets 140mph+. Used to daily a 80HP VW Polo, that was enough for daily driving in city and 50mph roads, and i wouldn't got my license suspended if i still used it because i had +300hp 🤣 This Corolla is a perfect cool good daily highway car.
What is „low budget“? For who is it cheap? For most people on Earth still unaffordable. Even in rich countries for 50% of population unaffordable or a very expensive investment…
