Toyota Corolla Altis

An Alternate lifestyle is what Toyota is giving the Corolla Altis with not only a facelift, but also a new gearbox and more horsepower from the petrol engine. The car's shelf life just got extended, and here's how!

Ask somebody who really knows about transportation design how difficult it is to redesign a next-generation car bearing a strong brand name and he’ll probably start sweating like he’s been thrown in the middle of the Amazon. Take the Toyota Corolla for example. When the Corolla Altis raised its head to be the replacement of the Corolla, it would have been a pretty daunting task for sure – but the end results were pretty good. They had come up with a car that carried on with the previous legacy of the Corolla and still added a fresh twist to the car’s design. But there’s a problem with any design – it ages, fast. Three years after the Corolla Altis was big news in its segment it has now got itself a facelift and accompanying the cosmetic job is a new transmission as well. On the outside, the Corolla Altis gets curvier all round. While the body itself hasn’t been altered – in keeping with the basic laws of facelifting cars (if there existed anything as such), it’s the individual elements that have been subject to the redesign. For starters, and the part of the car that most people will immediately notice, is the...read more »

The bold new Toyota Corolla Altis is geared up to turn around the dwindling sales of the D-segment.

The all-new Toyota Corolla is set to be launched in India in less than a month's time with both a petrol and a diesel engine. We take a detailed look.

The new Corolla Altis can be booked for Rs 1 lakh at Toyota dealerships in India

If you have been waiting for the new Toyota Corolla Altis to come to India since its worldwide reveal last year, you are in luck. Toyota has launched the facelifted Corolla Altis in India. Prices for the new car start from Rs 15.87 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) for the G (MT) petrol and go all the way up to Rs 19.91 lakh for the top-spec VL variant. Here's a variant-wise price list: Petrol - G (MT) - Rs 15.87 lakh - G (CVT) - Rs 17.52 lakh - GL (MT) - Rs 18.30 lakh - VL (CVT) - 19.91 lakh Diesel - DG (MT) - Rs 17.36 lakh - DGL (MT) - Rs 19.05 lakh Notably, Toyota has dropped the base-spec J and J+ variantsand has (sadly) not introduced a top-spec VL diesel or a diesel-automatic variant. Compared to the outgoing version, the top-end petrol VL variant is dearer by a full Rs 1.3 lakh, whereas the top-spec DGL diesel gets a sticker price that's Rs 1.49 lakh higher. What's new in the facelifted Corolla Altis? Well, it gets a new 'Phantom Brown' paint shade, Bi-beam LED headlamps, a narrower grille, and LED taillamps. As far as changes under the hood are concerned, there aren't any. You still get the option of a 1.8-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine that makes 140PS... read more »

Dealers have confirmed that Toyota will launch the updated Corolla Altis here in the first week of March 2017

The 2017 Corolla Altis features exterior and interior changes but no changes have been announced by Toyota on the mechanical front