Corolla Cross

[Marcusthehat]

I am hoping I can encourage our daughter to continue to drive her 2011 diesel Yaris, until the Corolla Cross is available on the UK market(which model I figure should suit her driving needs and would also nicely complement our Rav4😁),  though presumably she could buy a car from a RoI dealer. Though being her fathers daughter she was balking at the purchase price🙄.

[Geoff W]

On 1/12/2023 at 7:38 AM, Marcusthehat said:

I am hoping I can encourage our daughter to continue to drive her 2011 diesel Yaris, until the Corolla Cross is available on the UK market(which model I figure should suit her driving needs and would also nicely complement our Rav4😁),  though presumably she could buy a car from a RoI dealer. Though being her fathers daughter she was balking at the purchase price🙄.

If the diesel Yaris still meets her needs wouldn't the Yaris Cross be a better option?

[Marcusthehat]

16 hours ago, Geoff W said:

If the diesel Yaris still meets her needs wouldn't the Yaris Cross be a better option?

She made some disparaging comment about the appearance of the Yaris Cross or it might have been sommat along the lines of lookng like a "grannies car".

Anyway the Corrola would be the next size up with room for grandchildren as opposed to the current grandpuppies(he fervently hopes)

[Geoff W]

8 hours ago, Marcusthehat said:

She made some disparaging comment about the appearance of the Yaris Cross or it might have been sommat along the lines of lookng like a "grannies car".

Anyway the Corrola would be the next size up with room for grandchildren as opposed to the current grandpuppies(he fervently hopes)

My wife quite liked the Yaris Cross at first sight and is considering it as an upgrade from her Yaris hybrid BUT she is a grannie! 

[Jimota]

I’ve never driven the Yaris but the Yaris Cross is s brilliant car.  Only had it since 21 December but I highly recommend it.

[YarisHybrid2016]

We've had our Yaris Cross since April 2022 and it is awesome! Just looking at changing mine now.

[Marcusthehat]

A wee update to say wor daughter has recently fell in with a rather fine independant  Mercedes mechanic, who in addition to his collection of hobby G Wagens, incl a rather rare, if not exotic G Wagen Professional, daily-drives a Toyota Hilux, and having whisked wor daughters Yaris off to Dublin to fettle it, has pronounced it should be good for another couple of hundred thousand miles!

I like the bloke already.

[Marcusthehat]

On 4/11/2023 at 10:04 PM, Marcusthehat said:

A wee update to say wor daughter has recently fell in with a rather fine independant  Mercedes mechanic, who in addition to his collection of hobby G Wagens, incl a rather rare, if not exotic G Wagen Professional, daily-drives a Toyota Hilux, and having whisked wor daughters Yaris off to Dublin to fettle it, has pronounced it should be good for another couple of hundred thousand miles!

I like the bloke already.

Specially since he popped up from Dublin again to sort the very leaky  IP on the 1999 vintage 290GD SDP Van this morning, and then I got a cancellation MOT for this evening(otherwise was the 26th of May!)

And I got a totally clean bill of health.

WayHey!

As I said, I like this bloke already.

P.S.

Apologies for the filthy non PC/non Toyota talk on this forum.

But we also love all our Toyotas.(just not quite as much🤗!)

Marcus

[Roy124]

Marcus, funny you mention Mercedes.  I bet my man would know yours 😊.  Deepest Lincolnshire and father and son business. 

Took a Ford Escort in to then as the hood hydraulics had failed.  Ford price was £1,000+VAT+Labour for a non essential repair.  On the basis that it was broken they striped out the pump, replaced a washer, and good to go for £18.

When you find an engineer/mechanic stick with them. 

[Marcusthehat]

Roy,

Expensive hood hydraulics on a Ford Escort? I am confused.

But he mentioned a  2019 **S Class 6 pot with full MB Service history and less than 100,000Km, needing a new camshaft. etc etc etc, etc etc etc.

And essentially all the 2016 to 2019 MB petrols, 4 and 6 cylinder were crap engines.(if I recall correctly) with far too many plastic components prone to very premature failure.

**Brought to him as a properly MB  trained mechanic(over 8 years) but now his own man this past 5 years. 

He has also turned other S Classes away as simply being too horrendeously complicated and labour expensive to fix.

But he likes and rates Toyotas as being both being designed to be  tolerant of neglect, especially engine/transmission wise, and straightforward to fix.

Did I mention I like the bloke already?

[Chippy01]

Toyota Ireland has finally updated it's website to show the 1.8 litre and 2.0 litre variants of the Corolla Cross.

I also heard that the one I ordered in December should be landing sometime in mid June.

[Stopeter44]

On 12/28/2021 at 7:02 PM, Stopeter44 said:

The LTA on country roads is annoying me and serves little useful purpose under those circumstances, I'll have to get into the habit of turning it off. It's very useful with ACC on the autoroute, though. It's a shame it can't be activated like the ACC.

18 months on, and I like the LTA, you just have to set it to the steering wheel tug/vibration, once you know what it is, I don't find it a problem.

[Cyker]

I must admit it's not bothered me too much; Although it does try to kill me on occasion, it's not that indistinguishable in terms of sensation from the ruts in the roads regularly travelled by busses that also try to steer you into trees and kerbs etc. so I already have the muscle memory to compensate for it  

[doorknobs]

On 4/19/2023 at 9:07 PM, Chippy01 said:

Toyota Ireland has finally updated it's website to show the 1.8 litre and 2.0 litre variants of the Corolla Cross.

I also heard that the one I ordered in December should be landing sometime in mid June.

I checked the Corolla Cross out while on holiday in Aus recently. As I thought it's the right size for us. Dealer quoted me 19 months delivery. Better than a RAV at 3 years !

Dealer back here in Newcastle is saying it isn't coming to UK at all. I find this hard to believe but undersand why the dealer would say that.

[Chippy01]

12 minutes ago, doorknobs said:

Dealer back here in Newcastle is saying it isn't coming to UK at all. I find this hard to believe but understand why the dealer would say that.

I don't think that Toyota UK has made it's mind up yet about the Corolla Cross.
They have already ditched the Corolla saloon, which is much more roomier than the hatchback.
The Camry and the Rav 4, PHEV Rav 4, and the Highlander are also missing from Toyota UK, but listed as available here in Ireland.
Apparently in the 70's/80's, there were lots of people coming over here and buy new Toyotas, (less IRL taxes as they were being exported), and personally import them into the UK, and pay HM Revenue the taxes due.
I can see that trend happening again, if you can't get the model(s) you want there.

[Cyker]

The problem there is the Irish ones with digital dashboards only support kph from what I've been reading, while the UK ones can do kph or mph.

Could be easily fixed by installing the right firmware but good luck getting hold of that!

[FROSTYBALLS]

1 hour ago, Chippy01 said:

The Camry and the Rav 4, PHEV Rav 4, and the Highlander are also missing from Toyota UK, but listed as available here in Ireland.

The Rav4, Rav4 PHEV and Highlander are still on the UK site, but Toyota GB have sold their allocations. 

Presumably Toyota Ireland still have some of their allocations remaining.

As said earlier, the Corolla saloon and Camry were dropped in the UK due to low sales.

In fact the Corolla was totally absent from the UK from 2007 to 2019 as saloons in this market sector aren't popular in the UK - buyers preferring hatchbacks or estates. Which is also why other manufacturer's dropped saloon versions of hatchbacks (Ford, Vauxhall/Opel, VW, etc) in the UK.

[FreddoChoc]

Received this from a Toyota UK dealer this past week, whether its the full picture I don't know  -

Below is a guideline for our vehicle estimated arrival dates for a new Toyota regardless of where you order the car from.

Toyota Aygo x – June 2023

Yaris Hybrid – October 2023

Yaris Cross – July 2023

Corolla Hybrid – September 2023

C-HR Hybrid – July 2023

Supra – August 2023

Rav4 Hybrid – Waiting for update on MY23 deliveries

Rav4 Plug in – Waiting for update on MY23 deliveries

BZ4X – Not available to order at present.

Highlander – Waiting for update on MY23 deliveries

Land Cruiser - December 2023

 

[Cyker]

29 minutes ago, FROSTYBALLS said:

The Rav4, Rav4 PHEV and Highlander are still in the UK site, but Toyota GB have sold their allocations. 

Presumably Toyota Ireland still have some of their allocations remaining.

As said earlier, the Corolla saloon and Camry were dropped in the UK due to low sales.

In fact the Corolla was totally absent from the UK from 2007 to 2019 as saloons in this market sector aren't popular in the UK - buyers preferring hatchbacks or estates. Which is also why other manufacturer's dropped saloon versions of hatchbacks (Ford, Vauxhall/Opel, VW, etc) in the UK.

I have to admit I thought those were sensible decisions - For some reason saloons have never been very popular here for a long time; They have their following but they're very niche. The Camry's just too big for UK roads and is just less practical than the Corolla HB and TS, and the sort of people that buy that sort of car would go for something more high-end or an SUV anyway. The Camry name also isn't that well known here either, except to Fast and Furious fans   It's definitely a better fit for for the american market.

 

[Marcusthehat]

Saw the Camry and Highlander listed in the RoI sites.

Just today, when I was extolling the virtues of the Toyota hybrids, and the Corolla Cross in particular,  to wor son, who is in a notion of changing.

[Devon Aygo]

UK interested parties See: 

 

[doorknobs]

 

4 hours ago, Devon Aygo said:

UK interested parties See: 

 

Source?

[Devon Aygo]

14 hours ago, doorknobs said:

 

Source?

I work For Toyota, the source is a bulletin from Toyota to its UK dealers