Cost-cutting hasn’t robbed a certain sporting essence, from seat positioning to ergonomics that seep through the twelfth-gen Corolla’s basic DNA. The core design is pleasing enough, its shapely and contemporary dash pleasingly minimalist and its controls and features easy to read and intuitive enough to negotiate.
Walking up to the Corolla SX Hybrid adds a further $3400 to the list price ($30,795 + ORC) and adds key safety inclusions such as blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert and parking support brake – ostensibly reversing AEB – plus front and rear parking sensors. The five-door was awarded a five-star ANCAP rating dated 2018, with the base version fitting a rudimentary Safety Sense suite that includes all-speed autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and daytime cyclist detection, lane departure warning, lane-tracing steering assistance, road sign assist and audible ‘danger zone’ warnings. On that, premium paint wants for an extra $595. Infotainment is a reasonably large 8.0-inch touchscreen format offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto mirroring, though its slim feature set means you have to pay an extra $1000 for sat-nav and DAB+, which are bundled into an options package that also includes rear privacy glass.
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The cabin fits seven airbags, a 4.2-inch colour driver’s screen with digital speedo and dual-zone climate control rather than manual air-con.
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Looking for more details on the wider Corolla range? Our full range review has everything you need to know. Toyota dropped the old ‘base’ configuration in the twelfth-generation Corolla’s recent introduction, and while the Ascent Sport Hybrid Hatch might appear to be positioned further upstream its true mettle inevitably rings truer in what goodness it offers, not just in equipment but in the everyday experience. Or as a fleet special even though Toyota continues to nudge its popular small car more towards private buyers. As a thrifty ride-sharing, pizza-delivering ally.
Why might you be drawn to the thrifty hybrid five-door? As ‘my first hatch’. Toyota's exponential growth of hybrid popularity – it recently clocked over 200,000 sales locally – makes this entry hatchback iteration crucially important, given Corolla sits, historically, as the marque’s third most-popular petrol-electric choice behind the Camry and RAV4. Despite what little introduction is required for the Corolla nameplate, the price-busting Ascent Sport Hybrid Hatch version – the cheapest petrol-electric offering in Toyota’s stable – deserves a thorough dissection. Fifty million examples sold globally, over half a century on local terra firma and the most popular passenger car in Oz.
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