Toyota Corolla Touring Sports review: dull no longer – and diesel-free

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once upon a time, the mere mention of a Toyota Corolla estate would have been enough to send one to sleep. Before Toyota killed off the Corolla name in Europe in 2006 in favour of the now-deceased Auris, the Corolla was a byword for dullness; the estate version doubly so. 

So it’s been rather heartening to see that Toyota has reintroduced the Corolla name not with a bland, generic lump of anonymity, but on a smart hatchback that’s sharply styled and distinctive. And along with the hatch has come this new Touring Sports estate, which loses the slightly underbite-y rear end of the hatch in favour of a more conventional, but no less well-proportioned, rump.