I'm not sure why that's relevant. Wow, a tuned car is faster in a straight line than a higher-spec stock car? Color me shocked.

It's about as much of a Type-R as the GTI is a Golf R

The WRX runs less boost than the STi, so at the crank it's probably going to be down on paper. However, the STi has more differentials than the WRX, so at the wheels it's probably closer.

Not to mention recent Honda products have been flying through the new IIHS crash tests, whereas the Toyota equivalents have been doing less than stellar. The Camry, Rav4, IS, and ES (the only ToMoCo cars tested) all got a Poor mark for the small overlap test, whereas the Civic, Accord, and TL got Good marks, with the…

They help to add downforce to make the car feel grounded to the ground.

Well hey, earlier you said "It was ahead of a lot of it's competition when it was introduced." That's all fine and dandy, except it was released as a MY2009 car here in the US (the Corolla's largest market). I'm not convinced that the interior of this car can even be considered to be in the top half in that segment at…

Nobody said anything about when it first came out. The fact that you have to go all the way back to 2006 to justify the interior for a car that's still being offered 7 years later is pretty telling. The four-speed auto was pretty good when it was first offered, and a lot better than what the competition had. But that…

Saying it's better than mid-2000 domestics or Koreans isn't exactly saying a whole lot...

On the bright side, the less time and money they spend re-engineering the Corolla, the more time and money they can spend on other projects, like the LFA or (more practically) cars like the GS350 F-Sport or RC Coupe.

Toyota supposedly estimated the 0-60 for this car at around 11 seconds with the CVT transmission. The current model which weighs roughly the same and has a 4-speed slushbox will do that in 10. Hell, even a Prius will do 0-60 in 10.5...

The Playskool interior was in reference to the previous generation. And yes, the interior for the generation was by far the the worst interior I've ever come across minus that of the Dodge Caliber.

Taillights. Nothing like driving in the rain at night behind someone with a black car with burned out bulbs.

Jesus christ the rear wheel gap is ridiculous. Looks like an invisible elephant is sitting on the front...

One issue that sticks out to me is that I don't think this system will scale well. Unlike airplanes where you can just build more (provided the airports can handle them), you can't just keep building more pods; you'd have to start building more tubes at some point. The document states that the capacity of the system…