The Japanese automaker continues to report stellar delivery results across the US automotive market – they were second last year, and after the first quarter, it's even closer to GM than anyone believed.
Naturally, a stale lineup didn't trigger that 20% rise in Q1 sales – the 2024 Prius and Prius Prime, 2025 Crown and Crown Signia, 2025 Camry, the all-new Tacoma and Tacoma i-Force Max, plus the best-selling RAV4, the returning 2024 Land Cruiser, or the 2025 4Runner are all motivating customers to put the downpayment for a new Toyota now or as soon as the fresh models arrive on the market.
Speaking of best-selling nameplates, Toyota has more than one attached to its moniker – like the Tacoma mid-size pickup truck and Camry mid-size sedan champions, plus the compact Corolla and RAV4 legends. The rumor mill is adamant that the Japanese carmaker will soon kick off the all-new generation proceeds in the compact field after they took care of the mid-size class with the N400 Tacoma, 2025 4Runner, 2025 Camry, and Crown Signia, plus the 2024 Land Cruiser.
As such, the RAV4 and Corolla should be next in line if we are to trust their intuition. Of course, we all need to take it with a pinch of salt as Toyota has been mum about announcing the sixth generation 2025 or 2026 RAV4 compact crossover SUV and the thirteenth iteration of the Corolla compact passenger car series. However, that doesn't mean the imaginative realm of digital car content creators is kept idle, either. Instead, they either focus on the RAV4 or Corolla (or both) as the compact best-sellers have both arrived in their current form in 2018, and a lot of pixel masters think they're due for a changeover.
Speaking of the Corolla, currently, there's a debate going on across the rumor mill and among pixel masters if the compact series – comprised of the sedan, Corolla Hybrid, Corolla Hatchback, and GR Corolla in America – will undergo a complete makeover like it already happened with the Prius or just a 'mild facelift described as a new model' like many think it occurred with the 2025 Camry. There's also a question of whether or not it will follow in the footsteps of the latter and become a hybrid-only offering.
Well, as far as the sedan and hatchback are concerned, that could be a possibility – but what about the GR Corolla? Anyway, the good folks over at the AutoYa info channel on YouTube have a satellite venue dubbed AutoYa Interior, and that's where all the (CGI) Corolla action is – with the resident digital expert probably feeling that Toyota is going down the Camry route with a deep front and rear facelift and not many changes to the profile.
Since it's the interior-focused offshoot, the channel has an interest in showing the cockpit, as well. As per tradition, the resident pixel master has prepared loads of unofficial trim colors along with potential technological upgrades. The host, meanwhile, talks about the hypothetical details, and they also courteously showcase the exterior in all those ritzy hues. So, what do you think? Is Toyota going to give Corolla a new lease of life with subtle changes or a complete makeover? And how about those shades – which combination do you like most?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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