There once was a joke that went along the lines of ‘if you wanted to commit the perfect crime in South Africa, all you would need to do was ensure you were driving a white Toyota Corolla’. Absolutely nobody would notice because they would not be paying attention to you.
The claimed straight line 0 to 100km/h times are down by more than a second to 6.4 seconds for the manual and 6.8 seconds for the auto. This translates into a road car that is firm but composed, and somewhat vocal in terms of tyre noise; not so much in terms of exhaust noise, even though it is augmented by an active sound control system which transmits the sound of the engine to the cabin through a speaker in the centre of the instrument panel.