How Toyota Screwed Up The 2014 Toyota Corolla  The all-new 2014
Toyota Corolla is by no means all-new. It's an updated version
of a car that's already eight years old, with Stone Age
suspension design, low-power and relatively low-MPG engines,
obsolete drum brakes, and a transmission familiar to any car
buyer of the 1980s. That's bad.  Toyota flew me out to sunny San
Diego last week to drive the new 2014 Corolla. All driving
impressions and pricing information is strictly embargoed by the
Toyota Motor Corporation until tomorrow. Expect a full review
after midnight tonight. Now, though, I can still explain why
this car fundamentally breaks with the one tradition that made
the Corolla successful in the first place, and how it falls into
the same cash-saving mistakes that doomed its rivals.  The
Corolla is a huge deal for Toyota, selling in dozens of markets
across the globe, produced in at least 16 places, and sold to
millions of buyers. Getting it wrong would be a massive blow to
the company and so Toyota, eve