Toyota Corolla Pros

Toyota Corolla Cons

Another year, another Toyota Corolla .

Toyota's evergreen small-car nameplate is about to enter 2026 without wholesale changes – the popular small hatch and sedan is still all-hybrid, front-wheel drive, and automatic, and the people who will never buy one still say it's too expensive.

But that's not to say everything's the same as it was at the start of 2025. While the three hatchback variants remain the same, it's the less popular sedan range in which Toyota has decided to do a little pruning and shuffling.

Of note, the flagship ZR Sedan is no more, leaving the 2026 Toyota Corolla ZR Hybrid Hatch tested here alone at the top of Toyota's small-car hierarchy. The Japanese brand says this was a logical move, with a spokesperson telling CarE

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