UTo understand this Toyota, a look into the past is helpful. There was this excursion by the Japanese to another name and then the rueful return to the Corolla, the decision is often told and was certainly a good one, we can leave it at that. The visit to the Corolla Cross in the editorial office was not long ago. The days were even cooler, which is of some importance as going in the morning in such conditions is mind boggling. Did your hand just fall on a black toggle switch the size of a crispbread and did it turn on the heated seats? Did she then unerringly grasp the tennis ball-sized rotary control and adjust the air conditioning? Did we really leave after ten seconds?
There’s no touch-hungry menu for it, not even a sub-menu or sub-menu explaining how the sub-menu works. You press anything, it works. It works, that’s also a good description of the whole car. Such a Toyota can be a rather drab composition, often kept black on black, sometimes enriched by a bit of mousy gray, no gimmicks, no gags.