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Originally Posted by Demon_Mustang
The corolla is a performance car??
My friend owned a Chevy Prizm, and it's supposed to be basically the same car with a different badge. I've driven it many times, it's the hands-down worse handling, worse performing car I've ever driven...
But to me, it was alright, since I thought it was just a cheap economy car, and I thought it served it's purpose perfectly fine, but if it's supposed to be a performance car, then... uh... sorry...
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The 3TC engine from the 80-82 Corolla has been proven to run 8 secs or lower in the 1/4 mile....
1.8 liter single overhead cam. Turbocharged to run 8secs @ 667HP...
This is way before better engines like the Nissan SRDET20 or even the Toyota 3S-GTE were even thought of.
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