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Toyota Corolla 4th generation (E70)

Years
1979–1987
Chassis
E70
Drivetrain
FR
Toyota Corolla 4th generation (E70)

Image: RL GNZLZ from Chile / CC BY-SA 2.0

Story

Apart from the coupes including the Levin, the last rear-wheel-drive car in the line. It adopted the only round four-lamp headlights in Corolla history and a straight-lined design that was the first to fully take aerodynamics into account.

Stories

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Teaching designers aerodynamics

As car performance rose, Agetsuma believed aerodynamics would become central to design. So he first gathered the designers and had the aerodynamics research group at Higashi-Fuji give them lectures. The fourth generation was designed on that basis; wind tunnel testing ran to more than 400 hours, and it appeared with a sharp, slant-nosed boxy form.

Chassis

Length 4,050 mmWB 2,400 mm1,385 mmHeightWidth 1,610 mm
Curb weight
855kg

Production plants

  1. Takaoka Plant

    Toyota, Aichi

  2. Toyota Motor Thailand Samrong Plant

    Samrong Tai, Samut Prakan

US import eligibility

Earliest cars
Eligible since March 200425 years after sales began in March 1979
Last cars
Eligible since 201225 years after sales ended in 1987 (month not recorded)

Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).

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Engineers

Fumio Agetsuma

Fumio Agetsuma

Development lead (CE) for the fourth- and fifth-generation Corolla.