A family car must offer interior roominess, and the Corolla providesplenty. With comfortable bucket seats in front and a three-place bench
seat in the rear, Corolla is a congenial car for families with young children.
Even your sprouting basketball stars will find enough head room in the
rear.
Interior styling is conservative and functional, yet designed for ergonomic
or operating efficiency. The climate controls and radio/tape functions
are easily read at a glance and well within reach of the driver for use.
The instrument package isn't cluttered up with what, in this purposeful
mount, would be some unnecessary gauges, so the principal read-outs of
a speedometer and tachometer (DX only) are quickly scanned for essential
information.
To our mild surprise, the Corolla's seating comfort was better than
expected. The front buckets offer adequate support at the thighs and in
the lumbar region for long-distance comfort, as we discovered during a
weekend run from Detroit to Chicago and back. Corolla shows that it's thinking
about safety in smaller ways, too, by offering standard child-protector