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1997 Toyota Corolla Review: Interior

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1997 Toyota Corolla Review

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Interior
A family car must offer interior roominess, and the Corolla provides

plenty. 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

rear door locks on all models as well as an optional integrated rear child

restraint seat. And all Corollas come with full interior carpeting, dual

cupholders, remote hood and trunk releases, trip odometer, coinholder and

a center console box big enough to corral those give-aways from the fast-food

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1997 Toyota Corolla