The commuter sedans and hatchbacks people actually buy.
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Since 1997 the Corolla has been the best-selling car nameplate in history, overtaking the VW Beetle -- Toyota passed 54 million sold by early 2026.
Before CarPlay showed up in luxury cars, Honda beat everyone to it: the 2016 Accord was the very first mass-market car fitted with Apple CarPlay.
Every Accord coupe sold anywhere in the world during this generation came from one single factory: Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio.
The tenth-generation Accord actually grew into "full-size car" territory under EPA rules — not by getting longer outside, but by packing more cabin volume than its own predecessor.
The 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
Honda killed the 10th-gen Civic coupe in 2020 after its share of sales slid from 16% at launch to just 6% — and no coupe was offered at all for the next generation.
The European 8th-gen Civic hatchback hid its fuel tank under the front seats instead of the usual spot — freeing up floor space under the rear seats, Fit/Jazz-style.
It was sold on a 40 mpg highway rating, which was cut to 38 in November 2012 after a series of testing procedural errors.
The 2009 Avante LPI Hybrid was the world's first hybrid with an engine built to run on LPG, and the first hybrid to use lithium-ion polymer batteries.
The 2018 facelift drew widespread criticism for its design in Korea, and the Avante still became the fifth best-selling car there.
Mazda handed the second-generation Mazda3's design to Kunihiko Kurisu mid-project in 2005 — he picked up styling duties partway through a development that had already been running since 2004.
The fourth-gen Mazda3's design didn't start in a studio — it began as a clay sculpture, carved live on stage at the LA Auto Show, based on a college student's winning entry in a Mazda design contest.
One auto blog's verdict on the stick-shift 2.5-liter model: "there is really no reason to buy anything else in this class."
It merged the Sentra and Sylphy into one global model, and in 2017 brought the first turbocharged Sentras ever sold in North America.
The EPA classed this Sentra as a mid-size car, because its 110 cubic feet of passenger and cargo volume just reached the threshold.
The XV40 Camry Hybrid's drag coefficient of 0.27 made it, at the time, the most aerodynamic car ever built in Australia.
The XV70 Camry was the first Toyota of any kind to run Entune 3.0 — an infotainment system built on an open-source Linux OS, rather than Toyota's usual closed software.
This Camry's shape was slippery enough to make it the most aerodynamic car built in Australia at the time — matching the record set by the Camry it replaced.
A humble Corolla Axio went racing in Japan's Super GT GT300 class with its engine moved to the middle of the car and a 3.5-litre V6 making over 300 PS in place of its usual four-cylinder.
This is the last Corolla India ever got — Toyota never bothered re-engineering it for the country's 2020 emissions rules, so the model line simply ended there.
This was the first Jetta that wasn't just a three-box Golf — VW gave it dedicated bodywork instead of building it as a sedan derivative.
This Jetta's multi-link rear suspension looks a lot like the Ford Focus's — because Volkswagen reportedly hired the Ford engineers who designed it.
The A7 Jetta's ambient lighting isn't just one strip — it spans the dash, all four doors, the footwells, and even the rings of the optional digital gauge cluster, in ten selectable colors.
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VerifiedFIRST PRINTSince 1997 the Corolla has been the best-selling car nameplate in history, overtaking the VW Beetle -- Toyota passed 54 million sold by early 2026.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe XV70 Camry was the first Toyota of any kind to run Entune 3.0 — an infotainment system built on an open-source Linux OS, rather than Toyota's usual closed software.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERNIGHTThe 2012 Civic was so poorly reviewed that Consumer Reports dropped it from its 'Recommended' list of compact cars — a list the Civic had held a spot on for years.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROA humble Corolla Axio went racing in Japan's Super GT GT300 class with its engine moved to the middle of the car and a 3.5-litre V6 making over 300 PS in place of its usual four-cylinder.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROEvery Accord coupe sold anywhere in the world during this generation came from one single factory: Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio.
