I'm really not understanding all of the bitching about the interior. But then again, I don't eat filet mignon off my dashboard.
I owned one of these in XSE guise. The GR has features mine didn't like a heated wheel and a legitimate handbrake and mine was loaded at the time. There were no issues with the styling or the materials or the design of the interior. Size is a different story, and a concern for some but if you're buying ANYTHING in this class for the interior, you're not in the right mindset. Having seen the Type R in person, the screaming red seats and carpets, and chickenwire for AC vents somehow makes a difference? It is a noticeably larger interior, but it didn't feel any better to me. The Type R was always going to be the more sought and valued vehicle in this class. It has a much richer history that the Corolla doesn't. The GR matched numbers step for step with the Type R while offering a completely unique engine to the segment.
It feels like the GR is cooling because people like Savagegeese set up wild expectations of the Yaris on a Corolla chassis, and that was never going to be the case. If that cooling is legitimate though, it'd be real cool if somebody would tell the goddamn dealerships.
