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Corona Toyota’s Breakthrough Car

When I started typing out the title of this column, I wrote ‘Toyota Corolla” out of habit. For a lot of people, the mention of Toyota automatically brings the response “Corolla.” Such is the way with me, too. Corolla is so much ingrained in our collective memory that we sometimes forget the company offers other cars, as it did back in the day.

One of the better older Toyotas is the Corona, a Toyota of an all-new design introduced to America in 1967 as part of an effort to expand Toyota’s U.S. line-up. The Corona actually predates the Corolla, and was a crucial part

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