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The Corolla brand discontinued in Southeast Asian countries

Since its introduction in 1966, the Corolla has become one of Toyota’s preferred lines.  This line of compact autos by the Japanese automobile manufacturer has established itself as one of the world’s top selling vehicles.  In fact, since 1997, the Corolla has been the planet’s best selling nameplate, with over 35 million units sold since 1996 to 2007.  It is frequently said that for the past 40 years, there’s a Corolla auto being sold somewhere in the world each forty seconds.  This acclaim has undergone a lot of redesigning and various generations of improvements, as well as changes in the taste of consumers in the auto market.  The Corolla name is Latin for’small crown,’ which is supporter to Toyota’s practice of naming its flagship brands after the word’crown’ and modifications of it.  So, there were brands ranging from Toyota Crown, Toyota Corona ( Latin for crown ), and Toyota Camry ( Anglicized transcription of the japanese word for crown, kanmuri ). 

Toyota Corollas have been manufactured in all continents of the world – in Australia ( production has been ceased however ), in asia ( in Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey ), in South America ( in Brazil and Venezuela ), Africa ( in South Africa ), North America ( in Canada and the united states ), and Europe ( Derbyshire in the United Kingdom ).  {However ,} production of Corollas in the Toyota facility in Freemont, California is scheduled to stop by March 2010.  There have been ten generations of Corollas manufactured, with the latest generation introduced in 2006.  The Corolla brand has been abandoned in Southeast Asian countries since the ninth generation, and that market has used the brand Toyota Altis since.  In the US, sales figures have been stable, still even reaching above 350,000 units sold in the country in 2008, notwithstanding an economic downturn.  Figures peaked in 2006, when more than 380,000 Corollas were sold in the US alone.

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