Toyota Corolla 1200 Deluxe
A tiny, tidy second-generation Corolla that shows how Toyota made an everyday family car roomier and more polished without making it complicated.
1971 Japanese Toyota Corolla KE20-D 1200 Deluxe two-door sedan, four-speed manual · TTTNIS · CC0 1.0
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More than a set of wheels.
Toyota introduced the second-generation Corolla on May 6, 1970, enlarged it over the first generation and separated the Sprinter into its own sales-channel line. The E20 range included two- and four-door sedans, a coupe and vans. This profile uses a documented 1971 two-door 1200 Deluxe example to represent that early E20 formula: a small pushrod four, rear-wheel drive and a floor-shift manual. The year should remain a calendar/example-year label, because Toyota's surviving English archive supplies representative launch-series specifications rather than a distinct 1971 model-year change list.
Look a little closer.
The second Corolla kept a simple rear-drive layout while adding more room and a larger 1.2-litre engine.
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Why simple could still be a real upgrade
The second Corolla did not abandon the first car's durable formula. Toyota concentrated on daily life: a larger body, high-back front seats, removal of old-fashioned quarter windows and a conventional strut front suspension without the predecessor's transverse leaf. It is a useful lesson in engineering progress: an ordinary car can become roomier and easier to live with while retaining familiar mechanical ideas.
Source: Toyota 75 Years vehicle lineage — second-generation Corolla ↗How to read a mixed archive
E20 data is easy to blend because Toyota offered several bodies, engines and gearboxes. This profile fixes the subject to a Japanese-market two-door 1200 Deluxe and a documented four-speed configuration. Toyota's 750 kg KE20-D figure is retained; GAZOO's explicitly four-door 770 kg entry is not substituted. The engine-code disagreement is also left visible instead of silently choosing between Toyota's K table entry and 3K narrative.
Source: Toyota 75 Years vehicle lineage — second-generation Corolla ↗Where these facts come from
- Toyota 75 Years vehicle lineage — second-generation Corolla
- Toyota GAZOO catalog — Corolla four-door 1200 Deluxe
Selected facts checked for this edition. Some source pages link to broader model families. Last reviewed October 4, 2026.