The Toyota Corolla is a line of subcompact

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 and compact car

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s manufactured by the Japan

Japan

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ese automaker

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 Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the best selling nameplate in the world, with over 35 million sold as of 2007, surpassing the Volkswagen Beetle

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. Over the past 40 years, one Corolla car has been sold on average every 40 seconds. The series has undergone several major redesigns.

The name Corolla

Corolla (chaplet)

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is part of Toyota's naming tradition of using the name Crown

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for primary models: the Corona

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, for example, gets its name from the Latin

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 for crown; Corolla is Latin for small crown; and Camry

Toyota Camry

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is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri.

Corollas are manufactured in Japan

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 and in Brazil

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 (Indaiatuba

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, São Paulo

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), Canada

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 (Cambridge, Ontario

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), China

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 (Tianjin

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), India

India

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 (Bangalore

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), Indonesia

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, Malaysia, Pakistan

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, Philippines

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, South Africa

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 (Durban

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), Taiwan

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, Thailand

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, Turkey

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, the United Kingdom

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 (Derbyshire

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) and Venezuela

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.