Lifelong car enthusiast I put down $1k on one of these in November. It will be my first Toyota since my old 1993 MR2 Turbo as I have been all over the map with cars as I went through my 90's Honda days (Civic SI, del Sol VTEC), DSM days (Talon TSI AWD, Eclipse GSX), owned plenty of compact performance vehicles such as SRT-4, Focus ST, EVO X, STI, Golf R as well as cars like Mustang GT's, BMW M2's etc. I was thinking about getting a Civic Type R but I think with AWD the GR Corolla could be a more special car for North Americans. I look forward to Toyota introducing the model and filling us in on what we can expect.