{"id":582735,"date":"2026-04-03T11:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:08:21","slug":"spec-differences-between-corolla-hatch-and-sedan-expand-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582735\/","title":{"rendered":"Spec differences between Corolla hatch and sedan expand for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__link authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/jordan-hickey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fff76e43-7a60-5496-89a3-e4c1f9550000.webp\" alt=\"Jordan Hickey\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" class=\"image-module-scss-module__yfnysa__drive-image authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__img bg-gray-200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__description\">Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents\u2019 owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__wrapper authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__link link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__float-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/jordan-hickey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Jordan Hickey<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__icon\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,31596,5518,18982,4259,18983,74430,285414,917,95630],"class_list":{"0":"post-582735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-hatchback","12":"tag-hybrid","13":"tag-mplace","14":"tag-newreleases","15":"tag-price-and-specs","16":"tag-sedan","17":"tag-small-car","18":"tag-toyota","19":"tag-toyota-corolla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}