I went to a stealership today to pick up three clips for my car's trunk linings. Then trekked over to sales and looked at a stick Corolla S.C$220xx, $1060 freight. Power everything, ABS plus sunroof. With some haggling it's not hard to get it for C$24k off the lot. Not bad.
Some strange things: The brake and the clutch shares the same tank of brake fluid. Had anything saw this kind of setup before?
The ZZE132 Matrix with TRD stuff just besides it now looks a lot less attractive.
But still. I'm still on the lookout for that perfect 01-02 stick 'rolla. The newest spotting is a silver 01 S 130k for C$7888.
There's also an xB demo on the outside. I thought they're only in the States???
At the time I bought my '05 LE I did some research. Firstly I thought the 'S' looked less attractive than the 'LE' and when I found out I couldn't get it without the ground effects I decided totally against the 'S'. Also I figured up the price and it was less expensive to get a 'LE' with all the equipment I ordered than to get the 'S' with the same equipment, this was mostly because the power stuff and keyless was standard on the 'LE' and optional on the 'S' and to equip the 'S' with that equipment was more than the price difference between the two trims. Finally, I liked the fact that the 'LE' interior wasn't all black and that the car had a variable intermittant wiper system. One car I had didn't have variable intermittant but just one intermittant setting and it never was adequate. However, I do like one thing better in the 'S' which would be the fog lights. In the US you can't get them on the LE. I would have gladly paid as much as 500 USD for them as a factory option, but no dice. As is was, my 2005 LE cost close to 21K USD when all the taxes title and plates were added on. I wasn't about to pay more for the 'S' with a black interior I didn't like, ground effects I didn't like, no variable intermittant wipers, etc.
As for brake and clutch sharing the same fluid resivoir, that isn't anything new. I can't think of any specific cars at the moment but I've seen it on cars as old as 1987 models.