Pros
Nails the warm sedan brief, Fully loaded without aggravating add-ons and options, More than adequate performance to cope with Sydney traffic, Massive boot
Cons
Zealous lane assist / lane keeping alerts, Speed camera alerts and chimes will get on your nerves, Abundance of driver tech may detract from road focus, Low front lip prone to scrapes - sell me a bash plate PLEASE!, Early gateway drug to the full-fat N sedan for those inclined
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Let’s get the i30 sedan’s styling out of the way first - yes it’s polarising and the haters will say it’s already come pre-dented, but I think it’s nowhere near as hideous and unresolved as the Honda Civic hatch, which to my eyes resembles an arthritic Transformer stuck crouched in mid-transformation and unable to get up. I love the i30 sedan’s styling - it’s the mark of a confident, progressive carmaker giving the finger to the rest of the industry. It turns heads at every traffic stop and so what if it doesn’t age well? I think it’ll still look better in five years than any future Toyota, the most yawnfully timid stylist of all mainstream Makes. And we all know if the Euros did it, they’d be gaining plaudits all round in the discussion forums.