Lol first of all its a shame to call a Cow " A King "
No offense
" Significantly " ! Really ? Bro first of all both are entry level sedans for going from point A to B .. its useless getting over excited esp on their accelerations .. 1.5T i agree has got that so called " nasha " and punch and deserves appreciation and you can talk about that ...
But acceleration of 1.8 NA engines esp Corolla and Civic both isnt something extra ordinary that we start calling any of them the king of our roads !
Now coming back to the main thing " Significantly "
Bro i dont want to argue
Its really simple , wht dont you or any of the Grande owner or fan simply post a 0 to 100 video of grande CVTi here where it is doing it in 8 seconds ? Since you are saying significantly it must be doing 100 in less than 8 seconds to leave Oriel far behind .. or else you cant use the word significantly ! I have tried many times my oriel does it in exact 10 seconds but it is on 18s , ali bhai @arkhitekt
Did 0 to 100 in 9.6 seconds and even recorded the video which he shared in his thread .. many of the videos i have seen at youtube clearly show grande too has same 0 to 100 timing ..
Other option is kindly arrange any stock Grande CVTi with ( 225/45/R18 ) in karachi which is 5k driven and I am here ready to have a friendly quartermile drag / run .. lets see how much gap it can give to oriel X ! I will be free in 1st week of february so you have more than 23 days to arrange any stock grande which is around 5k driven and with18s .. since my Oriel is on same size tyres and is 5k driven ..
2 of my friends recently had 3 drag runs on long route and according to both of them Civic X simply smoked Grande in all 3 runs they tried from 0 once and rest of the runs were roll on .. Corolla was 1.8 hardtop cvti 2015 model in black and civic 2016 hardtop in mod steel even the owner of Altis was saying Civic nikalti hy jari thi 100 k baad and at 180 plus gap was huge around 3 to 4 cars according to both of them ..
Now I dont know what has changed so much for FL grande other than features cosmetics and sports mode ! That it has become " Significantly " fast !
Same engine same transmission but still it is the King lol
And for your Turbo theory ..
Bhai you also said they will launch hardtop turbo or ultra hardtop or ultra or mega whatever when turbo initially was enjoying good sales back in 2016 when it got launched ..
Ultra 183hp Turbo ko to side pe rakhein pehle humein hardtop turbo dein warna agay baat nae chalay gi ab