When Arthur and his parents travel to the city of Cherbourg, France on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy to attend a Ham Radio convention, they are given an CE90 Corolla wagon with the 2C diesel engine that’s in the same engine architecture as the C diesel engine in the CE80 Corolla 5-door hatchback of the preceding generation that Ed had given Arthur’s parents.
Arthur and his parents were given a choice of either the E90 Corolla wagon or a European Ford Escort wagon with the Endura diesel engine. Both cars are equipped with a manual transmission, as are most vehicles in Europe.
Arthur and his parents enjoy the quality time spent in this European-spec E90 Corolla.
In addition to attending the Ham Radio convention in Cherbourg, they drive in the E90 Corolla wagon to the towns of Auderville, France and Gatteville-le-Phare, France; to Caen, France; and to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
As this time was before the Chunnel had been completed, Arthur and his parents take a ferry with the car (E90 Corolla wagon) on board from Cherbourg, France to Portsmouth, England; and from Portsmouth, England is where Arthur and his parents drive in the Left-Hand-Drive (LHD) car to the BBC Daventry, England shortwave transmitter site to visit their friends over there. And then Arthur and his parents drive all the way back south to Portsmouth and re-board the ferry with the car on board to Cherbourg, France.
Once Arthur and his parents get back home, they tell Ed that they rented an E90 Corolla with the C diesel engine. Ed says “Yeah, they do sell the Corolla with the C diesel engine in the European market, although it’s the 2C now in the case of the new E90 anywhere else in the world it is sold with the diesel engine, whereas the E80 that I gave you guys a few years ago had the C”. “They also sell the E90 in the European market with only the same 4A engine as in the North American spec models and the E engine, and not the 6A or the 7A”.
Ed eventually winds up giving Arthur and his parents a North American spec AE98 Corolla GT-S 2-door coupe with the 4A-GE engine.
Photos of the E90 Corolla wagon like what Arthur and his parents rent while they’re in France:
The 5-door liftback version (AE92) that was sold in the European market:
The 3-door hatchback version (EE90) that was sold in the European market:
A North American-spec AE98 Corolla GT-S like the one that Ed winds up giving Arthur and his parents:
Matthew Parij 
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