Back in the day, it was a truism that you were supposed to drive a car reasonably hard some time early in its life. (Not sure if mechanics or automakers ever really agreed with that.) With more modern cars, that train of thought seems to be considered obsolete.
Just to cover my bases, I took more of a middling position: within the break-in limitations recommended by Toyota, and only after putting over a thousand miles, I just did one tankful where I drove mostly in Sport mode (CVT), accelerated more aggressively than normal, and took it up to 90 for a few seconds several times. Nothing too crazy.
With all that, I still got 27.8 MPG (US), which in my opinion isn't bad for combined city/highway. The Corolla is only rated for 28 in the city, presumably not in Sport mode and with a lighter touch than I was giving it.
I filled up tonight .... back to driving nice.
Anyone else do anything special for breaking in a new car?
TGallant 
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