the GTS is NOT faster than MSP straight line. go to any car magazine that tested the 2. ALL of them have the MSP faster 0-60 and quarter mile!!! Every single one. Car/driver, autoweek, sport compact car, automobile magazine, there is not one magazine out there that tested these cars with a radar and found the gts faster...also if you say the gts is faster, you are saying the carolla is probably faster too...same engine. one thing to note though is that Toyota lowered the redline from 8300rpm to 7600rpm after the first production year, so the first year GTS is probably a bit faster, but still all the magazines have it slower than the MSP that they tested.