actually me and my friends have done a race between the 2009 altis and the reborn civic...both were stock, automatic...first race resulted in the civic outrunning the corolla right at the first gear change at around 60ish, by the end of the track the civic was well ahead and showed a top speed of 183km/h at the sea view track in khi, the corolla noted a 180km/h speedo at the end...the launch was as close to equal as it could be....
second run resulted in a quick launch by the corrolla with it gathering lead, at 150km/h the civic took crossed it without much hassle and kept the lead right upto the end....
Although i admit the older altis was lighter and the new one suffers from being heavy but that is what the reality is...situations in the manual could be much different because of the short gear ratio on the corolla but the weak top end would always result in the civic outrunning it in the long run!
This bike can certainly touch 180 i shall not doubt it but neither of the 3 were anywhere near 180, 0-100 on the 400 should be well under 6 seconds and the 0-100 on the corolla and the civic should be in at around the 8 secs marks...so winning was no big deal it was natural that the bike would win!