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Replying to: tygger (Apr 19, 2006 4:35 am)  on the Yaris, but Ive never been sucessful in selling my cars outright.
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I just took my second test drive, finally got to drive a hatchback, and this is the one for me. Everything I am just OK with on the Echo has been improved, starting with the most glaring one: the steering. Quick to self-center, and with some road feel instead of being totally overboosted. Very good. This car was an automatic, and I was not overly impressed with it - it tended to hold gears at odd times, then NOT down-shift just when I was trying to pass. But no matter, as I wouldn't buy the auto anyway. The stock stereo is decent but not great - there's a little more road noise in the hatch, which is to be expected in any model that has a sedan and a hatch. The stereo has enough power, but without window-level tweeters like all the other Toyotas get, road rumble on bad pavement tends to drown it out a bit unless you turn it up. The engine power is good with the A/C running. It's very agile (32-foot turning radius, woo-hoo! I tested that out a couple of times), and feels much more solid than the Echo. And the back seat - wow! Tons of space for two real adults - no encroachment from the roofline, and actual space for knees and feet. Now, I have mentioned the cupholders in the past, and I was mindful of that tonight - going in there with a supersize Coke from McDonalds. The cupholder actually held it very securely. And while it is in front of the side vent, what I had not noticed until I actually had a drink to put in it was that the vent is recessed from the cupholder, so that even with a big cup in it, the air from it still reaches the driver. Where my car has hard plastic panels along the bottom of the window-sill, the Yaris hatch has soft cloth-lined panels. The seats are better, the shifter is better, and the headliner is nicer, while the roofline still allows lots of headroom. The clock and dual maplights are standard now. What I hadn't noticed before is the hatch does NOT have the little remote control handles for the outside mirrors - if you don't get the power package you still have to reach out the window to adjust them, old-school style. The sedan gets the manual remote control handles without the power package. Another weird thing - in the Echo the center-mount IP is canted towards the driver, whereas in the Yaris it seems to be actually canted AWAY from the driver. That was probably just my weird perspective from having just stepped out of my Echo, but what I suspect is that it now faces straight back instead of being pointed slightly towards the driver. I like that one the Echo way, don't like that aspect of the Yaris as much. The one I drove was white, convenience package and floor mats as the only options (just the way I would like it) and stickered at $13,210 with the automatic. With a stick, it would have been $12,4, which seems like a heck of a bargain. OTOH, I have been checking out some of the competition, and I think if you want the ABS and/or side airbags, or you want the power package, you would be better off looking at Fit or Accent, both of which provide a better value, but which start at a higher base level of standard equipment than Yaris. Accent at $12,555 includes almost everything except (in usual obtuse carmaker fashion) the A/C, which costs $800 more and which I think almost everyone wants, and except the power W/L/M, which not everybody wants. The stick is terrible in that car, but everything else is pretty nice (I checked one of those out tonight too). Last thing - the guy showed me the dealerships sales page for the Yaris, and according to that only 4% of all Yarii will be stick shift hatchbacks with the convenience package, while 4% more will be base stick shift hatchbacks with no options at all except floor mats. I want the convenience package (CQ in Toyota-speak), so I will have to wait and see what colors come down the line equipped that way. |
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And to put it mildly. Its great. Runs smooth over rough roads. Has alot of pickup and go. Not that much road noise. Drives smoothly at 75 and 80 miles an hour. Actually seemed to hit a comfortable place at 80 miles an hour. Very maneuverable and easy to drive. Basically its a great little car.
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 19, 2006 8:21 pm) Any idea what are the percentages of other types of manual hatchbacks? I am wondering what is the chance of getting a manual hatchback with ABS and side air bags as the only added options... 
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Replying to: foober (Apr 19, 2006 8:38 pm) Congrats! |
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Replying to: realelite (Apr 20, 2006 3:29 pm) |
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Do what I did. Go to your allotment guy at your dealership. He will go on the computer to check out what cars are available in your area and elsewhere. Right now it seems its very limited on getting what you want with your liftback. I had to get a liftback with other things added to it to land one the closest to what I wanted. But the extras are actually pretty nice to have. Got all the airbags and convience package and bad weather package. Anyway. Talk to your allotment guy at your dealership. And keep checking back with him till you find one close to what you want. I had to go back every week for a month till we found one close to what I wanted. |
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