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Replying to: frugal_one (Apr 22, 2006 6:50 am) I believe you are right that one has to be available in your area of the country or its more difficult and expensive to get shipped to your dealership. I would recommend to find out what day your allocation guy at your dealership gets his list of cars alloted to your area each week. My guy got his info. on tuesdays. So I went down there every tuesday to see what might be available. |
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Replying to: frugal_one (Apr 22, 2006 6:50 am) I am in the process of waiting for a shipment of yarii to arrive at a dealership in Wallingford, CT. One should be coming in a color with amenties I'm looking for. It has arrived in US at the "distribution center" and should be in in the next 7 days (this is all salesman's talk). Anyway, while I'm waiting, I've been searching other dealers locally for inventory available. The size of the dealerships in CT do not approach those in CA, but at A1 Toyota in New Haven, they have 4 total Yarii. 2 are HB's. Both have listing of "3DR HB AT (E)". 1 is Bayou Blue. Other HB is Blazing Blue. Price with 50 states emissions and convenience package is $13,320. Their website is http://www.a1toyota.com if you want to check it out. Too bad you are so far away. Road trip? |
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I've had my 2 door liftback automatic for one week. Overall I like it, but here are some pros and cons. Pros: The ride. This car has a great ride, to me. I'm no car expert, but it rides great. I like the driver's seat, it's very comfy. The cup holders are numerous and very functional. My cup holders on my old car allowed my drink to turn over or fall out and spill when I started up, which happened about a hundred times. Some Toyota engineer actually thought about this problem, and the cups fit deeply into the holders practically eliminating the possibility of a spill. I like that! The display is good, in the center of course. The stereo sounds good, and the little plug-in for your mp3 player is nice. The mileage seems real good. I do mostly highway driving,with some city of course, and I seem to be getting around 38 mgp right now. Cons: People generally do not react well, that is, they are not very impressed with this car. They think it's dinky and why did I buy it. You are not supposed to care about what other people think, but in the real world you do. The cars are being imported slowly, so there is not a good selection, and in my case I bought one without cruise control. I am a cruise addict, so I asked them about adding it in, and they said they had no information about the availability of cruise as an aftermarket add-on. I am getting used to driving without cruise, but I wonder how long I will have to wait to get it. A year? I didn't get the power option, and manually adjusting the mirror positions is pretty silly. No car should be sold today that requires you to roll the window down and manually adust the mirrors. I do miss my heat engine display, but maybe it's not necessary if the engine never overheats! You have to ask, why buy the Yaris over the Corolla? I don't know the answer. What is the price differential, if similarly equipped with power options, keyless entry, cruise, etc - $1,500, $2,000? The Corolla is one good-looking car. I can hear Marlon Brando exclaiming, "I could have had a Corolla!" Overall, for me I will be quite satisfied, at least when I get my cruise control. But I wil make a prediction - no matter how high gas goes, America will not accept the 2 door Yaris.
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Replying to: chesscat (Apr 22, 2006 8:56 am) But here is what I found. Aftermarket cruise control is going to be available in a month or two specifically for '07 Yaris!!! Thats fills in the last desirable feature for this car! Check it out here: http://www.rostra.com/cruise-control.htm (click on "custom kits now available" to see the one for Yaris) |
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of your review, chesscat, I must say I'm still interested in this new small rig from Toyota. However, the Yaris I want is the sedan so maybe you would tweak your review for the sedan? Or do you feel that people won't like the look of the sedan, either? I happen to like the look of both the sedan and the hatchback, especially the sedan. Question for ya, chesscat, do you notice your Yaris hatchback try to wander on the expressway, or not want to track straight-ahead properly? I read this on a review but sort of doubted it's valididty right as I was reading it. Yep, the two Yarii I am looking at at my local dealer are 5-speed sedans with the Convenience Package but w/o the Power Package, so I would be hand-cranking the windows. Yes, that might elicit a rude comment from a friend riding with me someday, I don't know. I could see how people might think that's kind of weird that a carmaker would pop a car out without power windows these days. I don't know, Kia's Rio doesn't have power w's, l's and m's and I still consider a Rio5 and Rio LX sedan in the running for my next new car, so maybe the carmaker's figure we do have the intelligence to handle the fact that they leave out certain things to save us cash in the initial purchase price. It saves them parts and equipment outlay cash in the production of the car, too. Those items are extremely peripheral, to me, anyway. The bulk and hulk of both the Yarii and the Rio twins are solid gold IMHO. Both would fit like a champ for me!  Happy weekend motoring!
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Re wandering, I can only repeat that I really like the ride. I don't think it does wander. As a driving machine, this car has no faults as far as I know. With respect to the looks, for the sake of completeness I must add that as I was coming out of a commercial parking lot a couple of days ago, the two girl attendants both were excited and requested a ride, and one offered to have relations for a ride, which I did not accept. So not all reactions to the look are less than enthusiastic. With respect to the 4-door, I don't have one, as you know the 2-door was designed in Europe, and the 4-door designed somewhere else. Since I don't have the 4-door, my opinion on its looks would just be based on pictures or something. I don't know that the 2-door's looks are bad, just most reactions from people don't seem to be positive. For me though, it's a cool car. I can't wait to get that cruise!
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| Some cars have "IT". In Europe, the Nissan Micra Has "IT". In the U.S., the big Chrysler exudes "IT", while the new big Ford, & Chevy don't have a clue. Generally, if Ma & Pa like a car, "IT" is not present. In general, all Toyotas are clueless. The RAV4 was an exception. The 2 door Yaris will never appeal to the "MASSES", but it is a design risk that has hit the bullseye. Owners of the Yaris will have to get use to having a design that is unique, but with "PANACHE" | |
| My dealer just placed a special Liftback order for a customer - 150 day wait estimated while it is built in Japan and shipped here. | |
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chesscat on the Yaris ride and handling. I suspected that you were positive on it and now I know for sure. I'm still excited about the Yaris sedan, then. Sometimes I think that car magazine reviewers are spoiled by the "exotic" brands and don't give an honest, unbiased review on the new economy cars. I'm not really sure that they are even good drivers from the dorky things they write. Doesn't work for me because all I am interested in are the small economy cars, SUV's and crossovers. So there you go. I have to be the final judge on what I decide to buy regardless of what others say or write or even think about the rig I like and eventually buy. Fortunately the Barcelona Red and Nautical Blue 5-speed Yarii sedans are not selling while I drag my feet about pouncing on them. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Apr 22, 2006 10:45 am) I bought a 4 door sedan saturday 4/16/04 , I was in the market for a new car and being 6'4" tall man I needed room, i wanted a new corolla but after sitting in it with driver seat all the way back and adjustable steering all the way up , i was cramped, did not feel comfortable at all, as i was used to my 98 avalon (my trade in) 80,000 miles on it got $4000 trade, but anyway my wife noticed this cute little car sitting over across from the corollas, we asked the sales man what is that , because neither of us had heard of the yaris at that point, he said its new just came out its called a yaris, so we decided to get in it , I was shocked it actually had more room for me than the corolla , with the seat all the way back and seat reclined somewhat I was very comfortable, so I said get the keys I want to drive it we drove it around town and took it on the highway it cruised at 70 mph very nicely the ride was good ( not the best) suspension was a little stiff but overall good handled real good cornered real good, I fell in love and bought it, it was one of two that they had i bought the automatic (wife) its real zippy so I can say this car will do good on the american market,, LOVE IT ! |
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