what do you say when

[ryota]

what do you guys and girls say when your friends try to make fun of your Yaris? a couple of my friends that i get together with a couple times a week always resort back to calling my little lift back gay and telling me i traded in my balls when i bought the car. i have informed them that i'm a broke college student so it is the right price, i can fit just about anything i have ever tried to get into it, i can drive from my driveway to boston on a tank of gas (which is fantastic being in rochester ny) and that that tank only costs me 25$, and it's actually a zippy little car for the engine size... yet when they have nothing left to try to make fun of me for they go back to the Yaris.

what do the rest of you say because i'm sure i'm not the only one who has ever come across this... and quite frankly, i would love to see the end of this from them.

[LtNoogie]

Is it stock looking? A little tint, a little lowering, some wheels... They'll start giving it a different look. Some of it can be done without spending too much money.

[THE ONE]

Originally Posted by LtNoogie

A little tint, a little lowering, some wheels... They'll start giving it a different look. Some of it can be done without spending too much money.

This was a very good advice in my opinion... You can make it look different, with your own taste, and give it a sporty look...

Girls like the Yaris, and that's for sure... So give it a JDM Style look, so that it looks clean, but at the same time sporty and unique... I'm sure girls won't recist it! haha

Start with some nice wheels, not to big, some 15' will fit perfectly... then get some coils/springs to lower it... then maybe some HID's... and so on...

You can do this without spending so much, as LtNoogie already said, and I think your Yaris will rock, and nobody's gonna say anything about it, unless they're jelous...

[yaris-me]

Originally Posted by LtNoogie

Is it stock looking? A little tint, a little lowering, some wheels... They'll start giving it a different look. Some of it can be done without spending too much money.

+1 Guys at work with big SUVs are trying to car pool.

[gokartride]

Gee, I never get any comments like this...I guess I'm just that intimidating!!!

[ryota]

yeah stock. new stereo all around but that's it

[AmyV]

Haha. Ok yeah, I am in a similar boat. My retorts usually go back to 'Hey, I am a working college student who bought a brand-spankin new car when I turned 20 years old...'

Something like that usually shuts up at least my friends.

Do you own any other cars? Maybe a project car? Fall back on that too.

It prolly wont end, but it might help lessen it a bit.

[silver_echo]

i always hear "doesn't that have the prius motor", and i hear "wow, i didn't think that little car could do that"(this is always fun to hear at the track, after a burnout )

and BTW, they are trying to make fun of the car because they are jealous of the fact that you don't break down, get good MPG, have a pretty peppy car... so it will probably not stop...

then again, you could always turn it back on them by asking "so what do you drive? a honda?"

[coffiend]

Find new friends.


just kidding.....

....kinda.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by ryota

what do you guys and girls say when your friends try to make fun of your Yaris? a couple of my friends that i get together with a couple times a week always resort back to calling my little lift back gay and telling me i traded in my balls when i bought the car.

awwwww!!! Your friends are tough customers and completely misinformed about the Yaris, obviously.

You're right, there was a thread kind of like this before, and I'll see if I can find it for you. There were some pretty good responses in there, including if your friends continue acting like ignorant @ssholes, perhaps you may need new friends

Everything you say is right about the Yaris. Plus it's a great looking car, nothing wrong with that.

what do the rest of you say because i'm sure i'm not the only one who has ever come across this... and quite frankly, i would love to see the end of this from them.

* Hope you don't expect me to give you a ride when yours is in the shop

* No, I don't need to stop for gas, I filled up 2 months ago

* Yeah, but I can park it almost anywhere

* I can turn on a dime

* I keep it stock so no-one will steal it

*

[JohnnoEH]

^^^^


You are a deadset f*%#ing legend. That is awesome.

Originally Posted by tomato

* Hope you don't expect me to give you a ride when yours is in the shop

* No, I don't need to stop for gas, I filled up 2 months ago

I can attest to the effectiveness of these two.

One of my roommates drives a bright purple R33 Skyline, with flames stiched into the seats & glovebox and a black carbon fibre bonnet... You get the picture.

He had it for a month before it caught fire, at the moment it's off the road with a leaking clutch line... And he still takes the piss out of my car, saying it's gay and all that crap. I ask him whose car caught fire, if that doesn't shut him up I ask him why he CHOSE to pay $16000 or so for a PURPLE skyline - when I got mine for nothing. If he's still having a go, I just say that I have half a 45L tank left and I've done 400km since filling it up... First time I said that his jaw hit the floor.

One time he put his foot down and raced around me coming back from rugby practice, being a smartarse (after putting heaps of shit on it as we were leaving). So, I figured I'd get him back and screamed around the back way into the carpark and stole his spot - he was just turning in when I appeared and went straight in instead. I just got out and said that it's not the car, but the driver, no-one stopped giving him shit for a week. What's better is I live on campus so everyone on the team was there to witness it...

The other rode a ZX-10R, which was a very nice bike but all I had to do was ask what he does when it rains and he'd shut up. Now he has a Hyosung GT650R, while it's nice bike (I'm looking at buying one at the end of next year), it's off the road at the moment so neither of them can say anything about reliability. And he still gets wet when it rains.

Oh, and I have a fairly hot '64 Holden EH that I hillclimb and I gravel rally an old Datsun so I just challenge them to a (legal) race and they back down pretty quick... Even though their machines should blow the doors off mine.

[AmyV]

I'm 6' tall, so I always get (from friends and strangers alike) "Wow! Do you have to fold in half to drive it" or "How do you fit in it?" or "Does your head touch the ceiling?".

Hahaha. Haha. Ha.... *cough cough*. Ugh.

[tomato]

Someone once told me "Why did I bothered to put an alarm on it, who's gonna steal a Yaris"

I don't care, I like my car.

Oh, and if they get really nasty

* well, it maybe an entry level car but at least I know how to drive it

* ...

[ryota]

so one just got a 2004 3 series beamer and the other drives his dads old chevy s-10 extreme and just got a 1000cc cbr. i like the college kid retort... seeing as how i don't have a full time job and yet have owned a car with single digits on the odometer (6 :-)).

and no i have no other cars, although i'm going to get a motorcycle this upcoming spring

[rningonfumes]

I just laugh it off as I count the money saved on the way to the bank.

Great gas mileage, great insurance rate, decent priced car payments. The cool goodies which I have installed are sweet as well!

But seriously, what are friends there for if they can't bust your chops once in a while, dish it back to them. It's the friends whom can't take jokes who are the friends you don't want (well, among other more important criteria).

[ryota]

Originally Posted by rningonfumes

I just laugh it off as I count the money saved on the way to the bank.

Great gas mileage, great insurance rate, decent priced car payments. The cool goodies which I have installed are sweet as well!

But seriously, what are friends there for if they can't bust your chops once in a while, dish it back to them. It's the friends whom can't take jokes who are the friends you don't want (well, among other more important criteria).

one of them is one of my best friends and the other has become a really good friend too... and you have no idea how much stuff gets brushed off, it's just that my yaris is their last resort when i have come back at them for everything else and i would like to take the away from them too

haha i'm going to bring them a copy of the consumer reports reliability of my car and show them that seeing as how all but like 3 categories are far above average and the ones that aren't are still above average (something the beamer or the s-10 can claim)... then tell them to kiss my ass because i know my car will last as long as i want it to without billions of dollars in repairs (anything that breaks on the beamer)

[R2D2]

I really don't give a rip what anyone else thinks and you probably shouldn't either. If your car is so critical to your friends maybe they aren't your friends.
I can honestly say there is no other car I'd rather be driving. There is something undeniably cool about an economical little car that inspires a forum such as this. The Yaris is just so many things to so many people with so many wants and needs.

R2

[ddongbap]

My car makes boobies jiggle.