New Member Introduction -- Hi, Guys!

[beaglemobile]

Hi, guys. I discovered this forum back in the summer and lurked in the Fuel Economy Forum, but did not join. Last weekend, YAR1S left a YarisWorld card on my car when it was parked in the lot outside of his job, so I joined. It is nice to see so many other people with this car -- there really aren't that many in my town.

Before getting this Yaris, I'd never bonded with a car. There weren't any liftbacks for sale at my local dealership, so I went on a road trip to drive one. The only one they had at that dealership was out of alignment, so I ordered one through the credit union's car buying service. White Yaris arrived a few days later. It was love at first sight.

I liked the Yaris so much that I wrote to the chairman of Toyota to tell him. The GM of customer relations wrote back to me and sent a really cool diary. Here's the text of what he wrote.

Dear beaglemobile:

This is to acknowledge your letter of December 31, 2007, addressed to Mr. Fujio Cho, Chairman of the Board, which has been directed to us for reply.

We are delighted to hear of your enthusiasm for our products, and sincerely appreciate your taking the time to write. Receiving letters of appreciation such as yours is a great pleasure for us, and serves as motivation to continue our utmost efforts to produce products that will gain your lasting support and approval.

We have taken the liberty of circulating your letter among our divisions so that management and employees alike can share pride and thankfulness.

As a small token of our appreciation, we would like to present you with the enclosed Toyota diary. We hope you will like it.

Thank you very much for your continued patronage of Toyota.

Sincerely,

TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION

Kazunori Harada
General Manager
Overseas Operations Department
Customer Relations Division

Here's a photo of what I haul around in our beaglemobile: