Consumer Reports not too pleased with Yaris

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When buying my wifes new Civic I told the salesman I was going to buy a Yaris. He of course tried to push me into a Fit. He showed me multiple reports and with each article the Fit beat the Yaris.

Heres the catch; In each report the Yaris was compared to a Fit Sport. Did you know the Fit Sport starts in the $17,000 range? In my opinion this is not even the same price bracket as the Yaris.

What makes the Fit Sport beat the Yaris? I think the real difference is the Fit has a 5 speed automatic, paddle shifters on the steering wheel, outside temp. guage, a tachmeter, and dual front, side, and side curtain airbags.

Five speed auto; I admit it works very well in my wifes Civic with a 1.8L, however, since the Yaris beat the Fit in acceleration I don't see the need for it. Paddle shifters; This isn't a Ferrari, do people really want to push the 1.5L to the max. An outside temp guage and Tach would be nice. Lastly, Toyota really needs to make 6 airbags standard like Honda. Safety is a big issue in these reports.

As far as looks, the Yaris blows the Fit out of the water.