Can Toyota Still Manage to Build an Awful Car? - LA Times Article

[Pavel Olavich]

Originally Posted by BailOut

...My 5MT Yaris is hardly ever revved over 2,000 RPM and I barely hear a thing...

If you rarely tack over 2,000 RPM with your manual Yaris, you are often lugging the engine...not good, not good at all. That engine wants and needs to rev'd past 3,000 when shifting up...otherwise you will damage it over time. The Yari engine has shit torque at and below 2,000!

[Nutzoids]

This Dudes email address is at the bottom of the article

here is the email I sent him:

I don't agree with anything you have said...

Please check out www.yarisworld.com

and see what the owners of this car really think...

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4523

This Thread is about YOUR article!

Thank you

Nutzoids

Lets hope he checks us out!

[Pars]

Originally Posted by Pavel Olavich

If you rarely tack over 2,000 RPM with your manual Yaris, you are often lugging the engine...not good, not good at all. That engine wants and needs to rev'd past 3,000 when shifting up...otherwise you will damage it over time. The Yari engine has shit torque at and below 2,000!

I've got 45,000km on my 5dr Yaris. On the flats, while taking it slow, I can switch at 1500rpm without lugging the engine. There's nothing wrong with going through the gears while switching at 2000rpm, unless you're going up a hill.

In my case, the low rpm response got slightly better with time, but still not as good as my old 1.6L (SOHC) Civic. But what the Yaris lacks in initial take-up, it gains in mid range power.

[Pars]

Why is it that only the US Yaris is getting all the bashing, while everywhere else in the world, the car is being praised? Perhaps Toyota is putting a handicap on the options/accessories to make room for the Scion.

Well, if the Yaris isn't selling in the States, it just means more for us Canadians.