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

[Pavel Olavich]

Originally Posted by Spades

well, for a 11k dollar car the handling is pretty good. go drive a versa or aveo and get back to me.

besides, maybe you dont know how to drive it? I have lots of fun on twisty roads with it, and even on the skidpad results it is not half bad. I dont consider a hairpin corner taken at the appropriate speed unless at least 3 tires are spinning. but hey, if you have owned much better cars with much better handling, why oh why did you buy a 11k dollar gas miser car?

Forget about twisty roads and such....just on the freeway doing 70 mph, it is bouncy, the steering is a tad wandering, and the handling is NOT remarkable, not even when comparing like cars from any and all competitors. I'm not saying it is bad....just that the handling is not great, nor remarkable, just okay. I knew this before I bought the 2007 Yaris LB, but I was ok with it because my demands of this car are not sportcar handling...rather high MPG, high reliability, and low maint costs, so I don't complain.

As for twisties, canyon carving driving, it's handling is BS....and I know how to drive twisties by car and sport bike. The Yaris is a great car, perhaps the best in it's class, but lets not make it more then it is.