3 door vs 5 door hatch

[Yaristeve]

Originally Posted by kimona

"... cleaned up the front end..." ? You've got to be joking! That ugly snout is precisely the reason I won't buy the 3rd generation. .

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I always felt the 2nd gen snout was too bulbous, expecially the center of the grill where the Toyota logo sits. If it had just sloped down (like the 3rd gen), I would have liked it fine.

Originally Posted by kimona

Well... that and the tails that look like they came off another car.

This is why I "almost" would trade mine in...

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by Yaristeve

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I always felt the 2nd gen snout was too bulbous, expecially the center of the grill where the Toyota logo sits. If it had just sloped down (like the 3rd gen), I would have liked it fine.

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yeah, I cant count how many women commented on how cute my 2007 hatch was. with the 3rd gen I don't get any of that, and that suits me quite fine.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by roxy1

yeah, I cant count how many women commented on how cute my 2007 hatch was. with the 3rd gen I don't get any of that, and that suits me quite fine.

I've had tons of people ask me if my car is a hybrid, but most of those questions were posed in the first year or so I owned the car.

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I've had tons of people ask me if my car is a hybrid, but most of those questions were posed in the first year or so I owned the car.

Funny. I had a few ask me the same.

Not with my 2009; but with my 2012.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

Funny. I had a few ask me the same.

Not with my 2009; but with my 2012.

Ive installed the block heater and have the cord hanging out the front grill. Everyone thinks its a plug in hybrid!

Considering putting it up for sale for $35,000!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Ive installed the block heater and have the cord hanging out the front grill. Everyone thinks its a plug in hybrid!

Considering putting it up for sale for $35,000!

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I've had tons of people ask me if my car is a hybrid, but most of those questions were posed in the first year or so I owned the car.

Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

Funny. I had a few ask me the same.

Not with my 2009; but with my 2012.

that's what I get all the time because the design language on the front of the 2012+ is rather similar to the Prius.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by roxy1

that's what I get all the time because the design language on the front of the 2012+ is rather similar to the Prius.

^^^^^ I agree that this is why you and JPT get such comments. I think I did because the 'model' (and especially the 3-door trim) was so new at the time. People making the comments possibly had never before seen one 'up close'....just one moving on the road, or they hadn't seen one at all. I remember the 2007 came out sometime in the Spring of 2006. I still had my Swift at the time (and had not yet left on my trip to Canada with the Swift), but I wanted to sit in a Yaris. I could only find one in stock at a dealer in the San Joaquin Valley, so I drove out there (from the SF Bay Area) to sit in one and look under the hood, etc. They only had the sedan.