Why Do You Buy Toyota?

[djct_watt]

After 3 trips to the dealer, you likely can qualify your car as a lemon. . . check your state's lemon laws. However, I'd suspect that if they can't find the source of the problem in a car with 16k miles after 4 trips, the problem has more to do with the dealership than the car itself. Toyota dealers and their service departments, I find, are EXTREMELY sloppy due their need to rush cars in and out so they can turn a bigger buck.

[Cosmonaut]

We don t "buy toyota" but we did buy a toyota.

The reason was because at the time there were no models( Fiesta wasnt out yet)that we liked/ out of $$$range and we like the looks of the HB

[.Kevin.]

Got one because I wanted a new mustang due to having a first gen and my dad insisted to go with a Toyota since he has an echo 2005 with almost 50,000 kms on it and it has never had ONE problem.

SO I went with the yaris for its badass looks, good speed, handing etc

[Cosmonaut]

Originally Posted by .Kevin.

Got one because I wanted a new mustang due to having a first gen and my dad insisted to go with a Toyota since he has an echo 2005 with almost 50,000 kms on it and it has never had ONE problem.

SO I went with the yaris for its badass looks, good speed, handing etc

lol i wouldve gone with the mustang (GT....or canadian Cobra as they called the gt in the late 80's. dont know if its changed)

[.Kevin.]

Originally Posted by Cosmonaut

lol i wouldve gone with the mustang (GT....or canadian Cobra as they called the gt in the late 80's. dont know if its changed)

Nah breaks down.

Plus why get it when I already have this

also we got

Mustang v6
Mustang v8
Mustang GT - gt500
Mustang SHelby Cobra

[slothman86]

Hmmmm, I don't think I'd consider myself brand loyal to Toyota. I just love the underdog feeling sometimes, I guess. I also don't have to buy a "Muscle Car" to feel good about myself.

I look for quality over quantity usually. Unless it's food, LOL. To me Toyota= Quality.

P.S. Next Car after My Yaris is stolen or totaled is this...

[nemelek]

I have owned 6 if you count a Lexus. A 77 Celica hatchback being the first. 4 were bought with over 100,000k for commuter cars. Hopefully the Yaris will be the last car I buy for the next 20 years.

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by wooverstone8

My primary reason for buying Toyota is for reliability. I had a 94 Corolla that ran trouble free until it was involved in a collision @ 122k miles. I had the car fixed, but it never ran the same and had problems. I drove the Corolla up to 129k miles and gave it to family who needed a car and I bought a new 2009 Yaris.

Sorry to hear that a collision took out your ride. My parents had an 86 corolla, baby blue, auto, no options at all. The car had 426,000 miles on it in 98 when they let a friend borrow it. He was coming home from a bar at sun rise and while cresting a hill smacked into a moose. My dad was devastated...he wanted to be able to send pics and a story to toyota corp about him hitting the half million park still going strong. The only thing he did was change air filters, oil, and spark plugs twice. In an interesting twist the motor and trans were fine so he sold them to a guy that lived a few miles down the road. The guy installed it in his 86 toyota 4x4 truck that he uses as a lumberjack. I shit you not...the guy is still running that truck with that motor today. He has put another 300,000 + miles on it in the northern maine woods. I just think that it pretty cool how at least part of a car can live on and have a deep history. Just another reason to buy a toyota.

[why?]

I first was addicted toyota because my dad has a 1982 Supra that he bought brand new. I love that car and he still has it today with about 250,000.

I was looking for my first brand new car, and I was actually working at a toyota dealership when I first found out the yaris was coming. At first i was looking for an awd hatch, but the ones available then only came in auto, not manual. I was also looking at gas mileage, and the Yaris was the best. I put my order in, and I received one of the first yaris' on the east coast in may of 2006. I've loved my car ever since.

I've owned and daily driven a bunch of other cars, 86 Saab 9000, 85 Caddy, Ford Conversion van, 1994 Ford Taurus SHO, 1999 Saab Viggen. While the Yaris can't match any of them on power, I feel it is the most fun to drive overall. And it is a hatch.

[wooverstone8]

Originally Posted by djct_watt

After 3 trips to the dealer, you likely can qualify your car as a lemon. . . check your state's lemon laws. However, I'd suspect that if they can't find the source of the problem in a car with 16k miles after 4 trips, the problem has more to do with the dealership than the car itself. Toyota dealers and their service departments, I find, are EXTREMELY sloppy due their need to rush cars in and out so they can turn a bigger buck.

I don't think the car is a lemon at this point, but likely the dealership did a sloppy job replacing the water pump and belt (plus they left a big mess in the engine bay). I'm planning to take my Yaris back to the dealership soon and I'll be speaking to service manger and the person who runs the dealership about the problems am having with my Yaris and if they cannot fix and explain the problems I will take it to Toyota customer care.

Sorry to hear that a collision took out your ride. My parents had an 86 corolla, baby blue, auto, no options at all. The car had 426,000 miles on it in 98 when they let a friend borrow it.

The Corolla was an excellent little car. Before the collision I knew I could drive that car well beyond 200,000 miles trouble free. After the collision the car developed multiple problems and I couldn't risk having a car that could potentially break down and not be able to get to work.

[djct_watt]

Threatening to lemon the car will cause the dealer to take you a little bit more seriously, but as I said in my post exactly, the problem likely lies in terrible dealer techs. . .

[p123456789]

because I would go broke feeding my jeep everyday on my 100 mile coummute. I also wanted a newer car that I could get dirt cheap that was different than all the other cars on the road.