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Old 06-10-2007, 09:36 PM   #1
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Compliments

Over the past few weeks my Yaris has gotten several compliments. Random people at stop lights say how nice it looks and ask what kind of mileage I get.

A few even asked if I wanted to trade cars with them. It feels pretty good considering how little I paid for it. I think a lot of people think it's a hybrid too.
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Old 06-10-2007, 09:45 PM   #2
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I call mine my Little gocart. You will get some snickers from the guys in the SUV's, but women find it cute! last laugh is one them, as you pass them at the gas station.
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Old 06-10-2007, 10:20 PM   #3
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I don't necessarily receive a lot of compliments. But my car is usually only two places, the work parking lot or my driveway. And since I usually leave work about an hour after most people, it's rare to encounter people.
I did however notice on the drive home about 2 weeks ago two girls in the car behind me at a stop light reading "Yaris" on the back. Probably a good thing I haven't de-badged it yet as I'm likely to do shortly.
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Old 06-10-2007, 11:52 PM   #4
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I call mine my Little gocart. You will get some snickers from the guys in the SUV's, but women find it cute! last laugh is one them, as you pass them at the gas station.
I love comments like that since I can play both sides of the fence. When I am in my 07 Expedition people ask why I would buy a gas guzzler and I tell them about the Yaris and how I take the train to work.

Then people get on me about how small the Yaris is and I tell them about my Expedition.
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Old 06-11-2007, 12:14 AM   #5
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I still get people driving by me that stare at my yaris. It's almost embarressing really.
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Old 06-11-2007, 01:18 AM   #6
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I get the "WTF are you driving" because my badges are de-badged and I have a front "Vitz" lightining emblem. They look at my rear and they see a black toyota emblem and the just have a puzzled look. Is it a toyota or something else?

Then they ask me if it's a hybrid(if I'm around) and then I tell them it's a go-kart. The younger kids I show them my mushroom and say that's my NOS and point at my banana and say get to close and I release!
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Old 06-11-2007, 01:38 AM   #7
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-Whats kind of gas milage does it get?

-Is that a hybrid?

-It looks all futurestic

-Get a real car

-What is that?

-Its cute.

-Yaris?
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Old 06-11-2007, 01:59 AM   #8
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I usually get double takes... 1st look is like wow, it's a nice car... 2nd look is like WTF? a white guy driving this?

Kinda funny really
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Old 06-11-2007, 08:07 AM   #9
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... point at my banana and say get to close and I release!
Hmmm... You may want to clarify that a bit...
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Old 06-11-2007, 08:20 AM   #10
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Hmmm... You may want to clarify that a bit...
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Old 06-11-2007, 08:37 AM   #11
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i've lived in my apartment complex for 10 months and not once has any of my neighbors tried talking to me. until i got my Yaris. "Do you like your car?" (um, no...that's why i bought it.) "The rims really make the car." (i know dumbass, that's why i bought them.)

i don't really like people.
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Old 06-11-2007, 08:52 AM   #12
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i've lived in my apartment complex for 10 months and not once has any of my neighbors tried talking to me. until i got my Yaris. "Do you like your car?" (um, no...that's why i bought it.) "The rims really make the car." (i know dumbass, that's why i bought them.)

i don't really like people.
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Old 06-11-2007, 09:29 AM   #13
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... point at my banana and say get to close and I release!
ROTFLMAO That is great. He must me a cathloic priest. :)


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i've lived in my apartment complex for 10 months and not once has any of my neighbors tried talking to me. until i got my Yaris. "Do you like your car?" (um, no...that's why i bought it.) "The rims really make the car." (i know dumbass, that's why i bought them.)

i don't really like people.
HaHa I know how you feel though. I don't enjoy people either. I do enjoy watching them mindlessly going about there business though. I love to sit at malls and just watch poeple I laugh for hours. HaHa
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Old 06-11-2007, 10:10 AM   #14
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I always get:

-That is one of the nicest Yarises I've ever seen!

-Is dat one de HYbrid cars?

-It's very cute (usually women)

-How's the MPG?

-What is that? a Suzuki?
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Old 06-11-2007, 10:13 AM   #15
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The younger kids I show them my mushroom and say that's my NOS and point at my banana and say get to close and I release!
Most likely a Mario Kart reference...
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Old 06-11-2007, 10:15 AM   #16
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Yes, I think that was the intended message, but it could be taken in a very very veeery wrong way
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Old 06-11-2007, 10:19 AM   #17
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Ususally showing your "mushroom" to kids can get you locked up! hehe
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Old 06-11-2007, 10:23 AM   #18
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A week ago I was driving down into downtown Hudson and I saw a guy on the sidewalk mouth "What the hell is that?"

A few days later I'm pulling into a supermarket parking lot and a kid standing outside his yellow Monte Carlo points at me from 500 yards away and proceeds to point until I park near him.

I don't see many cars on the road that turn as many heads (for better or worse) than the Yaris.
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