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2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
The only advantage of buying the Toyota system and having it installed at the dealer is a 1-year warranty on parts and labor.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
I don't about that. My previous car was a 2002 Maxima, and i know for a fact you can't open the locked doors by just pulling on the latch in the front two seats. You have to unlock the door first, and then pull the latch ! To me pulling the latch to open makes the lock superfluous, whats the point of it, if it doesn't lock. Also, i was more concerned about kids who play around with the latch and door opens suddenly, while the car is in motion.
You should keep kids in the back seat to avoid this - the back doors also have the child locks.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
As to your question about the point of door locks, I've always assumed they were to a) keep people out and b) keep kids in the back seat, as with child-locks, etc.
Interestingly, six generations of car designers didn't pick up on your observation that this was a superfluous arrangement.
One caution - as Consumer Reports correctly observed, the Corolla's steering wheel is a little too far away and is noticeable on long drives, like maybe 200 miles.
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Does anyone know if I can fit 185/75 14 tires on my 02 Corolla?
Stock is 175 or 185/65
I got a deal on these tires.
However, Toyota is still by far the sales leader, and the most successful company, so that means to me that they are building what most people want, which is less towards the performance side.
Oops, strayed from the topic. Congrats on the new Corolla. I know you will like it even more than the '99.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Of course, I could be wrong. I often am.
Hopefully someone else will have a more definitive answer. Good luck in your quest....
Barnee :confuse:
Of course, I'm sure in this nanny society, someone will successfully sue Toyota for this feature someday.
Now, this may seem simplistic, but there is a reason it works the way it does. In the old days, there were no inside hood releases - it was outside only. Everbody had access to everybody else's engine. For security, an inside release was used - if the doors are locked the hood is locked. Now, if one changes from car to car, even a SMART person can easily confuse the hood latch handle with some car's parking brake release handle, Soooo... for safety, one has to stand in front of the vehicle WHILE IT IS STOPPED to actually unlatch and open the hood. The design difference being that a person SMART enough to drive (excluding toddlers of course) would NOT pull a DOOR release handle while the car is moving - or would they?
I concur on the smart people. Maybe we should be the only ones driving these incredibly unsafe and complicated machines
So what kind of gas mileage are the 06 carollas getting?
I would especially like to know this, given (1) current trends and (2) this morning, on Good Morning America, a financial guru finally said the unthinkable: namely that, in the next two or three years, as a result of global demand, the US consumer will be paying what the European and Asian consumer is paying (i.e. about $6 a gallon).
44.3 mpg (this tankful was mostly state highway- so mostly 60 mph)
41.6 mpg (70 mph--10% of miles stop & go city)
43.8 mpg (70 mph--10% of miles stop & go city)
41.2 mpg (70 mph--20% city)
my other tanks have been about 50% hwy-50% city and have ranged from 34 mpg-39 mpg. i drive an 06 ce 5 speed and for the most part drive with the goal of getting the best mileage possible, but i will gladly downshif a couple gears if i need the acceleration.
i dont think any (non hybrid/diesel) car on the market will beat a corolla in gas mileage, especially on the highway. a used echo would do better, though.
And while the Yaris sheet-metal is nice, the interior is much more "entry level" with a splash of "weird" thrown in for the teeny-boppers and enormous-damn-rims crowd.
I just hope the next generation of Corolla due in 08 keeps the current traits: that's when I'll be due for a new set of wheels.
well, the manual corolla is rated 32/41 and the yaris is 34/40, so corolla is rated higher (barely) anyway. me thinks the yaris highway numbers are harder to achieve at real highway speeds as the engine is revving a bit high, where the corolla not as much. i chose a corolla over yaris for that very reason. i corresponded with boatloads of corolla owners who were achieving better than epa numbers, while the few yaris owner i do know are not doing nearly as well, especially at highway speed.
I know these are very different cars, but they are both supposed to be fairly reliable and good value for money.
Some background - me and my girlfriend are looking for a car together, we are both 24 and this isn't our first car. I own a Mazda Miata but am going to sell it once we get a replacement sedan. My choice.
Anyway, we found a really nice 96 Avalon with 90k miles. It has leather, sunroof, CD, six seats. Its a very nice car. The buyer was asking $5900, got it down to $5700 but he still has it and is waiting for a higher offer till Tuesday because he said he has to keep it till his replacement car comes in on Tuesday (we saw it on Friday and he said he had 5 people already show interest in it and 2 had come to look at it, he had more people lined up for the weekend).
From what I've seen, a 96 or similar Corolla is going to be $3500-4000 for similar vintage.
Now, I'm going to assume that both cars are relatively well-depreciated and won't lose a lot more of their value if we sell after 2-3 years. Is that assumption correct? If it is, then the cost of ownership comes down to the fact that the avalon has more electronics and will drink more gas - potentially an issue with rising gas prices, which i think will stabilize around $3 this year, but my guess is as good as anyone else's.
So what I'm trying to decide is whether it is worth paying more now for the Avalon because it is a more premium car and rides nicer and quieter on the highway. I actually want to get rid of my convertible because it is kind of noisy on the highway.
Advise me! Advice on how to handle the seller of this Avalon would also be nice.
I'm not looking at Camrys because they cost almost as much as Avalons and the fuel economy is almost the same.
That said, it all seems to be Magic-Eightball stuff.
That also said, having work done on a 4-banger costs less than a 6.