... It has character and a cheeky face - its just a great, fun car!
We got our Silver Toyota Yaris 1.0 CDX brand new from a car dealership, managing to wangle a few thousand off the asking price. The CDX is the top of the range. It has a built in CD player, Air Conditioning, Sunroof, RDS Radio, ... Read review
Advantages: Fantastic Car Disadvantages: Can Not Fault
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We got our Silver Toyota Yaris 1.0 CDX brand new from a car dealership, managing to wangle a few thousand off the asking price. The CDX is the top of the range. It has a built in CD player, Air Conditioning, Sunroof, RDS Radio, five doors and just a fantastic drive.
As you step inside, the first thing you notice is one of the best little quirks of the car. Where is the dashboard? The dash is entirely electronic and is hidden in ... ...the car. In front of the driver is just a flat panel - and for the first time moving off, it is quite an uneasy feeling - but once you see the dash in it's unusual location, you will find it difficult to take your eyes off it! (Please do - the last thing you want to do is crash a new car!)
The dashboard faces the driver, so you never strain to see it, and it can't be read by anyone else in the car due to a clever bit of lens alignment behind ... more
From the moment you see it - you fall in love with it. It has character and a cheeky face - its just a great, fun car!
We got our Silver Toyota Yaris 1.0 CDX brand new from a car dealership, managing to wangle a few thousand off the asking price. The CDX is the top of the range. It has a built in CD player, Air Conditioning, Sunroof, RDS Radio, five doors and just a fantastic drive.
As you step inside, the first thing you notice is one of the best little quirks of the car. Where is the dashboard? The dash is entirely electronic and is hidden in a futuristic pod in the centre of the front of the car. In front of the driver is just a flat panel - and for the first time moving off, it is quite an uneasy feeling - but once you see the dash in it's unusual location, you will find it difficult to take your eyes off it! (Please do - the last thing you want to do is crash a new car!) The dashboard faces the driver, so you never strain to see it, and it can't be read by anyone else in the car due to a clever bit of lens alignment behind the screen. The display is deep within this pod - giving the illusion that it is somewhere underneath the bonnet! The 100% digital dashboard also includes very useful features such as a Programmable Odometer with A and B trips - so you can measure the length of two journeys. You can even toggle between MPH and KMH for driving abroad.
What the heck am I raving on about the dash for... Ahem... i'll move on!
The drive is incredible. Its fantastically smooth, and corners excellently. The engine, depsite being just a one litre, responds immediately with an immense amount of power, you can easily leave other cars standing at the traffic lights! With a five gear transmission, you are never short of power and speed - it has ample ability on any type of road.
The ride is very confortable. The seats are well designed and cushion your body in the right places to create an incredibly comfortable ride, but at a practical driving position. You can, like in almost any car now, adjust the base, back and height. The amount you can see from the drivers seat is great. It is just at the right height to see all around you, and the mirrors are electrically powered, so you can easily move them from within the car both from the driver's seat.
The rear seats are as equally comfortable as the front, including the ability to move the entire bench seat backwards or forwards. This can be particularly useful for people gaining a larger boot, or extra leg room in the back, of which there is ample anyway!
The boot looks smallish, when you compare it to a huge saloon car, but for a super-mini, its perfectly fine. You can easily fit the weeks shopping in the back, or about two or three suitcases and extras on top if you are going on a journey.
The Air Handling of the car is excellent. The Air Conditioning included with the CDX model is incredibly useful on a very hot day and is fast to start up. As in a usual car, there are three dials, one to control the direction of the air, another to control the speed of the fan and another to control the temperature. Other features in the front include heated rear screen (with wiper) and the fantastic entertainment centre.
The entertainment centre is based around the rectanguar screen underneath the dash-pod. This screen contains the time, the temperature outside, and either the name of the radio station you are listening to, the CD track you have on or the fuel consumption, depending on which setting you have it on. While we're on the subject of fuel consumption, I can't remember off the top of my head how economical it is - but take it from me that it can go a very very long way without ever filling up. Just recently, on a trip to London from Birmingham (about 100 miles or so) I went and came back, and still had some petrol left to potter around in for the next couple of days! As an optional extra, you can have a satellite navigation system built in to the car (rather than having a big ugly box), in which case, this is where the data comes up. The CD player does not have a changer in the boot, you feed the CD into the slot in the dashboard, and with just two speakers, a truly amazing sound quality comes out - and we have had this car for over a year now, and not once has a disc ever skipped - you can even listen to CD-R discs created on your PC.
Now, when it comes to securtity, the car does not have an alarm. This may put people off, but the car comes fitted as standard with a powerful immobiliser, where the key contains a special chip that enables and disables the engine, so there is no way of moving that car in any way without the key, and it also includes central locking. We bought, as a precaution, a handbrake lock. You can get one for about £20 from Halfords and it easily fits the Yaris, by covering the handbrake and clamping the gear stick.
The look of the car is still fresh and unique. I like it in Silver. I believe this is the 'standard' colour, but it really looks the best with this. And, as the CDX is the top of the range, it has body coloured bumpers, which is an added bonus, as some of the lower models with the grey plastic don't look half as sharp! The car is still looked at in public - as it is unmistakable. It has a cheeky and friendly face which, as strange as this might sound people, reflects the car's personality. It is a great little car that is bags of fun to drive. You will literally want to go everywhere in it!
As i've said before, we've had it for over a year now, and the only time it has ever been in to a service bay was its first 1 year check up. Not once has it failed to start, or had any kind of trouble - it is one of the most reliable cars on the road.
Every person I know that has one, adores it, and everyone else I know desperately wants it. If you are looking for a car - there is no faulting this one - you will be so pleased with it - you will never ever look at another car again!
Advantages: Fuel efficient, cheap on insurance and road tax. Good all round car for a small family or anyone who likes to be that little bit different. Disadvantages: I really cannot fault this car.
...a drum roll... yep.. a Toyota Yaris!
I spent the next two weeks crying silently to myself, lamenting the passing of a dream car.... for a Yaris! What the hell is this Yaris, what is so special about it I thought? My wife attempted to describe it to me in her own way... it's round, it's curvy, it's lovely... I want one!
A couple of weeks passed and circumstances required that we buy a new car sooner than we had anticipated. Off we went to our local ... ...would end up in a Toyota show room just a few minutes away, and like Homer Simpson 'Doh!' escaped my lips long after it was too late to do anything about it, in this case just as the words "Delivery will be in two weeks time and it has been a pleasure to serve you."
Two weeks later 'Pheobe' sat on the driveway demanding that I drive her. I hadn't even sat in her at the time of purchase, such was the depth of my sulk! In her Island Green finary she ...
darkwater 09.11.2001
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Advantages: Small, nippy with plenty of space. Disadvantages: The doors on the 3 door version are a little large.
...I first saw the new Toyota Yaris, which was on display in our local shopping centre, I fell in love and just had to have one. All I had to do was convince my husband, not hard you may think except that he has always been a Nissan man, and so I thought that he would take some convincing.
I was completely surprised at how easy that was, without any help from me at all.
At the time our present car was on it's last legs, and we were on the lookout ... ...door version in the Caspian Blue, and I must say that it is perfect for us.
*** My overall opinion on the Toyota Yaris.
A really great small family car, with loads of added features and plenty of room inside.
Take a look for yourself at www.toyota.co.uk ...
xanadu 10.02.2001 (16.03.2001)
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Advantages: THe best city car money can buy Disadvantages: No alarm as standard
The Yaris is probably the perfect small car, light, manouverable, nippy and yet sticks to the road like glue and has enough space inside to seat a small army. It's so good in fact, that someone tried to steal mine after a few days. The car looks great, and the 1 litre engine has been treated and tweaked to perfection. This car is also an ideal choice for everyone, from the boy racer to the family of five. The Yaris is a city car, and the only time ... ...land of the motorway, where one litre, however improved, doesn't seem to cut it. It will do up to around 80 mph happily though, and even at this speed it sticks to the road with disarming skill. The rear seats also roll forward and backwar by 15cm, giving a saloon car's luxury while also rolling forward to give enough room for the week's shopping. The amount of headroom for such a small car is also amazing, with me and my 6 foot plus friends having ...
Jamesuttley 21.10.2000
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Advantages: Reliabilty, Economical, Fun Disadvantages: Some poor visibility
...better looking and being a Toyota I was happy that we would have many years of trouble free motoring with it.
I'll be honest the digital readout was also a big draw for us. For thos of you that do not know the Yaris, it has no dials behind the steering wheel. There is a centrally mounted electronic readout that contains the fuel readout, a rev counter, all of the indicator lights (i.e. temp, oil, battery etc) and the speedo - for gadget lovers it ... ...way that the rear seats fold forward means that there is an incredible amount of space available - the run to B&Q is still not a problem! Although that said you are not going to get a bath tub in the back.
The fuel consumption is incredible, ona bout 28 - 30 ukp of petrol I regularly get 400 miles from the tank. Mostly on the dual carriageway, but a fair amount of those miles are done around town too.
The car is now three years old, and apart from ...
Hoof 18.07.2003
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Advantages: compact and deceptively spacious Disadvantages: it doesn't clean itself!
...brakes, I phoned Hodgson Toyota in Bishops Stortford, who collected my car from work, fixed the fault, and delivered it back to me with a full tank of fuel, a full valet and a bottle of champagne on the passenger seat. Now that is what I call service! ...
pagan 13.03.2001 (25.10.2001)
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The striking point to a passer by would be its exterior design, well that's really all they see from the outside. Looking front on you see its large headlight that adds character to the car I must say, checking out its rear, not as attractive but can be considered as average (it's far better than the Renault Megane, errrr). The bumpers are the same colour as the car with the odd grey plastic patches to prevent a scratch when you scrap a car. This car is a 3 door so the doors are bigger than doors for a 5 door car.
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