Toyota Yaris (FRENCH-Built Cars return to USA)

Automobilemag ^ | Fall 2005

[Rocketwolf68]

Sounds suspiciously like a Honda CBR900 or 919...
much too fast for the french, and no reverse.

[epow]

Nissan is now 40% owned by Renault. I think we can expect a Frog built car with a Nissan nameplate to show up over here some time in the future.

I have owned a Nissan Altima for about 5 years. It's been an extremely reliable and competent car, but it was built before the Frogs became involved with Nissan. I don't think I'll replace it with a Nissan that has any connection with the Frogs. Maybe a Honda or Toyota as long as it isn't built anywhere in Europe.

[atomic conspiracy]

Too cool. Redolent of the World War 2 resistance, Marseille gangster era, Algiers anti-terrorist police.
You can just see Jean-Paul Belmondo behind the wheel, cigarette dangling, glancing futively about for something we would rather not know.
A local official had one of these in An Loc, RVN, when I was there right after the siege in 1972.

[JenB]

Is that car cowering?

[knews_hound]

Remember Doug,

The French copy no one.

And no one copies the French.

Cheers,

knews hound

[Born Conservative]

That car is HIDEOUS looking!

[Born Conservative]

Actually, there will be some libs that might buy it, so they can flaunt the fact that they are "saving energy".

[Centurion2000]

ROFL !!

[Dark Skies]

And a favorite of the "gendarmerie" for a long time...

Though there may have been a million idiots, there was always one hero.

[Dark Skies]

Good writing by the way! I know you write...so do I.

I see it in the little things.

[JohnD9207]

I have owned a Nissan Altima for about 5 years. It's been an extremely reliable and competent car, but it was built before the Frogs became involved with Nissan. I don't think I'll replace it with a Nissan that has any connection with the Frogs. Maybe a Honda or Toyota as long as it isn't built anywhere in Europe.


NOPE! Just can't do it. No flame here, just can't support these two countries. I understand both sides of the arguement on buying cars from overseas, or American. But I just can't do it. With respect of course.

[montreal]

Ugly Cars ? i don't think so....

[atomic conspiracy]

"I don't think so"

So? Is your opinion somehow authoritative?
Do the 2CV and R5 not exist? Is even this an issue of nationalism with you? Did dagnabbit and I not praise both of the old Citroens, especially the Traction Avant?

[montreal]

I think that the 2CV and the R5 were beautiful motorcars in their times....
We are in 2005, and it is normal that they are obsolete today...
Like many others Ford, GM, Toyota....

[MarkL]

They have the nerve to call this (the Echo), "Goofy"

And they replace it with this?

I don't get it.

I also just noticed that the Echo is no longer on the Toyota web site.

Mark

[mewzilla]

It looks like a Scion xA.

[Vinnie]

Renault Dauphine

Ha-ha-ha

I had a friend in high school that had one.

He had to supercharge it to keep up with a VW. Seriously

[Diddle E. Squat]

As the snow flies
at a used car lot on the other side of town
a liberal guy and a liberal gal
buy a Yaris
(buy a Yaris)

and they drive with pride

cause if there's one thing this world needs
its environmental friends who'll take the lead
in a Yaris
(in a Yaris)

they say people don't you understand
those suburbans are ruining the land
but the'll wish they had a full sized van one day
they point fingers at you and me
they say we're to blind to see
but do we simply use our heads
and choose another way?

as those small wheels turn
fifty miles to the gallon
and their knees on their chest
they're gonna save enough gas
for all the rest

in a Yaris
(in a Yaris)

then one day on the interstate
they suddenly lose control
they swerve to miss a baby duck
they're squashed beneath a produce truck

but they drove with pride

and as the crowds drive past a little flat car
you know they saved a lot of gas
but they didnt get far
in a Yaris
(in a Yaris)

and as they're trapped inside
at a used car lot on the other side of town
a liberal guy and a liberal gal
buy a Yaris....

and they drive with pride...

[null and void]

They are like an evil woman.

Beautiful on the outside.

Ugly on the inside.

Only Peugeot would put the spark plugs at the bottom of a deep well in the heads. Every time you go through a puddle they fill with water. I had to carry a length of tubing to siphon out the water so I could get restarted.

Oh, and as a special bonus, the wells are 1 mm too narrow to accept a spark plug wrench...

As for Renault, what idiot uses a piece of wire to push a stiff mechanical action? (Guess what kinked into uselessness the first week?)

[dagnabbit]

Peugeot make the best looking cars of the three major French manufacturers, IMHO. But the fact that they dare not tread in a market as big as the USA is telling.