Whats a Toyota Yaris like then?

[southpaw]

Ok, I've been offered a car. Its a great deal. In budget, low insurance costs as its only a 1.0 , full Toyota service history, 2 years old and only 10,000 miles.

Yeh, its a Toyota Yaris Blue. To be honest it sounds very boring to me, with a max speed on 96mph (not that I'd be doing more than that of course ). It ticks all the boxes for a first car, but it just sounds so boring. So what do they drive like? Are they fun? Am I asking too much for it to be reasonably fun around country roads?

[southpaw]

dougc can I ask who insured you? I've only had quotes of over £1500 TPFT so far

Any of the evening/night time readers had experience of a Yaris?

[southpaw]

BG, care to explain? Yes its not exactly fast, but people keep telling me to get a small engined first car.

And the only reason I'm really looking at it is that on a forecourt it would be about £6500-£7000, and I could get it for £3000-£3500...sell it in a years time and I could make a profit. I sound like Sayed off the Apprentice

[southpaw]

I get it White good, no soul etc?

Other problem is, although its a bit of a girly car to begin with, its this light blue:


Might be needing some very dark tints on the windows then, or wear my full face helmet I know fiesta's etc are good apparently, but the only reason I'm looking at this is because its practically half price. And a reasonable car to build up a years NCB. And offers like this dont come along often...

[southpaw]

tvrbob said:

I have a Yaris Blue. I acquired it because the deal was too good to pass up. The car was £9.3k new (it had some extras) it was 8 months old with 1,300 miles and I paid £5k. The build quality is excellent but then that's what Toyota is renowned for. I quite like the dash, something a bit different and dare I say 'cool'. The only way to know is to drive it and see how it feels to you. You will find the clutch very light and the engine has very little torque at low revs so until you get the hang of it you may well stall a few times. This happened to me at first but once you get used to it, no problem.

Thanks for the input. Can I ask what the Blue edition has over the normal version? Sounds like it might be a good idea for 6 months/my first years driving
ETA: Thanks for the email, hopefully see you on Sunday!

momentofmadness said:

Southpaw in nearly sensible-first-car-thread-shocker! Sorry Christian

I know, I've become all sensible all of a sudden! Must be because its exam time and my brains working overtime Don't worry, I'll be back looking at Caterhams in about 2 weeks time

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[southpaw]

Thanks for all the help so far guys. I just wish it wasn;t in that gay blue colour Do you think I could wrap it in vinyl or something?

[southpaw]

SamHH said:

BTW, got your bike fixed yet?

Not completely Still got damage to the centre stand, front fairing, headlight from my off a few months ago, and not had a chance to sort the fuel pump/engine problem out yet! It'll be sored out soon - after tomorrow I havn't got an exam for 2 weeks so I will have plenty of time to get stuff sorted. I havn't actually ridden it for about 3 weeks now

Hows your scooter? Probably far fewer problems than mine, bloody Italian piece of crap

>> Edited by southpaw on Tuesday 23 May 21:35