Car Review - 2008 Toyota Yaris 1.5G Features & Specifications

2008 Toyota Yaris 1.5G - I’m non getting whatever younger. The 2d I stare at the bath mirror, I discovery the sagging gut as well as developing optic lines. I’m feeling every chip of my 28 years on planet earth, as well as though most tell that I nonetheless receive got long ways to go, I believe it’s almost fourth dimension to tell bye-bye to youth as well as come inwards the public of beingness a potential household unit of measurement man. With marriage ceremony bells ringing non to a greater extent than than 3 years ahead, I had to measuring upwardly as well as build the 2 most of import purchases inwards whatever man’s life: a solid as well as a car. The outset was easy—my dad offered his onetime solid provided he tin bunk amongst me fifty-fifty subsequently I’m married. The 2d wasn’t; equally a motoring writer, I receive got driven over 220 cars, therefore choosing the correct ane tin fill upwardly up an entire Excel worksheet amongst pros as well as cons. In the end, I settled on a automobile that I haven’t driven before; a automobile I purchased alone on gut feel: the Toyota Yaris.

Even earlier stepping into Toyota Shaw-Ortigas to consider my sales sagent, Liza Morgia-Jamias, I knew precisely what I wanted. The Yaris was on top of my shopping listing for 3 reasons: reputation, packaging as well as efficiency. Our household unit of measurement has had the privilege to ain all Japanese makes (with the exception of Subaru), as well as past times far, Toyota has provided the best ownership experience nosotros could promise for. With dealerships all over the country, it’s tardily to receive got a Toyota repaired or serviced. Not that you’ll ask to become there, take away heed you. Our Echo, the Yaris’s predecessor, has served us for 7 trouble-free years.

As a product, the Yaris is exceptionally packaged. With an overall length of just 3,750 mm, it genuinely fits a 2,460 mm wheelbase (the same equally the pre-Altis Corolla). The surprisingly roomy cabin fits five adults amongst comfortable breathing infinite fifty-fifty for an out-of-town trip. Everything inwards hither was designed to maximize space. Upfront, the swept upwardly ability window switches as well as the anorexic pump console amongst vertically stacked AC controls frees upwardly human knee room. Meanwhile, at the back, the door mounted switches as well as apartment flooring enables the bring upwardly occupants to stretch a bit. Despite the witting endeavour to prioritize passengers, Toyota didn’t forget what ready the Echo apart from the sub-compact hatch also-rans of years ago: tons of cubby holes. In the Yaris, in that place are much more: 3 glove boxes including ane correct behind the steering wheel, 3 storage bins flanking the pump console addition 2 storage racks at driver’s human knee level. Perhaps the biggest gripe is the lack of a split-fold bring upwardly bench. Instead, Toyota did supply for a unmarried folding unit of measurement amongst a locking storage bin (it’s also where the full-sized spare’s located).

After all the paperwork, Ms. Morgia-Jamias waved me off as well as ready to practice ane affair I haven’t done before: drive the Yaris. I was straightaway impressed amongst the spritely surgery of the 1.5-liter engine. Though no to a greater extent than powerful than its contemporaries, the 4-speed Super ECT automatic makes the most out of it. The Yaris never lacks punch, fifty-fifty when fully loaded. Though the engine doesn’t give the sportiest exhaust banking concern complaint out there, the speedometer needle tells the story of a automobile that dispenses speed quite easily. As I got used to driving a automobile amongst almost no overhangs, it shows the Yaris’s most fun aspect: carving through urban heart as well as person traffic. Visibility is excellent, as well as amongst a quick-ratio electrical ability steering, it tin mash through 2 cars amongst an almost motorcycle-like trend (usually to the ire of motorists). Plus, it tin plow on a dime into the tightest of parking spaces.

Since then, the urban heart as well as person driving facial expression of the Yaris hasn’t worn out on me. As I average some 350 kilometers a week, this automobile manages to move a dependable as well as eco-friendly companion—sipping fuel at the charge per unit of measurement of just xi to xiii km/L, depending on the type as well as build of fuel (the Yaris seems to similar Shell products). As I brought the Yaris to its outset out of town trip though, its urban heart as well as person automobile pattern flaws started to emerge. Not lacking inwards top speed, the Yaris tin top out at an electronically-limited 130 km/h. What’s therefore discontenting is inwards the means it tin larn swept past times crosswinds because of its lithe 1,080-kilogram mass. The overly sensitive steering is a large occupation too; because keeping the Yaris pointed conduct at high speed build accept some concentration.

After doing almost 7,000 kilometers inwards just four months, I receive got piddling to complain almost Toyota Yaris ownership. Fit as well as destination are mostly commendable, but in that place were some pigment issues subsequently I got delivery, that was solved subsequently some waxing. Then in that place was an annoying rattle inwards the bring upwardly hatch (because of the push-button type release), but was resolved past times literally shoving a sock into the hatch. And as well as therefore there’s the lack of an auxiliary well input—which I countered past times installing a PIE (Precision Interface Electronics) Fujitsu Ten CD changer to aux input adapter. As a companion inwards the adjacent chapter of my life, the Yaris is something me as well as my futurity married adult woman as well as completely depend as well as relish for the foreseeable future. Though I haven’t driven the Yaris earlier this, at nowadays I but can’t intend of life without it.