CONSUMER REPORTS : MARCH issue reviews '09 YARIS .

[ddongbap]

Originally Posted by GeneW

The ECU controls almost all aspects of the car's function. Changing the ECU, or its parameters, changes the function of the car, how it operates, its ability to accelerate faster. Even the top speed, which is regulated to prevent the tires from failing at high speeds, is governed by the ECU.

My little exposition on the ECU was topical and brief but quite germane.

If all you do is add some pulleys, change the air filter or exhaust, or do other topical changes all you're doing is nibbling around the edges. It's cute and may even help but it's not the kind of radical change needed here.



What's a matter? Is the truth less glamorous than the confection? I work in a factory, what does that make me?

Nobody where I work buys "low end" cars. They buy SUVs, they buy family cars, one dude has a Dodge Viper. Two or three have Beemers. They are being crushed with debt too.



In other words you're incapable of settling relatively friendly disputes?

Gene

This isn't a friendly dispute. You're sitting there assuming crap about me which isn't true. If we continue, you're gonna keep assuming, I'm gonna start getting dirty, and w/e thread we're in is going to get locked. Regardless if you consider this a dispute, or w/e. this convo has no future. You should know this.

Friendly. Yea right.

[auxmike]

This thread's getting

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by ddongbap

This isn't a friendly dispute.

Seems pretty friendly to me. Someone yanks my chain and I yank theirs back. Of course I used to train a lot and went home with bruises, a concussion and once I peed in my pants from an unlucky kidney shot. All very friendly.

If you had not wanted to have your chain yanked, to have assumptions made about you, why did you come at me like a smartass?

Gene

[ddongbap]

Originally Posted by GeneW

Seems pretty friendly to me. Someone yanks my chain and I yank theirs back. Of course I used to train a lot and went home with bruises, a concussion and once I peed in my pants from an unlucky kidney shot. All very friendly.

If you had not wanted to have your chain yanked, to have assumptions made about you, why did you come at me like a smartass?

Gene

Because you say dumb things. Now, PMs, or gtfo.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by ddongbap

Because you say dumb things. Now, PMs, or
gtfo.

Why would you want to cheat these people out of the joy of your wit and wisdom?

Gene

[Rain]

Originally Posted by GeneW

Seems pretty friendly to me. Someone yanks my chain and I yank theirs back. Of course I used to train a lot and went home with bruises, a concussion and once I peed in my pants from an unlucky kidney shot. All very friendly.

If you had not wanted to have your chain yanked, to have assumptions made about you, why did you come at me like a smartass?

Gene

He is a smartass to everyone. Don't take it personally and feel too special about it.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by Rain

He is a smartass to everyone. Don't take it personally and feel too special about it.

He's a good kid. Just needs some schooling. I was worse when I was his age.

Gene

[Rain]

Originally Posted by GeneW

He's a good kid. Just needs some schooling. I was worse when I was his age.

Gene

And he's going to get some schooling from you? Right. Good luck with that.

[Kal-El]

The Fit is better to the person who feels it is better and the Yaris is better to the person who feels it is better.

It's like debating whether Chocolate ice cream is better than Vanilla! I think most of us would assume that chocolate is better but then why is vanilla the best selling ice cream?

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by PK198105

cause it goes well with everything

True.