Consumer Reports not too pleased with Yaris

[Havana]

When shopping, I compared the 09 Fit to the 09 Yaris. I know Honda and Toyota both make outstanding cars. The Fit was awesome and very fun to drive. It came with more standard features. It was also about $3000 more. Fits are in short supply in my area and manual tranny Fits are virtual blue diamonds. The Honda dealers were not very flexible at all on price. The Yaris is a more simple car but of equal quaility in my opinion. Six airbags and ABS are standard on 09's. There was also a $500 rebate at that time and the Toyota dealers seemed more interested in making a sale. In the end, I got a great car for several thousand less than a Fit. I'm happy with that.

[twowheels]

Originally Posted by Havana

When shopping, I compared the 09 Fit to the 09 Yaris. I know Honda and Toyota both make outstanding cars. The Fit was awesome and very fun to drive. It came with more standard features. It was also about $3000 more. Fits are in short supply in my area and manual tranny Fits are virtual blue diamonds. The Honda dealers were not very flexible at all on price. The Yaris is a more simple car but of equal quaility in my opinion. Six airbags and ABS are standard on 09's. There was also a $500 rebate at that time and the Toyota dealers seemed more interested in making a sale. In the end, I got a great car for several thousand less than a Fit. I'm happy with that.

Interesting reviving an old dead thread... :-)

I also compared the 09 Fit to the 09 Yaris. A few years ago (07) we were looking at cars but decided to wait put another 50k on the Camry first. At the time I drove a Yaris but wasn't impressed, mostly because of the lack of safety features. I had completely removed it from consideration. I had settled on the Fit and for two years kept saying I'd buy a Fit when the time came. The thing is, both the 07 and the 09 Fit felt 'off' to me. Not sure why, but they did. The handling wasn't anywhere near as impressive as I'd heard. This year I put the Yaris back in consideration due to the standard safety features and as you can probably guess we bought the Yaris.

During the test drive I did feel that the Fit had a slightly more comfortable driver's seat, though my kids said that the back seat was better in the Yaris. The Fit seemed to bounce MORE on big bumps than the Yaris did and though might have been slightly quieter the noise that it did make was more annoying to me. I actually felt like the Yaris was quieter. The lack of cruise on the base Fit meant that I'd have to upgrade to a Fit sport which dropped the MPG rating and raised the price quite a bit. Overall the Yaris ended up being significantly cheaper (about $4000) with the options that we wanted and the rebate from Toyota. We're very happy with it and I *LOVE* how tightly it can turn -- I can't get over how easy it is to park and do U-turns! :-)