Out with the japanese junk (aka my Yaris)...

[jambo101]

Big white pickup would be nice but i dont have a reason to own one and filling it up on a regular basis would probably make huge dent in my personal finances.
Out of curiosity how much would it cost to fill one of those pickups at $1.50 a liter and how far can you expect to go on a tank full of gas..

[firemachine69]

Originally Posted by krolos

18 mpg and climbing ya right

Calculated mileage is 18MPG right now (yes, US gallons.) I lost substantial mileage while doing the whole stop-go ritual on Yonge street in downtown Toronto (to-from the 401).

I think you're forgetting that beyond 30MPG, you're talking tenths of a liter's difference (I.E. minimal.)

If you do basic math, mileage is about right for weight (truck has 3.55 gearings, FYI). Your Yaris weighs 2300lbs (basic power with auto we'll assume), roughly 40MPG is the average anecdotal I've come up with YW. Now my truck weighs ~5500lbs, so halve the mileage, and you get basically what I do. Keep in mind I no longer have to tap the gas pedal for fear of getting squished. Even Caravans make way for my big, slow (somewhat) truck.

Originally Posted by jambo101

Big white pickup would be nice but i dont have a reason to own one and filling it up on a regular basis would probably make huge dent in my personal finances.
Out of curiosity how much would it cost to fill one of those pickups at $1.50 a liter and how far can you expect to go on a tank full of gas..

I'm not sure. Almost $200 by basic noggin' math.


But frankly, it took me a road-trip to even use up a tank. I'll be mildly surprised if I need to fill-up the tank before mid-May... A thousand kilometers per month (figure 600'ish miles) is actually quite alot of mileage for me. This is partially due to the fact that I live less than three miles from work.

One really nice thing I never even thought about is that I can do a five-hour return roadtrip, and not have to worry about gas whatsoever.

I'm currently averaging 18MPG. Not bad for 5500lbs.

Originally Posted by SAV912

Yeah. Some of us might be acting immature. Although that's going to happen when the OP comes in here and acts equally immature by going out of his way to absolutely trash the car that the entire website is based upon. Especially if 99% of his problems were likely from using a product in a fashion it is not normally designed for.

He should not expect and will not receive any sympathy if that is his approach.

A Yaris tugging around 800 lbs of boat it's entire life is going to go through wear items (and nearly everything he listed was wear items) quicker than a Yaris driven normally by normal people. It is a small economy subcompact. Not a towing vessel.

-C

You lack history, my friend. I've been here longer than you have, and at one point was quite an enthusiastic owner. In fact, I owned a Tercel before, and while it was a lemon as well (cracked block), I still remained a delusional Toyota fanatic. However, I've finally seen the light that Toyota is just another mediocre car manufacturer in the sea of what's available nowadays.


The car was used very briefly for towing duties (think maybe a dozen times over the year I had the hitch installed, max). Within the specifications listed by Toyota. The car was driven like gramps was taking a sunday stroll all the time (I forgot to mention - it got absurdly bad mileage considering how gentle I was to it. Lifetime average is 31MPG.) That's just nuts, considering how many folks on here brag of the absurd wheels they mount on the car (while making threads about driving 120MPH on the autobahn, I may add...) with minimal mechanical issues.

Some people are taking my hate-on for Toyota a little too personally, I guess...


One major disappointment is my tools are nearly all "small-vehicle", so Kijiji is about to see lots of action 'round my neck of the woods.


P.S.


Any commuter that buys a truck for such duties is out of his marbles.