August 2010 Yaris Sales: Down

[detroiter]

I enjoy my Yaris but if I could have a pick from the cars released right now compared to back when I purchased it, I probably wouldn't have a Yaris right now. Nothing against it because I think it's amazing first new car but the competition is tough. The Mazda 2 is amazingly fun to drive from what I hear and it comes with a functional tach, along with other nice touches. And even the cheap $9,000 Hyundai accent comes with a B and M brand shifter which although I'm sure isn't Honda s2000 quality shifting, it's probably noticeably better than the costlier manual Yaris.

In my opinion, Toyota just needs to up their game a bit more. Enough of the vanilla, a to b type of cars they've been making. Need to quick slacking and bring back cars for everyone. That includes the vanilla cars for regular folks along with sports cars for those who like life in the fast lane. When they axed the Celica and mr2 spyder, that was the nail in the performance coffin for Toyota. Such a shame.

I mean come on, even Kia can make a sporty car (Kia Forte Koup) for petes sake!