Toyota Yaris in general

I have had my 1.3 Toyota Yaris for 18 months now, Yazzer (my son named the car) had it's first service, a couple of miles short of 10,000. The Toyota dealer (Pentagon, Barnsley) was helpful and the full service price was £96, which included oil and filter change, screenwash fluid, and they washed the car and vacumed it, all in three hours. 18,000 miles driven now, brakes only 50% worn, back tyres similar, though I have just had new fronts put on. I am saying all this before reviewing as it illustrates how inexpensive the car is to run. I have not had a single problem with this car and it has grown on me immenesly, I just love it. No issues with the ...  Read the complete review

The Toyota Motor Corporation is currently ranked number 2 in the world motor market in terms of sales. It recently superseded Ford, who were number 2 before Toyota, last year and if current trends continue, the Toyota Motor Corporation will become number 1 in the world beating General Motors into second place by 2007. So what is spurring Japan's biggest company to surge ahead of the competition? In my humble opinion it's because they are building cars like the Toyota Yaris T-Spirit! The Yaris T-Spirit is the top model of the Yaris range. All of Europe's Yarises are made in Toyota's manufacturing plant in France. I recently bought one and decided to do this ...  Read the complete review

Having sacrificed my family-sized 2-litre saloon a while ago, so that my wife could be the next to have a new car (pause for hearts and flowers, violins etc), in her case a right-hand-drive Smart, I'd been pottering around in our other car, (by default officially "mine" it seemed), judging by the minuscule number of hours I was spending behind the Smart's wheel! Don't get me wrong, the car I refer to, is a Nissan Micra, a sterling bit of machinery that served us well on a few long journeys lately like London to Morpeth or the Lake District, since it had become our de facto "big" car. However, there was only so much ...  Read the complete review

After running company cars for many years I suffered redundancy earlier in the year & had to surrender the company vehicle. Now I had to look for a replacement vehicle for family use, something that was cheap to run & be ideal for town/city use & the odd weekend away. As an ex mechanic I know the vehicles to avoid & the desirable ones to buy, there are no 'bad' cars out there any longer but there are some better than others. My needs were quite simple, a car with five doors, small but roomy, economical, reliable & my only must have is air conditioning. I couldn't have chosen a worse time to look for a used small car, during these ...  Read the complete review

First off where's the Yaris 1.5 T-Sport section??? Anyway have had the Yaris TS for a couple of years, I had it for my first car. With the hours I spent at Tesco working through my A-Levels I wasn't going to settle for a 1.1 like my (soon to be envious) friends. Anyway I had my eye on one of these for a while, and when I finally found one I wasn't disappointed! I had to travel a couple of hundred miles to find one, as they aren't common cars. I guess this is because they were pricey when new. I had driven my parent's Yaris 1.0 S, and this is an entirely different kettle of fish to that! Looks - This looks nothing like a standard Yaris, the ...  Read the complete review