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Old 07-18-2006, 04:58 AM
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Default Re: Would You Buy a Toyota Again?

Short answer, yes.

I have owned at least 4 different Toyotas that I can remember, including my latest car purchase, a 2006 Toyota Sienna van. I started buying Toyotas back in (again if I remember correctly) 1983 with my first new car purchase (a Tercel). At the time, I researched cars for about a year -- a bit excessive, I know -- and settled on Toyota as a brand because of their repair record. Without exception, all of my Toyotas have been extremely reliable. My last Toyota, a 2000 Sienna van, went to 180,000 miles before we traded it in. At the time it was still going strong, zero major repairs and still getting 30+ miles per hour on the highway (at 55 miles per hour, about 26 mpg at 70). Of course, I am also diligent to keep my cars in good maintenance, doing such things as replacing the timing belt every 70,000 miles, frequent brake jobs, alignments, etc.

I've also had a couple of other new cars other than Toyota in the last 23 years. I won't mention names (they get enough bad publicity as it is) but I've had two different new Detroit cars and by the time 70,000 miles rolled around both were having major (expensive) repairs every year. It has conditioned me to expect worse from Detroit and better from Toyota. In truth there may not be that much difference but (as my Mom always used to say) it's a lot easier to lose trust than to gain it. Besides, I'd much rather spend my money up front for a better engineered car which I can rely on rather than pay less at purchase time and have a car that has unexpected problems, and may leave me stranded.

Not that this is an American Car Manufacturer bashing post but
they have a lot of bad years to make up for (in my opinion) and Toyota is the standard of reliability they have to beat.

So, yes, I would buy Toyota again.
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