Toyotas. I'd like to ask someone who drives one.?

Question

So, what do you drive, how long have you driven it, how's maintenance, and would you buy another Toyota?

Answer 1

I drive a 1994 Toyota Previa with 82,000 miles on it. This is my second Previa. My previous one was a 1991 with a little over 365,000 trouble-free miles on it. when i was in college, i had a 19 year old 1974 Toyota Corolla 2 door wagon that
I bought for $400 after totalling my 1990 Honda Civic Si in a six car pile up. That car had an oil leak around the valve cover gasket every other year. However, when I sold it for $300 four years later, it still had the original engine and the tranny was starting to show signs of wear at 384,000 miles. The engine still had good compression. I met a guy seven weeks ago with a 1991 Previa that he used for his chimney cleaning business. He has 794,000 miles on the original unrebuilt engine and transmission!!. I f you need more proof of the reliability of Toyotas, do a search for Toyotas 200,000 Mile Club. Many of these cars have over 400,000 miles on them; Some are past 750,000.

Answer 2

I drive a 98 Toyota Camry, bought it new 10 years ago. I have never had mechanical problems with it. I keep up with the regular maintenance (fluids and filters), had the brakes shoes changed once, and several new sets of tires. It still runs really well so I hate to get rid of it. When I finally decide to get a new car, it will probably be a Toyota Camry, Avalon or Solara.

Another good thing about Toyotas - they retain their value at resale.

Answer 3

I leased a 1998 Toyota Camry new in 1998. Besides maintenance I have spent less than 1000.00 in repairs including tires. It runs great and is 4 cylinder. It gets 20-28 MPG and i bought the lease out in 2001 for 3800 and I owed 11000. This is when leases were not accurate on what the residual was going to be. It has 100,000 miles and I now use as work car after I bought a C280 M.B.. The Camry rides better around town and gets better mileage on highway and city.

Answer 4

My family had a 2007 Camry that my mom bought new May 2006. We got rid of it at a loss June 2007 because the car was not repairable. It was flawed from the factory and there was nothing that Toyota could do about it.

What the Camry did was lose power at random important times and hesitate when accelerating at low speed. It was particularly bad when trying to pass on the highway and when doing left hand turns. The car would just lose power. We had it to the dealer twice and they couldn't do anything about it. They lied to us about it being the way that cars drive. My dad is a mechanic with forty-ish years of experience. He saw through the local dealer and Toyota USA and their lies. Eventually, the dealer told us that the car was working fine and for us to not bring it in for service.

The car would run perfectly fine for weeks sometimes. Then it would lose power on the highway or not have any while turning. It was scary and unpredictable. The worst part is that my mom was working hospice home care at the time and running the highways all day. The roads in our area were very dangerous (central Pa, interstates 81 & 83). My mom wanted her 1997 Pathfinder back within about a month. It might have burned a lot of gas, but it ran right.

My dad complained to the NHTSA about the car, but nothing came of it. He complained to Toyota and they told him the car was supposed to drive like that.

In the end, we used it as a partial trade on a 1999 Nissan Quest, that actually operates in a predictable manner.

Toyotas might be ok, but the one we had was not. We are sworn off Toyota now. We will buy Nissan from now.

Before buying any Toyota, search the internet for complaint web sites. You will find sites with hundreds of posts about problems with the 2007 Camry. They are not predictable and therefore not safe, in our opinion.

Answer 5

I have a 2007 Camry, my Dad has a 2006 Highlander, my Mom has a 2006 Avalon, and my brother has a 2006 Tacoma. We all love our cars and would definitely buy another Toyota. None of us have had any problems as far as maintenance, but then again they are fairly new.

Answer 6

I have had a Corolla, two Camrys, and a 4Runner. The Corolla and the Camrys were almost like appliances rather than cars. They required NO maintenance. They were comfortable, worry-free cars. The 4Runner was pretty much the same, except a botched up job on recall maintenance blew the engine. I definitely recommend them, and I would buy another.

Answer 7

whilst Toyota truthfully sucked final one year, Busch nonetheless fared nicely. This one year Toyota is pumping out extra horsepower than the different "producer" in nascar, and "Toyota" is finally making progression. It has truthfully no longer something to do with Toyota. that's certainly all in the palms of Kyle. think of roughly it, Toyota (Japan) has truthfully no expertise with pushrod V8's, none of their vehicles have ever had one! Now right here they arrive saying that that they had run in nascar (winston cup on the time) and that they are working off some engine that they have under no circumstances had in any production motor vehicle! Ford, stay away from and GM have began out from engines that have been in production automobiles, yet Toyota desperate that they had do their own little concern that still has truthfully no longer something to do with their production line of automobiles so some distance as overall performance is going. we've had our chargers, our monte carlos, our thunderbirds, the taurus (some reason a SHO got here out of it), and a Fusion (rebadged Mazda with ford aspects)... all of those variations have had some form of a overall performance part. Toyota is available in with a soccer-mom motor vehicle ;) . Sorry adult men, its all Kyle's skill! Strap him right into a toaster... he will win regardless. Arguments that toyota is getting specific therapy? Michael waltrip and the different drivers truthfully SUCK! placed better drivers in a "toyota" badged COT and you will see them up front.

Answer 8

I have two toyota's, 06 Camry & or 05 Tocoma Prerunner V6.
The Camry is the wife's, Tacoma is mine, both run like a dream and are fuel effiecient.
Maintenance is not a problem if you keep up with it, my Tacoma has plenty of performance, will out do the Dakota w/ the V8. YES I would definitely buy another, if these(doubtful)
ever give out.

Answer 9

had a 2004 Highlander. great car.
but moved from the east coast to the west coast and did not need the four wheel drive got a Nissan X-terra.
The totyota was great on the cross country journey and cheap to maintain.
liked the X-terra better and had a stick. ,most toyotas are automatic

Answer 10

have an 87 4runner with 187k. maintenence? ive had it 2 years and spent about 5 grand on it including a new motor. now its only worth a third of what i actually have in it. its for sale if anybody needs a good 4wd. ive done all the work already to fix it up for ya. even has a 7 year 70k mile warranty now