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Just purchased a 2006 "S" silver. I must say I very impressed with car. I never thought I would decide on a Corolla, but the "S" really caught my eye. For a four cylinder this car can move. Sure its not performance vehicle, but it looks pretty sweet. With price of gas these days you can't go wrong. I did over four hundred miles on its first tank of gas. The interior is very attractive. The charcoal black is a nice touch. I am six feet and the leg room is fine. Sunroof is a must!
Couldn't agree more!!
Nice car. Love the ground effects. Quality stero system. Paint looks goods except it scratches and chips to easy. Otherwise a reliable auto.
With gas 3.25 to 3.75 a gallon you can't go wrong with this car. Nice eye candy also for the price.
My '06 "S" is a great deal for the $$. It is a shame the American car makers can't make this kind of quality vehicle. I also have the silver mica. I will take your advise and tint out the windows. I laugh at the gas pumps when I see the suv drivers almost have apply for a loan to fill up the tank. Did an easy 400+ miles on a full tank. As for the comments on mazdas, they look great, but will never outlast the Toyota's. Crap mechanical designs.
I've driven an '05 Corolla for 1 month as a rental car. I really can't see why everyone says that it is the pinnacle in small car refinement. I found the engine very buzzy, I couldn't stand the green instrumentation back lighting, and the car was almost impossible to pass anyone on the highway. On the other hand it did get good gas mileage and the seating position was nice. This car is hardly a Lexus, I'll take me "inferior" domestic car anyday.
I agree. The Corolla is a pretty bland little car. It gets great gas mileage, but it only comes in a dumpy 4-door and is only offered in colors that appeal to older people. I looked at them and wasn't even remotely impressed with anything about them. I wanted red and they don't even COME in red!! The one I drove was also nowhere NEAR as fast as the "inferior" competition. I opted to buy American. I know they are supposed to be really poorly built and my last American compact did start nickle and diming me at around 250,000 miles, but since they cost about HALF what a Corolla does, I'll use the money I save to buy something else. With the money I saved I can buy about 90,000 miles worth of gas.
I purchased a used 2002 Gray Toyota Corolla "S" in April 2006 with 34K miles. While I driving on the highway in August, the engine blew out. I had to take it to two toyota dealerships before they would honor the warranty. The warranty is excellent. 5 years and Toyota covers 100% labor and parts. I now have a new engine at "no cost" to me.
The gas mileage is phenomenal. I drove the car for about 6 hours before I had to refuel. This is coming from a person who drove a Volvo GLT for 6 months and hated the gas guzzler. I also purchased a Hyundai Tiburon which was OK.
I don't drive fast, so I don't mind the turbo speed that a few people complained about.
Inside my car is spacious, maybe except for the back seats. My trunk is huge for such a small car.
Will I buy another Toyota in the future again, Yes, but only from a Toyota dealership.
Your "reliable" Toyota blew an engine at 34,000 miles and you'd buy ANOTHER one???
Isn't it funny how Toyota owners are perfectly OK with an engine blowing up at 34,000 miles and will buy another one, but if an American car's cigarette lighter stops working at 300,000 miles it's a "piece of crap"???
Those mistakes, if even true, are an extreme rarity for Toyota. The rarity for Ford and GM would be to build something that ISN'T a piece of crap.
I guess Tacomas and Camrys must also be pieces of junk, as Consumer reports now rates the Ford Ranger EXACTLY THE SAME in reliability as the Tacoma, and rates the Ford Fusion BETTER than Camry.
Engines blowing up in Toyotas is definitely not a rare occurence. There was an article in our local paper some years back about a local man who bought a Corolla and the engine blew up before the warranty was out. Toyota refused to fix the car, so the man painted lemons on it, rented a flat bed truck and drove it around town. A picture of it appeared in the paper with the caption "Oh what a feeling to DRAG a Toyota". It was hilarious.
I can't believe people fall for the advertising hype about these things. In reading comments on the Toyota sites, I see comments from people who write about brake problems, air bag problems, sticking accelerators, erratic transmissions and engines blowing up before 36,000 miles in their Toyotas.
How anyone can regard these rolling junkyards as better than ANYTHING is beyond me.
I can't believe you actually think that engine problems are common on Toyotas. Here in Britain they are one of the most reliable cars. Are you sure that you Americans are confusing these for some unreliable Ford or GM product. Also to the above comment stating "Toyota don't produce sporty colours" well I have to disagree, here in Britain there is a sporty silver colour, black and red so maybe they have not starting producing the S model over there yet.
It's a death car, never put yourself in such a piece of plastic wrapped car, look at iihs.org, Toyota corolla is 159% (above average) to cause injury or death, that's 59% more than the average of all cars in the market. It's unbeleiveable people comment it a good car, it's not safe, exactly, even camry.
Donot believe, look here:
http://www.geocities.com/toyota_camry_06.
Uh, no, we aren't "confusing these for some unreliable Ford or GM product." That's frankly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. We also have the Corolla S here, but it's the same ugly boring sedan as the regular model, and it is anything, but "sporty".