1985 Toyota Corolla Deluxe from North America - Comments

Tires wore out at 220k.

I did have to replace the strut mount on the front passenger's side.

It got stolen and everything that wasn't bolted down was taken out of it.

Severe rust on the front fenders and along the back wheel wells (it came from Missouri)

I got in an accident with it and smashed up the front drivers' side fender over the hood, but it came out with a simple pry bar.

Engine threw a rod at 243080 (*NEVER* lend out your car to a teenager)

This car was ridiculously reliable. I don't take care to do routine maintenance very often, but that car was ridiculously maintenance-free.

It had reasonable get-up-and-go, especially compared to my previous 1984 Mazda GLC, and the 5-speed was super.

The seats were fairly comfortable, but they don't ventilate very well, and on hot days it gets a tad bit uncomfortable.

I'd buy another, but probably not a DX. I'd probably go for a GT-S or an SR5.

For a car that cost me $650 used, and lasted almost 2 years and only quit because someone didn't know how to drive a standard and told me he did, this thing was a fantastic buy.

"This car was quite possibly the best car I have ever driven"

I don't mean to be offensive, but is this the only car you've ever driven?

It might very well be the only car this person's ever driven, being that it's a Toyota and probably has never broken down. There's a reason the Corolla is the best selling nameplate of all time. Toyota reliability, fun to drive, affordable, best gas mileage of any non-hybrid car in the United States... shall I go on?

Nah, my first car was an 84 Mazda GLC, and before that I was driving an 89 Mazda B2200, and since then I've been driving a 92 S-10. All standards, and I won't deliberately drive an American car or an automatic unless there are no other options available. My next car will be a 1990 Civic DX Sedan.

To 11:14.

You say that lexus is not a poor choice in the luxury field? The problem is that it is hardly in the luxury field at all. Lexus vehicles are built on toyota chassis with toyota drivetrains to keep costs down then they charge a premium price because theres an "L" on the trunk and make a huge profit off of the unaware. Then you go and comment about lexus styling. Lexus has no styling they look like your average bar of soap shaped car and as of right now Chris Bangle is the most influential vehicle designer in the industry. Bangle's designs have helped increase BMW's sales by quite a bit and have also been copied by Nissan, Honda, and some elements of his designs have been used by toyota too. And as far as the Yukon Denali not being luxurious perhaps you should take this fact into consideration. GM is now the leader in truck and SUV interior design to the point where toyota had to delay the tundra to make last minute changes to the interior to try and keep up which they failed at in the end anyway. Toyota salesmen even admit that you won't find luxury in toyota's vehicles on par with what you'll find in a domestic.

Just restating what everybody says doesn't make it true.

You see, how about you go to DMV, get all the registrations from cars that are from the 80's. Tally up which are domestic and which are import.

Or how about you give me a link to a credibable magazine that has stats to show which cars live longer.

I've seen plenty of domestics from the 80's this year with more than a 100k on them. Most are trucks/Suv's.

Every car can fail... and since I've seen too much contrary to the Toyota Quality myth, with my own eyes, I have a hard time just swallowing what you Toy lovers say.