Well maybe that would have been some useful information to put in your original post, because "it dances around as you accelerate" seems like normal operating procedure for an oil pressure gauge. Now that you explained it I will agree with your original assessment, that oil gauge is pretty useless

It turns on the AC compressor and sets the fans to recirculate, both of which can be done without the need for a separate "Max AC" button

My brothers crz gets worse fuel economy in "Eco" mode than it does in "Sport" mode during regular driving.

DRLs arent for you to see the road, theyre for other people to see you.

You do realize how an oil PRESSURE gauge works right? Of course its going to sweep while driving, your oil pressure rises as engine speed increases and lowers as engine speed decreases. Its the exact opposite of useless

Not quite, they're continuously variable but between 2 fixed "gear" ratios

Those 1nz's will run all day at 6-8psi with good tune on stock internals, gives it a nice bump to the 150hp/150lb-ft range with supporting mods

I'm gonna have to disagree with this one. The Yaris/Vitz/Echo was a good car, the RS turbo made it better. The reason you buy a Yaris over other subcompacts is because the Yaris is BETTER than most other subcompact cars. The chassis is solid (used High Strength Steel before it was cool), the engine is reliable and…

The Toyota Yaris/Vitz/Echo would be a good candidate to do 4,828,032km. The engine & transmissions are essentially the same ones they released in 1999 just with some minor tweaks. When's the last time you heard someone complain about the drive-train in the yaris because it broke down constantly? Due to the 1Nz-fe's…

At least your car is based off a Matrix which had pretty decent aftermarket support because of the 1zz & 2zz. Try owning a 1st gen Yaris in North America (Aka an Echo Hatchback), you either have to find parts from overseas or modify what parts you can find from a Scion xA or xB1 as 2nd gen Yaris suspension parts are…

Yup, because those 2 words now make everything I said invalid. /sarcasm

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We got the face lifted 1st gen vitz in canada as an echo hatchback, only sold here for the 04 & 05 model year and they managed to sell a metric shit-ton of em. I feel the yaris/vitz went downhill after the 1st gen because they've gotten bigger and heavier but they have the same 107hp 103lb-ft 1nz-fe engine and u340e &…

Is the lack of a sunroof really that big of a problem? On the 2 cars we have with a sunroof (06 Liberty limited and 08 f350 lariat) We never use the sunroof, we always have the cover drawn too because the light coming in would always come in at just the right angle to hit your eyes. The one time we used the sunroof on…

Yes, Suzuki is dumb for not bringing the new Swift over to North America, but even if they had what good would it have done if they never advertise their cars? I swear the last Suzuki car commercial I saw was for an Aerio in 2006, granted the Swift would probably have sold decently with all the people who had the old…

Because CADA. New car dealers dont want to have to compete against the small JDM used car dealerships so they're trying to petition the government to get the import law amended to 25 years like the US. They claim the cars are smog belching kitten punching death traps, which is a load of shit.

The scion xA and xB were built on a modified echo platform, the xA being nothing more than a rebodied 5-door echo hatch. It's a Hotchkis "competition" sway bar so i guess that explains the size, their sport model is "only" 13mm. Their front sway bar isnt much larger than factory (29mm vs 25mm) so I''m not in any rush…

Since Toyota didnt offer a rear sway bar for the echo hatchback I had to buy this 24mm bad boy (originally for a Scion xA/xB) off craigslist for $180. The guy I bought it from never even took it out of the packaging because he came to the conclusion that it wouldnt fit an echo if you had 14" rims because when he tried…

I find the most people that complain about the cr-z have yet to drive one, and they probably never will. They complain its slow (it really isnt). they complain it isnt fuel efficient enough (40mpg combined if driven like a normal sane person). they say it didnt capture the spirit of the CRX (funky looking 2+2…

Why do people rag on the fact the veloster has 3 doors? The veloster is a 2+2, the third door is for easier access to the rear seats that are gonna be used for storage 90% of the time, on the rare occasion the car has to carry more than 2 people you dont have to fold down the front seats to get a person in the back.