Followed by ten best roomate parts I’ve put in the dishwasher.

Welcome! your previous car ownership and relateable alt music references all check up. You get the job!
1989 would have been an awesome time to be in Athens. With new wave hairdoos.

I know quite a few motoring enthusiasts with Toyotas. Some as a reliable second car that they trust when their Lancia is awaiting parts from abroad. With others it’s a cheap car to wrench on as they have a daily driver that is still under warranty / lease. Your snark really isn’t justified, You don’t know what else…

The Echo looked just fine as a hatchback but the saloon was goofy as. I think i’ve seen only a few of the trunk lidded ones in Ausralia though.

Technically an American car.

Thats not an Isuzu test. This is an Isuzu test. An Aussie tester wrings the living snot out of the coupe version.

That would have been the diesel though?

Just browsed through some reddits this morning and it does seem like Aus / Euro surfers do fins back and USA is fins forward. interesting. but we generally stagger them front / back if fins are in these days.
SUPs would be there own thing though. The photographer really should have known better than put an inflatable…

But if we all drive Teslas then will there be any Oil Tanker waves to surf?

Australian Surfer here. As well as driving on the correct side we do put the fins to the back.
Heres my reason.
A/ It looks cooler.
B/ The rocker in the nose of the board pushes the board down with aerodynamics being your friend.
The straps are usually either side of the wide point of the board. If you need the fins to…

DOHC was a pretty big deal.... in 1988

i’ve been a passenger in one and it reminded me of being in the back of 1950s Morris estate car.

Tercels have the Extra Low gear and proper 4wd making them quite unstoppable off road even with only 70 odd horseypowers out of the box.

Truckducken 

Yet here we are. Bless his grease stained socks.

bouncing off the Jalopmeter.

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2021/09/junkyard-find-2017-toyota-mirai-fuel-cell/

I guess you would buy a Forester then? But everyone says they are ugly because the back is so big on them.

See also BMW

Transmission or drivetrain? I’m fine with them both TBH the CVT in the last couple of years isn’t great but its not terrible either and gives good mileage and the x mode is better than the respective competitors offerings