" Sunroof: nope "

Well, upon close examination, that picture sure looks like it has one.

Toyota's are definitely tuff,and durable. We have a 96 T-100, a 98 4 Runner, both have over 300,000 miles, and still going. We also have two RAV 4's. I have family in New Mexico that have Toyota's that are going strong. I don't know of any USA made vehicles that hold up as well.

Except, we had a 94 Dodge Grand Caravan. We sold it a couple years ago, when it went over 300,000. Just a few weeks ago, saw some guy driving it through town. Sounded like it needed a new muffler, but it was running.

The next time I buy another vehicle, it will be a Toyota.

Well, upon close examination, that picture sure looks like it has one.

Click through to the Houston Craigslist to see the real pix. I substituted an (anonymous source) pic of a gray 1999 Corolla from the DDG image cache.

Toyota's are definitely tuff,and durable. We have a 96 T-100, a 98 4 Runner, both have over 300,000 miles, and still going. We also have two RAV 4's. I have family in New Mexico that have Toyota's that are going strong. I don't know of any USA made vehicles that hold up as well.

Honda and Toyota have earned a lot of fans with their engineering. You see some of them trying to make 400K or even 500K miles with their old rice-rockets. They've very proud of them.

I enjoyed the funny lines in this ad. Usually ads on Craigslist aren't so entertaining or opinionated.

I'm partial to my 76 AMC Pacer.

I have had 3 grand caravans. The first a 1991 I used for work. I got rid of it after it had 300,000 miles. It ran, but you had to start it, put it in drive, then reverse, then back into drive then the tranny responded. I drove it for 3 years like that. I put a fuel pump and an alternator in it, and changed the fluids and bought tires for it. That is all it needed. I seriously never put new plugs and wires in it. It was a helluva paint hauler. The second now has 256K on it, my kids drove it to Michigan from Washington State this week. It took an alternator, and a tune up with fluid and tire changes. My third one, it now has 140K on it, I need to replace the timing chain, a CV is clicking and the struts squeak over speed bumps. OH and brakes on all of them when needed. GREAT vehicles.

I'm from Detroit. My parents both worked for the Michigan unemployment office.

I'm morally opposed to foreign cars, especially Japanese ones, because they half put Detroit out of business. I'm genetically opposed to foreign cars.

My first car was a hand-me-down Ford Maverick my dad gave me as a graduation present. It had 92,000 miles on it. I drove if for another 151,000 miles, until the chassis rusted through and the car literally broke in half in my aunt's driveway when I stood on the doorframe. The motor still worked, and was taken out of the vehicle and stuck in another old beater by my aunt's nephew.

But a Chevy blew up its engine and left me stranded on a rural Interstate the morning my mother died.

And a brand-new Ford Taurus chewed up its transmission at the 50 mile mark. Repaired, it stranded me three times in the middle of the night when the power cut out.

I used to work terrible hours. Getting stranded in the night when I'm trying to get home for a few hours of crappy sleep is not cool. And not acceptable.

So I got a new car, and have been driving it for 11 years now. It has 90,000 miles on it and has never had a lick of trouble. except that the air conditioning coolant slowly leaks out and has to be replaced once every season. I only have to fill up the gas tank once a month.

So, I love you Detroit, but I drive a Prius.

So I got a new car, and have been driving it for 11 years now. It has 90,000 miles on it and has never had a lick of trouble. except that the air conditioning coolant slowly leaks out and has to be replaced once every season. I only have to fill up the gas tank once a month.

So, I love you Detroit, but I drive a Prius.

Yeah, yeah, but it's kinda ugly even by Toyota standards.

I've read that even doing a full battery replacement on a Prius isn't all that expensive (~$2500). So TCO isn't all that high on the hybrid Prius models even if you drive it a long way. Some people are getting the full 300,000 miles out of the original battery packs, I've read.

I'll get to 300,000 miles in about 24 years at the current pace. I'll let you know then. To me, a car is a transportation object. I am indifferent to appearance, and care only for reliability and price. My car currently is just the price of periodic maintenance. which is not high.

Long ago I had a Toyota Corolla, a somewhat earlier model, but you couldn't kill it, I sold it 20 some years ago and it is probably still going

I'm partial to my 76 AMC Pacer.

Because it's a babe magnet,right?

BTW,I know a guy that collects them. Bragged to me a couple of months ago about buying something called a "Oleg Cassini Edition" . Or at least I think that is what he called it. He drove about 2 thousand miles to buy it and bring it back home.

My babe magnet was the Gremlin