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Werner Harding said:
Looking at buying the new Toyota Etios hatchback 2015 any thoughts or advice?
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Being a Toyota it will bring you many happy miles. Only suggestion would be that if you could stretch the budget a bit and get a Vivo. Or maybe just a demo model. There's is a reason why the roads are littered with them.
 
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Ugh. Must be honest. Drove an Etios hatch in Cape Town. It was noisy, whiny, terrible and felt cheap.
Rather look at something like a demo i20 if all you can afford is R140 k region. If you can afford a bit more, look at the Fiesta or Opel Corsa.
 
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$m@Rt@$$ said:
Being a Toyota it will bring you many happy miles. Only suggestion would be that if you could stretch the budget a bit and get a Vivo. Or maybe just a demo model. There's is a reason why the roads are littered with them.
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Vivo is expensive for what?
I wouldn't suggest that.

ozziej said:
Ugh. Must be honest. Drove an Etios hatch in Cape Town. It was noisy, whiny, terrible and felt cheap.
Rather look at something like a demo i20 if all you can afford is R140 k region. If you can afford a bit more, look at the Fiesta or Opel Corsa.
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Used i20 would definitely be a good option!
 
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Bond said:
No no and no!
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Why?

$m@Rt@$$ said:
Being a Toyota it will bring you many happy miles. Only suggestion would be that if you could stretch the budget a bit and get a Vivo. Or maybe just a demo model. There's is a reason why the roads are littered with them.
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The reason I am going for it is exactly because of the price and low mileages. It is also a demo model with only 800km on it.
 
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The Etios is sold as an entry level, first time buyer who has little or know mechanical sense, type car.

The finish is shocking, noise levels inside are similar to cheap cars sold in the 70's.

Quite frankly, the only reason it is selling well in SA is because it's a Toyota. Put a French badge on the thing and these pages would be awash with how horrible the car is.

Buy one by all means if you simply need to go from A to B in the city, and don't really care about an sort of quality. Even one long trip would be enough to make you want to sell it.

I worked for Toyota when they were released, and quite frankly, the car is an embarrassment!
 
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Fazda said:
The Etios is sold as an entry level, first time buyer who has little or know mechanical sense, type car.

The finish is shocking, noise levels inside are similar to cheap cars sold in the 70's.

Quite frankly, the only reason it is selling well in SA is because it's a Toyota. Put a French badge on the thing and these pages would be awash with how horrible the car is.

Buy one by all means if you simply need to go from A to B in the city, and don't really care about an sort of quality. Even one long trip would be enough to make you want to sell it.

I worked for Toyota when they were released, and quite frankly, the car is an embarrassment!
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That is basically what it is going to be used for, my wife is going to drive it and will only be to get from home to work and to fetch the little one from school.
 
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Werner Harding said:
That is basically what it is going to be used for, my wife is going to drive it and will only be to get from home to work and to fetch the little one from school.
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So, in other words, you really don't care much for your wife, and really couldn't give a damn what she is forced to drive. :(
 
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Werner Harding said:
That is basically what it is going to be used for, my wife is going to drive it and will only be to get from home to work and to fetch the little one from school.
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Factor in the safety equipment too. I'd get a used i20
 
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ahoudet said:
Factor in the safety equipment too. I'd get a used i20
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If it was my wife and kids, I'd rather buy a bigger used car that has some decent engineering.

My Jetta 5 cost R 70 000 and I would have 50 of them over one cr@ppy Etios.
 
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Fazda said:
The Etios is sold as an entry level, first time buyer who has little or know mechanical sense, type car.

The finish is shocking, noise levels inside are similar to cheap cars sold in the 70's.
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This. I have used them as rental cars before and sworn never to buy one. In it's favour, the car is pretty nippy and not a bad drive at all.

But like Fazda said, the build quality is just terrible.
 
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