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Article: Toyota's Yaris: A Real Personality
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- April 16, 1999
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John Simister
International Herald Tribune
04-16-1999
SMALL cars should be fun cars. They tuck into tight spaces, they duck and weave where bigger cars flop and flounder, they are cheeky and cheerful. Small cars attract wacky design ideas, because sensible is boring. And Toyota, Japan's biggest automaker, has finally discovered this truth.
The tedious Toyota Starlet, a small car so dull I have trouble forming an image of it in my mind, is gone. In its place comes the Toyota Yaris, full of clever ideas and feel-good features. It has a happy face with enormous eyes, a deeply strange dashboard, more interior space than any rival tiny car and a miniature 1.0-liter engine with 16 valves and ...