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18-08-2007, 06:07 PM
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http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7895
Very interesting thread from yaris US forum. This guy is crazy as he drives his Toyota at least 600km+ a day. And he certainly deserves something from Toyota PR team! |
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18-08-2007, 06:25 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Can you imagian having your ar$e in somthing like a Yaris for 600km's a day, nu I couldnt do it
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18-08-2007, 06:44 PM
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150,000 Miles is shocking, almost as shocking as the fact there is a site called YarisWorld
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18-08-2007, 06:49 PM
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Those Yaris, Vitz or Echoes are not too bad cars really, real easy to work on and niec and reliable. My folks have an 01 model and the only problem with it was the rear drum inside the disc for the handbrake was squeaking.
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18-08-2007, 06:56 PM
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Bloody hell. I just read the whole thread. What a job. 550miles 6 days a week. Stuff that. I complain cause work is 25 minutes away, lol.
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18-08-2007, 07:33 PM
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Just another mock-up..
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Desire isn't driven by the heart, the mind or the wallet. Desire comes from another place. It's created by the smell of burnt fuel under full throttle and the look a car gives you when you're washing it alone at night... see my car here: Built my own TL50!!! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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18-08-2007, 07:43 PM
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I Don't Beleive You, Post Up Pics Of Every 50,000k's!! And Video Tape It Too.
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18-08-2007, 07:52 PM
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Well yesterday's trip was Epping to Keysborough then to Docklands then to Phillip Island then to Sale then back to Keysborough then to Mt Evelyn then back to Epping so you do the maths....
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Desire isn't driven by the heart, the mind or the wallet. Desire comes from another place. It's created by the smell of burnt fuel under full throttle and the look a car gives you when you're washing it alone at night... see my car here: Built my own TL50!!! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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18-08-2007, 08:04 PM
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Stuff doing 600Km a day in one of those! I had the mis-fortune of having to drive long distances in those things!
2 Hours of cramped driving: sore back and legs, gutless acceleration... |
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18-08-2007, 08:08 PM
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i do 250 a day .... in an el ghia....
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18-08-2007, 08:10 PM
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I found his secret.
''Weapon R Secret Intake with a steel mesh filter instead of the Weapon R foam filter''
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18-08-2007, 08:14 PM
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Boosted TQE FTW
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I used to own a dec 05 Yaris, they have more leg room and head room than anyfalcon ive driven.. not going to win any racers with it but still 17.8 1/4 from a 1.3 getting 7l/100k's thrashing the poop out of it is good in my books lol
Oh and I sold it after 17 months and it had 32000k's on it :P
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18-08-2007, 08:16 PM
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I had a Yaris when i was in QLD for the weekend a few weeks ago.
Surprisingly good car actually, You could easily do 600+kms in one a day in comfort.
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18-08-2007, 08:20 PM
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lpg = big boom!
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the X-taxi i purchased to strip a few months back was a 02/BA with 000009 on the clock
sadley, it was cut down whist it was still running :( it has a slight run in with a range rover, the falcon won... it was still started  (yep, it rolled the million)
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18-08-2007, 08:30 PM
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You win again, gravity!!!
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600km's per day? Damn, I just sick of the Fairlane after half that!
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18-08-2007, 08:37 PM
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we wanna see how many more km's it has in it |
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18-08-2007, 10:18 PM
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18-08-2007, 10:43 PM
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Desire isn't driven by the heart, the mind or the wallet. Desire comes from another place. It's created by the smell of burnt fuel under full throttle and the look a car gives you when you're washing it alone at night... see my car here: Built my own TL50!!! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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18-08-2007, 10:46 PM
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Desire isn't driven by the heart, the mind or the wallet. Desire comes from another place. It's created by the smell of burnt fuel under full throttle and the look a car gives you when you're washing it alone at night... see my car here: Built my own TL50!!! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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18-08-2007, 10:58 PM
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Some of Queensland rails BA / BF Falcons do 150,000 kays a year.. Basically checking tracks I believe.
I could do 500 kays a day in a car providing it was all highway, i couldnt do 500 kays around brisbane coz A) i wouldnt get anywhere and B) id pull my hair out. Ive also heard of a bloke that does like 15,000 per month transporting deseased people in a Falcon wagon.. He does alot of Adelaide to QLD I believe.
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18-08-2007, 11:17 PM
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A big improvement over the echo and their level of refinement is alot higher than the price-point of the car.
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18-08-2007, 11:22 PM
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I don't care what car you dish out, i couldn't do 600km+ everyday.
that sort of Kms everyday, even the top end of the market would get boring. |
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18-08-2007, 11:42 PM
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I'd have to have a whole stable of exotic cars. I think if I was doing 600km+ a day in a Yaris I would have either topped myself or I'd be sitting in a padded room bound by a straight jacket.
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18-08-2007, 11:50 PM
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Diseased or Deceased? Doesnt matter really, Coming from Adelaide they're 1 in the same !!!! He He
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19-08-2007, 02:05 AM
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Man that guy must need one of those blow-up ring cushions for the toilet when he goes home!
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19-08-2007, 02:36 AM
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600 k`s a day isnt too bad , a bloke that used to come into the servo i worked in years ago did 1500 k`s per day in an fairly beat up looking xc panel van, the poor bugger always looked like death warmed up.
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19-08-2007, 04:46 AM
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give him another free yaris
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19-08-2007, 06:55 AM
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19-08-2007, 09:55 AM
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Yep after about 25 mins my back starts going - 600kms a day in a bloody Yaris! Crazy. lol at "Yarisworld.com" (reading through the list of mods in their sigs is hilarious)
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19-08-2007, 09:59 AM
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Oz Echo is pretty funny too
 :Ah RexNet tore them a new one :P |
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1 year old Yaris with 240,000+kms
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