I've driven a CRV, and it is a Toaster! Its amazing people guy that junk. I feel safer in any of my 25+ year old cars.

Sad to think that my Tercel is the Great Grandmother to the Rav-4

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I've owned a couple Tercel 4X4 wagons to, another fine automobile.

No match for my SD (until it snows), but certainly a pretty well engineered 'cheap' car.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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My forays into the world of cheap (by original MSRP) cars have been limited to a '63 Dodge Dart into which I shoehorned a 360 V-8. In normal driving it drove a lot like a W114. If you started driving hard, you noticed very quickly that it sped up a whole lot faster and slowed down a whole lot slower. I also had an '88 Suzuki Samurai for about a year. It was slower on top end than my 240D, but was a blast off pavement.

I've been saddled with various new and newish rental cars and haven't really liked any of them. The least bad was a Nissan. I think it was an Altima.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

I love my Tercel, I find a lot of Tercel people love Mercedes Diesels, and a lot of Diesel people love the little Tercels! I'm not sure how they are related other they are both a lot more dependable they anyone would ever dare to fathom.

If I could somehow make my SD 4x4 and drive like the tercel in the snow I would I think I would own the best car on the planet! Until then I'll just drive them both.

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My little Tercel wagons would go through snow that many a 4x4 truck couldn't handle. In fact I used to use one as a snowplow, it was low enough to move the deep stuff off of the driveway during the real big storms. Once the snow got up to about 18~20" I would take the Tercel up and down the 1.3 mile driveway as fast as I could, to keep it kinda clear. Loads o' fun

Ya know, they do sorta look like a toaster.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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