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Hi Charles of Schaunburg:

I believe you are correct, although we spent a month in Japan and China last
year and just about everyone we contacted spoke better english than me.
BTW, do you work for the big M?
Graybeard

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>> Yes, we dived into this head first, and for the last 4 weeks are very
>> happy with its' performance. Gas milage is amazing (don't have exact
>> numbers yet, but if we went 200 km on ~1/4 tank, that is something -
>> will have more details next week on actual consumption). Accelaration
>> is sufficient (we are not racers), and so is everything else.
>>
>> Read the guide end-to-end, and found some hillarious text: apparently,
>> the guide (manual?) was written in Japan (as the car was built there),
>> and in one of the explanations about good and bad fuses, the text
>> actually shows 'brown' fuse as bad. As I knew that in Japanese the
>> distinction between the letters L and R is not there (don't exist in
>> the alphabet), I understood it, but assume someone who has no idea -
>> what the heck is a brown fuse?
>>
>> Another mystery to be solved: the illustration for the trunk shows some
>> side pockets (for storage), but close inspection of the trunk revealed
>> flat floor on either side - does anyone have any idea if these pockets
>> ever existed?
>>
>> If anyone from Toyota (anywhere: Canada, US, Japan) reads these
>> message, kindly review your documentation for accuracy (brown fuse,
>> trunk storage). The sales force was totally useless, and we knew way
>> more than them. Pity that the whole sale process still took too many
>> hours to complete (we knew exactly what we wanted and for how much,
>> told them, and still they went through their spiel - including an
>> un-necessary test drive). In that sense, they have not done a great
>> job.
>>
>> P.S. The Yaris was a great leap fro my wife - she drove a 1992 Tercel
>> till now and the Yaris feels heavier - it is heavier, but much nimbler
>> to handle. Sorry to put the NA manufacturers down, but their products
>> suck when compared to Asian ones. I drive a Saturn and feels clumsy,
>> even when compared to the Tercel.
>>
>> If anyone has any question regarding the Yaris, feel free to conatct me
>> - I'll be glad to answer.
>> It is an amazing little car and the cost was very reasonable.
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> I presume it's a BLOWN fuse? How do they distinguish between Port and
> Starboard? I know the Japs had a Navy, after all those Mitsubishi A6M's
> didn't get to Pearl Harbor by wishing themselves there.
>
> I always forget which one has the R sound and which one has the L sound,
> but if I remember correctly Japanese has an R sound but no L sound (Domo
> Arrigato, Mr. Roboto.) Whereas I beleive Chinese has the L sound but no R
> sound.
>
> Charles of Schaumburg
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