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Originally Posted by cwayne
Majority of Tundra (full size pick up) drivers do NOT ever see a dirt road or even use the truck for "work" purposes.
Nearly all Trudra drivers I see are just by themselves in the truck hauling NOTHING. Sure they may pick up their 30lb toddler from day care and drop them off home after his wife dropped the kid off earlier in her Sequoia. Most SUV and pick up truck drivers can live fine with a Yaris and get DOUBLE the mpg. However their main concern is to look "cool" and "rugged" despite being obese and beaten pretty badly by time.
And people who really do need to do some hauling drive trucks from the Big 3, and a much as I love Toyotas, toyota just can't match them.
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Theoretically, the Yaris should be fine for me, with a small, young family, but the reverse-facing infant seat (the type that is removed from the car each time the baby gets out of the car) that my son needs right now, and its accompanying stroller, just would not fit in the Yaris. I am not sure that it would fit comfortably in a Corolla either, unless the front passenger seat were pushed up so close to the instrument panel that the passenger riding there would be uncomfortable. Even then, it is unlikely that the stroller would fit in the small trunk opening. Even with the (Gen6) Camry, it is a tight fit through the trunk opening.
I see the Yaris as great for owners who regularly only have the driver and maybe one passenger, and only the occasional rear-seat passengers. But for young families that do need the back seat and cargo area, it is not suitable; young families really do need a larger car these days, with all the kids' stuff that is regularly hauled around.
And your point about the majority of Tundra owners rarely ever needing the full capabilities of that truck is not just a Toyota problem. All car makers that build full-size pickup trucks face the same problem. They would -- and are -- all losing sales of full-size pickup trucks.
My point was that the diesel Tundra, compared to the gas Tundra, would save more fuel (and therefore more dollars) than a diesel Yaris compared to a gas Yaris, so the diesel Tundra would be a better buy than a diesel
Yaris. Looked at from that perspective, it is more likely that Toyota would try to sell a diesel Tundra before they try to sell a diesel Yaris in North America. There just would not be great enough demand for a diesel Yaris.
