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my cousin has a 96 nissan sentra and im wondering what the toyota equivalent is to that? camry? corolla? has to be one of those right?
toyota equivalent to nissan sentra?
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96 Corolla except the Corolla is better
It's a Toyota forum.
Bias is to be expected.
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Bias is to be expected.
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I know man. Just messing with you.It's a Toyota forum.
Bias is to be expected.
Corolla - Civic- Sentra
Camry - Accord - Stanza/Altima
Avalon/Cressida- no Honda- Maxima.
Camry - Accord - Stanza/Altima
Avalon/Cressida- no Honda- Maxima.
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Versa ---> Yaris and Unfit
I always wondered why Honda and Nissan didn't have a car slotted below the Civic and Sentra. Toyota had the Tercel/Echo/Yaris for almost 30 years before they brought out a competitor.
To put plainly, they weren't profit generators. Toyota was the only automaker on this side of the hemisphere that believed in offering a good no frills subcompact model. Ford and GM didn't even bother to engineer one, they instead brought over terrible Kias and Daewoos and stuck a badge on them. The good news is because those cars sucked GM and Ford thought nobody wanted these sort of cars. It fostered a perception that North America didn't want a small car, which was incorrect...we just don't want awful small cars. Only until recently they returned due to rising fuel costs, with way better offerings and that's when Honda and Nissan also joined.
Europe and Japan are a different story. Everybody competing in these markets had a subcompact. Ford of Europe built the Fiesta, and Opel had the Corsa, neither would be stupid enough to bring over Kias and Daewoos. Honda had the City, Nissan had the Micra and Toyota kept on with the Starlet.
In the US, they would not have sold well, being smaller than what many Americans would want to buy, and also, many Americans would not be able to fit in them and they would have been unsafe on roads occupied by larger vehicles. Case in point, the Smart ForTwo
Ford/GM had their Escorts and Cavaliers, before the Kias and Daewoos. Their problem was that Ford and GM did not know how to build a decent small car, because of so many years of building large vehicles. Toyota being in Japan was the exact opposite since Japanese people tend to be smaller, as well as being an island where a lot of big cars do not make sense.
I'd disagree, if GM and Ford wanted a cheap way out of engineering out a small car but one that's way better than what we got, they have their European divisions. Opel had the Kadett, a mediocre car all in all but superior to the awful Daewoos or the Geo Metro. Ford of Europe had the European Escort or if that was too small the smaller Cortinas which were good. Who wouldn't want something like a Escort Cosworth? Compared to the fact nobody wants the awful Festiva which is just a Kia Pride.
I just think they were being idiots. Its like having all the fresh ingredients to make a decent or good meal that your sibling bought, when you're not on bad terms with them. Instead of asking, you decide to go out and buy worse ingredients past their due date and make a meal hoping it isn't fit for the bin. One of those "What were they thinking?" moments.
You raise you good points. The majority of those cars have been scrapped by now anyway, paving the way for both GM and Ford to offer better, more competitive small cars.
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