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Best Car This Family Has Owned!
Jason, 06/01/2008
2000 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I forced my husband to purchase this car after many Fords and a variety of other American cars. The car will not die! It does leak oil after 130K miles! No smoke from the tailpipe. No major repairs just the brakes and oil. Just the maintenance. I love this car and right now with gas prices at $4 we cannot be happier!
Tranny went at 284k
Mini motorhome, 02/13/2023
2000 Toyota ECHO 2dr Coupe
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Bought for $600 with 165k. Bearings replaced. Check engine light on, cat code. cv axles (note: don't use remanned parts for this repair, or be doomed to echo the repair) clutch at 190k. Struts and shocks 200k. 220k echo dies regularly while driving. Emptied cat. Dying stopped. Engine became noticeably weaker around 250k. Started burning oil.. not as much as a corolla does but 1/4 qt/fill up. Engine still runs at 284k. Now showing evap code on the check engine light. Does not leak anything. Tranny is dead. I'm about to put a junk yard tranny and motor with 120k into a 284k body because I love this car so much. Best mileage ever: 54mpg with the wind at my back. Worst mileage ever 27mpg when I got some bad gas (echo sounded like she was dying). I keep record of every fill up. I snapped the bolts holding the front passenger (shoulder? Blown rotator cuff?) To the frame. Was welded back together. Might have to fix that again someday. Door latches have always been loose and flimsy. A/c has never worked for me. I plan to revive this car. All cars need fixing but not all cars get 39-48 mpg. It has a timing chain so no worries there! Why does everyone complain that echo is ugly? Truly bewildered about this. It's just a simple car. Ugly is such a strong word for a very basic design. It looks just like half the other cars on the road. Blends in like a ninja. I removed the back seats and passenger seat and built a "deck" that goes from the glove box into the trunk. If you were 8' tall, you could still sleep in this echo with your legs outstretched into the trunk, view of the stars up through the front windshield. 2 ft wide cot. Storage space underneath. Basically this car is huge. Will fit 20 clowns!
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Saved me
wtlonestar, 12/22/2002
2000 Toyota ECHO 2dr Coupe
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Bought it new and drove it about 43 miles per day commuting to work. Roomy,Great MPG,Handling is good also. At just short of 30,000 miles I ran into the back of a Dodge Ram Truck that stopped suddenly in traffic. The Car was totalled. Air bag deployed and saved my life. The steering wheel could be softer. I walk out of it with bad bruising from the seatbelt,Suggest 5 or 4 point harness,10 staples in my knee,broken ribs,busted wrist,one fractured foot bone. Very well built. Going for a bigger SUV this time. Thanks for the safety built in even in the low priced units.
The perfect commuter car
catomaior, 06/12/2005
2000 Toyota ECHO 2dr Coupe
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I owned my ECHO for five years and if it wasn't for the need of more space for the child seat, I would still have it. It is a lot of fun to drive, sprinty and light. The inside is roomy albeit cheapy (you have space for everything you want). The gas milage is unbeatable (I averaged 35 MPG on my daily usage, meaning about 20-25 bucks a month on the gas). The handling was always challenging, though, especially with strong winds on heavy rainfall (not rare in Seattle). Once, only my rally driving training helped me keep the car on the road when I had to make an abrupt emergency maneuver on a wet road to dodge a deer. Also, with more than once passenger, the engine is a little underpowered.
Keeping it forever
jgc, 03/15/2010
2000 Toyota ECHO 2dr Coupe
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I bought this car 10 years ago. On my first long drive to Northern California , on HWY 5, I looked down at the speedometer and I was driving 105 mph. Honest officer, It felt like I was only going 60. No quivering, no shaking, no instability. Just a very smooth and confident ride at pretty high speed for this little coupe. When we first drove it home the neighbors with the big trucks laughed at the car, but when the gas shortages happened I was the one laughing . It's extremely reliable. No major repairs at all. Even though I'm shopping for a new car I won't get rid of My Echo. I just gave it a major tune up, oil change, brakejob, and changed a belt. Probably good for another 100,000 miles