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Echo is my favorite car
Laserman, 04/14/2019
updated 10/15/2020
2003 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
This is a high performance car. Besides being fun to drive (powerful and nimble!) and having an amazing build quality (if you ever see on on ebay, it has 450,000 miles and works fine...one had 850,000) it is the most ergonomically perfect car i have ever owned. The passenger compartment is built around passengers: tall; spacious feeling; put the seat belt on with one hand; easy to see when backing; nice click click feel to the stick shift...it is a pleasure. Add to that power and over 40 mpg, and you have a real performance car--a car that delivers in every way and is only 2000 pounds. Well done, Toyota designers! Love Edmunds, but you guys are just wrong about the value of the Echo.
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Not just another small sedan
stan, 10/16/2002
2003 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl 4A)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love the car!! Not because of price,but for exellent mpg,confort,use of space and fun to drive.Someone told me it looked like a spaceship!I said cool! Tired of the same old styles,i like it,kinda grows on you.Rides nice and quiet and has more than enough power for country and city driving.Toyota did a great job useing what interior space could be provided with its small size.Seems to have as much space or more than some bigger cars ive owned.Great view in the drivers seat! sits higher than most small cars.Dont be afriaid to try something different!! you may really like it,like i did.PS this is the first non american car i ever owned. Great Car.
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Scary Driving, Horrible Customer Service
tattytiara, 04/29/2009
2003 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl 5M)
3 of 6 people found this review helpful
I will never trust Toyota with my safety again. It's one thing to have poorly trained dealers who tell dangerous, outright falsehoods about the vehicle's features and design, it's another to train the head office staff to deal with customer complaints by running them through a maze of incompetence in the hope they'll just get frustrated and give up rather than addressing customer concerns directly. One slight breeze and you're in the ditch. The fuel economy's very misleading, because you need to carry at least half a beach worth of sand just to stay on the road. The windows spontaneously rolling down is just bonus fun. I have never been more dissatisfied with a purchase in my life.
A Great Little Car.
myrick, 12/13/2009
2003 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl 4A)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Bought the car in Feb. 2006 and my wife and I have enjoyed it. We bought it with 33,000 miles on it and it just went over 100,000 miles today. The oil gets changed every 3,000 miles and we had new hoses and belts put on last summer and a new A/C relay Fuse last spring but that's about it that we have had to do to it. It was in a wreck about 3 years ago, the left back corner smashed in causing about 4,000 dollars of damage but because of its high resale value it was not written out as totaled so we were able to get it fixed up. It has a few hail dents and some scratches but still runs great. Drove it from Oklahoma to Wisconsin last summer averaging 38 miles to a gallon. Great little car.
great car
jdmwiseau, 07/15/2004
2003 Toyota ECHO 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Great car, I have an automatic and average 43 MPG on the HWY. I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised by the power of the 1.5 liter power plant. Wish I had cruise control with all the driving I do but I am not fatigued at all with the 200 plus miles I drive daily. I highly recommend this car for the daily commuter. My other car is a Lexus LS400. I know quality when I drive it.