Originally Posted by
Cobrajet
The Yaris really isn't "all that and a bag of chips". It is relatively expensive for what you get. It doesn't get terribly good mileage. It has an antiquated engine and transmission. And for a bit more...or the same money if we are talking about a higher-end version...you can get into a PriusC.
That is why the Mirage always outsells it. Now the Yaris iA? That is a different animal (literally).
Not sure why you are so concerned about the Mirage breaking down and somehow being impossible or horribly expensive to find parts for. Few people have had trouble with them so far. Anywhere on the planet.
Better to buy a well-built car that needs a few expensive parts than a badly-built one that needs lots of cheap ones.
I thought about the PriusC but I was worried about maintenance costs with hybrids. Most regular mechanics still don't service hybrids, you have to get it done at the dealer. And (in my opinion) there's 6 big points of failure on a hybrid, the gas engine, the transmission, the 2 electric engines and the battery pack. With a gas vehicle there's only 2 big points of failure, the engine and transmission.
As far as trouble with the Mirage, are there that many that have 200k miles on them? I put a lot of miles on my 2014 and it only has 65k miles. It doesn't seem like there's enough data yet. My personal experience is that almost nothing goes wrong in the first 100k. It's the second 100k when stuff starts messing up.
The nice thing about the Mirage is that they're so cheap I don't feel like I have to keep it for 300k miles. If I get 200k and not too much goes wrong I'm happy.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage 1.2 automatic: 39.7 mpg (US) ... 16.9 km/L ... 5.9 L/100 km ... 47.6 mpg (Imp)