My wife grew up in the car business (her Dad owned VW dealerships and she worked at them doing paperwork) so I let her choose our cars and do all the negotiating. I just sit back and wait to sign papers. For about the past 15 years, we've both driven various models of Toyota. As you might imagine, she always gets the nicer one, but my point is we've never had anything even close to a major repair. They seem to run almost on "automatic" (no pun intended). Currently, she has a 2008 Camry and I have a 2007 Yaris. We really can't have two large models or they both won't fit in our garage. I would definitely recommend this brand, even though all their measurements are in metric.
