Faults:

Rust after 10 years.

Starter engine death after 15 years of service.

Battery needs to be replaced every 5 years.

General Comments:

The car is very very reliable.

I use to travel a lot and this car never never never broke down. Fantastic.

Faults:

I had to change it's clutch at 190.000kms.

General Comments:

When I bought this car, I had to drive a lot to get to work. Because of this, I needed a reliable, cheap, simple car.

When I got my Star-Van it had 180.000kms and 5 previous owners.

During 3 years the car never let me down, never failed on me, not one single time. And still, after some mistreatment (all road play time even), the car could get to 180kms/h in highway without spending one drop of oil and with economy around the 5,8l/100kms.

This is what I call a Combat Car.

Faults:

Till now, I had no problem with the car what so ever.

General Comments:

The car I'll be talking about is the Toyota Corolla Verso (Spacio in Japan).

It's D-4D motor, may not be the most powerful Diesel motor with 2.000cc, mas it sure is the most reliable.

With 90hp, it's performance is well tuned with the kind of car it is... a mini-van (in Portugal we call it "Mono-Volume").

Even though it's a family car by excelence, it has a very interesting handling, and one can have some amount of fun with it... Speccially in a curved Mountain Road with the binary (215Nm) waking up at 2.400rpm and full Hp at 4.000rpms.

Faults:

Till now I had no problems in my Corolla, except for the alternator that "died on me" in a long trip.

General Comments:

It's not a sports car, but you sure can have fun with it. Its reactions and the feeling it can give the driver are very interesting.

It's a family car with a good interior and with 18 years on it' back there's not a single mark of the years passing by.

Here in Portugal there's still lots of Toyota Corolla 12 valves FWD on the streets, but none like mine. Just beautiful.

Faults:

The starter failed.

Brakes needed a huge repair.

Body in bad shape (due to race treatment).

General Comments:

What a astonishing little car.

So reliable.

Me and two friends bought it to race it.

In spite of serious beaten, U turns, and violent jumps, the car never complained.

I miss it, the car was sold to a junkyard, no one would accept the car for regular use.

Faults:

Just the normal over the 10 years and 110,000km in my hands.

General Comments:

It is a good and cheap car.

Good reliability.

Comfort (rated 4 above) is a minor point indeed.