Ride quality? Toyota Echo vs. Toyota Scion Xa

While at my Toyota dealer yesterday getting the Sienna oil changed I had a chance to take a peak at the Scion, the model that looks like a box. Anyway it looks very roomy inside and with the back seats folded down you can get a lot of stuff back there. The gas milage was up at around

30 mpg in city and 38 on trips. I had the same question in mind regarding the ride quality. I don't like a ride that gives me every crack in the road feedback. I can see where you have a short wheelbase and get a chop, but feeling every crack is something that could be smoothed out using isolation between the frameworks and the body.

I have the scion x/a and love it. I bought it for city driving, only and get about 33 mph. It is not a touring car. For that, I drive my MB....

Sherm

I'll have to take one out for a spin someday, that is if they ever have any in stock. Seems like they go out as fast as come in. The ride to you seems comfortable? Do you feel the bumps and cracks in the road much. I'd be more inclined to buy the box over the sport version as I would like utility over sporty handling and performance.

I didn't notice any difference at all, but you didn't say whether you had an automatic or manual (My hubby doesn't drive stick, so we always get automatic)

Probably will change it, but again, I didn't notice any difference. BTW, I'm gonna go buy our Scion today! :-) It'll be primarily my husband's car, and he likes how it rides. But then for the last 10 years or so, he's driven the Corolla FX 16 (Which also has a decent ride, despite being 18 years old)

I thought the new ones had a hatch? At any rate, I don't like the new Echoes - they look just like several other cars on the road. I bought my Echo because it looked *different* The early Echoes had shit paint jobs, so I'm getting mine painted soon.

Natalie, who loves her pregnant roller skate

What's an MB?

Natalie

An auto manufacturer which garnered far more respect before their disastrous, quality-degrading, merger with Chrysler.

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Oh my - what do you suppose they were smoking?

Natalie

That merger was always a mystery to me. Why Daimler would lower itself to be associated with Chrysler boggles the mind. Pearls before the swine.

Chrysler is the winner here as their post-merger quality has increased, while MB has gone down.

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MB = Mercedes Benz

"Wickeddoll®" wrote in news:4280c8e1$0$9673$ snipped-for-privacy@news.free.fr:

Whatever it was, I don't want any. It obviously wasn't very good.

Recent revelations show that it wasn't likely a merger at all. It was an acquisition. They (Mercedes) are taking some heat about lack of honesty now, but not know whether they actually broke any laws.

MB, IMHO, tends to be overengineered and can be expensive to maintain.

I would agree with that. Much like in 1996, Pacific Bell's "merger" with SBC truly was an acquisition. Only the ego of PacBell's president at the time, Phil Quigley, prevented the admission of that fact.

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Got it - thanks anyway, though

Natalie

Enjoy the new xA!

A car line with a 3-pointed star on the hood, owned by a parent company that gained notoriety for taking over and nearly ruining an American car company that had 5-pointed stars on the hoods.

Thanks! I ordered it

Natalie

Thanks, but I think I would have caught on if the original person had written 'm-b'

But in the grand scheme of things, it's pretty trivial, I guess.

:-)

Natalie

Just like a woman. Always ordering something around.

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Tell us how the ride is when you get it.