It has to be said. I just can't shut up. The Avanza is officially the worst car I have ever driven.
When I first saw it being driven around by a local security company, it was hate at first site. It was too tall, too narrow and and I really just did not like anything about it. After speaking to someone who was driving one as a company vehicle, I began too hate it even more.
Some of the worst cars in the world will be defended by those that drive them. Not the Avanza. Most people I know that drive them wish they didn't.
I was maybe being a bit unfair as I had never driven one. I had been a passenger though.
My first experience of the Avanza was when a colleague had received one from the rental agency. It had a little bit over 20 000km on the clock and as soon as it hit 40km/h the plastic bits started rattling. I also thought it was a perfect example of how too make an interior look as cheap as possible.
Up until today, I had never actually driven one. I then got given one to drive from one of our branches back to our main office. Total distance: +/-350km
The first thing that I noticed was the lack of a radio... that's right: Toyota can't afford to put a radio in a vehicle that costs R130 000?? But they will throw in 4 electric windows.
I then realised that at speeds over 100km/h wind was leaking through a steady rate. This was even more noticeable due to the lack of radio. There was also that damn plastic rattling all over the place.
I tend to use my rear-view mirror quite often while driving and by the time I had reached halfway, I had a headache. Confused? You see besides the plastic rattling, so does the mirror. And anything further 20m behind me looked like a blur.
I could carry on all day about all the things that suck about the Avanza... but that would just be a waste of my time. It sucks, that's all there is to it.
Screw you Toyota, for thinking we're retarded enough to like the Avanza!
(Photo courtesy of www.dispatch.co.za)
When I first saw it being driven around by a local security company, it was hate at first site. It was too tall, too narrow and and I really just did not like anything about it. After speaking to someone who was driving one as a company vehicle, I began too hate it even more.
Some of the worst cars in the world will be defended by those that drive them. Not the Avanza. Most people I know that drive them wish they didn't.
I was maybe being a bit unfair as I had never driven one. I had been a passenger though.
My first experience of the Avanza was when a colleague had received one from the rental agency. It had a little bit over 20 000km on the clock and as soon as it hit 40km/h the plastic bits started rattling. I also thought it was a perfect example of how too make an interior look as cheap as possible.
Up until today, I had never actually driven one. I then got given one to drive from one of our branches back to our main office. Total distance: +/-350kmThe first thing that I noticed was the lack of a radio... that's right: Toyota can't afford to put a radio in a vehicle that costs R130 000?? But they will throw in 4 electric windows.
I then realised that at speeds over 100km/h wind was leaking through a steady rate. This was even more noticeable due to the lack of radio. There was also that damn plastic rattling all over the place.
I tend to use my rear-view mirror quite often while driving and by the time I had reached halfway, I had a headache. Confused? You see besides the plastic rattling, so does the mirror. And anything further 20m behind me looked like a blur.
I could carry on all day about all the things that suck about the Avanza... but that would just be a waste of my time. It sucks, that's all there is to it.
Screw you Toyota, for thinking we're retarded enough to like the Avanza!
(Photo courtesy of www.dispatch.co.za)
It's been a while *hangs head in shame*...
But honestly life happens, whether we want it to or not. If you haven't realised that by now in your life, go back under your rock, clearly you're not needed. You have got to grab life by the reigns and get the piece of sh** to go the way you want it to.
That's what I've been trying to do. Except I think I chose the horse that you get in the cartoons, you know the one that will suddenly stop and refuse to move, no matter how hard you pull, and then gallops off when don't want it to...
I've joined a writing club to get my creative juices flowing. The fact that it's called the Tequila Thursday Writing Club should tell you something... Last night I got inspired to start planning my novel for NaNoWriMo. Not the actual writing but getting my research done & sorting out my characters, which is allowed. So far it's a sci-fi story based around a world ravaged by a zombie war & civil wars, centred around a malfunctioning cyborg & an insane female assassin who once saved the cyborg's life and now he just won't leave her alone. (It's a work in progress.)
Then more importantly I've been planning a trip to Thailand for the end of the year (me love you long time... five dollah *grin*.) If it goes well, I may become a regular visitor bacause it's seriously cheap for a South Efrican to travel to Thailand.
But this is just a hello, and as a goodbye I leave you with this, because I'm helpful like that :)
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