The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Mareacooda on February 14, 2012, 08:06:50 PM
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Who do you think would win as a make best overall auto-maker... Honda or Toyota? Is there one out their better than these two. I love to hear your feedback! :biggrin:
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My parents have owned both and honestly, I think they are both great.
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Toyota... they run forever. I bought my toyota for a grand, five years later most of the car had fallen off... still ran like a dream.
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They're definitely two of the most reliable auto manufacturers out there. The Toyota Truck/Hilux is definitely one of the most durable vehicles ever made. Accords, and CRXs will be around forever, too. I've owned a CRX, and my brother's burnt through I don't know how many, he buys and sells a lot of cars, not because they're bad or breakdown, he just gets bored with them and ends up wanting something else.
My CRX was actually one my brother owned, he sold it to his wifes dad who used it as a daily driver, for like a daily 100 mile trip. It was my daily driver until I found my Datsun. The car would not die.
The Volvo 240, 740, and 850 line is reliable as heck, too. Volvos are cars made to be driven in Sweden, uphill (both ways, of course) in snow and ice. Heavy cars, but if you need a daily driver that you can drive into the ground, they're a good choice.
Most cars will do you well with good maintenance. If you take care of a car, they'll last a long, long time. If you want something reliable that's good on gas, Accords and CRXs are definitely a good choice. Right now I'm driving a 1991 Volvo 240, it's running well, pretty rubbish on gas. Only gets about 22MPG highway, and dips into the teens for city driving.
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We've never had a Honda, but my dad is on his second Toyota. We inherited a Tercel when my g-pa passed away. The car was already 8 years old at the time, and went until it was 16 - the engine ran great, and was awesome on gas (especially with my commute), but the body in some places was just the paint, the metal behind was eaten away. :( Afterwards dad got a Corolla, which he seems to quite like.
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My Mom had an '89 Toyota Tercel, that car would still be running if the 2nd owner hadn't totalled it on the highway... I'd recommend Mazda's too...
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I have an Infiniti (Nissan) and it is like a rock. Almost 100K miles, and not a lick of issues!
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I drive a Toyota and hubby drives a Honda!
I used to drive a Mercury Sable station wagon. LOVED that thing because I could fit so many ponies in it for meets and the pony fair and flea markets. It ran great and got what I thought was good gas mileage- 22 MPG for a 1996 vehicle. Then, I hit a patch of black ice, spun around a couple times, and destroyed my beautiful car. It got replaced with my 06 Toyota Corolla.
At first, I didn't care for the Corolla much. It's a 4 cylinder engine and I was used to a 6. It didn't look like it would hold as much as my station wagon. It was foreign! And then, it slowly started proving itself to me. This beauty gets 35 MPG and drives just as well at the Sable, once I figured out the way this car likes to accelerate. It fit 800 ponies in the trunk for the '10 fair. That danged thing holds just as much as the station wagon! The trunk must have a sub-space compartment in it or something. And then the "I love this car and will never get rid of it" event happened last October.
My uncle had cancer and the family was getting together for a last goodbye. My sister decided to tag along and pay for half the gas. I hadn't been out to Aunt Jenny's house for YEARS. I have no sense of direction to begin with, so I just trust my GPS. It said we had about 1 mile to go to reach the house. We passed a sign at a Y in the road that said "Road Impassible." The road to the right had a gate across it, was totally overgrown, and there was tree down. Yup, totally impassible! We kept going and hit a huge pothole. There were some pretty deep ruts that I avoided. Was this the impassible road? My dad had called earlier and said he was already there. He gets rental cars that are very similar to my car, so I knew he made it down the road just fine. Clearly, it was just a bad spot. Then, THUNK! I went over a pipe and into a hole that we couldn't see. My car was NOT moving at all.
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We called Dad and discovered that the house was 2 miles behind us, despite the GPS saying we had .8 miles to go. He brought some cousins to get us out. Thankfully, there was a tire at the side of the road (from someone else doing the same thing?), so we put that behind my tire and filled it with rocks. Dad threw my car into reverse and the cousins and I pushed and we got it back up over that pipe. The car was carefully guided in reverse around the ruts and first pothole and we turned around at the "road impassible" sign. We got to my Aunts safely and had a nice visit.
My pretty little red car drove just fine the whole way home from Kentucky to Ohio. The next day, I took it to my mechanic to have it looked at. Surely I dented something, fractured something... I had to have done something to the underside! He put it on the lift and discovered... Scratches. All that happened was the paint on the bottom got a little scratched up. My mechanic put some clear coat on it and said I was good to go.
THAT is why I love Toyota. This is the best car I've ever owned and I'm not getting rid of it for anything!
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I'm tied. My family has two Honda Civics, but my bf has a Toyota Rav 4.
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I personal own longest time a 1999 Toyota Coralla and she had over 200,000 miles. I sold her to friend who need vechile plus I need more space to show my rabbits so I want a hatchback give good gas like my Coralla due how I travel. I try out the Matrix and Vibe and not crazy over them so I decide try to try out Honda Fits and I like how much fun drive this hatchback who looks smaller BUT is the same size as the Matrix. I planning to pick up 1012 Fits... I guess didn't help that Clone drive one :mrgreen: . I will say I would just bought another Coralla if didn't need little more room. I personal finding I like them both depending on the model. I love Tacoma in the Toyato and I love the Honda Element in SUVs...
While I have been shopping I told by a Toyato dealership that I need to a pick side... :shocked: I guess I not for one follow rules and choice sides as mention I like both depending on the models... :devious:
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I was given a Honda accord with 100K miles on it. I put another 100K miles on it with nothing but gas and oil changes, then gave it to a cousin who had it another 50K on it. One window quit rolling all the way up, the passenger side indoor handle broke off and the paint had blistered to a green with purplish bits (hence her name "the broccoli car") but the motor was a rock!
We have two Toyotas now. Dh has a 97 Tacoma with 200K+ and I have a 92 Prius with 155K on it (Periwinkle, and she has needed a couple of things replaced- the catalytic converter and a water inverter pump. Roughly 2 grand worth of work but she gets 40 miles per gallon in city so I only fill up every 10 days to two weeks.)
Love both companies!
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I've had both. Toyota seems to think about things more. Honda, well it's just honda. Good old faithful honda. My Toyota Tundra truck is a full size pickup that is as fast as or faster than most Porsches. Only Toyota would make a work truck that beats sports cars.
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I love my Honda!
I have a '05 Accord coupe. Before that I had an '87 Prelude,
both wonderful cars.
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Honda! My dad's owned several Hondas over the years and he hasn't had a single problem with any of them.
I, myself, own a Kia. ^^
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I've owned Hondas and A Toyota, now I have a Mazda. The Hondas were super-reliable and great wee cars and also hold togethr quite well in big crashes where you end upside down (from a safety perspective). My favourite car I've ever owned was a toyota Trueno BZ-G with 5 spd and blacktop engine. It was very economical but went like snot if you put your foot down. So yeah I'm tied.
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The first car that I bought with my own money was a '89 Toyota Camry. It was wonderful! I'm sure it'd still be running today if my sister didn't total it. These days I drive a VW, but I can speak very highly of Toyota.
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Toyota, Toyota, Toyota! Nearly all the cars my family members have owned over the past thirty-three years have been Toyota or Honda, and every time, the Toyotas outshine the Hondas.
Hondas in general seem to have weak air-conditioning systems--every single Honda I've driven has frequent heating/cooling problems, often needing to be repaired every year or every other year. Meanwhile, all of our Toyotas have gone the better part of a decade without ever needing anything more than having the fluid changed.
Hondas also seem to have pretty weak brakes compared to other cars I've driven, Toyota or otherwise. I've heard more recent models of Honda have better brakes, but still not up to par with Toyota models or my boyfriend's Hyundai.
And in general, I've noticed that Hondas seem to need servicing a lot more than the family's Toyotas. Our last Toyota went over five years without needing any repairs other than regular maintenance. On our Hondas, it seems like something breaks every year.
I'm driving a Honda right now, and I can't wait to get something else. The only reason I've owned more than one Honda in my life is because I've gotten them all as gifts from relatives who were buying better cars--usually Toyotas (it's a huge family, so lots of cars trade hands). It says a lot to me about Toyota's reliability that no one has ever given me an old Toyota, because they never get rid of them! XD Those things run forever.
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In high school my first car was an '87 Honda Accord hatchback (and at the time I got my license when I was 16, it was already an 8-year old car). I LOVED that car. When I got it, it already had around 50K miles on it. I then took it to Utah for college, and it ran great in the snow (and it was a stick shift). When I graduated I took it back to California with me. By that time it had over 100,000 miles on it, and the only thing I had ever needed to do to it besides the normal maintenance was replace the battery . I never had any problems with the AC - it always ran great and ran cold. My mom though was paranoid about it because of all the miles and the age of the vehicle, so I ended up getting a 99 Jeep Cherokee. But to this day I still miss my Honda. Now I drive a 2008 Mazda CX-9 and I loooooooooove it! (My husband and I have 4 kids, and I refuse to drive a minivan, so the CX-9 was the perfect choice).
My dad has had Hondas as well. His first was an '84 Honda Accord that he drove until my brother totaled it in 1993. Then he bought a brand-new Honda Accord then. He drove that until recently (sold it to my brother 2 years ago who needed a car pretty badly), and it has never had any problems.
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None of the above?
Im increcibly sensitive to international car makes because of whats happened in the past with us. Wont get into details though, this isnt the place for it <3
I guess for the record, you can put me down as a GM girl^^
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It's really tough to choose between the two! I have owned a Honda Civic, but now own a Scion XB (its made by Toyota)
The Civic was a wonderful car! It was excellent on gas and it never gave me a lick of trouble. Unfortunately the car was totaled back in 2009 (someone hit me and that was it). It had 90K miles on it, and I'm sure if it hadn't been wrecked, I would still own it. It ran like a champ!
So after the accident, thats when I purchased my Scion. I get discounts on Toyota vehicles because of where I work, so it came out to be considerably less expensive than purchasing a new Civic. I really do love my Scion! It's fun to drive, not nearly as good on gas, but it came with a lot of nice features that were standard, and I feel safe driving it.
And also I'd like to throw in Nissan, I had a Nissan pickup when I was a teenager and it was wonderful.
But, as with any vehicle, take good care of it, and it will take good care of you! Regular maintenance goes a long way.
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I have never owned either, my personal car is a 1986 mercedes benz 300sdl, diesel they run forever! I have herd good things about toyota though
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My mom drives a 2006 Toyota Corolla. I don't believe she's had to have any work done on it other than routine stuff and she had the rear bumper replaced after someone smashed into it at a parking lot. It's a really nice car. Her only complaint about it is there's no trunk release button on the keychain. Before she got it, we had been using my brother's 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder which had a little keychain remote thing that could lock and unlock the doors with one button and open the trunk with the other. We got so used to it, that we really missed having that when she got her Corolla.
Before she got her Corolla, my mom had a 2000 Mitsubishi Mirage which my brother ran a huge amount of miles on it and ended up getting it in several accidents. It was a really nice car, it just couldn't hold up after all the miles and accidents it had been in. I think the worst car she had was a Pontiac Grand Am. We had one for like 5 years or so and it always needed work done. In the end, it needed something like $1,000 worth of work done on it, so we just got rid of it at that point and got the Mirage. When I was a kid, we had a Ford Escort and that thing lasted over 10 years. It had tons of miles on it since we used to travel between Michigan and Illinois, but it still ran beautifully. We only got rid of it in the end because we needed more room. That tiny car was fine when we were all small, but trying to shove all of us in the backseat together became an issue later.
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My parents have owned both and honestly, I think they are both great.
This I have had both and love both, would have gotten another Honda but could not afford and love my Yaris. In fact hubby liked mine so much when he had to get a new vehicle he got one too. So we are now a two Yaris house hold and love passing gas stations by.