Toyota Stalking, er...um, SPOTTING with Charlie™ (Cars, vans, SUVs, Lexus, Scion, and brochures)!

And here's one from earlier in the day that I saw while finalizing the order of new front struts at my mechanic; It's so nice to see a Corolla in an eye-catching color rather than a boring one!


December 20th, 2021:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

 

I kinda really want a Trabant now...



I've actually wanted one for years, but a car with a 26hp 2-stroke engine, no A/C, and drum brakes all around would not exactly be enjoyable to drive long distances; Short drives to local shows, even in hot weather, would be fine...

That doesn't matter now though; I could easily pull a Trabant to shows all over the Northeast with my Taco, which has 2 more cylinders than a Trabant and something actually resembling horsepower (and doesn't require oil to be mixed with the gas at every fillup), A/C, and disc brakes (at least in the front)!

Also, even the newest Trabants are now legal to import into America and register for use on public roads under the 25-year loophole (though California with its draconian smog testing would be a problem for Trabants newer than 1975).

 

I've got my eye on something I can actually live in, that's practically guaranteed to go up in value...

 

And I do not know why the hell I posted this here, but whatever; It was intended for the main MegaThread though...

 

That goes up in value, as in a house or a condo; Though these days you'd probably pay as much for a 5-year Ford E450 Class C motorhome with 35K-50K miles as a brand new one!

 

Normally I do not bother with Priuses newer than 2003, but the Prius C comes in numerous whacky (even for a hybrid) colors; This one honestly looks like a New York taxi in this hue, but I only think they use the standard-sized Priuses and Prius Vs as taxis and NYC.

On another note, this one is far too clean to have ever been a taxi; I saw a 300K mile ex-taxi Prius that the second owner had bought for a song, for the sole purpose of using it to drive for DoorDash. He never bothered to repaint it; It was the standard issue taxi yellow and you could still see the outlines of the taxi company name, phone number, dispatch number, etc...

As you can see, this one is pretty nice!


December 22nd, 2021:

Lahaska, Pennsylvania

 

The Prius C was sold in the United States from models years 2012 to 2019; The federal backup camera mandate went into affect in May 2nd, 2018...

It would appear that the the Prius C sold a lot better before the backup camera mandate went into affect, because most of the ones I see in my day-to-day life (including the "taxi yellow" example above) do not have backup cameras.

I called an Uber once after a night of drinking, maybe 3 or 4 years ago, and it was a Prius C; I ended up riding shotgun because the backseat was so cramped, but it seemed to be a well-built vehicle, with the quality you'd expect from any Toyota product. The owner had nothing but good things to say about it.

 

I'm guessing this Solara is a 2004-2005 model because it actually has a factory CD/cassette combo; When my mom's side of the family flew out to Hawaii for my cousin's wedding in July 2009, my aunt and uncle rented a red Solara convertible that was no more than a year old at the time, and it had an an AM/FM stereo with a CD player and an auxiliary input (which I used to play my iPod) but no cassette player. I think Toyota did away with cassette players across the board after about 2007...?


December 24th, 2021:

Warminster, Pennsylvania

 

I found this MR2 behind the dealer when I went to check out their 2022 Tundra inventory...


December 24th, 2021:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

 

@ColoradoTJ
@shakerhood
@Squatting Pigeon
@Taco critter
@TnShooter

Peruzzi Toyota is asking such rage-inducing prices for used vehicles that they won't even put them on the window stickers; I first noticed it with this 2019 Camry that has almost 40K miles...

 

After looking the car up online, I can see why they're not putting the prices on the window sticker; This is used Mercedes E-class money for a 3-year old Camry!

 

Wow almost 40K for a used Camry.

 

@ColoradoTJ
@Squatting Pigeon

And here, we have a 2010 Corolla with almost 120K miles for almost $10K...

 

@ColoradoTJ
@shakerhood
@Squatting Pigeon

And next to it, a mint 2008 Corolla with barely over 94K miles, the price of which isn't even listed on the dealer website; This leads me to believe that they are asking more for it than the higher mileage 2010!

 

@ColoradoTJ
@shakerhood
@Squatting Pigeon
@Taco critter
@TnShooter

After getting the new battery installed in the truck, I headed to the Wawa across the street to satisfy a snack craving; It is there that I saw the white T4R and these sweet rides! There was a whole group of guys, including one with a brand new 2022 Supra and one with this 2008 Lexus GS460!


December 26th, 2021:

Warminster, Pennsylvania

 

Brand new 2022 Supra; The owner is younger than me, and he got this car below sticker because he knows some people!


December 26th, 2021:

Warminster, Pennsylvania

 

I kind of like the RC-F
Although I have always liked the Supra.

 

In the original run of Rugrats (1991-1994), Angelica's parents had a 1991 Toyota Previa...

 

I understand that issues would have arisen if the producers called this a Toyota Previa, but who came up with the name "Wahorn"...?

 

The name "Wahorn" can be seen on a gas stove in Stu and Didi's kitchen in The Rugrats Movie as well, so I'm thinking it's the last name of somebody who worked on the show; In Hey Arnold! some of the shops in Arnold's fictional hometown of Hillwood, Washington were named after people who worked on the show.