Great Car, But Needs A Manual Transmission
Four stars, no manual transmission offered. Wife loves her car. I would buy one for myself if Toyota offered a v6 manual transmission model. I can't stand driving automatics, so boring. Good performance for a 4 banger. Automatic is your average transmission. Too bad all the traction control and other nonsense electronics aren't made by toyota, but the big three instead. Another reason for 3 stars. The stock radio is horrible. Don't even bother hooking up a pen drive full of mp3s organized by folders, the head unit doesn't understand how to navigate through a folder hierarchy, so lame and lazy of Toyota not to do. SE and XSE rise is too rough, stay away from those if you want a comfortable ride. Should be reliable, but we have barely put 3k miles on it in 3 years. Can't really be a judge of reliability.