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In that case, I shall wear my tinfoil hat. (That's good enough right?)
I talked to the owner's brother. It's sitting at said brother's local Toyota dealer because it stalled on him when he was visiting, and the exhaust is falling off, and he was afraid to drive it after that, even though it re-started OK.
He says the dealer inspected the car, gave him a quote for exhaust repairs & rear bearing and told him the hybrid battery still has 50% life -- I've never heard of a dealer being able to check/say this about the battery though (Edit/correction: aparently Toyota's scanner can give a high voltage battery status printout).
The dealer also low-balled him on a trade-in for a used Yaris. Thus the private ad.
I'm going to go look at it this evening if it's still available.
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