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MetroMPG · 06-10-2020, 05:06 PM

I looked - very briefly - at the above Yaris. Turns out it's just 1 km down the road.

It's the rustiest one of that generation I've ever seen. In fact, until I saw this one, I thought Toyota might have corrected the design flaw that leads to structural rust at the rear suspension mount that plagues the previous generation. Wrong!

What's rising, my standards or my reluctance to doing rust repair yet again? Same thing?

Lifestyle inflation!? Hedonic adaptation!

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