I have a 2005 Corolla CE w. PKG C. This car is such a lemon. It's been to various area dealerships with no real fix.

I'll start out with the PRO's:
** GREAT Gas Millage! I can go over 600km (~400mi) on a tank.
** Smooth highway ride
** Good seating position in passenger seats
** Good A/C and Heating
** Excellent sounding CD/Radio system for a compact car

Now to my long rant of complaints:

The car is VERY easy to stall. I've driven a few other manuals including a 2000 Mazda Protege LX 1.8, 2004 Ford Focus ZX4 & a 1986 Nissan Micra... all of which drive much more smoothly & they don't stall unless you do something really stupid.

The Corolla feels like it's about to die every time you push on the gas. It kind of hickups and then bucks and then starts driving.

Once it gets going above 2000 rpm, it's perfectly smooth, except for one thing, which brings me to my next problem: the car makes a sqeek sqeek sqeek sound constantly while driving, no matter what speed you're going or what rpm the engine is at.

So far I've had it to (for you Vancouverites): Jim Pattison North Shore Toyota (4 times) & Destination (Regency) Toyota on Lougheed (6 times).

They've fixed the following parts among others:

Fuel Filter (replaced twice)
Air Filter (replaced once)
Main Engine Computer (replaced once)
Wheel Bearings (inspected)
Engine Mounts (inspected)
Timing Belt (inspected)

The dealers' service departments were both somewhat unprofessional with having mechanics straight out of college and very few people who knew how to operate a manual car.

Judging by the tripodometer, they didn't even road test the car more than a few hundred metres. And I somehow doubt that they've actually done any work to the car, since none of the problems are fixed, and when they said they replaced the car's computer, the tripodometer, radio presets, etc, were all intact... (that's not right is it?).

I've called and emailed Toyota Canada's customer service and they just *** me a case number and tell me to take it back to any Toyota dealer. Since I don't get a curtosey car, and they want $40/day to rent one, I only have the choice of those two dealers, one close to home, and one close to work. So this is getting really annoying.

I purchased this car May 2005, and it has just over 20,000km's on it (about 12,500mi). British Columbia has no lemon-law that I am aware of. Just the usual implied warranty you have to persue in court, which I don't really have time for either.

Not recommended.

Check out the Mazda3 or the new VW Rabbit instead if you want a good manual tranny car.
Amount Paid (US$): 19200
Condition: New
Model Year: 2005
Model and Options: CE-C