Best Craigslist Ad: The Fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla

[Nevilledog]

[cachukis]

1. Art.

[flying_wahini]

2. I seem to remember this or another version. Just hilarious.

Especially since I just sold our family eggbeater for $900 last month. It was a 2000 Nissan Sentra. Gold.

“when I ran a car fax on this car ….”

[GP6971]

3. My SIL still has our 77 Corolla that we gifted her

in 87. Her husband has garaged it and done some restoration. They drive it a couple of times a year.

[DJ Porkchop]

4. Legendary.

I don't want this car, but now I have to buy this car just to meet the guy selling it.

[bahboo]

5. fucking hilarious.....

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Love it!

I've never owned a Toyota myself, but my son recently bought a Corolla. Back story is that he desperately needed to replace his 1997 Honda Civic, and since he only drives a manual transmission, his options were somewhat limited. He had really wanted another Honda, but wound up with the Toyota. The best part is that it's a 2019, so significantly newer than his former car. He's quite amazed at the increase in technology over the years.

The only sad thing is that whenever he's ready for a replacement car, probably no one at all will be making stick shifts. Sigh.

I myself have only ever driven manual transmissions, starting with my first car, a 1959 VW Beetle. A convertible, I will add. While I understand why many people like automatics, I'm really annoyed that over the years car manufacturers have gone out of their way to stop making standards, forcing people who would otherwise prefer a standard, to an automatic. Yes, I've seen that lots of times.

Fortunately for me, I'm 75 years old. My current car is a 2017 Honda Fit, purchased in 2019. By the time I will be ready to give it up, I'll probably be getting ready to move into independent/assisted living and give up driving altogether.

[progressoid]

7. Can attest to this. We had a 97 camry.

[diane in sf]

8. Drove my Tercel from 1984 to 2005. It was so cheap to run, I'd make money on my deductible travel expenses.

[Beatlelvr]

17. I had a gold 1983 Tercel

And loved it. Got 40 mpg, only had a radio and heater. Had it 9 years.

[Reader Rabbit]

9. Mom just donated her 1998 Camry to Habitat for Humanity

She's too old to drive, and the damned thing just kept going and going. Over 200,000 miles and still ran like a dream.

[FoggyLake]

10. Absolutely spot on.

I currently own a 2000 Toyota RAV4. Recently I started searching for a new car just because. Turns out that while searching for an older model low miles dependable vehicle I realized that that is exactly what I already own. God bless my 24 year old Toyota. I decided to just keep it.

[niyad]

13. Happy 2nd DUnniversary to you. Your screen name caught my eye because

one of my favourite authors, Jayne Ann Krentz, has written The Fogg Lake Trilogy.

[Basic LA]

11. Thanks for the laughs. There's truth in it.

[Unwind Your Mind]

12. There was a Camry ad I always thought was so funny

‘Presenting the Toyota Camry, you could almost weld the hood shut and drive it forever’

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

14. It's a shitbox, but it's an

honest shitbox. You won't be fixing it every other month like that Ford Five Hundred. Change the oil occasionally, don't flog it & watch for oddities. Fix your brakes immediately - or isn't your family worth $600? Keep going until the big expensive repair comes, and then it donates parts so some other Corolla can keep going. (the last running Corolla will have a part recycled from every Corolla ever made) Save $100 a month towards your next Corolla by brewing coffee at home and buying a Thermos. Don't complain if your car breaks at first, no one on this tier gets rid of a car that's not giving trouble, no matter the price of gas

That's what I'd tell someone who asked me about it, I like that ad. Funny

[RainCaster]

15. I love it! This is a classic advert

This is an ideal advert- it will go viral, and somebody out there will agree. Yes. I need this car. Don't want it, but I need it.
Perfect.

[Dem2theMax]

16. I wish I still had a car like this.

I don't want bells and whistles, (meaning all the things that will constantly break and need to be fixed.)

Why I ever sold my 1973 Super Beetle, I will never know. I curse the day I did it. To this day, no other car of mine has ever beat the gas mileage I got with that Bug. Standard transmission, of course.

[moniss]

18. My favorite part was

about the judgemental Volkswagen and also the part about finding the motor after many years reminded me of the movie "Sleeper" with Woody Allen.

[NJCher]

19. when I worked for "Detroit"

Meaning one or the other of the big three American automakers, we referred to cars as "high tolerance" or "low tolerance." What that meant is how the car was built meant it had to have more or less attention. Think of it more simply as "high maintenance" or "low maintenance."

A high maintenance car is a German car. Because they are built and engineered so precisely, you have to do all the stuff they tell you to do when you buy it. If you don't, it can get very expensive.

The Toyota Corolla and others like it are "low maintenance." You can abuse the hell out of them as this seller so aptly points out, and the car will still work for you.

Needless to say, there's usually a big difference in the prestige factor but a lot of people don't care. The Japanese won big when they realize how many people just don't care and want to get from Point A to Point B without a lot of fanfare.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Is it still available?

[Emile]

21. Funny ad

[rogerballard]

22. I had a 1988 4 wheel drive Camry sedan...

I loved that car; it had 97,000 miles on it when I bought it. I paid $3500 in 2007 and the seller would not budge; the car was mint and had everything. This was in Denver, and of course, four-wheel drive in a sedan was awesome. I once had an attempted theft from a parking garage and finally a theft in a Target parking lot, but I did get it back. I took care of that car, and it took care of me. I put another 100,000 miles on it. Best car I ever had. I miss that baby. Car pictured is a 1987, my Camry looked exactly like this one.

[onethatcares]

23. I gave my grandson a 1995 corolla I purchased

from the first owner in It 2019 . First owner died the day after he sold it to me. It had 65,000 original miles on it and the dead owner kept every scrap of paper related to it and washed it once a week, waxed it every month and kept it looking as pristine as a 30 year old car could look.

My grandson is still driving it daily.

[NJCher]

24. that's kind of odd

the owner died after he sold it to you. He sounds meticulous. He was wrapping up his affairs, all right, and exited after this responsibility.

[al bupp]

25. My 2008 Corolla is still going strong

It's got 5 on the floor, hand crank windows and keyed door locks. My friend called it hideous when he first saw it. It can't vote yet, but we'll get there soon.

[Lemonwurst]

26. Corollas are fantastic

I had two, both cheap as hell to drive and maintain. But my first, a spartan gray 1974 coupe, I bought in 1979 for $900 with 105K on it, and knowing it needed a timing chain.

Once purchased and the timing chain replaced, that car became my rock, and kind of a legend with my then-college-aged friends. So dependable my friends would borrow it for important dates, as their own rust-buckets might give out at the worst possible moment. It also had cheap aftermarket speakers and a “Realistic” under-dash cassette player which somehow sounded kickass compared to anything else at the time, no explanation as to how that was possible!

After 4 years and another 75K miles my roommate begged me to sell it to him and I did, for $500. Even in today’s dollars there’s no car out there as dependable and cheap as that car was, though based on the current Corolla I was recently given as a loaner car, they seem to be just what they’ve always been - basic, easy, and cheap.

[sunflowerseed]

27. Sounds like John Oliver is selling his car

[MOMFUDSKI]

28. Husband and I have driven ONLY Toyotas since the 80's. Never let us down even once.

Took Toyota Tacoma pickup from Florida to Alaska and back and had 1 taillight go out. Couldn't be happier with Toyotas.