Letters to the Editor

Test drive: The Smart car is revolutionary A car small enough to alter your relationship with the city. Farhad Manjoo [2008-07-02]

• Yaris/Vitz 1.0

  Thanks.

  Yes, the Smart Car is smaller than the Toyota Yaris, which is still small. There is a not-U.S. Yaris called the Vitz that's a 3 cylinder 1.0 liter version that apparently gets 55 to 60 miles per gallon. It's supposed to have gotten an award as the best mileage non-hybrid vehicle in Japan.

  It should run about $10,000. It's safer than the Smart Car.

  I don't know if they'd sell like hot cakes here, but they would not compete directly with the Prius and so should be worth Toyota's while. And it wouldn't need re-working to pass muster as an American vehicle. We need it here.

  Please report more to us on this car and what needs to be done for Toyota to bring it here.

  Best -

  -- Monty Johnston
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