Overview & Reviews
In an effort to better protect occupants of this lightweight economy car, Toyota makes side airbags optional for 2001. Brilliant Blue Pearl is a new color.
- Good gas mileage, speedy acceleration, roomy and functional interior, likely to be reliable.
- Cartoonish styling, dopey gauge placement, lousy handling, deceptively low base pricing.
User Reviews:
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Dangerous car!!! - 2001 Toyota Echo
By concernedmom - October 14 - 11:23 amI was like everyone else, I loved this car at first. The gas mileage was great (38mi./gal), but the day I wrecked it changed my mind. If anyone else had been in the car with me, they wouldve died!! It folded like an aluminum can!!! Please reconsider this car and buy something safer. I didnt have side airbags, but there was dual front airbags. I hit a deer and then hit the passenger side against a tree. The airbags did not deploy and I received a concussion from the passenger door. The whole car folded in half and I was only driving 45mi/hr.!! If you have family, please dont buy this. Their lives will be at risk. Be safe and choose a better car, any passengers with me wouldve been killed.
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Please dont. - 2001 Toyota Echo
By argggg - March 7 - 10:00 amThis car has been a nighmare. I have made good friends since i bought this car; the mechanics at toyota, i am there often. I cant belevie how unreliable this car is. The build quality is lower than that in my sisters kia.
