GTP Cool Wall: 2001-2003 Toyota Estima Hybrid (XR30)

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2001-2003 Toyota Estima Hybrid (XR30)

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That's about all I've got to contribute on this one.
 
Well, this is certainly uncool. Sure, it's the world's first minivan, but that's just it. It's a minivan, one of the most uncool kind of vehicles you can drive. Not just that, it also has factory chrome taillights.
 
I don't understand the hate for being an hybrid. But for being an ugly minivan that tries to hard to be cool is most certainly seriously uncool
 
MrWaflz55
If a pig was a car, that'd be it.
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Other than the fact this minivan is the opposite of "tasty", i agree.

When i think of this and any minivan, i think of mums driving their kids to school or to a park.
 
Grandea GTR
Never exactly understood the mass hate for CVTs, they aren't that bad.
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Couple the occasionally irrational hate that regular slushboxes already get with how earlier CVTs feel like a crappy slushbox that is perpetually slipping. Couple that with how those early slushboxes were almost always paired with gutless economy cars or hybrids (and the baggage they carry), which makes the slipping feeling even worse and the endless drone happen without much forward progress to show for it.


Then couple all that with how a lot of people have never driven one.
 
Is this related to the Previa? It looks a bit like an egg. It's uncool because I cannot see any features that makes me scream I'd want to drive one. Maybe sit in the backseat but not drive.
 
Whilst it's hardly a cool vehicle, by any stretch of the imagination, it also has no pretensions to be anything other than what it is. It's not aspirational in any way and it's inoffensive looking enough, if dull. Uncool, but can't give it a seriously so.
 
FT-1
I get the appeal of CVTs as they are smooth at low speeds
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That's about all that CVTs are good for. I drive a Nissan Sentra with a CVT and while it is smooth to drive in city traffic, it becomes rather annoying on highways or any other road that demands higher speeds. Hard acceleration in a CVT is probably the worst bit about it.
 

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