Toyota Avalon - What Happened?
2007 Avalon: Overall very dissappointed. Some positives, mostly negatives. Got into 2 accidents because of the brakes. Here are my comments. POSITIVES: very roomy in car and trunk, good gas mileage on long trips (28-30 mpg), good acceleration, smooth ride overall (when you drive straight). NEGATIVES: a lot of sway even during minor cornering (you have to slow down a lot when there is a curve in the road; usually have to pull over and let other cars pass), brakes do not grab (have to press hard with foot), ABS kicks in even with low rain fall (grinding noise is scary), struts went out at 50K miles (I now have $250K, never replaced them since price is over $2K), leather in driver's seat had holes and tears and general bad wear after 1 year (bought the car new); air bags never went off during my 2 accidents; leather gets dirty quickly and almost impossible to make like new; very cheap stereo system (7 speakers, etc, etc. was the marketing hype; sound was terrible so I have rippled out and put in my own sound system), headliner came down at about 125K miles; trunk latch fixed 3X; interior trim is high gloss (looks cheap although it is wood; design engineers should take some aesthetics classes), other things but I am getting tired of writing.
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