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[Wrapt]

Hi All. I'm from the land of the long white cloud (NZ) sort of like ya cousins right. I have a wicked sense of humour which I hope will never offend anyone.

Found your site the other week read heaps about Toyota Blades so I would like thank all of you even though some of the posts were a year or to old. This in theory should be our last car as we are not exactly young anymore and old bones were struggling to get into & out of our Holden Vectra which we have had for 11yrs. I drove my wife nuts for a couple of months looking at all makes & models but kept coming back to the Toyota Mark-X Zio & the Blade. Decided in the end the Zio was a bit long and the seating of 2-2-2 in the 3.5V6 didn't suit us but what a car.  Anyway took my wife car shopping in Tauranga met some really nice salesmen not those pushing slobs you often find so no pressure. They had a 2010 Blade 2.4 with most of the bells & whistles BUT as I read in your forums its like well this is 2nd best would I regret it. So we agreed to like the Blade it had a chain drive but a CVT which I didn't want so her call on the name my call on the drive train lol. Hope this story is not boring anyone??? I found a 2009 Toyota Blade Master G V6 obviously has a certified 24,300Ks on the clock & smells like brand new. Last owner only had it for 10 months & has bought a 2018 Toyota Highlander really nice to so the Blade was surplus to requirements lucky for me. M8 & I took it for a spin I drove naturally even though we were in 50kph streets we found a very quiet 1 looked at each other grinned and floored it doubt it was 3 seconds damn car was doing 130kph we were pushed back into the seat in the short burst as we slowed back down because I love my license we both went woooooooooo. Now both of us have had big V8's myself a 1979 Holden Premier BB Chevy 427 bored out 60tho etc so pushed out about 355KWs & to be honest I'm not sure if the Premier was as quick of the mark as this little beast. Ok enough dribble have now done about 200Ks in the car since we bought it the other day and we can't get over how it can be such a gentle cruiser then BOOM if you want to pass or whateva. Now I would like once again to thank you all for your help in helping us choose this car in our hopefully long driving years ahead. Oh yeah the only downside is its BLACK bummer NOT hahahaha.

PS: 1 thing that still puzzles me is the tyre size car has 205/60/16 (normally on the 2.4) but everything I have read says the Master has 225/45/17 & as they are brand new I don't really care as it handles like a dream. Hope you like the photos

 

[KAA]

Welcome to the forum Wayne..yes we do love our Kiwi Cousins so enjoy yourself on here..and enjoy the Blade looks great

KAA

[Wrapt]

Thank U for the welcome Robert also glad to see you don't hold it against us for keeping the rugby trophy LOL. Even the Pavlova is ours as well. From what I have had time to read since finding this site there is some really interesting forums.

Cheers Wayne