I have a special place in my heart for those cars. Back in college I did a study abroad in Costa Rica, and one weekend my big brother came down for a visit.

He had an actual job and money, so he rented us a Yaris and 2 girls from my program and us hit the road for a roadtrip down the Nicoya peninsula.

We ended up fording a bunch of streams in it, off roading up a mountain and getting it stuck (some locals brought a rock bar and pryed some boulders down the hill to get us unstuck), and generally had one of the funniest weekends of our life in it. We didn't have GPS or even good maps back then so it was such an adventure.

When we returned it in the city it had a 1" layer of dirt on the dash, a flat tire and a cracked windshield. The guy receiving the car just said "esta bien"

We still talk fondly of that Yaris almost 20 years later