I'd agree, but with a number of caveats:
- Those older Toyotas are reaching classic car age and have almost undoubtedly exchanged hands MANY times, with the quality of the owners going down each time (responsible family -> less responsible child -> pizza delivery driver -> crackhead, many such cases).
- The alternative (granny with the same car for 25 years) isn't much better, since cars that are rarely driven tend to begin experiencing nuisance faults from leaks caused by cracking rubber gaskets in the engine and transmission that ironically wouldn't occur as often if the car were driven regularly. I know a number of friends and family who fell for the "granny-driven Sunday church car" meme pulled their hair out because of this.
- Keep in mind that Kronii lives in Canada. Unless she lives along the coast of BC, any car she'd be looking at would have been exposed to decades of salty roads, and for as reliable as those old Toyotas are their bodies LOVE to rust. Here in the northern US pretty much any daily driver you see from the early 90s that isn't a winter-garaged classic is a rusted-out clunker (and usually driven by the kind of people that would justify having a Ring on your porch).
Not sure about car prices in Canada, but my recommendation for a cheap, reliable beater would be a Honda or Toyota from the late 2000s. Alternatively, a Pontiac Matrix, since it's literally a Toyota with a less desirable badge. The 2008-2010 Hyundai Elantra is a reliable car as well, and usually cheaper than anything Japanese. Also, late 2000s Saturns are rolling cockroaches that won't die no matter how hard they get abused (though you may find a little surprise in the form of crack pipes or used hypodermic needles under the driver side seat).
That said, I'm sure Kronii is making more than enough money to afford something new. That's the best for piece of mind, plus you don't have to worry about the previous owner's miasma emanating from the cloth seats when you start it up on a hot summer day.
