Swiftly

To make up for post #3 above.... Once again I took my class on a tour of TMMC. The tour trams have altered their route while they are setting up the line for the 450H...."restricted area, sorry folks". Of course, the only thing they let you video is the main lobby. Here is my short clip, while the class watches the orientation video. Sorry for the crackling sound...darn protector case on my iPad.

...all your cameras, cell phones, electronic devices are put in a basket, locked up before they let you out of the conference room and onto the tram....like going through airport security. However, they do let you snap away in the showroom, the first Corolla off the line is there, but sorry, that pic is so buried in my files it'll take me forever to find it...besides who wants a pic of an '87 Corolla!!!

The Prime Minister and the Provincial Premier arrived in town today to make this announcement. Although I have concerns about how billion dollar corporations continue to prostitute their plants to the government who bids the most tax payer's money for them to come hither, at least I won't have to pay the extra import duty on the next Lexus that I'lI buy in the USA just because it was built outside of North America. Now I can go to the USA to buy a Lexus that was built in my back yard! Yup, I drive by the plant every day and have taken the tour at least 10 times. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/23/pol-harper-toyota.html

I'd like to focus on the OP's statement...and the entire car will "rock". I'm still getting used to this car. For the first time today I decided to leave the engine on while waiting in a parking lot for partner to finish up in a store; first snowfall, I needed heat, and wanted to keep windows clean. A minute later the car turned off but the heater was still running and I was listening to some tunes....all systems normal, Captain. Some time later the engine started with a coincidental lurching forward motion that was alarming enough to startle my reflexes to get my foot going for the brake with all due haste. In that split second I realized the car wasn't going to go anywhere, my heart skips a beat, and the foot goes back to the floor....whew, that wasn't a tractor beam, Scotty. The motion can be described like this...think about driving a manual tansmission and you pull into your driveway and stop the car, you turn off the key but you let out the clutch before the engine finishes turning completely and the car lurches forward a bit. OR it can also be described like this...think about driving an automatic transmission and you pull into your driveway and stop your car on a slight down hill, you put it in park and turn off the key, let off the brake and the car rolls forward until the play in the trani is taken up. My wait in the parking lot was long enough for this to happen a few more times...(she never stops shopping when she promises!)...and this forward motion was repeated upon each startup. It does take some conscious will to keep your foot from heading for the brake pedal. So, how much lurching is normal? Is it just another idiosyncrasy I need to get used to? Thanks for the replies.