Hybrid Toyota’s are still used as taxi. Auris, Prius and Corolla are probably the most popular choices of taxi drivers. I don’t think it is a myth. Seriously now - what did Toyota do to you? Your rage has to be based on some bad experience.

You had your neighbor’s wife?

Dude, you are in love with your wife and still saying shit about the wife of your neighbor. Why?

Do you want great experience driving cheap car? Get focus or alfa romeo. Do you want to get to the destination with no worries? Get toyota.

To me, as European, buying Challenger as a daily commuting car seams as logical as buying a cow for my early morning white coffee. But you Americans are odd fellas with wide roads, so go for it.