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We've received a positive review on Googe+Local!
Thanks to Akmal, whose feedback told us we provided "great service"! We appreciate the feedback! View more customer reviews on our Google+Local page.
Great work, John, on earning this 5-star review!
"Great leasing experience. Our Salesman, John Saldivar, was awesome and went the extra mile for us. We will definitely lease/purchase our next car from Mountain States Toyota.They treat the Customer right."
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Cherished Toyota Tercel makes journey from Oregon to fulfill a father’s wish
Albert Lea, Minn., commercial real estate broker Tom Leland normally doesn’t hug his cousin Mike Malepsy. But he did on Saturday.
Malepsy drove a 1984 Toyota Tercel SR5 with nearly 422,000 miles on it from Medford, Ore., to Albert Lea, Minn. last week. He arrived Friday night, then gave his cousin the surprise Saturday. The car had belonged to his father, Tom Malepsy, who loved to take it hunting and often boasted about what a well-built automobile it was. He loved the car, and before he succumbed to lung cancer in February 2011, he wanted his godson, Leland, to have it.
Mike Malepsy is a 1968 graduate of Albert Lea High School. He didn’t tell anyone except his wife, Bonnie, about his journey. The drive logged 1,980 miles on the car. Malepsy said he traveled an average of 45 mph, with cars zooming by at 75 mph. Before hitting the Great Plains in Nebraska, the drive required the little car to do some climbing.
“Every hill, even if it was a little gradual, I was falling to 30 mph,” he said.
But the Toyota made it, mostly via Interstate 80. He drove 13 hours the first day to reach Wells, Nev., then 13 hours the next day to Cheyenne, Wyo., before going 15 hours to reach Albert Lea. In fact, the most stressful part, he said, was encountering heavy traffic in Omaha and Des Moines.
He estimated that he spent about $185 on gas the entire way.
Bonnie said Tom Malepsy liked how little maintenance the car required.
“He loved that car,” she said.
Tom Malepsy, who retired in the early 1970s, bought the Tercel used around 1990, Leland estimated.
“He was hooked on Toyotas after that,” Leland said.
Of course, his wife, Clarice, drove a Toyota Camry, albeit a newer model. She died in August 2004.
Tom Malepsy made his living in real estate in Albert Lea before moving to Oregon when he retired, but he maintained ties to Albert Lea, coming back for class reunions and to see family.
He would tow the Toyota behind his motor home on trips. Sometimes, he would head out from Medford, where he lived, in just the car, often going hunting and fishing in eastern Oregon and Wyoming. The Tercel SR5 has four-wheel drive, and that low gear helped him get to off-road places, even in snow.
“The car never got stuck,” Bonnie said. “He would take it in sagebrush and snow.”
Mike added, “It would be pushing the snow with the bumper and we still would make it through.”
Tom even sometimes hauled a 12-foot lake boat atop the car. He also took the car to Baja California in Mexico, to Albert Lea, to Wisconsin and even to Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The mothers of Mike Malepsy and Tom Leland are sisters, and Leland, a 1978 graduate of Albert Lea High School, is named for Malepsy’s father. Tom Malepsy and Leland’s father, Ken Leland, also were business partners in realty in the 1960s.
Mike Malepsy met Bonnie while going to college in Colorado and the two have lived in Medford since 1974. They moved there because his father lived there.
Everyone thought Mike was pheasant hunting when he really was driving the Tercel. On Saturday morning he drove to Tom Leland’s home north of Albert Lea. Tom wasn’t there, so he drove to the new Leland Realty office at First Avenue and Main Street and surprised Ken Leland, who let Tom know the Tercel was waiting at the office.
Tom was south of Thompson, Iowa, pheasant hunting. He arrived in Albert Lea around 1:30 p.m. and set his eyes on the cherished automobile that belonged to his godfather.
“We never hug, but I gave him a big hug,” he said.
Tom and Mike both agree they have never encountered a car with that many miles on it. Tom said he looks forward to taking the car hunting and keeping the odometer rolling.
Source: Austin Daily Herald
Monday, December 10, 2012
The World's Most Dangerous Road: Bolivia's "Road of Death"
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. If other roads could be considered impassable, this one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters with extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses.
A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, and 100-200 people die there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route "the world's most dangerous road."
Among the route there are many visible reminders of accidents, wrecked carcasses of cars and trucks lie scattered around at the bottom.
The buses and heavy trucks navigate this road, as this is the only route available in the area. Buses crowded with locals go in any weather, and try to beat the incoming traffic to the curves.
It does not help that the fog and vapors rise up from the heavily vegetated valley below, resulting in almost constant fogs and limited visibility. Plus the tropical downpours cause parts of the road to slide down the mountain.
Apparently some companies make business on the road's dubious fame by selling the extreme bike tours down that road. "Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking" is one of them. If you are nuts enough to consider it, please be advised that you will be only adding to the road hazards, as it's hard to spot a cyclist on the road's hairpin curves.
Source: Dark Roasted Blend
Friday, December 7, 2012
Round of applause to our entire team for this excellent Yelp review!
Rich D.
Denver, Colorado
Dec 04, 2012
"Car buying experience was painless, and I'd recommend it to anyone. In particular, Derek Garcia, Jimmy Gallegos, and Sean Kramer were helpful and good to deal with. Kady Prunk, Delivery Coordinator was helpful, too. Also, Mike and Romney in service are great service reps."
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
"If anyone is looking to purchase a car I highly recommend Mountain States Toyota. It was the most stress free experience I ever had buying a car." Thanks for your review and recommendation, Sheri! Congratulations again on your new Venza!
Sheri L.
Brighton, Colorado
Nov 30, 2012
"If anyone is looking to purchase a car I highly recommend Mountain States Toyota. It was the most stress free experince I ever had buying a car. My sales representative was Jacob Morin and Finance was Matthew Mendez. These two gentlemen are awesome. They are friendly and help you any way they can Jacob and Matt answered any of my question or concerns I had and they were not pushy and putting you into a car you did not want. I have never been so relaxed purchasing a car. I have purchased two cars from Moutain States and very pleased every time. I now have a Venza which I love and I would recommend checking one of these out."
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