Is the Prius all it's cracked up to be?

[G35XAndTrailBlazer]

No, because SUVs have a purpose other than sucking gas. Try hauling people, stuff, trailers, boats. They arent wortthless. And SUVVs have the aerodynamics of a brick. 22+ is pretty good.

Get some balls. :/

[Boeing Nut]

No, because SUVs have a purpose other than sucking gas. Try hauling people, stuff, trailers, boats.

What?? You mean you can't pull a 5000 lb trailer with a Prius?? I had no idea!!!

They arent wortthless.

Well duh.

And SUVVs have the aerodynamics of a brick.

It ain't the aerodynamics that kills the milage on these things.

Get some balls. :/

Now that sounds like something a 14 year would have said. (checking trailblazers profile) Huh, well I'll be damned) Oh, and uh, you may want to try using the spell check there bub.

Incidentally, I have some balls. It's a V-8 Dakota Quad Cab and it goes above and beyond getting the job done.

[G35XAndTrailBlazer]

Wow, a Dakota. Get a Hemi ram. LOL and then, may i ask why we are all here posting on this forum. Non of us seem to have a Prius.

I just hate the car.

[Boeing Nut]

Wow, a Dakota. Get a Hemi ram.

I don't need the Hemi Ram, too big for what I need. I don't get something just because I can. I do research. You should try it sometime.

LOL and then, may i ask why we are all here posting on this forum. Non of us seem to have a Prius.

Just shows how observant you are. Go through this topic again and you'll see how many of us Prius owners there are.

I just hate the car.

Here's an idea. Don't buy one. Sorry dude, I'm just having trouble taking someone seriously talking about cars in the real world when you're not even old enough to drive one yet.

Good day.

[Boeing Nut]

Here's some more food for thought folks. I learned something interesting a while back while searching for accessories for the Prius. I found out that for some reason, (most likely the big oil companies had something to do with this) there is a circuit that is not installed on Prius models that are sent to North America. This circuit allows the Prius to run on the electric motor exclusively under 34 MPH. The computers will override it if certain perameters are met. I.E. gunning it, or the battery gets low. Without this circuit, combustble engine runs more frequently at slower speeds. Self speculation here, but this may be why the MPG numbers aren't quite as advertised.

Here is the link for this item.

http://www.coastaletech.com/electric_only_mode.htm

[297Kncountin']

I don't know, I guess some people have really good jobs where they can afford to spend a lot on gas.
I now drive a 97 Subaru which gets 31-32 mpg, I've loved the car but it's getting really oldish now. Afraid something's gonna go on it all the time, you know?
I know a friend of mine when we used to work at Rice University here in houston together, he has a prius and said he drove the 50 miles to work on one gal of gas.
that's something. I'm looking at getting one too.

[coppersnowboarder]

The Toyota Prius is the best vehicle that I have ever owned, van or compact. Second in line was a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Third is my bicycle. In mountain driving, I get 48-50 MPG. When I go down to Denver, I get 55 MPG. The comfort and utility are an elisian dream. In two years, I have paid nothing on any maintenance other than a few quarts of sythetic oil and a filter. A Sierra Club writer once stated that if we really cared about our children, we would pay for a college education for them with the savings of driving a Prius instead of an SUV. I would add that we would also make them ride a bicycle to school or walk to end their obesity and lower their blood pressure. Personally, I enjoy the 16 mile commute by bicycle in summer and Prius in winter. Of course, I also like a clear sky from the summit of a mountain.

[dannyboy46]

We just took delivery of a 2010 Prius, replacing our 2005. We obviously loved the car, driving it over 20k/year. We got much better mpg on the highway (typically 70 mph giving an average of 50 mpg) than around Pittsburgh's hills because of (a) short trips which have the gas running for a greater % of the time and (b) stop-and-go which kills any kind of a pulse-and-glide scheme. We recently got 53.9 mpg on a 500-mi+ trip into WV. We already had the 2010 on order and we began to question why we wanted to trade the '05. Now that we have the '10 we find it to be even more comfortable and even easier to achieve high mpg. I am not a hypermiler, but I do enjoy (where safe) milking every mile from the system. We have a friend with an '01 (1st generation, obviously) with 210k on the clock and no problems. As they say, YMMV.