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[SuperJetDan]

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[0627Devildog]

ROTFLMMFAO

 

[itsdgm]

Is that battery assid?

 

[txav8r]

50mpg in your daily driver buys a boat load of lake gas!!!

 

[Wayloncle]

if I keep my foot out of it

Is that even possible? Top speed is cool and all, but acceleration is where I get my kicks!

 

[octavio3311]

I have a vtwin Aprilia that should get 40+ mpg. But the roll on torque is so freakin awesome and wheelies are so intoxicating - I only seam to manage 26 mpg.
Oh well!

 

[Magic]

Occasionally I get cut off by a Prius, even got the finger from one guy cause I drive a diesel pickup.....One of my secret thrills is get in front of them, then smoke the holy hell out of them..... It does my soul good......

 

[Britboater]

I just back after my visit to Florida, and we only needed to rent a medium compact car. Hertz gave us a Prius, so thought "hey, why not, give it a go"

Do people actually hand over hard earned cash to own one of these??? . It was appalling, in every way.

 

[Glassman]

 

[DoubleThrust]

Occasionally I get cut off by a Prius, even got the finger from one guy cause I drive a diesel pickup.....One of my secret thrills is get in front of them, then smoke the holy hell out of them..... It does my soul good......

Ohhhh yeah..... hose that hippy DOWN with the black smoke treatment!

 

[DoubleThrust]

I'm re-reading this thread... I love ripping on Prius p*ssies. Ugh, it makes me sick...

 

[jdonalds]

If the costs of fuel & ownership are less than buying a 37 Mpg Hwy Corolla vs a 48 Mpg Hwy Prius, there is a 12K to 14K price difference. I have never bought into buying something that is more expensive to save money when you really are not saving money with a higher purchase price.

Too true. When we bought our Prius the other car we were considering was a Civic (non-hybrid) for about $5,000 less. The math didn't work out as far as gas savings but we bought the Prius anyway because we liked it more than the Civic. However in the long run the Prius turned out to be a better financial deal.

I based my pro-Civic calculations on our family driving the Prius 60% of the time and our Honda Odyssey (averaging about 18mpg) the other 40% of the time. I figured the payback in gas savings at $4/gallon (In CA we see near or over $4 much of the time) would take 8 years to equal the $5,000 extra Prius cost over the Civic. But two things happened. We got such great mileage (we average 47mpg) on the Prius we cut way back on driving the Odyssey. Then the next year we sold the Odyssey and bought the 4Runner to tow the boat (average 14mpg). In fact we made up the $5,000 in just five years. Now we've had the Prius for six years and it only has 120K miles on it. I figure every year from now on adds to the gas savings and makes the Prius purchase an even better deal.

The next big cost factor will be the hybrid battery at some point. But they have proved to last way longer than anybody expected. A few have seen them kick out about 160K miles but many are getting over 200K miles out of them. Also, rather than paying $1,650 for a new battery, many are replacing cells for under $50 each.

The Prius is a great car and we really like it still. We have had zero problems with it. Not so much as a loose screw.