Toyota Prius

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5, 4.00 votes

Price Paid:  $25300.00 from Millenium Toyota

Year / Model Reviewed:
2010 4DSD

Strengths:
So far, mpg is better.

Weaknesses:
Info screen toggling difficult.
Blue tooth instructions (per manual) impossible to understand. Sales staff referred me to the manual. Still struggling to figure it out.

Summary:
Previously owned the 2005 model, and had gotten used to the single screen. The new info screen is awkward, requiring
complex toggling to switch back and forth
among info screens. Probably just my own
learning curve, but they should have made it simpler.

Similar Products Used:
2005 Prius

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $34000.00 from Cavender Toyota

Year / Model Reviewed:
2009 Prius

Strengths:
Great mileage. Very quiet motor. Spacious interior. Camera guided reverse.

Weaknesses:
Computer technology shuts car down if you run out of gas. Poor acceleration, especially from a standstill.

Summary:
Nice car but it has a major flaw. If you ever run out of gas, the car's computer completely shuts everything off! It becomes impossible to even push the car off the highway. All systems lock down.

It is then necessary to tow the car to the dealer and pay an exhorbitant amount just to reset the car's computer!

This is a ridiculous solution to a previously simple problem such as running out of gas. It makes the Toyota Prius counterproductive. The Prius saves gas and money by using electric technology, but then penalizes you heavily if you ever make the human error of running out of gas.

Toyota should have installed a sensor and alarm to remind users that their tank is almost empty, just like the beeping alarm to remind users to click the seat belt.

My opinion is that this car is not user friendly. Especially if run out of gas.

Similar Products Used:
n/a

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.64 of 5, 42.00 votes

Price Paid:  $22000.00 from legwood toyota

Year / Model Reviewed:
2008 prius

Strengths:
Gas mpg very good

Weaknesses:
Noisy, lack of lumbar seat, still using old battery technology which reduces mpg by 100%.. Very expensive

Summary:
First thing is , its very noisy when engine turns on and road noise in terrible. Second thing is there is no lumbar seat for the driver! With the new Li-Ion bateries , this car should be geting 100mpg not 48 mpg. Toyota still using old batery technology.

Similar Products Used:
none

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5, 4.00 votes

Price Paid:  $28000.00 from Carousel Toyota - Gl

Year / Model Reviewed:
2008 Toyota Prius

Strengths:
Driving experience, hybrid technology, turning ratios, backup camera

Weaknesses:
Two things I really dislike about this car:

- You can't drive and use the nav system at the same time: the car has to be in park. I don't need to be babysat by Toyota (feels a little 'big brother' to me), and when someone is in the passenger seat trying to use navigation it's really frustrating.

- when the package says "Satellite ready" it actually means that you have to spend another $600 to get the Satellite antenna installed. They don't tell you this until you call six months later trying to figure out why your XM isn't working when you try to activate it.

Summary:
I have enjoyed driving this car immensely, I love it more than I thought I would and it's a great city car. I'm a photographer and my photo gear fits perfectly in the hatch trunk. It drives beautifully and I'm glad I bought it even with the gas prices going down.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.67 of 5, 3.00 votes

Price Paid:  $22500.00 from Keith Pierson Toyota

Year / Model Reviewed:
2007 toyota/prius

Strengths:
Gas
All the extra elec bene's that come with it.

Weaknesses:
Sorry, but I can't really think of any that really bothers me. Oh, I will never be an owner of a BMW again in MY LIFE!

Summary:
Bouth Feb 2007. I LOVE MY PRIUS and I would buy another one in a heartbeat!

First, It's a Hybrid with a lot of built in extras. Elec. everything, camera (but don't count on it for backing up, it's just to check for kids). I avg about 53 to 55 mpg and sometimes I can get 57 mpg. BUT you have to learn to drive it as a Hybrid not like a reg car. Your goal is to get the best mpg. So when you are in the neighborhood, milk it to where you are driving on batt. The engine will always need to have an operating temp, so eng will run. Use A/C, of course eng will run some also. Heat, A/C, eng temp, and gettin and goin will cause gas mpg to go down. MILK IT, MILK IT! So, mpg will vary. If you go on long trips, you will save gas but not as good as in town. If you take long trips, I have to suggest the Honda Civc Hybrid. Prius is built for in town driving. Honda Hybrid is built for hwy driving.

I sometimes drive round trip from Jacksonville, Fl to Fernadina Beach, Fl (100 Miles), I lose about 3 or 4 mpg compared to driving in city.

Without question, I would buy this car again. I absolutely love it. Can I nick and pick this car to death like any other car in the world, yea, but I LOVE IT ALL IN ALL so why niky and piky. This is a great care if you love saving gas and all the other benefits to go along with it. I have to say thank you to Toyota for at least trying and sticking to a principle and not make it a passing fad like Detroit does for things like this.

If you don't have the feelings about saving gas and so forth then you won't like this care, plain and simple.

Every morning when I wake up, I can't wait to get in my Prius and make my way to work.

This is over two (2) years of ownership of the car.

I hope this was helpful to anyone that is thinking about purchasing this car.

Mike

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2000 BMW 323I - Pull out your wallet. Ohh the wasteful money spent on this car.

2006 Nissan Frontier 4 cyc truck. Good truck, gas mpg sucked - 15 to 17 max in city.