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This is a discussion thread titled "is the prius worth it?", within the Prius forum, part of the Cars & Vans Forums category.
Are you still making payments? If not, I'd say no since you'd pay either way for the new car payments over fuel expenditure in the Tacoma. If you are still making payments, you have to do the math and forecast fuel expenditures between the 2 over what the payment differentials will be.
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It really depends on where you drive. If you do a lot of driving in town and in stop and go traffic, then a Prius is worth it.
However, if you do a lot of driving on the highway, a Prius will only get about 35 mpg.
Unless most of your driving is in the city, you'd be better off with a Yaris or a Corolla. They will get the same highway milage as a Prius and cost much less.
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The Tundra is a good single guy's truck. Its pretty, it doesn't rattle too much and its fast. Now I just need to find a woman who matches in all those respects.
The Corolla is better than a Civic. It puts out more power and gets better gas milage. Honda makes nice cars, but they will never make a Toyota.
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Originally Posted by Tundra_Hick
The Tundra is a good single guy's truck. Its pretty, it doesn't rattle too much and its fast. Now I just need to find a woman who matches in all those respects.
It really depends on where you drive. If you do a lot of driving in town and in stop and go traffic, then a Prius is worth it.
However, if you do a lot of driving on the highway, a Prius will only get about 35 mpg.
Unless most of your driving is in the city, you'd be better off with a Yaris or a Corolla. They will get the same highway milage as a Prius and cost much less.
Actually, most of our driving is on the highway averaging 60mph or so and we’re getting about 48mpg.
The Prius is very comfortable and the creature comforts are great.
I have a 2008 with 3200 miles. I do about 68 cruise control on the freeway and my last tank of mixed driving was 49.1 mpg in San Diego with all the hills. My current tank is 44.5 but thats only cause i've sped up to 70 mph and also drivin a little lively
Agree with the recent posts, have 100K miles on my '05 and mostly highway driving the lowest was 45 mpg, usually around 48. Much of it is abour 70 mph in Texas. Best tank was near 60 in stop and go traffic during a hurricane evac from Houston! Great car, rent one from Enterprise before buying. That's what I did and it sold me. Really good use of space with the hatchback and fold down seats.
I would put more weight on the posts by Prius owners. Sure they may be slightly biased, but everyone else is repeating what they may have heard without the straight facts. That's where stuff like "it only get's 35 mpg" comes from. In 100K miles of mixed driving with 3 different drivers (one is a 21 year old!), I have never had a tank with mileage that low.
If you're doing it just for fuel mileage, why not check out a Yaris? The Yaris is about $10k less than a Prius. $10k buys you a lot of gas.
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A corolla will get you close to 40 mpg on the freeway and costs 8000 dollars less, plus has a much better ride.
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I would put more weight on the posts by Prius owners. Sure they may be slightly biased, but everyone else is repeating what they may have heard without the straight facts. That's where stuff like "it only get's 35 mpg" comes from. In 100K miles of mixed driving with 3 different drivers (one is a 21 year old!), I have never had a tank with mileage that low.
Depends where yu live and how one drives. One persons local driving maybe more like freeway driving to another person in a different locale.
Hybrids excell in local driving for the most part. On the Highway they are not that far ahead of a solid non hybrid economy car in terms of MPG.
Yu need a lesson in developing a HYPERMiLER Foot. Check the advertised EPA MPG ratings. A yaris might be the way to go.
The 09 Corolla got me 36 MPG (cruise at 72-85 mph)a month ago on a 400 mile trip to NC. Not even broken-in yet with 423 miles on the engine. 28MPG is easy to get also in very local stop and go traffic. The New Corolla is much larger now too. Just not as big as a Prius. But close. And it is not electrically"bloated".
Last edited by LifeTech; 06-11-2008 at 03:56 PM.
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keep your truck! I would rather pay $7 a gallon in a tundra than look like some tree hugging, hollywood wannabe liberal puss! LOL
My truck sh1ts prius'
j/k hippies!
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