I have a good friend who is married to a CPA that is a real penny pincher. They bought a Prius new with the intent of saving big bucks due to her 60+/day commute.
As she tells the story, the car started out with great mileage, somewhere upwards of 50 mpg, but over time ended up being around 35 mpg as the batteries aged. She also mentioned that a lot of the consumables were very proprietary, forcing the owner to go to the $tealership for things as basic as oil changes. The Prius is now gone, replaced with a Hyundai that gets as good mileage as the Prous did and costs less to maintain. Another point she made was that Toyota is very clear that they have never had a battery fail under warranty, however, there are no guarantees as to the capacity of the battery over it's lifetime. As I interpreted this, as long as it holds a charge, no matter how slight, they are not going to replace it... Dan Sent from my iPod On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: > Bill Ringgold wrote: >> I'm thinking a 2008 hybrid Prius with the comforts this old body wants will >> run about $18K. I have wondered about some of the new Hyundai models, but >> do not want a stripped down model, even though we have the S320 for road >> trips. Worth looking at, but and extra 10 mpg is not a small thing either, >> and these days I do mostly around town errands [50+ mpg with the Prius]. >> Driving @12K miles a year I don't suppose a small mpg difference will matter >> too much. I'm looking seriously at the Prius, but could be persuaded to >> look elsewhere. > > A good economy hybrid might get 45hwy/50 city, now that the little Honda > Insight is long gone. A good economy car without the battery might get 30 > city and 40 hwy, so I would only pay more for the Hybrid if I were planning > on doing a lot of local driving. For my driving, I'd take a good look at a > Chevy Cruze before buying a Prius. (having seriously shopped neither, I have > no idea which I'd buy) > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
