Prius Variants
(credit: www.caranddriver.com)
Well, to start, they are all Priuses (you can read more about it here)! This Prius Prime looks like it started out as a (ir)regular new Prius that someone took a saws-all to. Also, just because the Prime is a plug-in hybrid, Toyota charges $1,500 more (including cashback). Why do you get more cashback from a plugin hybrid? Also, why is the plugin hybrid more expensive?
This Prius Prime claims to get 640 miles to the tank/batteries, which is really far. However, on episode four of series twelve of Top Gear, Jeremy tried to drive a diesel XJ6 Jaguar from Switzerland to Blackpool. That is a distance of 836 miles, and when he got to Blackpool, there was enough diesel left in the tank to go another 120 miles! Keep in mind, Jeremy was trying to get bad fuel mileage all the way through France by driving with the A/C on, the seat heaters on, etc. He was also driving at about 80 MPH. The Prius' range was calculated in a lab. It will not do that in the real world. Also, you get to drive a Jag, instead of a hatchback thing made out of plastic.
The Prius v is basically a wagon, but you still get just five (4 seats for regular people, one for a cat) seats. That sort of defeats the point of a station wagon, a station wagon should have eleven seats (three rows of bench seats, and two backward sort-of seats in the trunk). And the cargo space is thirty-four cubic feet. A Volvo V60 (which is also a 5 seat station wagon) has forty-three cubic feet. The Volvo may be ten grand more, but the amount of stuff that the Volvo has stock is astonishing! The list is in fact, so huge, I can't put it all here (today) (click here for the site on the V60). The equivalent Prius v doesn't exist! (click here for that page)
The Prius c is a smaller Prius. I have seen the inside of a regular Prius, and it looked pretty cramped. Also, the Prius c, which is smaller than the regular Prius and has the same powertrain gets 48 mpg. The regular Prius gets 54 mpg. How has Toyota made the lighter car (by a quarter ton!) get worse mpg?
Do you have any thoughts about cats? What drives you crazy? I welcome all respectful comments, so keep it clean. One post a week, so stay tuned!
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Mpg is important,but in the scheme of things, just one expense among many when buying a car. Small and light cars make me nervous. I would not want to be involved in a crash while driving one!
ReplyDeleteYeah, people tell me that driving a Honda Fit on the interstate is like going 70 on a pit bike!
ReplyDeleteI have heard that the cars built today are safer than previous years. I know it's just in my head, but you just feel safe in a big old Buick!
ReplyDeleteWhat about a Chrysler that seats about twenty?
DeleteLol! I do know that modern cars are much safer, it's just because I grew up driving these huge heavy cars. They are so substantial that you feel like you are driving a tank.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know what you mean. Saabs or Volvos are great for that tank-like feeling too. They sort of leave Swedish car shaped impressions on things more than crash.
DeleteAs my army friend said once : "people buy volvos because they cannot afford a tank!" . He drove a Yugo, if you have heard of that one- 'Yu'goslavia's attempt to 'Go' somewhere.
DeletePrune variants you mean.. heh, heh, heh...
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