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My company car is a Prius, an 07. I'm not that thrilled with it, although it hasn't needed any maintenance until today. The inverter cooling pump expired, but it's a recall item.

In windy conditions, you get blown all over the place, they hydroplane pretty easily even with new tires, and the mileage is about 34mpg mixed. I put 50K on it last year, gas dropped 5mpg in that time. The combination meter has been acting up, Toyota wouldn't sell me a new one even if they had it, the constant velocity transmission hangs sometimes keeping the motor wound up, and the catalytic converter is shot. 156k miles.

There's a 2010 in the fleet too, I don't like it at all. The interior design is definitely a down grade in my opinion.
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