I needed a new work vehicle. I had a trailblazer never got any crap from people when driving on the interstate but I got 20-21 MPG and it took me 65-70 dollars to drive to a job and I would have to tank up once a week because there are not many places to stay close to nukes. I needed one that had plenty of room in the back so I could haul all my stuff to the job and still get good mileage. So a while ago I had to put my trailblazer in the shop so GM could screw me on mis-diagnosing a cracked head when it was only a clogged PCV port (I won that battle and got my money back) I rode to work with a guy that owned a 08 Prius and during that time we had some horrendous snow storms 8+ inches several of them and that little car got around great in that. So anyway my wife wanted to look at new cars and we stopped by a Toyota dealer and they had several Prius on the lot and I saw a 10 that struck my eye and we took it out for a drive and liked it. It is definitely a Japanese engineered car to fill a specific role one that I needed. To get into specifics I bought this thing for 19,200 total including interest on the loan and a 5 year 100000 bumper to bumper warranty at any toyota dealer on my intial drive to the job I drove at 73 MPH the avg. speed the trip counter said was 69 at an avg. MPG of 49.1. I had to fill up once costing 27 bucks same drive as the one above with the trailblazer. I drove in to work today and my round trip gas mileage was 59 MPG driving the speed limit all the way. It is no Porsche and I will have to go out more often and romp the 911 to get it out of my system and while I am home my wife will drive the Prius because she loves the tinker toy as she calls it. The jist is this car has lived up to all of the hype I have heard about it it is functional for my needs and definately is like a man wearing pink you have to be secure with your manhood to drive it and I cannot believe all the $h!t I get from other drivers when I drive it but you know what it all boils down to is I have 40 more dollars to apply to projects and the gas savings will almost make the payments every month when I am working. So say what you will about it but it lives up to the expectations I have and at a little over 3000 lbs and about 138 hp when in pwr mode it will get up and go and mileage doesn't suffer that bad if you don't do it all day and eco mode it get great economy it has a killer sound system and is quiet cruising on the highway. Just my 2 cents
