what do you think of Prius car... Should I buy one? Thank you!?

Answer 1

YES! By all means, BUY IT!
Companies should be rewarded for meeting the overwhelming need to squeeze every single mile out of every single drop of gasoline.

I always give the "thumbs up" to anyone I see driving a Prius!
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EDIT: Hey, doll, ignore all the negative comments I see posted here. Gas is going to do NOTHING but go up, go ahead and buy one and use the money you will be saving to stash in the bank.

Answer 2

First, a quick commentary on an answer posted by another person:

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Checkout this article from the Detroit News.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Detroit News
Don't let hybrids drive U.S. into more debt
Ray Windecker /

Ray Windecker of Livonia is a retired Ford Motor Co. analyst. E-mail: [e-mail].
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My comment: When I'm looking for unbiased information on the merits of a non-US-built car, the *LAST* place that I would go to is an article in a Detroit-based publication written by a person that covered a Detroit-based car manufacturer!

If your budget can afford a Prius, go ahead and get it. You'll be glad that you did. While it may take 5 years to recoup the extra money that you spent buying it (via gasoline savings) -- though that may take less time, given the direction that gasoline prices are headed now -- it's a much better-equipped car than the Yaris or Corolla. (Those cars get good mileage too, and they seem to be the favorite cars that hybrid-bashers compare the cost of the Prius to...it's an apples-to-oranges comparison though, as the Prius has a higher level of standard equipment.)

Answer 3

If your looking at to save as a way to help save the environment then go for it, if your looking to save money on gas then your better off going with the Toyota Yaris, it isn't a hybrid but it will get on average about 35mpg (this is an actual amount, my husband owns one) the amount you will save will be much more, the gas will be more than a prius but less than alot of other cars, but the price is much cheaper than a prius which is what saves you money in the long run. The prius has good resale value and the yaris should, it is based on the Echo (which I own and am selling) and my echo after 4 years still has a trade in value of more than half what I bought it for new.

Answer 4

If all you do is City driving the Prius is great because of the Fuel Economy, but if you drive above 45 miles an hour alot like interstate driving, the fuel economy you would get out a Corolla or Civic would be about the same. The Prius is about $5000 more than the Corolla or Civic.

Answer 5

Checkout this article from the Detroit News.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Detroit News
Don't let hybrids drive U.S. into more debt
Ray Windecker /

Gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles are touted as a way to help the environment. But when you start to look at the economics of hybrids, they do not make so much sense.

Doing a financial exercise with Toyota's Prius, the market-dominating and iconic hybrid, makes this clear.

Driving a Prius for five years and 125,000 miles (rather than one of the 20-some nonhybrid small cars on the market) will reduce our national crude-oil trade debt by $3,000 during the five-year period.

That sounds good until you discover that importing the Japan-built Prius will immediately add $13,000 to our national trade debt. And then our federal government, in its infinite wisdom, will give an average $1,700 tax credit to buyers of the Prius.

Finally, studies indicate the owner (or series of owners) may never break even with a Prius hybrid due to its higher initial price (compared with comparable vehicles), costlier insurance, license, maintenance and battery replacement. Others indicate the owner (or series of owners) can show a small savings of up to $1,000.

The result is blackhole economics. Our federal government, daily falling deeper in debt, must borrow from a domestic or overseas source, possibly Japan, the $1,700 to pay the Prius buyer for the tax credit. Americans add $13,000 in trade debt for importing the vehicle to save $3,000 in oil trade debt over five years. And at best, the Prius owner may generate a small savings.

The bottom line is, Americans lose big economically, but don't gain much environmentally.

There is a better idea. America could encourage the sales of partial zero-emission vehicles, which are 90 percent cleaner than a normal new vehicle and generate near-zero evaporative emissions. And they get decent fuel economy. For example, a Ford Focus PZEV gets 25 miles per gallon in the city and 33 mpg on the highway.

Selling millions of less complicated PZEV vehicles nationally, rather than in the few current states, would do much for the ecology.

Encouraging the production of cleaner gasoline, alcohol additives, diesel technology and local production of more hybrids would do more for our ecology and economy than importing a mix of hybrids, some designed for power and acceleration and negligible fuel savings.

Any national economy can operate for years on money borrowed from other countries. Unfortunately, sooner or later the foreign holders of treasury notes say: No more.

There needs to be a balance between ecological and economic needs. Hybrids may or may not be the ultimate solution, but encouraging a mix of fuel-efficient vehicles currently built in the United States would do a better job of benefiting America both environmentally and especially economically.

Ray Windecker of Livonia is a retired Ford Motor Co. analyst. E-mail: [e-mail].

Answer 6

I have heard there is an extra tax, at least in illinois, that chages for buying a hybrid, if that is true I would be nowhere around it, but Prius, is another word for a nerdy and ugly car, with a $5,000.00 battery and around Chicago, it would go KABOOM in case of a DRIVE BY lol

Answer 7

It will take five to six years of driving for you to recoup the extra cost of a hybrid synergy drive car. If you expect to keep the car for at least six years, you should buy the Prius. If not, you'll actually lose money, even though you won't spend as much at the gas pump.

Answer 8

i own a repair shop and me and my wife looked at one to buy and she said it was so ugly it as cute,but the gas mileage is really good on these things,and they seem to be doing really good right now,if your in the market for a new car it isn't a bad one to buy,but there is one out there i think is better than all of those put together,and that's Nissan sentra,those are one of the best cars on the road right now,they don't give any problems,and seem to be really cheap to operate,i have an older one the sports coupe model and it gets about 44 miles to the gallon,so I'm not complaining about mileage or repairs with it,but you might want to look at a few of these they are good cars ,good luck hope this helps.

Answer 9

I won't buy any car that can fit in the bed of my F-150

Answer 10

Only if you value economy and the environment over everything else.