Prius on Motorways

[danowat]

10 hours ago, Berengaria said:

From what I'm hearing from people, a Prius could well be for me

Shame you can't get hold of one for a long (as in days) test drive

[johalareewi]

10 hours ago, Berengaria said:

From what I'm hearing from people, a Prius could well be for me - reliable, an engine that isn't stressed, and simple yet robust mechanicals. Coupled with the economy and low VED, it seems like a justifiable choice. Only real real consideration is that at any age a Prius is expensive compared to the same age conventional car. £3-4k for a 12 year old car is quite expensive. The worth of my 12 plate Avensis probably only gets me a 09/10 plate Prius.

A bugbear with the Avensis electronic parking brake coupled with manual transmission. A final question therefore is whether the Prius parking brake is wholly electronic or manually/mechanically operated via the pushing of the foot brake pedal?

If you do the miles, what you save in fuel will pay for the Prius.  My gen3 cost £16k new (net) and over the 6.5 years I owned it, my fuel bill dropped £2k per year (vs. my previous astra) doing 20k miles per year.  Plus savings on VED, and servicing. And I got £4k trade in with 137k miles on the clock.

As has been said, there are other hybrids which can be cheaper than a Prius.

I know a few Prius owners who don't bother using the parking brake and just use P.

[MEP's Yaris GS]

23 hours ago, Anthony Poli said:

He had racked that up in the 9 years of owning the car, just wondering if he still has the same car .

Done an MOT check on it. No MOT currently and SORN, interestingly the last few MOT's all have the same mileage of 299,999.

[Anthony Poli]

He had racked that up in the 9 years of owning the car, just wondering if he still has the same car .

Done an MOT check on it. No MOT currently and SORN, interestingly the last few MOT's all have the same mileage of 299,999.

 

Maybe Toyota bought it back off him.

 

 

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[Chiny]

In 7 years (ish), the only time my Prius Gen3 sounded a little stressed was heading North out of Madrid on cruise control at 100 kph along the E5, dropping for some considerable time down (the Sierra de Guadarrama ?) for 100s of metres.   I think the noise was ICE braking; it was unique to my ears and not comfortable at all.   2 years on, the Prius mostly purrs on slowly through busy city traffic, where it thrives.