

Edmunds test drives the new Prius









Updated 3/25/2009


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RE: still Uhhggleee
By shin0bi272 on 3/25/2009 10:03:17 AM , Rating: 1
While youre at it why dont you (or we) discuss the disparity in the price. You pay 25k for an 85 or so HP gas engine and some batteries so that you can get better gas mileage. I can go right now and get a 4 door saturn for 15k with power windows, locks, cd player, onstar, and several other options (i think even a sun roof) and still save 10k.

If it costs me 20 bucks a week to fill up the saturn thats $1040 for a years worth of driving. So in the 5 years I will be paying off my saturn (at a much lower monthly payment btw) I will still have only spent 5200 to fuel it up... So even if someone were to buy a prius and never drive it anywhere I'd still have to drive my saturn for over 9.6 years before I would have spent $10,000 in gas.

So either gas has to go up to 5 dollars a gallon to make a hybrid worth it or the hybrid price has to come way down to be competitive with those of us who live and work in the real world.

RE: still Uhhggleee
By Jim28 on 3/25/2009 10:15:48 AM , Rating: 1
Isn't it obvious that due to both politcal(damn democrats) and economic(damn all of government) reaons gas willl soon be going up.

RE: still Uhhggleee
By shin0bi272 on 3/25/2009 8:37:55 PM , Rating: 2
Oh yeah there was talk about a 3 dollar per gallon gas tax last month wasnt there? I think it was part of obama's cap and trade program in his 2010 budget that congress is voting on right now so we'll have to wait and see.

I have a question for the environmentalists (you know the ones of you who love to vote all of my posts down)... If we are the ones heating up the planet with our evil cars why did the last ice age end 10,000 years ago?

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RE: still Uhhggleee
By Parhel on 3/25/2009 11:10:32 AM , Rating: 3

The Astra? No thanks. At that price the Astra doesn't even have air conditioning. Even if it could be optioned out to compare with the Prius, it would cost more than $15k, and still be junk. Why not just do a cost comparison with the Tata Nano?

RE: still Uhhggleee
By shin0bi272 on 3/25/2009 8:21:05 PM , Rating: 2
No the ion I own was 13k for a base model with onstar and an upgraded stereo. So for 15k I could have gotten power windows and a sunroof and possibly other things.

Point is there are much cheaper and better looking cars out there rather than getting a prius. Which as the math shows is not economical and is not going to save the planet by increasing gas mileage from 35 to 55 highway.

RE: still Uhhggleee
By shin0bi272 on 3/25/2009 8:39:27 PM , Rating: 2
oh and I have AC in my Ion

