Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us
Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network
HomeAnnouncements
Discussion Groups
By Brand
BMWChevroletDodgeFordGMHondaLexusMercedes-BenzNissanPeugeotToyotaVolkswagenOther Brands
By Topic
4x4 CarsRVsDrivingMaintenance & RepairCar AudioCollectible Cars
Country Specific
Australian ForumsUK Forums
ArticlesAuto InsuranceBuyingCars & TechnologyMaintenanceMiscellaneousSafety
DMV Resources
Related Topics
MotorcyclesBoatsMore Topics ...

Car Forum / Toyota / Prius / September 2006

Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database.

2 Prii family

Thread view: 
Enable EMail Alerts  Start New Thread
Thread rating: 
dayoff53@gmail.com - 27 Aug 2006 07:25 GMT
Hi!
Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
just about 3 months now.  Since she got it, our 2005 Avalon Limited has
just sat in the garage except for the 12-mile round-trip to work on
weekdays.  Anytime we go anywhere together, we take the Prius.  So,
today I made the deal to swap the Avalon for a second Prius.  My 2006
package #8 White Super White should be in to the dealer in the next
couple days, then we will be a two-Prii family.  I can hardly wait!
Are there any others out there with two Prii?  What did you trade for
the second Prius?  Any regrets about owning two of the same vehicle?
Dave
mrv@kluge.net - 27 Aug 2006 14:57 GMT
> Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
> just about 3 months now.  Since she got it, our 2005 Avalon Limited has
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Are there any others out there with two Prii?  What did you trade for
> the second Prius?  Any regrets about owning two of the same vehicle?

I have a 2001 Toyota Prius.  Ordered Sept. 2000, received beginning of
Feb. 2001.  Finally got rid of my Mercury Mystake (mystique).

My mother liked it so much, and with all my talking about it, she
ordered a 2002 Prius in June 2001, received Nov. 2001.  (Whaa - she got
the color I wanted, and didn't get the color that she really wanted
(same as mine) so as not to copy me...)  She traded in a Chevy Corsica.

My husband would usually try and steal my car whenever he could.
(After all, we figured that whomever has the longer commute or if we
were going out somewhere together, then use the higher MPG car...)
Although he loved his Saturn SL2, when Toyota sent out the Pioneer
letter for the redesigned 2004 Prius, he jumped on it.   Pioneer
ordered the 2004 Prius on the July 4th holiday weekend 2003, and
received it in Nov. 2003.  (We still don't understand the point of the
Pioneer orders - I know a guy who walked in off the street (never
having seen a Prius other than mine in passing) and bought a 2004 Prius
at a dealer in Oct. that didn't have any more Pioneer orders...)

But we were late to the game to be a 2-Prius family.  On the
toyota-prius Yahoo!Group, there were a few that had beaten us to it, or
were a 2 or more hybrid family, even a 3 Prius family...

And soon, due to a job relocation (living in a big city I can walk or
take public transportation everywhere), I'll be needing to sell my
unused Prius.  I'll miss them...
Bill - 27 Aug 2006 16:57 GMT
> Hi!
> Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> the second Prius?  Any regrets about owning two of the same vehicle?
> Dave

My wife and I were in the long queue waiting for our 2004 package 9 from
Sept 2003 until it arrived March 2004. We got a black one, because we
had a "take it or leave it" choice. Two months later, an out-of-state
dealer called to say our white 2004 package 9 was available. I flew in
to Charleston, WVA and the salesman picked me up for the second 2004
Prius purchase. I didn't trade anything in. We sold our 2001 Prius after
we got the white 2004. Sold the black one after 6 months for two
thousand more than what we paid, so we are back to one Prius. Still
thinking about a 2007 with the touring package in that new green color
though...
kari - 10 Sep 2006 04:51 GMT
We bought a 2004 (package #7) back in November of 2003. My wife and I drove
it cross country from San Diego to Florida and back in December of 2005. The
car was comfortale enough during the trip so we called our local dealer from
Texas and ordered a 2006 package #8 for my wife. We picked it up in January
2006. We used to have two Honda Accords. No regrets. We had one major
problem with the multi-function display after the 2004 was out of warranty
but Toyota took care of it less the labor cost.

Kari

> Hi!
> Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> the second Prius?  Any regrets about owning two of the same vehicle?
> Dave
Diako - 12 Sep 2006 22:27 GMT
dayoff53@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156659900.634150.175480@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Hi!
> Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> couple days, then we will be a two-Prii family.  I can hardly wait!
> Are there any others out there with two Prii?

Please, don't use this awful plural!

"Prii is a pseudo-Latin fabrication. The real plural of the Latin word Prius
is Priora. (Prius is the neuter form of Prior, which means much the same in
Latin as in English, but can function as adjective, adverb or noun). I'd say
the invariant plural Prius, or just Priuses are defensible. Priora is
cumbersome, and wouldn't be recognised as a plural by your average English
speaker. Prii is a bit silly. As for Toyota's authority - I've never seen
them use a plural of Prius in any of their literature, so I'm not sure we'll
get an answer from them. Probably because marketing types seem to have a
morbid fear of plurals; they keep talking about "product" and such-like.
Toyota generally just talk about "the Prius". I suspect their internal style
guide rules against pluralising any of their vehicle names. And I'd tend to
agree with them - it's clumsy. Try to rephrase, or use "the
Prius". --KJBracey 12:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC). I don't have a referential
link handy right this second, but I recall seeing a link to a Toyota rep
saying the plural form of Prius is 'Prius' 65.244.227.194 04:59, 15 March
2006 (UTC) Rob Palkowski"
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toyota_Prius#Plural_form_of_Prius

Diako, the linguist
Paul Russell - 12 Sep 2006 23:00 GMT
> Please, don't use this awful plural!
>
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
> Diako, the linguist

Well the ultimage authority - googlefight.com - says it's Prii (Prii =
324,000, Priuses = 96,400):
<http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=priuses&word2=prii>.
;-)

But I'm with you on this, it should be Priuses. Prii peeves me almost as
much as faux Latin plurals of virus. (Although neither drives me to
apoplexy as much as the dreaded /chaise lounge/.)

Paul
Michael Pardee - 13 Sep 2006 23:49 GMT
I like the suggestion of somebody whose identity I have forgotten: Prius
cars.
dayoff53@gmail.com - 14 Sep 2006 21:43 GMT
> Please, don't use this awful plural!
>
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
> Diako, the linguist

Hi, Diako!
You made me chuckle!  I have been known to get un a high horse about
language occassionally myself, so I know how you feel.  My particular
peeve is the constant attempt to invent new words and misuse existing
words in order to keep from offending overly sensitive groups.  For
example, using "gender" to refer to one's sex.  Gender USED to refer
only to the property of words (masculine, feminine or neuter gender).
Now, dictionaries have caved in to the tyranny of common misuse and
have "gender" as a synonym for sex.  Not me.  Words have gender; people
have sex (if they are lucky! <g>).
Nonetheless, when speaking informally I hold to the idea that the
purpose of language is to communicate and sometimes that is best done
with less-than-perfect grammar and word usage.  In this case, I happen
to find "Prii" cute and fun.  So, despite your thought-provoking (and
probably correct) comments, I'll probably continue to speak of our two
prii.  You, of course, are free to be offended. <g>
And, yes, we do have our second Prius.  It is a 2006 white package 8 -
had 1 mile on the odometer when we picked it up.  It sits next to my
wife's blue 2006 package 4 in the garage and, together, they make quite
a handsome couple.  I have suggested we ought to swap the doors to make
our Prii (Oooo! There's that nasty made-up word again! Will the horror
never stop?) stand out from the growing crowd, but my wife put the
kibosh on that idea...
I got 51.1 mpg on my first tank of gas (484 miles) per the computer
readout.  I have started an Excel spreadsheet to keep track long-term
and see how reality compares to the computer.  So far, my first fill up
exemplifies the problem with calculating fuel economy on just one tank.
Even though I reasonably believed I had burned at least 9.5 gallons of
gas and the last bar was blinking (leading me to thing it was probably
even more), I was only able to put 7.646 galloons in the tank - giving
me a calculated fuel economy of ove r63 mpg!  Unfortunately, I dropped
the first bar after only 28 miles, when my experience with the other
Prius and the first tank on this one tell me it should take about 120
miles.  In other words, for whatever reason, I didn't get the tank full
by a good two gallons.  Oh, well.  It will all work out eventually on
the spreadsheet...
dayoff53@gmail.com - 14 Sep 2006 21:56 GMT
> get un a high horse...

...that would be ON a high horse...
Michael Pardee - 10 Sep 2006 14:18 GMT
> Hi!
> Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> the second Prius?  Any regrets about owning two of the same vehicle?
> Dave

I just joined the club Thursday with a second 2002 that has 103K miles on
it. My wife has had dibs on the green 2002 we bought new, and now I have a
white one. The 1985 Volvo station wagon I had been driving was off the road
anyway (I replaced the Hall effect sensor in the distributor yesterday) and
things just sort of came together. I just love the driving feel of the
Prius; the smoothness and quietness and the nimble feel of the electrics
combined with the amazing turning radius.

As an avid DIYer I have always wanted two nearly identical cars for the
times when I am having trouble figuring out what is going on when one acts
up. Coincidentally, the service record of the one I just bought is the same
as the one we have had - beyond routine maintenance, no repair except a
replacement windshield (this *is* Arizona!)

Mike
Gregory Harris - 11 Sep 2006 12:36 GMT
Currently I have a 2000 Corolla outside my 2005 Prius.  Ever since we
got the Prius the Corolla has been my personal commute car only with the
Prius doing all the main work (commuting my wife to work and all weekend
trips, etc.).

With the 2000 Corolla just starting to show it's age (we recently had to
replace o2 sensors), we're eyeballing the features of the 2008 Prius as
a potential purchase with all it's plugin features and better mileage.

The other thought has been to sell the Corolla and just become a 1 car
family (my wife works close enough to where I work to where this might
be possible).  But then again the Corolla is still fairly cheap on the
insurance and gas (hey 35mpg is respectable for an all gas car).

Gregory Harris
codesweeper@codesweep.com

>>Hi!
>>Well, my wife has had her Prius (2006 package #4 Seaside Pearl) for
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
>
> Mike
 
Sign In
Join
My Latest Posts
My Monitored Threads
My Blog
My Photo Gallery
My Profile
My Homepage

Start New Thread
Enable EMail Alerts
Rate this Thread



©2008 Advenet LLC   Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.