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Car Forum / Toyota / Prius / May 2007'04 Prius after 3.5 years
We bought this loaded car in Oct '03 with no price premium, installed leather, tinting, XM-radio, and upgraded speakers, and not long thereafter bought quieter tires. We also added about 66# of strategic silencing materials, which really made a difference. I've never been happier with a car purchase. We're right at 40,000 miles. Our fuel consumption since purchase has been about 44mpg. Unscheduled maintenance has been zero, but we paid $950 for the Toyota extended warranty anyway. I plan to keep the car until 2011, because the CA HOV stickers are good until then - and frankly, that one feature by itself adds immense satisfaction to owning the car. Yesterday I drove 250 miles in S California freeway traffic, and saved at least an hour thanks to the HOV lanes and ramps. It took more than 18 months for the car to depreciate to a price below that which we paid for it... Wow! > We bought this loaded car in Oct '03 with no price premium, installed > leather, tinting, XM-radio, and upgraded speakers, and not long [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Wow! Congratulaions! Ya gotta love it... <snip> > It took more than 18 months for the car to depreciate to a price below > that which we paid for it... How can that be? I recall when we bought our 2002 new that depreciation was expected to be more than average! And that it would take 200K miles to pay off the hybrid cost at $1.50 per gallon. ;-) FWIW, after 5 years it is still my favorite car of all time. The Lotus was more fun to drive, but the maintenance was a real damper on the fun. Mike > <snip> >> It took more than 18 months for the car to depreciate to a price below [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Mike Hah! I understand perfectly - one predecessor to my Prius was a Porsche (incredibly fast, lots of fun, 15mpg downhill). For the first year, that Prius had more prestige... I am reluctant to give up those HOV-lane privileges, which run until 2011, for the sake of the 2010 model. Does anyone know if CA is considering a further issue? anon |
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