Filled up and laughed

Don't forget to do a Happy Dance at the pump! People will turn and look! It's kinda like the old Toyota commercial... Oh what a feeling .....Toyota! Except a dance instead of a jump.

 

I don't recommend spiking a football at the pump, though. You'll feel quite silly having to go to the cashier to ask for access to the roof to get your ball.

 

This is a great car. It is cool to average over 50 MPG even though gas is a (cough) "cheap" at $3.37 a gallon and despite mileage taking a "hit" when the weather is cold. Am at 10.500 miles and have not see any downside to this lovely little car!

 

I'm not quite at 5,000 miles yet (nor are gas prices quite so high here, for a change), but I totally agree with there not being a "downside" to this lovely little car. I'm just days away from my first road trip in the C and am quite anxious to see how it performs on the wretched drive from Las Vegas to Southern California.

 

That is a lovely drive! Have taken it many times to Lone Pine to climb Mt Whitney! Have fun!

 

I've driven it countless times, once spent an entire year making that journey every weekend. The only part of the drive I am not looking forward to is the possibility of getting stuck in Friday night rush hour traffic from Riverside to Westminster. Hoping to leave Vegas early enough for that not to be an issue.

 

Yeah. It's quite nice for all the Prii models I think. Seriously. I went to fill up because I was nervous about going so many miles and still being above half a tank. So I filled up and got a car wash all for 20.00. I laughed. I also sent this to a few of my co-workers who drive gas guzzlers and have complained about gas prices.

 

Oh no! You've washed your precious in a machine wash station? For just a few dollars more you can have a hand wash with coupon at your local. Here in Orange County we have coupon every week for $9.99 for a complete hand wash and interior vacuum.

 

I've had the c over ten months now, and I'm still loving it. It's a great car.

 

Went from a 2007 mkz 22mph to my new c mpg 55 highest 61 mpg. HO WHAT A FEELING TOYOTA!

 

I've driven the car for over 11,000 miles so far and have an average consumption of 46.8MPG (we 've done a lot of highway driving).

My other car is a 2006 325xit BMW - gets 18MPG city/26MPG highway. Although I love driving the car a million times more, I hardly drive it because getting over 50MPG in the city is amazing and I love the $20 something tank for fill up.

Whenever I drive my BMW around town, I literally watch the needle drop and can't believe how much of a gas gussler it is And when I fill up the BMW, it hurts! $40-50 for a tank of premium fuel and it only gets about 1/3 the mileage of my Prius C in the city! Horrible... But man it drives so much better

 

I have a friend who JUST bought a Ford Taurus SHO with ALL the bells and whistles. I'm sure his passengers enjoy the heated AND COOLED REAR seats. It truly is a thing of beauty. 360 HP dual turbo. Wow.
He proudly states "I don't care what gas costs, I'm going to buy it regardless." Even it goes to $100/gal I believe he will.

He can afford it. So can I. The price of gas is not likely to affect my household budget.

I LOVE my Prius c. I get great joy out of getting 60 mpg. I smile every time I stop at a traffic light and my engine is the only one within 100 yds that is NOT running. I'm not a tree-hugger. I am a global warming skeptic. I regularly check iceagenow.info and read about the latest AGW lies. I own guns and I understand that the Bambis need to be culled or they will starve. If my state passes a ridiculous $100 "Hybrid" road tax like Virginia is proposing, I will gladly pay it.

Let me say it again. I love everything about my Prius c. I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

 

Oh believe me, compared to pretty much everywhere in the world, Americans pay pennies for gas. In my most recent trip, I went to Scotland and saw that gas was around $8-9 dollars a gallon (if you adjust pounds for $, and liters for gallons). Rarely did I see a pickup truck, and hardly any of the land yachts that you see on US roads. The c is a nice car for MPG but only would represent a slight improvement to the vehicles that are on the markets over there. Then again, their is usually a sufficient (and easy to use) mass transit system set up in most towns, so most people can do without owning a car. I cant wait till the day that I own a c. It more than double's the efficiency of my Jeep .

 

Here's the thing though about all of those horses, the time difference commuting is minute. I would propose a race to get to a destination via highway or city, pitting the 100hp c to his car and the times may be the same or "slightly" in his favor. I am not a tree hugger by any means, however I also do not see the point to that much horsepower if you cannot legally use its full extent (so you get up to 60 in 6 sec, congrats... you saved 4 sec on your commute compared to the c). The only vehicles that should have that much hp IMO are work vehicles (such as diesel pickups and such). It just baffles me why any civilian car would need any more than 100hp.

 

Efficiency is the essence of conservatism, right? I've never understood the disdain from conservatives toward getting the most out of what is consumed. Good on you for telling it like it is.

 

Europe's always been super-expensive for fuel, though I suspect it's partly taxes doing it. Also having small cars isn't just about the fuel economy - it's also the lack of parking and tight streets in many cities. Plus of course the largely excellent urban and long distance public transport networks (even the ones they whinge about are pretty good).

We're in the middle. When I last bought fuel two Fridays ago, including the discount from the supermarket fuel voucher I used, it cost me the equivalent of US$5.33/gal although it's shot up again now. On Friday this week the average price for Unleaded in Sydney was apparently about US$5.90/gal. That's just what they do here.

 

Thanks for the update on fuel prices elsewhere in the world. People in the US would cringe if fuel prices went up to $4.00 let alone nearly $6. I think that the amount that the US consumes in oil has something to do with the lower prices. I put an inquiry to Google and found that China (which sits at #2 in consumption) has similar prices for gas (or at least that is what I think I saw from that question). European countries lack the size to make up for that much consumption (that and the UK needs everything shipped I believe which adds to the cost). I completely agree with you about the smaller roads=smaller cars, it was quite scary driving around in Scotland . Often times what was a one lane road had people coming from the other direction. Though I think that most people wouldn't purchase a Chevy Tahoe over there because it would cost $400 to fill up.

 

Above $4.00 a gallon here in Southern California