Reasons NOT to buy the Prius C?

I agree. I live and drive in the Okanagan Valley of B C and get the same mileage. Reason for not buying? If you work for in the petroleum industry, I would not buy a C. You might get keyed in the company parking lot.

 

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There are styrofoam inserts above the spare tire that take up a bit of space, and the trunk gets a decent amount taller if you remove the spare tire.

Also, highway mileage sucks for short highway trips, especially ones that involve hills. "Sucks" is relative, in that it still will do better than almost any car, just not by as much.

 

See this:

 

Funnily enough, i am struggling to find the numbers. I wasn't trying to mislead. I actually looked it up before buying, but now i can't find what i was looking at.

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It is pretty much nonexistent if you have the headrests in place and a car seat in the middle of the back seat...

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Reason I didn't buy a C and got a new hatchback were the similarity in price and mileage and the much better look, quality, electronics, options (solar sun roof), room and ride of the hatchback over the C. Drove them both.

 

I find it pretty bad myself. Not that it's dangerous, but it has very limited back visibility. The Aussie version fixed that to some degree.

 

I got my C3 for $19,500. Couldn't find a hatchback similarly equiped for under $22K. Almost $3K is not similarily priced IMO. My friends with hatch backs don't get the Average 53 MPG I'm getting.

 

I rented a liftback while on vacation last week, and found the rear visibility quite poor, what with the sharply raked hatch and the wide bar between the upper and lower windows.

I agree that the C with the rear headrests in place also suffers from poor rear visibility, but at least you can remove them when you're driving without rear-seat passengers (99% of my driving), or fit the lower profile headrests instead.

 

I agree and i throw a lot of miles on a car in a year (~40k) so the added price isn't worth it when the vehicle will be used up quickly...

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2012 Prius C
0-30 (sec): 3.6 (Traction control is nondefeat, all numbers are TC on)
0-45 (sec): 6.5
0-60 (sec): 10.8
0-60 with 1-ft Rollout (sec): 10.4
0-75 (sec): 16.9
1/4-Mile (sec @ mph): 17.8 @ 76.9


2009 Prius
0-45 mph (sec.) 6.5
0-60 mph (sec.) 10.4
0-75 mph (sec.) 16.0
1/4-mile (sec. @ mph)
17.5 @ 78.7

2012 Prius V
Acceleration, 0-30 mph (sec.) 3.4
0-45 mph (sec.) 6.3
0-60 mph (sec.) 10.3
0-75 mph (sec.) 16.0
1/4-mile (sec. @ mph) 17.5 @ 78.4

 

This is negligible... if I jump the light quicker than you do, that .4 seconds will not be enough for you to catch me... but then... none of these cars was made for speed.

 

Was just responding to a post saying that the C was slower than the regular because of the smaller motor... it is, but not enough to matter.

 

Toyota Prius C MPG Reports | Fuelly
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I'd pay the most attention to the 2012 data, since they both have over 3.6 million miles tracked, vs. a few hundred thousand for the 2013 models. The liftback is currently at 48.2, and the c is at 50.4. I wish fuelly provided a way to filter based on city/highway %. I'm guessing c drivers have a higher city % than liftback drivers, so keep that in mind. The c won't do quite as well on the highway (depending on speed) because of the higher drag coefficient, but it'll probably do quite a bit better in the city.

 

makes it sound like you're talking about a tube of toothpaste or something

 

I drive the mountains of westren NC and have no trouble keeping up with traffic; I have the same dislike of RV's cluttering those roads. At nearly 10k miles I still get 47 to 51 mpg. But for certain 'big squashes little' so always keep an eye on the 'way out of trouble'. Big RV's lumbering around those corners often grunt into half my lane too.

 

I drive a lot of winding backroads and the idiots crossing the double yellow are my biggest concern...

 

Where are you numbers from? The 0-60 numbers are quite a bit different from CR. This is part if why (as I stated in other threads), I don't like 0-60 mph times much. If you go to a drag strip, you don't receive the 0-60 times (at least I never have). And, there's too much variation as it is. 1/4 mile is a longer stretch so there's a little less variation, %-wise.

In contrast, here are 0-60 mph and 1/4 mile time and speeds all from CR, so at least they're all from the same publication so their testing procedures are the same. I don't have time to type in the rest of the times from CR right now.

'12 Prius c:
0-60 mph: 11.3 sec
1/4 mile:18.4 @ 76.2 mph

04 (Gen 2) Prius:
0-60 mph: 10.5 sec
1/4 mile:18.1 @ 78.3 mph

08 (Gen 2) Prius Touring:
0-60 mph: 10.6 sec
1/4 mile:18.1 @ 78.4 mph

2010 (Gen 3) Prius:
0-60 mph: 10.6 sec
1/4 mile: 18.0 @ 79.3 mph

12' Prius v wagon:
0-60 mph: 10.7 sec
1/4 mile: 18.1 @ 78 mph