Sell gen 3 and buy gen 4 or wait on the gen 5?

Looks Lexus-ish.

Much like:



So they are at least consistent .

 

Time to reconsider Honda...

 

Have you seen the Clarity.

 

The inspiration for the new Lexus (and many other cars lately)?

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/240/cache/endangered08-whale-shark_24058_990x742.jpg

 

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I see rather clearly with by Gen 4, thank you.
My 2008 Corolla and 2000 Tundra are hanging in there too.

 

Nemo is terrified

Pixel XL ?

 

If Honda could have only seen as clearly with the Clarity.

 

My younger son traded his Corolla in on a Civic. He seems happy with it and thinks his car looks less angry than my Gen 4.

 

i love the capabilities of the 4th generation...BUT, in my aesthetic opinion, it is just butt nice person ugly! i went to a gen 3 this year just because i could not stand the new looks. i do not dispute its better capabilities but, im sorry, i hate the looks. I saw a pic of a purple concept prius that was very cool looking im sure they wont do that one because it is just too attractive

 

The pics in post 34 are rumored to be for 2019 Prius. It looks like they are using some of the Prime design much like they currently offer the Prime large screen in the 2018 Prius.

 

@Prodigyplace that purple Prius is a mid-gen styling "tweak" though, would you agree?

The 2019 Avalon front end you posted, looks somewhat reminiscent of a '50's grill, even truck-like. Where is aerodynamics in all of this?



Seems a strange dynamic: free-rein designers happily going further and further out on a styling tangent, and perplexed consumers with no alternatives.

 

I thought the Lexus was based on this.

 

no, no no. not that one. i wish i could remember exactly where i saw it. it was a concept car. much smoother without all sorts of pointy 1950s fins and other sharp stuff. it might have been from the geneva show..definitely NOT the one from a few images ago. ill have to work on following up with that since i got my mouth going.

 

That's not it at all, Mendel. The stylists don't have free rein. It's just the opposite. Recently enacted standards for pedestrian safety are forcing all car stylists in exactly the same direction: gigantic faux grilles to disguise that they now have to have a tall, bluntly vertical soft nose that inflicts minimum injury in a car-pedestrian crash. If they didn't put grille-looking trim on it, it'd just be a half-globe of painted sheetmetal, and it'd look like the front end of a balloon or worse.

If you look closely at modern cars, you'd notice a trend even before this happened: most of the actual air inlet isn't the "grille" at all. Usually it's big openings beneath the bumper face. For a long time now, the grille has been mostly cosmetic. It's just even more so now. Stylists talk about the headlights and the grille combined as the "face" of a car, because that's how our brain processes it. Think about the beaky Acuras or recent Mazda 323 as "smiling," and lots of macho performance models as "scowling." What's interesting about a lot of these Toyotas, especially the Lexus "spindle" grille, and you'll see its downward-turned bottom corners give that scowling look. That's unusual for a luxury line, and it may signify that they're trying to be taken more seriously for performance.

Are all of them ugly as sin? Just about, yes. Is it the stylists' fault? Usually not.

 

model 3?

 

If you want to look at stylists out of control, look at the 1959 Cadillac

 

I like the one I have better than this. Unless it is available in transparent pink.

 

The "reduced potential repair cost"won't be more than $3,000 if a catastrophic failure happens. Going out and buy a new $23,000 new car to avoid a $3,000 repair job would be another way to see it. Also KBB says after a car has aged 4 years with regular driving, the value depreciates 40% of its total value. I won't walk into the bank to deposit money and tell them I'll be back to collect in 4 years, and when I do, just give me back 60% of my money. The current value won't depreciate that much anymore compared to a new one. Personally I always want a new car every year because I see better ones all the time (no more toyotas by the way) but its not a wise financial decision to do such thing.
In your shoes, I'd drive it until a repair will cost more than half of the value of your prius is needed, you should then have saved enough to move up on another hybrid, preferrably a Honda Civic.