Just picked up a package three from Tustin Toyota. Got a great deal overall. I am amazed at how good the car drives and the fricken' MPG. Never thought i could drive a car this slow and still have fun. Pulse and glide and getting 100mpg?
Welcome and congrats! Slow is fun, until everyone cuts you off and gives you the finger, but that's life behind the Orange curtain.
I'm curious what are your exceptions? I find I'm liking or adjusting to almost everything but the A-pillars. Still finding them moderately annoying in city driving, and a real nuisance in parking garage spirals.
the visibility is not terribly great except straight ahead. Nice to be a cager though... i am also getting around 56mpg city highway combined. Swapping out the tires to Michelin Energy savers a/s so i am hoping for 60mpg. On my second tank i have gotten approximately 58mpg, but i drove like a grandma. the car is now ten days old and i have 1,500 miles on it. yikes.
i think at the end of the week i will be at 2,000 miles, time for a new trade-in in September? As of today it is at 1,853 so tomorrow i tip the scale over 2,000 miles in two weeks.
Me too! Turned in the last of three BMWs for a Prius and I can say the latter in it's own funky, efficient and totally reliable way is the real driving machine.
My favorite MPG fun so far is finding that the more miserable my commute in terms of freeway traffic, the better the Prius likes it. Nothing like getting home a frustrated mess and having the Prius soothe my frazzled nerves by informing me it got 60MPG on the trip. ;-)
I just passed 400 miles but I got a flat tire so I'll have to back off this maniacal pace til the donut's off.
Thats a crazy coincidence, coming up on 400 miles and accidentally curbed the rear right tire taking a good little piece of the sidewall with it and scaping the alloy rim. Got a new tire on the way and a good guy for wheel repair on speed dial so i'll be back to the races in no time.
Oof! Same tire for me, but I'm not sure what caused it. do not know if it could be a defective tire, or something lurking within all the storm debris (mostly twigs, etc.) that was all over the roads here yesterday. Still, been driving through SoCal storm detritus for twenty years and never had a problem. Wondering if the LRR tires are more fragile than standard tires? I do seem to see a lot of other reports on PC of people scraping curbs and needing new tires. In the "pre-Prius an oops like that could result in a lost hubcap, but I don't remember hearing about people wrecking sidewalls that way.
The LRR tires have soft, mushy sidewalls. I think it is inherent in the design. smacking the sidewall with the inertia of the car could be hazardous to the tire? i think you tested the theory...
Just a small piece, but enough where i feel most comfortable replacing the tire. This car turns much differently than my old X3. Because the seats are positioned farther forward in relation to the front wheels, i pass the apex of the turn later than i am used too plus i'm sitting lower so the curb isn't as visible when turning right. Plus that partucular curb juts out farther than in most intersections. There were roughly eight other black marks from other cars. Whoops! A pic is attached.
Yeah, it's easy to run over curbs turning right in a Prius - every Prius owner I know seems to do it now and then. It's the poor front corner visibility, probably combined with the unusual turning radius. Even as a longtime Prius-borrower, now that I have my own I find I'm still having to figure out steering in tight places like parking garages. Since the car has a relatively long wheelbase but also has a tight turning radius, I'm finding it's helpful to think more about where the rear wheels are than I used to - i.e. get the rear wheels into position and then make a hard, almost 90 degree turn, as the Prius does not seem to like making any sort of a rounded turn. Though, my previous car was an old Corolla with wheelbase almost 10 inches shorter than the Prius. If you're coming from an X3 the wheelbase maybe doesn't seem very long to you.
