I have a 2012 Prius V 2 with a bisque interior and have been intrigued by the dealer push to trade up. After seeing the 3 with a moon roof, I am now entertaining a trade up to a 2014 V 3 and love the Blizzard Pearl. The incentives seem good and with 50,000 mi. on my first car and the amount of time spent driving, I am wondering if the trade is worth it. My payments would be less (plus two years!) but the only interior of the Blizzard available within 1000 miles is bisque. The ideal for me is misty gray. I am now wondering if incentives (0% financing) will still be in place in a few months with the 2015, or if the interior should be a deal breaker. Anyone with a Blizzard and bisque regret the choice?
Ours is holding up well...Did have a concern how the lower door opening covers in bisque would do but they cleanup nicely...Seat covers also appear near new..
Instead of starting with an exterior color and trying to find an interior you like start with the interior you want then see what's exteriors are available. When I bought my 2003 Subaru I really wanted a green car but gray interior. Didn't exist. A friend asked me what I look at whole in the car driving (which is most of my time in or near the car). I realized I live in the interior so that color is more important.
50k miles is nothing on one of these cars. See the 300k miles club postings here. So how badly do you want those options? Compute the added insurance costs and added payments for the 2 years, then subtract a set of tires cost. Now do you want it that badly? And during those last 2 years, your new car will be the old model. Probably no great deals on the new models for a while after they are introduced. They only do those when sales/leases are slow moving. Like at the end of a model run.
I have the Blizzard Pearl with Dark Grey, I personally don't like the Brisque. The white is nice and cool, very neat metallic look when clean and shiny. The downside is keeping it clean. A few bugs, a little dust, winter in general, and it's hard to keep shiny and clean. But it does well in the sun
I tried to get blizzard pearl with the light gray. I even had a manager try to order me one. He ended up calling me later and saying only dark gray was available. I was in contact with another manger and he helped me find one with a bisque interior. It is a little hard to keep clean, but I love lighter color in the hot Southern California weather....
Those with light colored interiors, do you have problems with reflections from the light colored dashboard in the windshield and windows when in bright, sunny conditions? That, and the keeping it clean, are my main concerns with light interiors. SCH-I535
Eureka, read through Car Buying Guide for New and Used Vehicles | CarBuyingTips.com. They got you! How long are you going to be upside down in the new car? Is the loan term longer because the negative equity in the current loan is being rolled into the new one? You found just about the most expensive way to buy new cars. Incentives come & go. They could last a weekend. They could last weeks or months. It all depends on current sales and inventory. The one thing you can count on is that at the beginning of the new model year there will be no incentives and somewhere between little and no interest by dealers to discount the vehicle from MSRP.
I ran out to see the dash on ours as soon as I saw this question. The dash is practically all dark gray, probably the same as any of the other interior colors. It is dark gray all the way to about .5 to 1 inch from the top of the first vent, (the defroster vent I believe.) Not really an issue because of this. Keeping it clean is probably the biggest concern. Products such as Scotchgard might be of help. Forgot to answer the OP's question. No regrets here. (Getting into my mother's black seated car is not very fun in the heat!!!)
