Prius liftback with trim 4 or 5?? comments please :D

The Five has a different suspension so it won't ride like a Four. The 17" wheels will knock a bit off the fuel economy.

PCS retracts the seat belts and applies additional braking force to minimize the effects of a collision. The DRCC & LKA make long haul driving more civilized. The cruise control will keep a set distance to the vehicle in front, slowing (but not to a stop) and accelerating as needed. They'll pay for themselves when they avoid a collision.

IMO the fog lights are useless.

Isn't Safety Connect installed across the entire Toyota lineup?

I like the whiter light from the LED headlights.

Four-Solar & Five-AT are never plentiful. Shop through AAA or Truecar.com now. Declining gas prices depress hybrid sales and the new model most likely won't be sold at a discount when it debuts. The best time to buy a Prius is when you find exactly what you want on the lot at a fair price.

Happy hunting.

 

Tossing in another thought, the end of the gen 3 is likely to be MRE reliable than the early models of the gen 4. Most bugs ironed out

 

Another thing to factor in, the 3rd Gen has been out since 2010, and the ''bugs'' should be pretty well worked out. The little things that pop up should have been revised and improved by the 2014-2015 model and should be a really reliable car.

 

I agree about possible kinks to work out in the Gen 4 Prius -- and that would concern me even more with the coming new Volt. I'm very happy with my 2014 Prius 4, with no options added. Being retired I did have a (somewhat arbitrary) budget to work within and that was $30K. I ended up buying the last weekend in August, a few days before the 2015 models showed up, and while Toyota had a $1500 instant rebate -- so I got in a tad under $25K before tax and license. I needed Level 4 for the power driver's seat (needed most flexible driving position - sciatica), and really like the Softex seats. This is the first car without a sun roof I've purchased since 1980 -- but I found I never used the sun roofs in those earlier cars, so ... .

The Level 5 has some nice features, but it would have blown through the budget I set so I never seriously considered it. Coming from a 2003 Honda CR-V EX the electronic goodies in the decade-newer cars are very pleasing. And in the Prius they work, though I use a Garmin navigator because the screen in the Prius is sometimes too hard to see with sunshine on it and I'm very familiar with Garmin from our CR-V.

Anyway, loving my 2014 Prius 4 liftback!

 

I just opted for the '15 Persona with a smaller discount and the 0.9% apr for 60 months over the One of two 2014 level 5 lift backs w/o tech package on the lot leftover for an extra grand plus 0% apr for 60 months. I'm sure the tech package would have been nice and ads plenty of features but at a big price premium and as stated tech package was not avail to me..

My reasoning was the Persona had most of what the 5 had for 2 grand less even with the bigger disc….(softex, 17's, nav, back up cam...)

like stated above the fogs are pretty much pointless, the cleansing headlights are dumb (aka. randomly spray fluid everywhere and dirty up your clean hood and windshield). I obviously liked (who doesn't) the power seats, but honestly the JBL didn't seen much better if at all than the Personas stereo..

Oh and yeah the Persona has side view mirror blinkers which the top of the line 5 did not...

 

I heard the headlight washers were actually a necessity with the LED headlights, since they don't heat up enough to melt snow. So, a patch becomes a feature.

 

I have a 5 and love it, especially the Dynamic cruise control. Only problem with the cruise control is if you travel and rent a car and don't have it. I find myself constantly reminding myself that I can't count on the car to automatically slow down like the driver in front of me.

 

The control stalk on the Cruise Control is pretty sweet. Our Canadian Touring doesn't have the radar; if I'm falling someone with the CC on, and they're slowing a bit, I'll just down-tap on the stalk once or twice, it seems like about 1 mph per tap is shaved off. If they keep slowing I say screw it and just pull the stalk towards me, cancels CC. If they pick up again, down tap and it's set, up-tap if they speed up.

Geesh, starting to sound like a lot of work, lol.

 

Can I ask how far away DRCC kicks in?