Yep our 2010 Prius was driven by our daughter during her high school years....and it actually survived! She is in college now ( no car ) so the 2010 will now be driven by our son...who is eligible in a few weeks. If we get the Prius v, it will be driven by myself...and our daughter when she is home from college. Edit : My wife wants nothing to do with the Prius..she loves her Elantra GT!
My Prius V Wagon lives in the 75-85 zone. I love passing mustangs, audi's and AMG's screaming at the top of my lungs "YOU JUST GOT PASSED BY A PRIUS!!!!!!"
It will take high speed driving but I am pretty sure it burns oil much faster than say 60 mph or less. We have a 80 mph tollway east of I35 from San Antonio to north of Austin. No slowing for tolls, they take high speed pictures if you don't have a RF tag. Much of the time it's effectively a racetrack, in fact there is an actual Formula 1 track, Circuit of the Americas, along the way. It does handle pretty well at speed and the brakes are solid. It also puts a load on the inverter as well since every slight downhill starts regen at a massive rate. So the oil burning and inverter failures do occur on the Prius v. Speed related? Probably.
Experience from Yesterday: Gen III Prius in front of me. Gen III Prius v in second lane. Of course we got stuck behind slow moving regular Prius,... Well after getting merged, Prius v pulls wide left across 3 lanes and proceeds at 90+mph. me: I needed more than couple seconds to pick up my breath from laughing so hard.....
I run this car into the triple digits every day. I'm on my third Prius. The first lasted over 200k before someone hit me. I still have the second and third. The second has 220k and still running. The third has 120k. They all pull trailers at wtfo. I have no issues but oil use, one head gasket at 210k, and new hybrid batteries at 200k. I do use 0w-40 in all of em to curb oil drinking
I have a 2013 v #2...... 200,000 miles and it doesn't use any oil.... but the inverter went out. Toyota did fix it because it had the firmware upgrade before it blew.... make sure your Prius has the inverter-computer update or it's not covered when it blows....
