Anyone else feel spoiled???

No, not according to some car magazine, news paper, and car sites.

According to them, your car is comparable to Fit, Corolla, or Civic.

P.S: I feel the same way as you do. The best car ever.

 

Not spoiled, honored. Colleagues driving SUVs have been inquiring about the Prius for years. I give them a spreadsheet with fuel economy to date and then show them a few features. Suddenly, they are all obtaining Prii! The high cost of oil and fuel is having a positive effect and people are realizing by themselves what poor quality crap Detroit has been pedaling all these years.

 

No, I don't feel "spoiled" by having a Prius. I hate the touch screen, the interior is nothing but cheap plastic with poor fit and finish, the seats are uncomfortable with horrible fabric, and the car handles worse than my father's 1981 Oldsmobile 98. The Prius is roomy and gets good fuel mileage. These are it's only redeeming qualities.


BTW, I find it personally insulting that you would compare the Prius to a Mercedes SUV. There is simply no comparison. I should know, I was responsible for the instrument panels for the Mercedes M-Class and GL-Class.

 

Good post kycanonist. I love this car, too, and wouldn't trade it for anything pricier. If I won the lottery tomorrow I'd go get a new one with all the bells and whistles.

 

glad to hear you love your Pri...there is a lot to love!

 

I love Prius instumental panel.

 

I love the Prius.
There, I said it.
I have even grown to understand that the information on the display is much more important to me than how fast a jigger in the engine is spinning when I have no control over the speed of the jigger. This doesn't just apply to Prius but to any automatic transmission vehicle.
I love the touch screen because it allows the uncluttered dash.
I love that I can now afford to drive my car again, a gas guzzling Merc would just sit in the driveway more, pretty dash or not.

 

Yeah... with the standard bells and whistles I feel like it's a damn nice luxury car.... I also wouldn't trade mine for anything else (well maybe the next gen prius... or possible the gen IV)

 

Maybe you should have gotten a touring model. Although even compared to a an '81 Oldsmobile of any sort, I'd bet $10K, that drivers being equal, the Prius would smoke the Olds on any track with turns.

You're obviously not familiar with current Mercedes quality. Until you get up into the $100K range, most C and M class sedans have that cheap plastic feel as well. Once you get into the S and SL classes, things start to improve.

 

I'm not the one in need of therapy or drugs since I'm not the one that said the interior of a Prius is as good as a Mercedes M-Class.

Why must I rain on your parade? I have a Prius, I like my Prius for what it is good at which is getting good fuel economy. However, I live in the real world. The Prius is not a luxury car, not even close. The interior fit and finish and materials are well below average for a car that retails in the $25K range.

Why am I insulted? The Mercedes M-Class interior was my job. As the product engineer I was personally responsable for the quality of the instrument panels that were supplied for the 2008 model year. There is simply no comparison between the M-Class cockpit and the Prius cockpit in materials or panel fit. I routinely scraped intrument panels for defects that couldn't be seen but we could feel. On the other hand my Prius has huge and glaring flaws on just about every panel and the paint is flaking off the glove box door. I take pride in my work so when you say the quality of the Prius and a M-Class are equivalent you imply that my work is as poor as that in the Prius.

 

Strangely enough, the Prius beats the M-class in the J.D. Powers initial quality survey.

Check it out:
JDPower.com | Prius
JDPower.com | M-Class


Now the BMW E39 interior. The people that did that job knew a thing or two, let me tell you!

Peter

 

BMW interiors are indeed very nice.

 

good for you, kycanonist, for standing up for yourself AND for posing such questions. i'm quoting / replying to the above PRIOR to making it to the end of this thread ... and am MOST eager to see if any response to the above has yet come forth.

somehow, i doubt it ....

but if i'm wrong about that ... i'm confident it's much like the first post; not at all worth reading ....

EDIT FOLLOWS: well, i've made it through to the end of the thread now, and i was right ... jhinton's second post wasn't worth reading either ....

just SELL your damn Prius, if you're so disappointed in it ....

 

Yes, the Prius beats the M-Class in the overall Initial Quality Survey (IQS) Prius 4.5 stars / M-Class 4.0 stars. However the OP was specifically equating the INTERIOR of the Prius to the M-Class. On interior ratings:

----------------------------------- Prius ------ M-Class
Comfort ---------------------------- 3.0 ------- 4.5
Features and Interior Panel ---------- 2.5 ------- 4.0
Body Interior Quality Mechanical ----- 4.5 ------- 5.0

[FONT=&quot]Also keep in mind that JD Power's IQS is just that, a survey of owner's satisfaction. I suspect that the owner of a $50,000 Mercedes is expecting a bit more than the owner of a $25,000 Prius.

Son of Gloin, you wanted to know why I don't just sell my Prius because I'm so dissatisfied? I'm not dissatisfied, I bought the Prius to get good fuel economy in an urban environment. It does this very well.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]However, I'm not one of those owners that has "drunk the Kool-Aid" and thinks the Prius is the best car in the world because it's not. It is most definitely not a luxury car.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] I realize that this is a Prius owner’s forum so many here are very bias and love their car. However, all owner’s forums are that way. I’m sure that you can find someone on a Yugo owner’s forum claiming their car is a luxury car too but it doesn’t make it true.[/FONT]

 

That would be me that you are describing. I understand that you are excited about your new purchase and that is great. If you like the car, that is all that is important. If you would have said that it felt like you were driving a Lexus, I wouldn’t have said a thing. But you didn’t, you compared it to a Mercedes vehicle that I was personally involved in the production of. That touched a nerve and I responded to it. You don’t seem to understand why I was offended by you comparing my work to an inferior product and you are probably not going to so I guess I’ll drop it. I wish you and your car many happy years together.


BTW, my first car was a 1991 Chevy Cavalier Wagon with no options. When I lived in TN I drove a 1961 Buick Skylark that didn’t even have heat let alone A/C.