What have you managed to fit in your Gen III?

I managed to fit an entire Bowflex Tread Climber TC5300 (the long base one) along with an extra handel set with the electronics in it.

 

I hauled 3 8-foot pieces of lumber with the hatch shut, could have been longer.

 

fit 1 mountain bike in there. haven't tried anything larger yet

 

Was finishing off some work at our farm today and I wanted to bring my tools home. Let me see....

Two alluminium stands
Bosch 12" drop saw and stand
Power tools including cordless drill, jig saw, cordless drill, Bosch multi set saw, power planer, Drill set
Small tool box
Two medium sized totes full of miscaleany
And one wife

 

A tornado hit our city in August (very rare for southern Ontario). My union decided to help the victims by providing backpacks to the kids that were affected. I fit about 60 of them into my Prius and delivered them to the Red Cross.

 

Four growing boys, on bag full of stinky football gear, two packs full of "over-nigher supplies", two bags of groceries, and one bag of gaming equipment. Doesn't seem like much but the stinky football gear made us all feel much closer together than we were.

I let go of my mpg goals and drove fast, with pwr mode and we had the windows down! I was sad to see the new-car-smell go.

 

I play bass and keys in a bar cover band... I was really concerned that my rig wouldn't fit in the Prius (traded my 2000 Explorer for it). I loaded her up and there's TONS of room to spare! I didn't even have to put anything in the passenger seat! (I was mostly concerned about the 2 big speaker cabs, but they JUST fit!)

 

I was able to fit my large mother-in-law.

 

I fit my 9'6" surfboard. I fold the back seat, remove the headrest from the passenger seat, scoot all the way forward and recline all the way back. The board fits nicely with room to spare.

 

I can fit an 8'6" whitewater kayak+gear+paddle+shuttle driver into my Prius.

 

An orange H-PVelotechnik Scorpion recumbent trike. If it hadn't fit, I wouldn't have bought the car, but it did, and I'm a happy rider. Beats having a $5k orange 'bumper' protecting a $5k Jaguar bumper hands down - and I'm getting 60+ mpg as well!

 

I fit two bikes in the hatch with the front wheels removed. I've since added a Curt hitch and a Thule T2 bike rack, so the bikes will never again be in the hatch.

Kris

 

4 rubbermaid buckets which I think were about 25 gallons and a party size Ice bucket which was probably about 10+ Gallons. Still had plenty of room on top of the buckets if needed.

 

I loaded the following model train equipment into my 2010 Prius:

(2) 20 car boxes
(4) 5 car boxes
(6) 3 car boxes
Lionel Scrambler Ride
Lionel Ferris Wheel Ride
Lionel Carousel
Lionel Pirate Ship Ride
Lionel Swing Ride
Lionel Duck Shooting Gallery
Lionel Test O'Strength
Roller Coaster (4' x 1')
Box of miscellaneous items
Overnight bag
Camera case
Laptop computer case
Tripod

This is in preparation for the Temple Model Train Show (next weekend) where my model railroad club is setting up our layout. These items include the carnival rides I will set up for the layout and my trains.

These items fit better in my 2004 Prius. The interior of the passenger compartment is wider in the 2010 Prius (since the roller coaster fits better side to side). However, there is much less room between the back seat and the front seat (even though I moved the front seat slightly forward of my normal driving position). In the 2004 Prius, I was able to fit the Pirate Ship Ride in the middle between the seats. It doesn't fit in the 2010 Prius because the console sticks out too far (so it is now in the back). In the 2004 Prius I had the Swing Ride attached with a bungee cord to the back of the driver's head rest. It is now in the back also.

It was a lot easier to load this stuff into my 2004 Prius. However, now that I have an idea of how to fit this stuff, I should be able to load the car in a reasonable amount of time.

I attached some pictures to show this stuff loaded in the car. The last picture shows my view out the back window. The equipment blocks the bottom window (just like on my 2004 Prius), but I can see out the top window in the hatch. I will find out on Friday how well I can see on the road. :car:

 

A fun park in a Prius, how appropriate!!

 

Fit in 17 Boxes of laminate Flooring, Lots of room to spare (only 1/2 full) but didn't want to overload anything.

Could of done more, since it didn't even phase the car at all, even traveling on the highway 115/kph, Got about 4.6 l/100km or 56MPG still

 

We hauled an ironing board and a drippy steam iron along with a bowl of fruit compote w/ very jucy blue berry sauce that spilled all over the back deck . . . all of this spilling on to my all weather floor mats. :bounce: Absolutely no problem cleaning this up, reported my wife!

 

Me!

 

1) Gary fisher large 29er mt bike -paragon with both wheels off
2) Litespeed Tuscany 62 cm road bike with front wheel off
3) My model airplane box-6ft x 2ft x 2ft
4) Tent
5) bike rack
6) 4 large duffle bags of clothes
7) Laptop/airplane radios
8) medium size cooler
9) 3 bags of groceries
10) sleeping bag\pillow
11) case of blue moon hefeweizen

can you say road trip!!!
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