Anyone Planning to Trade in Their Prime?

Keeping mine 10 yrs minimum.

 

I don't plan on trading in my Prime until Toyota releases the next model that gets better electric range and whatever other upgrades come with it.

 

Only if I find even better deal than what I got on this purchase for better car than current model of PRIME.

 

Once great deals on used model 3s start appearing. Then yes. So maybe like 2 or 3 more years?

 

Not me...I'm keeping my Prime as long as possible....gonna see just how far it goes....until it just will not go any longer!

 

Will trade it in for a new Prius when the range is 100 miles or more.
Gotta have more EV range!

Blue Adept

 

You will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

 

Me too!

 

I agree with some of the comments above that I would consider trading when the EV range gets substantially better. This is the first prius I've ever owned and my first hybrid electric vehicle. I think it's kind of a gateway drug for me to go all electric but the range just isn't there. I live in a rural area with very few charging stations and we have to drive long distances if we want to go anywhere.

 

I want to amend my post here:
Anyone Planning to Trade in Their Prime? | PriusChat
I'll keep it 10 years OR until a reasonably priced fully autonomous vehicle becomes available.
By that time I'll probably need an autonomous vehicle to get around anyway.

 

I’ve been keeping cars for for about 6 years, except for the 3 year lease on the Fiat 500e EV. I then offer them up to family.

Having said that, my daughter / son-in-law took delivery of a Model 3 last Saturday. What a car! Of course it’s $25K more expensive that the Prime.

 

Too much can change in terms of battery technology, EV range, resale value, our financial situation and other factors to say for sure. That said I bought a Prime in July and I don't see any chance I'd trade it in for at least 5 years, probably more.

 

I think the shortest period of time we've kept any of our Toyotas was 20 years. The longest was 32 because I wanted to sell it to someone who was going to rebuild it (it still ran and passed smog checks btw).

 

+1

 

a few here have actually traded on a new one and made money on the deal

 

We "recycle" (down cycle?) our hybrids to the kids or grand kids every other year, but like this one so much that we may hang onto it a tad longer. Of course, if killer deals pop up at the end of the 2019 cycle...

 

No plans on trading in my Prime, but will be passing it onto my kids once my HOV sticker expires in 2022.

 

I plan to keep mine for the duration of the life of the vehicle (as Toyota would say ). Gonna be my go to car for a long time. We also have an Audi SUV for trips, and a 2019 Miata ND ST GT-S MT (on order—ETA late May) for smile drives . But the Prime is my go to ride—and I plan to drive it until it dies—and a battery failure in and of itself does not qualify. I will replace the battery and keep on trucking.

 

We're very happy with the Prime and plan to keep it for a while. As with most cars we've owned, when we purchased the Prime we extended the service agreement to five years which I believe is the "technology horizon" when the car is likely to start to feel obsolete.

If Toyota were to introduce a new model with fifty miles or more of EV range, it might convince me to trade in (up) sooner.