Buying Gen 5 coming from 17' Prius Prime

The closest CARB state (there, I corrected it) is Illinois going west, and going east is New York and Pennsylvania. Both are not exactly what I'd call close by. Toyota dealers operate by an allocation system. You have to go to the dealer and fill out paperwork to have your name on the list of interested buyers, And place a deposit. That wouldn't have been feasible for me to travel to one of these states and do all that.

And I did call a few dealers and they wouldn't even sell me a Prime because I lived out of state. Once I said I lived in Ohio they just said "sorry not interested in selling to an out of state buyer". That was a few of them. I even asked them about doing a dealer trade and they shut me down on that too. Unless you live in California or New York they're hard to get.

The guy at an LA dealership said I had to register it in california first in order to buy it! Or, do a vehicle transport.

 

Pulled too far out? I never knew it even pulled outwards. I only was able to pull it downwards. It moved a good amount but just barely could get it down enough to clear the speedo. If my seat wasn't all the way to the max, the speedo appeared light it was slightly above the level of the windshield, which bothered me.

 

How are you checking Toyota's current dealer inventory? I have gone to their website, clicked on Prius Prime and it asks for my zip code. Then I have to select what dealer I want to set as my preferred dealer.

Then when I do that, it says there are none showing in inventory. It doesn't show me how many they've got coming, others in the area, or give me an option to look further out.

How are you viewing dealership active allocation totals?

 

Never mind I think I see what you're talkinig about. I see the one Prius Prime coming to a dealer here in my town of Toledo Ohio but it doesn't say if it's actually there or if it's there but somebody has first dibs or not. I'd have to be on the waiting list that the dealer the Prime is coming to in order to be able to buy since others are in line first on the list.

That means I'd have to travel to all these ohio dealerships in-person and pay a deposit and get put on the reservations list for a Prime. That's not too practical! lol.

I miss the days where they'd just send them to dealers and we'd drive in there and take a test drive from vehicles on the lot. Toyota used to stock their dealers with vehicles and they'd have the vehicle you want right there.

 

Oh man, yeah I guess I must've miscounted that. It's actually 30,000 and 36,000 miles a year respectively.

I used to drive to Cleveland daily for work, there and back. That's about 260 miles a day all highway (260daily × 5 days a week = 1,300miles a week. 1,300 × 4weeks a month = 5,200 miles a month). Or about 62,400 miles a year. I've since not had to work that schedule in about 6 months. So nowadays I'm only driving 2,500-3,000 miles a month. I was using that calculation while looking at Prius and other cars over the past year.

I was doing that run for a while, about a year or two. I had 22,000 miles on my 17' Prime when I bought it Used in November 2019.

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There didn't seem to be a temperature readout on the screen when I saw it. I'm not sure if there was a setting off or something, I went through and looked but might've missed it. When I looked the pictures up online it does appear to have a temp reading. But mine just had a blank space and two spaces to the right it had an icon of a road with snow.

A static battery icon wasn't there. It was in the left energy flow menu but I was referring to a static icon that shows your battery with the 4 bars, like on my 2010 and 2017 Prime. I know on the 2024 Prius Prime it does show the battery and percentage but I had a 2024 HEV Prius which isn't the Prime of course.

Anybody who is driving should be worried about the cars behind them! For real lol. The tech is there as an aid, not to be relied upon. I appreciate the safety tech as much as the next guy but I still want to be able to see around me.

Merging onto the expressway is a big one! You need to look to your left and see the cars that you're merging in with. Gen 5 has tiny 2nd row windows. The view out the rear is small due to only having the upper window. That's a valid safety concern. I'm not doubting that you could probably get used to it but it's pretty small.

 

I certainly will. I'm planning on just waiting until my current 2017 Prius Prime reaches the end of it's life and then I'm going to stop by a Toyota dealer and take a test drive in the Gen 5 Prius. Take another look at it. But, I'm probably going to look at the Prius Prime as opposed to the HEV Prius.

I probably should've waited this time around for the Prime to come to my region before buying and returning the HEV and going through all that. I kinda do regret not giving it more time but I paniced that I'd be stuck with a car I didn't like.

A lot of these readouts we there but I didn't know it until others revealed it. I don't feel I'd be happy with a Camry Hybrid or other car. I've loved the Prius since it came out and I love getting 50mpg with minimal operational costs. I love driving my 2017
Prius Prime I have now. So ultimately I think that's what I'm going to do. Definitely going to be doing a test drive in the future though!