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Goodbye Prius c

Discussion in 'Prius c Main Forum' started by JP2085, Mar 20, 2015.

  1. JP2085

    JP2085 Junior Member

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    Well my Prius c days are over. Someone turned in front of me and I tboned them at highway speed.

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  2. bisco

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    ouch! you okay?
     
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    WOW that's a lot of damage. Hope your OK.
     
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    And I thought getting that type of color car would help them to see us.....
     
  5. JP2085

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    It hurt I'll tell you that much...
     
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    Doesnt look nice! But glad you came out of it.
     
  7. Dimitrij

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    Well, you could say she performed her last and most important duty like a hero: keeping the human alive, no matter what.
     
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    the parts have to be worth something, that prius battery alone should be about 1k
     
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  9. Robert Holt

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    I am sorry you lost your "C" but relieved you are basically OK, or at least alive and basically intact!
    Have you decided what to get next?
    I am sometimes tempted to get a Sherman Tank by the drivers around here!
     
  10. JP2085

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    Thanks. I have no idea what I'm going to get now. Thinking about going back to a F-150. Sure been missing it.
     
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    ^ I wonder if Ford would bring to the US market a pickup truck the size of the Frontier, preferably with a Duratorq engine .. under $30K ... sweet dreams.
     
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    You'd think? but no. Can attest mine is sun fusion yellow, and we had several close calls in 1.5mo of owning "C". Never happened in white Liftback or any other car. There is something about shape or just color which does not register on radar for avg Joe/Jane.

    To OP: hope you're o'k, no serious injuries and insurance will get you another Prius!
     
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    Size matters. Prius c is so tiny that it fits completely into a "full size" vehicle's blind spot, with a few inches to spare.
     
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    It looks like they took the Toyota branding off the centre of the airbag. This is probably why you don't have an unexplained urge to buy another toyota.

    Seriously though, hope your ok.
     
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    A little less vehicle overlap and the results could have been very different. This is exactly why I got my wife a 2015 Subaru Outback for her new highway commute. The are so many things in life more precious than MPG.
     
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    That might have been one out of 4 incidents. Two others would have been a classic T-bone, and I have DRL on all the time.
     
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    The new Ford F150 has bodacious amounts of aluminum and improved gas mileage, so good luck with that!
    And I can understand that because we have an old Tundra and a gen 3 hatchback, and we NEVER have people try to bulldoze us in the pickup whereas that happens every few months in the Prius. The truck I can drive normally, but with the Prius I must be super-defensive, almost like riding a motorcycle. I have actually considered mounting strobe lights on the bloody car like they have on school buses, but that's probably illegal. Anybody have other ideas?
    And someday I will have to replace the Tundra (2003)----I wish a Ford would make an "Eco-Boost" version of the Ranger or something equally efficient for me to get then.
     
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    Strobes will be illegal. I have installed airhorns on motorcycle with great success. The guy "who didn't see me" and moved into my lane st!t in pants and jumped to the shoulder when he heard it.
     
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    ^ I wonder if it's overall safer or less safe to drive a Prius than a regular car of similar size (any statistics on this?). One may assume that Prius people drive in a more circumspect way, but other drivers (who are used to the prevailing "gas-brake" driving mode) may have trouble with predicting your position when e.g. you are hybrid-accelerating from a traffic stop.
     
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    smaller vehicles in general have higher mortality rate. According to IIHS regular Prius is about avg: http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5001.pdf Unfortunately study is 4 years old so does not include Prius C. Kia Rio, Nissan Versa and Chevy Aveo are amongst the worse.

    Nissan Versa sedan had the highest roll over rate beating trucks, SUVs and minivans. Makes you wonder if there is something really wrong with it. Here is what CD had to say about 2015 Versa's handling: "Suspension revisions seem to have tidied up the handling a bit and the ride quality is plush despite the car’s torsion-beam rear suspension, but the steering is woefully numb and overboosted. And braking is nearly as leisurely as acceleration; stepping on the brake pedal feels akin to pressing a spatula into a bowl of mashed potatoes"
    Nissan Versa Reviews - Nissan Versa Price, Photos, and Specs - Car and Driver

    Not aware of any studies linking color to accident rate.
     
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