Is Gen 5 Prius really better-looking than Gen 4 Prius Prime?

Looks are very subjective, but MANY MANY MANY things are better looking than the G4s are.
Roseanne Barr.
A Southwest Airlines boarding.
The last three or four US Presidential elections.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the BONE!

I like the G5s but I've aged out of them.
It's really great that Toyota finally made a car that is somewhat fun to drive, gets roughly 50 miles per gallon in the real world, and is something that kids would not be ashamed for their friends to see them in.
These all were NOT "Prius things' not that long ago.....

I would also add that while $35,000 isn't exactly grad school budget friendly, Priuses have always been too expensive for a small hatchback.
If you take the $25,000 that most people were over-spending in 2010 to get into a Prius and convert it to '2025 dollars' you'd get.......about $35000 - but then you used to be able to feet a whole carload of people at Taco Bell for $5.......'back in the day.'

Enjoy the G5!

 

My Prius was the best purchase I ever made. For the time when I had no income, I could run on free electricity and never buy gasoline.