Just bought ‘17 Four Touring

Enjoy! Gen 4 rides so much nicer than Gen 3. Even the Touring. About the only thing I miss in the Gen 4 than Gen 3 was the Cost per Trip (when you shutoff the car, you'd see the cost for that trip based on the fuel price you'd enter after fill-up). It wasn't that useful, but entertaining to see how much you just spent in gas. Gen 4 still gives you the option of entering the fuel price, but as far as I can tell, you must switch to some other screen to see cumulative cost of driving the car. I do not bother, because I keep my own fill-up log separately.

 

99E649AA-D991-4E09-AE38-E245B919DB7B by TacoPrius posted Feb 7, 2021 at 7:55 AM

I just picked up a ‘17 Prius 4 Touring yesterday. 75k miles and paid $14k plus the trade of my old 2010 Prius. This one rides and drives so much better. Interior is like a freaking $50k car lol.

 

I can't believe how much better the 2017 Prius 4 Touring is over my old 2010 Prius 2. It's almost night and day. I can't get over how much better the ride is. Our roads here in Colorado are not the best. My old 2010 rode pretty rough for a car, even considering the 207k miles I traded it in with. That was my biggest issue with it along with eating up a quart of oil maybe every 1,000 miles.

Toyota rates the 2017 at just 121 combined horsepower with an unknown torque figure as far as I know. This is down from the 134 rated hp on my 2010. I find the 2017 more responsive, still not a sports car and not meant to win races from a light, but feels like it has more oomph than the 2010 did. I would guess it has around the same real-world hp of 135-ish with probably a higher torque number. I understand that these are peak numbers at a certain RPM (I also have a 2010 Tacoma with a 4.0 liter V6, rated at 236 hp at like 5500 rpm and 266 lb-ft. of torque at 4000 rpm).

The hybrid system works more seamlessly and smoothly than the 3rd gen also. Not a big deal to me but I like the more refined feel to it. You don't notice it as much when the engine turns on or off for instance.

 

I'm happy with mine too, except for one relatively minor annoyance. At different times, I've heard rattles coming from several different places in the car. If the road is perfectly smooth, I don't hear any, but even a slight bit of a pebbled surface will bring them on. I have 24k miles on the car now, pretty much all highway miles, but even when the car was brand new I could hear some rattles on particular road surfaces. I've seen several threads in this forum on the topic, and read some of the suggested remedies, but mine are not loud enough for me to seriously think about trying some of those remedies, and there are probably too many coming from different places anyway. I will admit that there is a possibility that I'm only hearing them because the car is otherwise so quiet, compared to our Gen 2