(Sorta) Back in the Prius family.

I recently started driving a cab. The company has 800 cars of which 80% are Prius. yesterday I was driving a genII that had 251k miles on it. I was quite impressed. Drove nice, still looked pretty good, quiet. She seemed like she had a lot of life left in her. i have not spent much time in the genII since I owned an 03 and 10 but I kinda liked it after spending 250 miles at the wheel.

The genIII I had the day before had 130k miles but this one had horrible road noise (tires), made a constant whining noise, the light grey interior was filthy and falling apart, and stunk!

From what I hear, Toyota (Japan) has made a couple trips out here to inspect the fleet and ask questions. I guess they are interested in what kind of repairs are needed and what kinds of fixes have been developed to address them. I think they have also allowed recall work to be performed onsite in an effort to not flood the local dealerships.

There is a constant flow of used Prius arriving to be outfitted for their next stage of life as a cab. And when the times comes, there is a corner of the yard that becomes their final resting place

 

Here are a few of the dead cars. There is another area that has probably 10x this many.

 

And these will be in service soon!