Still No Sightings in the Wild

...and the Prime says to the Ioniq, "Volt you mind...."!! (to be continued).

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Hey I got another hot Prime prospect at Sam Ash Music in Westminster; he's getting ready to buy a new car and was bowled over by my Advanced. No I didn't hurt him, and I said "Advanced, not advances!! I'm trying to keep ahead of you Master Punsters out there. I do consider myself a master debater, and a cunning linguist!! (Tom Leykis is the author of that pearl).

 

I saw 2 Gen 4s today. Still waiting to spot a Prime.

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I did a long round trip from OKC to Grapevine, Las Colinas, and Denton areas yesterday and saw no Primes. Lots of 3rd Gens only.

 

I see lots of Gen 2s and Gen 3s in Plano, and I'm starting to see Gen 4s. You'd think at least a couple of Californians transplants working at the mothership would have Primes.

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Yeah, the GEN 2's and 3's are everywhere. The GEN 3 population exploded in OK/TX in 2013-14 when the gas prices here were in the $3.50's.

The GEN 4's make me do a double take as I'm watching for Primes. They are enough different to get my attention, but not different enough.

I though I'd see one yesterday just due to the amount of ground covered and increased vehicle count exposure. Third trip like this since September, and not one.

Still makes me feel good to be driving one of the few.

 

Saw one last week red. Yes I want one but Toyota turned me off. Taking out back middle seat and messing with the trunk room. Engineers could have easily used other spaces to put the batteries


Bat cave

 

Priorities, priorities, priorities!! The car is so great, these "middle seat", "trunk bump" points absolutely don't matter. Like the commercial said, "Try it, you'll like it!!"
It's like, "I found this wonderful girl; she's bright, fun, kind, intelligent, beautiful, and she loves me!! Yeah, but her mother's got bad breath!! So who cares, you're not marrying the mother-in-law!! The glass is almost full!!

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Yes it's nice. I know that already. But I'm a person who travels with tools and other things to help folks out. Yes I have other cars too for that. The 2008 trunk space worked with the storage bin. If I had that room in the prime. Would have gotten on the list for one fully loaded


Bat cave

 

So why not just go for a regular fourth gen?

From the perspective of our 3rd gen, low-mileage Touring (Canadian model) I can come up with a lot of negative answers to that one, but yeah, why turn your back on the regular fourth gen?

 

My Prime hauls several PC's, ALL my amps, guitars, CD boxes, mics, PA, speakers, etc. Everything that was loaded in my friend's Ford Explorer II !!
No, I can't load my catamaran or my motorcycle in it, but I can carry my bicycle or a Christmas tree in it!! Oh, the backseat backs fold down as quickly as you can reach the releases. My biggest problem is that I have to put a protective blanket in the back when I load up plants, and dirty stuff!!
The only excuses not to buy it: it's too much money for my budget, it has 4 doors, it's too quiet, my wife hates it, my friends hate it, my family owns 10,000 shares of Chevron, I need to spend more money for tax write-offs, it's too heavy, it's too light, it's too slow, it's too fast, I have 10 kids, I hate nice cars!! Come on kids, give me a break!!


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Well I like to have the seats up. That's what I consider trunk space. Quick access. Of course if I needed to I'd fold it down. My stuff out of sight out of mind and looks like an empty car


Bat cave

 

It's a good point for security; I've learned the hard way, even with my privacy panel in place on my locked Honda Civic (with alarm, which crooks disabled!), the jerks found and removed my hidden power amp, speakers, tools, cell phone, etc. from my carport. Car was hit TWICE in one night for a total of 5 attempts at break in over a 5-year period ! Cops couldn't do anything! This model car is apparently one of the most stolen/vandalized vehicles; on the other hand, nobody (so far) has given my dark-window-tinted Prii a second look, even with junk on board. They are just not sexy cars (although maybe with the Prime and those expensive LED lights etc.!). A closed garage and/or empty car makes a huge difference!

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But sometimes it's the girl with the bad breath.

The Prime's faults are because of choices Toyota made. If they are a hold up for a person, a car is too big a purchase to make uncomfortable compromises on.

 

I love peppermint candy, so do most of my friends!!
And that's why they make so many different cars, for all the different people with all their different opinions!! BTW, forgot to mention, my Prime has no PITA need to fuss with seatbelts every time you drop seatbacks, unlike my 2012 PIP, which was a PITA to drop the seatbacks. My biggest appreciation for this model is the great attention to detail and quality over my 2012 PIP. Sure, it ain't perfect, but it's a heck of a long way ahead of the car(s) in second place!!

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Okay so which of you Californians was out in Joshua Tree this weekend and driving home around noontime? My wife says she saw one heading S (W) on Hwy 62 while we were going N. I missed it.

She says it was another "magnesium blue" one.

 

Probably just a mirage.

 

I'm sure Mrs. AnneLW can tell the difference between a Mitsubishi Mirage and a Prius Prime!!

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Anne's my wife, and we're an oppo-sex couple. Just that she almost never posts here.

 

Exactly as I suspected; nice to hear from "you"! I'm sure your Prime interest revolves around a Toyota and not a Mitsubishi!

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