Why did you choose a C over a liftback?

I drove a 13' Si for a year and loved it. Bought a Prius c with the intent to save money all around. Toyota had a great deal on leftover 14' Prius C three, got the car for 18 and change. Big change in horsepower with an even bigger change in gas mileage!

 

I didn't choose the C it chose me. Actually I chose the C because we travel with 4 dogs and even though the c is shorter it has more usable rear cargo area. The liftback with it's sharply sloping back was wasted space for me. The C with it more vertical rear gave us the height I needed for a collie and 3 shelties.

 

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Those are the exact reasons I got a C. I don't think I would ever get a lift back prius. This is primarily my work commuter so I didn't have a lot of other considerations when buying it. Our other car is a sequoia so if I need more anything I drive it.


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It's interesting how my opinion has shifted only after 3.5 months and 14.5K miles. Initially, I thought it was a good buy as in "value for money", and I was glad to see by how much stuff I could cram into it. Sheer practicality. I did find it somewhat cute, but a little cartoonishly "toy-like".

Over time, I have grown to like the soundness of its overall engineering, its competence in various road conditions and the quietness of its ride at non-interstate speeds. And I have made peace with the kawaii appearance.

 

14.5K over 3.5mo? this is ~4K/mo or ~50K/year. You are making lil Mila work really hard.
Are you still not getting good MPG? or is it better now?

 

Working much, but not too hard. She very rarely goes faster than 65 mph, and typically below 55. It's only on 2 to 3 occasions she had to carry more than one human, so it's typically 300 lbs of my gear and myself. And I don't take her to mountainous roads.

The mileage has improved quite a bit; I have been clocking 57 mpg in the past months, but that's in fine weather (no rain, no snow), with very placid driving, not going to mountains, not carrying too much load and with the a/c off and window down below 55 mph. If it keeps going like this, I think we'll have annual average at about 52 mpg..

 

You Photoshopped them in, didn't you? BTW, nice doggies. Every couple of weeks you probably collect enough fur and lint to stuff a chair cushion.

 

We get enough dog hair that we started a ETSY store where we sell dog hair berets and other handcrafted items. This book got us started. I'm thinking of retiring and going into the dog hair business full-time.

 

just make sure you take from time to time the plastics off and clean the traction battery. Dog hair is the worse enemy of air-cooled batteres good luck

 

We found this to be rather regional; were we live Prii (mostly Gen3 but C also) are as common as Corollas, and noone gives a hoot. But then you read about HS kid in Texas being bullied over Miata, you know that Prius would not be spared.

We've gone through Utah on 3 occasions, once coming from Wyoming by the Flaming Gorge, another through SE corner via Monument Valley and Valley of Gods. Last time it was crossing from St George to Grand Junction via UT12. Beautiful state; we will definitely come back again.

 

I started out with a 2014 Prius c One. Loved it ... for a while. I really like its looks.

The many issues I had preparing it for towing pointed out its many flaws (really, these are compromises, not defects, per se), so two months later I bought a lightly used 2012 Prius Liftback Two, and I equipped it for towing. I really dislike its looks.

I enjoy both ... the c for in-town driving, where finding parking can be a real challenge; the Liftback for inter-city driving which, where I live, involves mostly freeway driving at speed, and the climbing and descending of an 1,800 foot-high mountain pass.

I believe the Liftback is the more flexible of the two, but the c is a landmark in compactness and surely warrants serious consideration, particularly if major city driving is not a primary objective.

In my US state, the largest in population by a large margin, we have the second, eighth and tenth largest cities, all greater than 1,000,000 in population, and we certainly have the attendant transportation issues, for which the Liftback is far better suited.

Were I to live in, say, Merced, the c would be perfectly fine, but I am periodically driving from Monterey Bay to San Jose, for which the Liftback is much more suitable.

 

With options, the price difference between a Prius (new or last generation) and a C is not that great. I got the C because I wanted something a little different and I like the more traditional interior of the C. The Prius holds value better than C. However you can deal price/% with the C more. When I got my C it was 2012 first year so they were not dealing yet on them.

 

Plus if you removed the rear headrest the C has one of the best rear window visibilities. The Prius rear window has that bar/spoiler in thee middle, that blocks your view.