Originally Posted by
patentcad
My Lexus actually had an MSRP of $32,112. You can easily buy a Prius that's pricier than that. Hell, my wife's Prius IV was 30,800 MSRP (approx) and it's not a top of the line car. You can load up the Prius and get the car over $35K. I think if you put every silly option on my car you can get it over $40K, but the dealer told me that 90% of the cars he gets are at the price mine sold for, and they are selling like hotcakes @ that price level.
I guess I will never understand why people say Prius are overpriced. I guess if you get it for the mileage, then what is the point to load it with tons of crap making it a bad expensive purchase? I got a Prius about a year ago. I have been consistently getting 52-55 MPG in town and about 48 MPG on hwy driving at about 72-75 MPH. I paid $21,500 for it new. There is no other car at that price range in the market that comes even close to it in size or mileage. A luxury car with bells and whittles it is not, nor is it a speed demon, but those are not the reasons why I got it in the first place. That is not how the car is designed in the first place.
And for those that say the mileage doesn't pay, here is some simple math. 17,000 miles to date at 50 MPG average = 340 gal at $3.50/gal = $1,190. Compare that to the Land Rover I had before that: 17,000 miles at 15 MPG average = 1133 gal at $3.50/gal = $3,996. You draw your own conclusions!