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brianhook · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: New car: 2007 Prius

Traded the M3 in on a new Prius (2007, black, Package 6). Will post impressions later, but so far, it's ZOMG awesome.

Gus_Smedstad · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 590 Location: Boston area, MA

You lost over half your power / weight ratio, and it's ZOMG awesome?

- Gus

brianhook · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

Gus_Smedstad · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 590 Location: Boston area, MA

I do love nav systems. I've been a Garmin customer for years. It's particularly useful if you live in a city with insane streets. Friday I had to go downtown for jury duty, and I took the T rather than driving because there's no courthouse parking and public parking's expensive. The courthouse was about 300 meters from the State street stop. I spent about 15 minutes wandering around repeatedly in different wrong directions before I found it, because I had such a hard time matching the map to what I was actually seeing.

It turns out that "Cambridge St" on the map was either "State" or "Court" street where I was, depending on which side of Congress you're on. "Court" doesn't become "Cambridge" for another 150m. I won't talk about "blocks" because the term is meaningless in downtown Boston, since all blocks are completely random in size, shape and orientation. The Superior Court is not on Court street, though that was in fact the way I was supposed to walk. There was a peculiar three-way intersection on the map, but while I encountered one with much the same shape, it wasn't the same intersection. Y-shaped intersections are in fact quite common downtown.

In short, in downtown Boston it would have been handy to have a GPS just walking.

As for the other stuff - it doesn't sound all that interesting to me. The only thing I'd actually use would be the keyless start.

- Gus

docx · Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 10

brianhook · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

The torque from the electric motor is MUCH higher than its HP, and as docx said, it's something you can feel right off the line. The Prius is getting a scratch fixed (dealer made the scratch) so I have a Corolla loaner, and while the Corolla isn't a fast car it has a 100% gas engine and I feel a significant amount of lag off the line vs. the Prius.

Mondain · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 396

so why exactly did you go from an M3 to Shuttlecraft Two?

brianhook · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

Gus_Smedstad · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 590 Location: Boston area, MA

I think you just like buying new cars. How many have you purchased in the last 10 years? The truck, the M3, and now the Prius? I have no idea how long you had the Viper.

- Gus

brianhook · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:59 am Post subject:

Gus_Smedstad · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 590 Location: Boston area, MA

"Out of warranty" has never bothered me much. Typically, I'll drive a car until it hits 100K miles, which by rule of thumb is where you start getting concerned about major wear. I've owned my Supra for 9 years now, and don't have any immediate plans to replace it.

You do know you're spending a lot of money on depreciation by replacing your cars every 1-2 years, right? While some cars (notably Civics and similar cars) generally have a market value that's linear with time and wear, most cars have a definite curve where most of the value drop occurs in the first couple of years of ownership. Since this usually isn't accompanied by an actual decrease in reliability, it's a lot more cost efficient to hold a car a lot longer than that.

- Gus

shaily · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 1 Location: dff

It's a amazing car,drive it ,you will really love to drive it,it provides all the facilities which you need for a car
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