Well we've had our Prius for about 2 yrs now & it's got well over 150,000 miles. Almost none of it city driving where it gets better milage. I get about 44-48 mpg but I've got a heavy foot, my wife keeps to the speed limit & she avrages around 51-55 mph driving back & forth to work, about 80 miles round trip all highway miles. When we go on long trips it's usually 55+. I'm pretty hard on the car. The battery's never been down, I do the usual 5000 mile check ups & we've never had cause to bring it in for any trouble.
Oh we've had flats, never heard of having to replace any other tires just because one got a flat.
I found it to handle very well in our all seaon New England weather, rain & snow doesn't bother the car or me at all it does better than most small vechicles I've driven but I'm used to bad winter driving.
Asked if I'd get another? I'd trade for a new model in a minute if I could get a good price, a good interest rate & if I could cough up the money for a down payment & find a company to give me credit. I'd get one for my daughter too.
With what we've gotten back on tax rebates & saved on gas I pretty sure we've saved close to half the price on the car

At 150,000 mile & say at an avrage of 50 miles to the gallon& my old Matrix got an average of 30 miles to the gallon, so at 150,000 miles I saved almost half of what I used to get. A difference of 2000 gallons, at a price of, say 3 $3 per gallon (gas in now just over $2pg down from when it was $4)that's somewhere's about $6000 in gas then with the tax brakes & credits that's close to half of what we paid for it.Oh the battery's warrantied for 10 yrs, so at this rate if I have it for 10yrs it'll have 750,000 miles on it, I'll have saved over it's 10 yr life span $30,000 in fuel but the way I drive even my slant 6's didn't last over 250,000 miles.


Barry