GEAUX- PRIUS Cowboy
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Give me reliability or give me a ride. Yes Patrick Henry the revolutionary character said it a little different but in the transportation game if you got to take a ride from somebody (tow-truck) you got death? To be perfectly honest with you IDK how Toyota does it these cars just bang out mile after mile of flawless performance.
Follow me on this. You buy Prius not because it is sexy or fast nobody wants to drive it guess what when nobody wants to drive your car it does not get dogged out. Ever try and dog your Prius I have guess what happens the car has this computer that detects that and the car will just flat out ruin that urge to abuse the car. (they NEVER ask for my keys to go anyplace)
I remember what my brother and my uncle use to do to my mothers cars when she let them go to the store with it or worse take it out on a Sat night. They drove that thing like a rental unit NO SHIT they saw a car stunt done in a JAMES BOND MOVIE and they thought it out how it was done and then they replicated it. You know the one where they go in reverse really fast pull the emergency brake the car spins around and they put the car into 2nd gear becasue when they spin around it nearly flips the car due to the speed ? I was in the car when they did that to one of my mothers cars. Sometimes we would get back home you could smell the burnt rubber and just hoped she did not come out to drive her car.
Prius might have 150K miles on it but guess how it was driven most the time? Some Miser drove it like it was a little baby that needed to be handled gently. It was driven in a manner that saved fuel or it negates the entire logic behind acquiring said vehicle. Not that the car is slow it is very nifty we just don't drive it fast becasue that is not how you play the Prius game. A car that had the hard work an engine does not like, taken care of by an electric motor a component that loves to get things rolling? Hence a car that has 150 K miles that will have toggled on and off a 150 K mile car will have a lot more on the engine since that engine will have been on for MORE than 150 K miles. The Prius not so it will have been turned off while driving that 150 K miles. If you are sitting at idle in your car you watch those mpg rise it gets you to turn the engine off.
I don't think I have enough years to see how long it takes to use a Prius until it is considered unreliable? You get sick of the car long before that happens. But I am so damn cheap I NEVER get sick of the money and most of all I never get sick of getting in that old ass car pressing that button smelling the smell of my last cigar and saying that is nasty then firing up the clean AC Pop in a yard sale $1 CD and heading off to do what ever I have to do. Smoking cigars don't make your car smell better but I don't run the AC when I burn one, so that saves even more fuel? Go figure? I do fire the AC up cool off the car maybe a minute or 2 then once I am down the road a bit I turn off that AC light a stogie and roll down the window. Crazy aint it?
For the production run of the Gen 2 Prius they said that something like 98% of the cars sold in USA were still on the road. I always said it was not becasue they love the car there is nothing to love it is more like a friend with benefits relationship becasue that car is so affordable to drive that people don't think twice about repairing that car they just do it. It breaks they say I am fixing it I saved that much in fuel alone? In truth when you own a car 10 years and the only times it did not start was becasue of operator error you see no reason to trade it. I get it others see my cars dents I see a car nobody bothers to put any more door dings in becasue it already has enough. I kid you not you get a perfect car never fails some welfare queen will open that door just to put her mark on society.
You die a little each time your ride dose not start. It puts that little voice inside your head saying "maybe you shouldn't go there what if your ride fails you ?" When I was younger it was some of the most insane outburst I was not trained about how to do PM I had no clue about doing things for your car. I thought my dad was just being an asshole but he was righteous about that oil change you don't take car of your car you are shooting yourself in the foot.http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2015/11/the-road-travelled-15-years-of-the-toyota-prius.html
We pay for the top dollar AAA membership and we wonder why? I bet the entire team at AAA go down the halls of their business giving high five every time they sucker a Prius owner into AAA road side assistance insurance.Year after year no reason to call them? Each year I wonder why I pay this but I know the very year I try and be cheap about it all hell will break lose? Flat tires , wrecks , keys lost?
People that get AAA are usually the people that do their PM preventative maintenance on time. Probably people that replace their car before it hits too many miles. Some of us are people like me that say hummm how many miles years will this car bring me where I go?
There was a Prius V I was watching on Car-guru the place I bought our Prius V. 2016 we paid $12 K for a 60 K mile one owner. It is about to hit 100K miles. FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE. That car was GONE I told a few people about it IDK if somebody I told got it or if it was just such a great deal somebody snatched it up but that car is sold. I sure hope somebody that is going to live out of it bought it. The heat what it is you want to have a car that you can sleep in that you run the AC.
Many see the car as expensive I agree if you buy it NEW but you will find the resale value of a Prius is directly proportional to the cost of fuel. Cheap fuel the cars resale value goes down. Fuel prices go up the cars resale value is very high. What you find is prius owners that just want their new car and could care less if they lose money on the resale of their used Prius. During these transitions they accept that if they are going to get what they WANT they have to take a hit. Clearly they are not selling the Prius because it is a piggy back queen? Please share your photo of a Prius on a tow truck? I have never seen it and I have owned 3 Prius in the last 10 years.
Follow me on this. You buy Prius not because it is sexy or fast nobody wants to drive it guess what when nobody wants to drive your car it does not get dogged out. Ever try and dog your Prius I have guess what happens the car has this computer that detects that and the car will just flat out ruin that urge to abuse the car. (they NEVER ask for my keys to go anyplace)
I remember what my brother and my uncle use to do to my mothers cars when she let them go to the store with it or worse take it out on a Sat night. They drove that thing like a rental unit NO SHIT they saw a car stunt done in a JAMES BOND MOVIE and they thought it out how it was done and then they replicated it. You know the one where they go in reverse really fast pull the emergency brake the car spins around and they put the car into 2nd gear becasue when they spin around it nearly flips the car due to the speed ? I was in the car when they did that to one of my mothers cars. Sometimes we would get back home you could smell the burnt rubber and just hoped she did not come out to drive her car.
Prius might have 150K miles on it but guess how it was driven most the time? Some Miser drove it like it was a little baby that needed to be handled gently. It was driven in a manner that saved fuel or it negates the entire logic behind acquiring said vehicle. Not that the car is slow it is very nifty we just don't drive it fast becasue that is not how you play the Prius game. A car that had the hard work an engine does not like, taken care of by an electric motor a component that loves to get things rolling? Hence a car that has 150 K miles that will have toggled on and off a 150 K mile car will have a lot more on the engine since that engine will have been on for MORE than 150 K miles. The Prius not so it will have been turned off while driving that 150 K miles. If you are sitting at idle in your car you watch those mpg rise it gets you to turn the engine off.
I don't think I have enough years to see how long it takes to use a Prius until it is considered unreliable? You get sick of the car long before that happens. But I am so damn cheap I NEVER get sick of the money and most of all I never get sick of getting in that old ass car pressing that button smelling the smell of my last cigar and saying that is nasty then firing up the clean AC Pop in a yard sale $1 CD and heading off to do what ever I have to do. Smoking cigars don't make your car smell better but I don't run the AC when I burn one, so that saves even more fuel? Go figure? I do fire the AC up cool off the car maybe a minute or 2 then once I am down the road a bit I turn off that AC light a stogie and roll down the window. Crazy aint it?
For the production run of the Gen 2 Prius they said that something like 98% of the cars sold in USA were still on the road. I always said it was not becasue they love the car there is nothing to love it is more like a friend with benefits relationship becasue that car is so affordable to drive that people don't think twice about repairing that car they just do it. It breaks they say I am fixing it I saved that much in fuel alone? In truth when you own a car 10 years and the only times it did not start was becasue of operator error you see no reason to trade it. I get it others see my cars dents I see a car nobody bothers to put any more door dings in becasue it already has enough. I kid you not you get a perfect car never fails some welfare queen will open that door just to put her mark on society.
You die a little each time your ride dose not start. It puts that little voice inside your head saying "maybe you shouldn't go there what if your ride fails you ?" When I was younger it was some of the most insane outburst I was not trained about how to do PM I had no clue about doing things for your car. I thought my dad was just being an asshole but he was righteous about that oil change you don't take car of your car you are shooting yourself in the foot.http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2015/11/the-road-travelled-15-years-of-the-toyota-prius.html
We pay for the top dollar AAA membership and we wonder why? I bet the entire team at AAA go down the halls of their business giving high five every time they sucker a Prius owner into AAA road side assistance insurance.Year after year no reason to call them? Each year I wonder why I pay this but I know the very year I try and be cheap about it all hell will break lose? Flat tires , wrecks , keys lost?
People that get AAA are usually the people that do their PM preventative maintenance on time. Probably people that replace their car before it hits too many miles. Some of us are people like me that say hummm how many miles years will this car bring me where I go?
There was a Prius V I was watching on Car-guru the place I bought our Prius V. 2016 we paid $12 K for a 60 K mile one owner. It is about to hit 100K miles. FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE. That car was GONE I told a few people about it IDK if somebody I told got it or if it was just such a great deal somebody snatched it up but that car is sold. I sure hope somebody that is going to live out of it bought it. The heat what it is you want to have a car that you can sleep in that you run the AC.
Many see the car as expensive I agree if you buy it NEW but you will find the resale value of a Prius is directly proportional to the cost of fuel. Cheap fuel the cars resale value goes down. Fuel prices go up the cars resale value is very high. What you find is prius owners that just want their new car and could care less if they lose money on the resale of their used Prius. During these transitions they accept that if they are going to get what they WANT they have to take a hit. Clearly they are not selling the Prius because it is a piggy back queen? Please share your photo of a Prius on a tow truck? I have never seen it and I have owned 3 Prius in the last 10 years.
