Wow! Has been 10 years since the Toyota Prius first debuted? I guess it has... Ten years ago most people had never hear of a hybrid, let alone have any idea how one works—or even more important—how this vehicle (and technology) might change the the auto industry...
Since its debut on December 17, 1997 roughly 900,000 have been sold. Yep, pretty impressive indeed.
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onlygmmatters says:
06:36 AM, 12/31/07
Good luck finding a ten year old Prius with more than 60 thousand miles though, they don't exist. And if you do find one, check out the repair history, I bet it has a new engine, new battery pack, new transmission and is probably held together with bondo or chewing gum.
I also doubt their will be a 15th anniversary since the Chevrolet Volt is about to make the Toyota Prius obsolete. Chevy is going to prove once and for all that you CAN buy a green car (from an actual GREEN COMPANY! who isn't pulling the wool over your eyes selling gas guzzling Tundras and Sequoias) that is stylish, achieves REAL fuel economy numbers (Not made up ones like the Prius) and is for once RELIABLE! I don't know how many Prius cars I see sitting dead on the side of the road when I drive to work in the morning. I've stopped counting actually :)
Happy Birthday Prius, get ready for an early retirment.
zach101 says:
07:41 AM, 12/31/07
Hmm. I've always heard Priuses are reliable. In fact, they have been the "most satisfying car" in Consumer Reports the past two years or so.
Also i've never seen one dead on the side of the road.
And how is Chevrolet green? They have the Tahoe, Suburban, and Silverado. Last I checked, they haven't been getting fuel economy that would be classified as "green."
firstwagon says:
10:10 AM, 12/31/07
You know I have never seen a Prius dead on the side of the road and I'll bet you haven't either.
I have friend with a 2001 Prius with over 300,000kms on it and it's all original (even the battery pack which surprises even me).
The biggest difference between the Volt and the Prius is the Prius actaully exists. The Volt is an engineering dream at best and vapourware at worst.
estreka says:
10:41 AM, 12/31/07
It's weird that older Priuses haven't broken down. I've never even seen one on a used car lot.
redliner says:
12:49 PM, 12/31/07
How exactly is the Volt reliable? It has not even been produced! Explain to me how you can classify a car that that only exits in the imagination of GM engineers as reliable, yet completly ignore real world data on a car that has been shown to have at least above average reliability over a 10 year period.
Toyota is not the "darling child" it once was, and of late, GM has made some HUGE steps foward. Still, this dose not change the facts.
Please. At least base your opinion on facts, not fantasy.
With a screen name like "onlygmmatters," i'm not surprised.
210delray says:
09:11 PM, 12/31/07
Pay no attention to the newbie; he doesn't even realize the Prius didn't come to the US until the 2000 model year!
11800506 says:
11:33 PM, 12/31/07
A friend of my family's has I think a 2001 Prius and it just went over 100,000 miles and no part of the car has been replace. They are very reliable.
hondacura4 says:
08:28 PM, 01/ 1/08
OnlyGMmatters, have you ever heard of a thing called REALITY?
My father (Toyota product planner) drives a company Toyota Prius like the one in the picture. I know for a fact that it has well over 100K as his daily commute is about 90 miles one way. The car has given him little to no issue (to my knowledge) since he's had it. No Im not a Toyota fan boy!
His personal vehicles are an 07 Lexus GS450h ( I really like this car), a 06 Toyota Avalon Limited, and a Toyota MR-S Spyder year unknown.
ateixeira says:
01:26 PM, 01/ 2/08
Oh please.
I did a search on Cars.com for Prius with more than 60k miles and found 175 of them. One hundred and Seventy Five.
You really think none of them are over 60k? Gimme a break.
One of them had over 220k miles.
Happy 10th anniversary, Prius.