Last year we traded our Nissan Murano for a Prius.

All the negative-hype BS about the Prius is false. My Prius MPG usually never falls below 50 MPG unless I am driving like it is a race car. If I drive very conserative I can keep it closer to 60 MPG than 50 MPG.

There will be times during the winter it will fall below 50 MPG for perhaps the first part of the tank of gas due to snow, ice, wind, cold engine, but by the time the tank is gone I can usually have it back up around 50. This is just in the winter thou.

It also was 10 grand less then our Murano. Just in the cost of gas alone over that 20 MPH gas hog we are saving 600 bucks a month in gas, whcih means the car is actually paying for itself.

No problems with it so far and its been a year-ish, but I expect that from a Toyota. No the replacement batteries do not cost 5000 dollars, no they are not more polluting to drive than a Hummer or any of that ultra-conservative anti-liberal crap. (why must politics get into EVERYTHING now days?)

I don't see gas being the "cheap" 2.50 a gallon it was when we bought our Prius. I figure in a couple more years not only will the car have paid for itself but it may start paying for my Subaru as well.

Something to consider.

Agostino Leyre wrote on Aug 25^th, 2008 at 10:56am:

Don Flow.....this area is one that Rick hasn't got his hands on yet.....