2006 Toyota Prius Reviews

Toyota's most reliable car.  Extremely solid, and it's not as complicated as you think.  It's quick enough to be used in traffic, but it goes around corners like an elephant on rollerskates through a puddle of heavy syrup.  Cheap as hell to run and maintain, comfortable, relatively slow.  Cornering is exciting in the same way as being stabbed is exciting.

I can see why it was the Consumer Reports top pick
for '07. It got us through the Skyrocketing Gas
Prices and paying for gas now isn't a barrel of
monkeys either, of course. I can see performance
potential with hybrids. Sometimes, it seems people
want to race, and while suddenly their car slips
behind as their transmission shifts up, and I laugh
as the electric motor constantly peels off the
torque, while the gas motor makes its monotone
whine, still never very loud, maybe Priuses (Prii?)
should get louder pipes, though thanks to the
continuously variable transmission, the exhaust
note is mind numbingly boring. But, oh yeah, I was
mocking you all for your cool sounding revving motor, you slave to the Otto-cycle chumps. Oh,
you step on your brake, and all that potential
energy goes to waste as friction heating up the
brakes? S-s-s-s-s-s-sucker!!!!!! Somewhere Satan
laughs at thee! Anyway, thick A-pillars are
definitely the top negative. Awkward overhead
airbags may cause accidents. Fits more than your
average pickup, once brought home a table, 4
chairs, and enough room for a cooler or two.
Toyota traction control sucks, it basically decides
not to move the wheels if it detect the slightest
slip. Makes Minnesota winters seem longer. On dry
roads, though, it's great.

50 MPG average... what's not to like!  Comfortable, plenty of headroom.  All in all, spunky little car; plenty of pickup & go!   Great braking (I know, I had to use 'em a few times).  VSC to keep on the road when it's slick out there.  And quiet like a whisper.  Enough said.  Go try one, you'll see!!

45 miles per gallon!

Totally cool, easy to steer, quietest car ever, and totally reliable