I've never been real excited about how they rode either, the Prius in
particular has quite hard seats...
Interestingly some people have fantastic results and keep them going forever to
stupid high mileages. I dated a girl who had a Chevy Nova (rebadged Toyota
Tercel I think it was) that had over 300,000 miles. I asked and she told me
they'd replaced the clutch once... It was a crapbox of a car in every regard
but they sure wound the mileage onto it.Other people have truly rotten luck
with them, no mileage, major failures at massive expense. Its an interesting
spread.
-Curt
From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion
List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fwd: Fwd: Overheating 240D more info
Well, I think we need to wait a bit.
My Mercedes is 39 years old.
Let us see how the Prius is at that age.
My experience with the Toyotas that I have owned has not been great.
2 of them rusted away and the 3rd one committed suicide before I managed
to fix all of the other known faults.
RB
On 01/03/2015 3:47 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote:
> ROFL!!! Pity the poor Prius! All it does is get 50 mpg and rarely needs
> repairs. The Koreans just came out with a cheaper pure electric that goes 95
> miles between charges and has a 110v outlet so you can use it during power
> outages.
> Local Prius dealer says he can't keep all colors in stock and some have to be
> backordered. Reminds me of the Beetles, those well hated "German" cars,
> during the '50s and '60s.
> You guys might as well get used to hyrid cars and pure electrics since all
> the manufacturers are making them; even Mercedes. Toyota was just the first
> with a good one.
> I don't love any car; I just like them when they do what they are supposed to
> do.
> Gerry
> BTW, I just had a local retiree offer me $5000 for my (R.I.P.) wifes pristine
> '83 240D that she dearly loved. I turned him down. Its too much like a member
> of the family.
>
> Dwight Giles wrote:
> _
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