Which is a better hybrid car, the toyota prius or saturn aura. Also, do you reccomend any other good hybridd 25k or less?
Which is a better hybrid car, the toyota prius or saturn aura. Also, do you reccomend any other good hybridd 25k or less?
Before Toyota started selling the Prius in the US in 2000 (model year 2001), they were selling the Prius in Japan for 3 years. So Toyota has been developing & improving the Prius — in the hands of real paying customers — for more than a decade! Saturn (which is GM) has been selling their hybrid for one year.
I wouldn’t have bought the Toyota Prius in its first year, and I certainly wouldn’t buy a GM hybrid in its first year either…
Regarding the other poster that compared a Prius to a Corolla: That’s a frequently-made comparison, but it’s not a good one. It’s comparing apples to oranges. The Prius has a much better level of standard equipment than the Corolla; sure, the Prius will still be more expensive than a similarly-equipped Corolla, but it won’t be anywhere near the difference that was mentioned. (Check Consumer Reports; they estimated that the gas savings on the Prius would pay for the additional "hybrid premium" in about 3 years, and that was when gas was about $2 per gallon.)