2021 TOYOTA PRIUS XLE - Best Toyota Hybrid 

I love everything about this so much and I have had the exact same experience with my 2015 model (except I purchased it with 104,000 miles). Amazing vehicles!

You’re awesome! I am so grateful for your kind words, my friend!!

Wow my friend! I so appreciate your kind words and positive feedback. I’m so glad I was able to help!!!

Wish they still did the Prius v

Thank you so much!! 🤣

Glad you liked it and thank you for stopping by!!!

Thank you my friend!

Yesss! My Prius is by far the best vehicle I’ve ever owned! Thank you for the feedback!

It is such an amazing vehicle!!! Congratulations and thank you so much for stopping by!!

How are you liking the Sienna?

How much are the payments? I really want to lease one but my local dealerships has a ton of markups on them

Awesome! Prius is my favorite car ever

You are most welcome - glad I could help! I would think the Prime would be virtually the same in rear leg room. There may be a slight difference due to a difference in battery size but I’m not 100% sure.

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That’s what I’m talking about! Mine just clicked 176k - I’m catching up to you😃

I had a 08 prius and loved it. I camped in it and being alone had half the back actually a little more packed with video gear on a trip to a music festival. I had a ton of cameras in the car stored for the video production which I was getting. And I could camp in the prius at times at some of the festivals. Sleeping in one side of the vehicle. One year in 2012 there was a heat wave and I was sleeping in the prius as night time temperatures were still near 100 degrees. The car worked fine and would start and stop the engine when the battery got low. But I turned it on accessory one night the last night of the festival by mistake and the starter battery died as it was trying to run the car off the 12 volt and wouldn't start. I didn't know how to jump it. You jump it with the other cars engine not running because the starter battery powers up the computer it doesn't start the car. The car is started by the hybrid pack. So I had it towed to the dealer and they fixed it up while I recovered in a motel. That was when I made the mistake of camping and didn't realize if I didn't hit the start button twice without the brake pedal pressed it was only in accessory mode. So pushing down the pedal when starting it at night is preferable make sure the engine starts and runs and you're not running the AC off the accessory mode or you can have a seemingly and actually dead Prius. I loved the vehicle and retired and hardly drive it but it had 130,000 miles and I hoped to get many more on it. But a neighbor kid hit it in the side and hardly damaged the car, but bent the rear axle and that and the other fix up damage meant it would be $5500 for the insurance company to pay. This just before COVID hit. So the insurance company decided they wanted to total it. So although these are great they are expensive to repair and when they get older the insurance company may want to total it. So I got the money but didn't get a replacement old prius which was a big mistake now that used vehicles are not cheap due to the car shortage. I drove my old hardly ever driven F150 which had only 10,000 miles put on it in 15 years. And all that sitting was not good for my backup truck toy. So the truck started having all kinds of problems. Now I've spent maybe $7k, on the truck since maybe 8 months before covid. And put all kinds of repairs on it and it still floods and won't start but runs like a top when it can. So I have a used F150 that is like a toy due to it's age but not reliable. I have an EBIKE as well to get groceries. I mean I have an old almost historic F150 from 1998 and it should be easy and fast to repair, but everyone is overworked and parts a scarce. So repairing anything even new cars can't happen. This makes me wish I had a prius or fixed the old one and paid the difference over say $5500 or maybe wait and get an electric vehicle with less maintanance. But the Prius had almost no repair issues. I had a dealer who has a "family deal" advertized and they did one fix for a problem which used up my extended care warrenty. But I found out they always offer $9.99 oil changes at least they used to and find $800 of repairs that have to happen because they are looking to repair the cars with useless repairs which are not needed. They wanted to give me new brakes for 800 on my Prius at 60,000 miles and I took it to a different mechanic who said I had half the wear only on the brakes and they should last to 120,000 miles. Which is what happened. I didn't have to get brakes done until 120,000. So I won't ever by a car by that dealer again. But I may buy a Prius from some other dealer. But I want to OWN AN APTERA which is a 30k vehicle. The Prius is more functional for hauling more people. So I really like the Prius, but beware for overnight camping make sure you actually have it running so it won't drain the accessory battery. The starter battery is not large enough to use for accessories so don't put invertors on that small battery it runs little things in the car but primarily is used to FIRE UP the PRIUS computer. Prius is a great car. I just hope if I get one I don't have someone hit it and total it again. And I hope to go to full electric eventually. So I'm kind of torn as new cars are not available that are affordable and used are ridiculously high priced. I would really prefer a reverse enclosed trike like a NIMBUS HALO if they work out or an APTERA for grocery shopping to get like a penny a mile cost for driving and less parts to have to repair. But that is for retired grocery shopping, not taking a couple people with you as most really affordable reverse motorcycles or autocycles can't deal with 3 or 4 people. A Prius can.

Wow! Good eye. I hadn’t thought of that but I can see it too.

Same here. Black interior for me as well. Would be nice to have a dash that wasn’t so bright. Thank you for contributing to the conversation!!

Yes. Was in one yesterday. Seems like it would get dirty quick and hard to clean

Brake hold is only on the new electronic emergency brake system. Very expensive to repair. The Prius still has the manual emergency brake pedal over near the dead pedal.

Great question! From what I saw it looks like the only option is the fix a flat option.

@@HowToCarGuy on the 2021 Prius, only the front-wheel-drive version of the LE comes from the factory equipped with a temporary spare tire. All other trim levels have a fix-a-flat kit. 🙂 Another fun Prius fact... the AWDe version of the XLE *_deletes_* the power driver's seat.

@@HowToCarGuy looks like it had a jack and tools .

I would love to! Having a hard time finding one in my area. I will definitely keep an eye out for one. Thank you for the request!!!

@@HowToCarGuy Great, recently I had to rent a car for a trip and I was hoping to get a Camry, no such luck. Instead I got a crappy Charger.

I've talked to several dealerships almost every RAV4 Prime is pre-sold. 8 to 12 week shipping from Japan. I'm looking at an Prius Prime xle or now the Prius xle

inventories are at an all-time low in my region.

Yes! It’s absolutely crazy. The Lexus dealership I used to work at currently has less than 10 new vehicles and less than 15 used vehicles. Dealerships are getting retail prices at auction right now. Never seen anything like it.

@@HowToCarGuy Certainly not a good time to buy a vehicle, even the rental car companies have jacked up their prices.