Actually since my last post I drove the Tesla out of warranty… And there’s nothing scarier than driving a Tesla that does not have full coverage from the factory so I ended up selling it, at a profit but I ended up getting this. It suits my needs perfectly to 2018 Prius prime advanced.

I know it’s hard to believe that getting 32 miles to the gallon in my 450 GS wasn’t good enough. I’m now averaging about 80 miles per gallon with this car

Hello ImBZ.

glad to hear from you too.

Funny you mention the 0 to 60 time in the GS450H. Once you go to the Tesla those figures just don’t do anything to you anymore. My Tesla went 0-60 in 4.3 seconds.

can’t remember how many times I “goosed” the accelerator in the Model S during ownership. It’s unlike anything else with clean torque pressing you back in your seat.

Strange thing though, when the Tesla went out of warranty I felt that I was driving a Faberge egg.

. Those pesky doorhandles cost $950 to replace, the big TFT screen is $6000 if any bit of that flat panel decide to go blank. Minor door ding in an aluminum car like that is close to $1000 to repair, plus my insurance was $1800 a year and I have perfect driving record.

Plus if you have any of the above problems you have to wait three months for parts to come in.

The final straw on the reason why I had to sell the Tesla was I parked between two cars and literally waited 10 minutes until one of the cars left so that I can have a little more room to make sure that one of those cars was not going to create a door ding… That’s no way to drive a car.

The adage is true though… Once you go electric you can’t go back. And I knew that I was going to step down on my next vehicle once I sold the Tesla. But the most logical choice that matched my driving needs was this Prius Prime Advanced . All the high-tech, gas mileage,reliability and yes,sporty looks (in a Prius??) I have no regrets.

I do miss occasionally having the Tesla at my disposal… But the anxiety of an expensive repair bill trump that.

thanks for above info Eddie. The Prime “feels” faster than those figures indicate. But that’s just the torque illusion that pure electric does. The 20 to 60 mph range, like when freeway merging, it’s quite satisfactory. It’s powerful enough for me.

I also on a 2015 Lexus 300 H that I had service last week, and I asked if Lexus is ever going to go electric anytime soon or even have a plug-in hybrid like the Prime.

hey said that in the works for 2020 is a Lexus hybrid to replace a CT 200 H under the model name of “VX“, in the style of the Toyota C-HR... he said maybe there will be a plug-in version of that.

in the meantime I’m happy with my Prius Prime, , and I’m getting a lot of compliments on it whenever I take it out… Surprising for a Prius indeed.

The girlfriend


The ES
I think 2018 is the last year of the GS line… If you ever read the history of the GS the president of Toyota motor company did not want Lexus to make a GS model… But it was the engineers that pushed through. It an interesting story you can Google.

my ES 300 H is actually my live-in girlfriend‘s car, when I bought my GS it had the blind spot monitor and she basically said “I want one of those “, and then purchased this for her..... and gets about 40 miles to the gallon and about a 500 mile range.

If you ever get a chance at a Toyota dealership look at the hypersonic read in the sunlight it actually looks kind of vivid orange when the angle is just right… It’s actually kind of cool looking.

oh probably pretty ****ty. The Prius wasn’t designed for snow. If I need a 4 x 4 truck I’ll just call my son.

Gas mileage in the winter on the Prius would probably a miserable 50 miles per gallon or so.