Golden Jubilee
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Re: Gone over to the "dark side"
cornbinder89 wrote:Oh, and forgot to answer your question about Hybrid:
My brother has Prius and recommends them, however for the cost of the Leaf, I would be buying a used Prius with high 100K or low 200k miles. He runs them up until 300K and then sells. I didn't want something with that many miles, but on the other hand, they are not range limited like an all electrics.
Be careful with the Prius - a company I worked for had a fleet of them. I remember hearing repair parts can be very expensive. I remember hearing in a meeting someone in my company contacted someone in Prius complaining about the high cost of headlights (well over $1000 dollars each). Their response was they are LED and should last the life of the car. We countered but when someone backs into the car in a parking lot and breaks one, the cost is outrageous. They said they never thought of that.
And we were warned about the computer display screen - we've had a few of those go out and the dealer wholesale cost is $1700.
Just passing along my little bit of Prius knowledge/experience from 5 years ago.