Cars.com’s Joe Wiesenfelder walks you through the 2008 Toyota Prius.
Shot, produced and edited by: Sarah Gersh
25 thoughts on “2008 Toyota Prius/ Quick Drive”
Kajuska95says:
We are having this car. It´s verry good car.
sawyerrogiersays:
I am leasing a prius, which saves me 100 euro’s (120 dollars) per month. It is comfortable, spacey and very quiet. Very relaxing car to drive.
A hybrid car is a compromise this moment to carefully guide us into new-thinking. Our grand-children will laugh about the combustion engine when they see it in a museum. What they will think is why a lot of people would not get rid of this noisy, stinking, polluting, very old fashioned engine 😀
People, stop being conservative and start thinking 😉
coolerdude44says:
yep.
ILVRACNsays:
DUH!
coolerdude44says:
do what?
ILVRACNsays:
yeah im sure alot of them do
coolerdude44says:
lmao but do they buy a million dollar house when they cant afford it, and sell it and buy a new one every few years, like the americans are doing?
ILVRACNsays:
BTW – calling someone an idiot doesn’t instantly make your point valid..in fact it makes you look childish. 23 and still name calling?!?! WOW!
ILVRACNsays:
Did I say to go out and buy a Mercedes and a million dollar house? BTW- you obviously haven’t looked at housing prices in Europe..a millon dollars is nothing there.
myvolvo240says:
i have never drived electric powered car i wonder how it feels
coolerdude44says:
wow you’re an idiot lmfao. have you noticed our economy falling apart? have you noticed their economy/currency staying relatively stable? people keep buying things they can’t afford. they can’t afford a million dollar house and a mercedes, but they bought it anyway. guess what? the house got reposessed and he had to sell the car for next to nothing. both those markets crashed and its idiots with mentalities like yours that made it happen, and its the reason our cars suck also.
ILVRACNsays:
Well Europeans need to get better jobs so they can afford newer cars.
It’s stupid to keep a car for that length of time. Think of how far safety technology has come in 8 years. It’s amazing they sell any cars at all in Europe – considering people keep their old one for close to a decade. Buying new cars every 3 years keeps the economy flowing..face it we’re a consumer society.
coolerdude44says:
that’s exactly what’s wrong with america today, and why cars engineered by americans/explicitly for the american market are not as reliable. in america, the average time between buying a car and selling it is 3 years. in europe its 8 years. nobody thinks about the long-term here, which is why we’re in such financial trouble, and why stupid cars like the prius sell by the millions here, and are hardly sold over seas.
ILVRACNsays:
uh…most people don’t keep a car for 10 years or 150,000 miles…if you do then you need to buy a new car.
margixsays:
people who will buy this shit are totally insane!
prius…insight…ugly like shit!
the ugliest “cars” of the world.
I really wonder if the hollywood producer will be so brave to put these shit in their movies!!!
USA is recognized worldwide for big cars,muscle cars,limousine,off-road veichles….now the America highways and freeways are full of cars lookin like condoms!
coolerdude44says:
every 10 years or 150,000 miles (give or take) the battery pack will need replacing and this costs anywhere from $5k-$7k. this is why hybrids are useless, they are just a temporary car. thats exactly whats wrong with this country in fact, all we can think about is the short-term.
blackdubsocietysays:
What about battery replacement cost?
f1nutssays:
There are no reliability issues…mine has 224,000km’s with no problems ever! I’m in what would be considered a severe climate…yet a simple diagnostic test shows my batteries are 99.75% as effective as they were over 4 yrs ago.
Toyota is in the final stages of developing Diesel synergy hybrids as speak. Nearly 100 vehicles are currently being tested in northern Japan.
The European Prius factory site is currently being considered.
coolerdude44says:
cool i didnt know that about the factory, but what about european drivers, do they have their own factory too?
i still think a diesel is much more reliable
also there is no getting away from the fact that you have to replace the battery pack every 5 years.
f1nutssays:
Wow! Do you realize hoe out of date your info is? The factory that makes the battery is in the U.S. as is the new Prius factory!!
By the way the old battery was Nickel hydride.
There’s no such thing as a lithium/nickel battery.
I’m sorry that you think the prius was developed for highspeed highway use. Toyota has never once hid the fact that the synergy system works to it’s stengths best when in stop and go traffic. Gridlock is a massive problem, the Prius helps in this situation.
coolerdude44says:
they mine the lithium/nickel in canada, ship it to china where they are made into batteries, shipped to japan where they are put in the cars, then shipped around the world. because of this, and because a regular land rover/hummer has relatively simple materials put into it, in a lifetime (from production to junkyard) the prius will emit a similar co2 footprint as a land rover lr3.
why would anybody buy a hybrid over a diesel anyway?
coolerdude44says:
this guy is an idiot, but he is right.
toyota is covering up that the prius isn’t fuel efficient. at highway speeds, it will only do about 17 mpg (i mean at like 75 mph) keep in mind at the same speed, a bmw m3 will do 19 mpg.
because toyota goes through such great lengths to make them, they emit the same in a lifetime as a land rover lr3 (ill explain in another comment)
dopehopesays:
The prius seems to be such a touchy subject. I can’t help but notice that there are people who really like the car and people who really despise it. In the end its just a car, I myself love it because its my first car and it has been good to me.
I think the toyota prius is great. I’ll write you an essay if you’d like. Of course I wouldn’t put all pros and no cons in it ^^
f1nutssays:
Again what is Toyota covering up? Be specific.
f1nutssays:
The Prius is built in a ZERO landfill factory, it is 95% recycleable, it’s a super ultra ow emission vehicle, it costs the same as a moderately equiped 4 cylinder Camry, it is moveing into it’s third generation (even better than ever!), and by the way… no one has more hands-on experience with hybrid technology than me, so don’t tell me to do my research!
We are having this car. It´s verry good car.
I am leasing a prius, which saves me 100 euro’s (120 dollars) per month. It is comfortable, spacey and very quiet. Very relaxing car to drive.
A hybrid car is a compromise this moment to carefully guide us into new-thinking. Our grand-children will laugh about the combustion engine when they see it in a museum. What they will think is why a lot of people would not get rid of this noisy, stinking, polluting, very old fashioned engine 😀
People, stop being conservative and start thinking 😉
yep.
DUH!
do what?
yeah im sure alot of them do
lmao but do they buy a million dollar house when they cant afford it, and sell it and buy a new one every few years, like the americans are doing?
BTW – calling someone an idiot doesn’t instantly make your point valid..in fact it makes you look childish. 23 and still name calling?!?! WOW!
Did I say to go out and buy a Mercedes and a million dollar house? BTW- you obviously haven’t looked at housing prices in Europe..a millon dollars is nothing there.
i have never drived electric powered car i wonder how it feels
wow you’re an idiot lmfao. have you noticed our economy falling apart? have you noticed their economy/currency staying relatively stable? people keep buying things they can’t afford. they can’t afford a million dollar house and a mercedes, but they bought it anyway. guess what? the house got reposessed and he had to sell the car for next to nothing. both those markets crashed and its idiots with mentalities like yours that made it happen, and its the reason our cars suck also.
Well Europeans need to get better jobs so they can afford newer cars.
It’s stupid to keep a car for that length of time. Think of how far safety technology has come in 8 years. It’s amazing they sell any cars at all in Europe – considering people keep their old one for close to a decade. Buying new cars every 3 years keeps the economy flowing..face it we’re a consumer society.
that’s exactly what’s wrong with america today, and why cars engineered by americans/explicitly for the american market are not as reliable. in america, the average time between buying a car and selling it is 3 years. in europe its 8 years. nobody thinks about the long-term here, which is why we’re in such financial trouble, and why stupid cars like the prius sell by the millions here, and are hardly sold over seas.
uh…most people don’t keep a car for 10 years or 150,000 miles…if you do then you need to buy a new car.
people who will buy this shit are totally insane!
prius…insight…ugly like shit!
the ugliest “cars” of the world.
I really wonder if the hollywood producer will be so brave to put these shit in their movies!!!
USA is recognized worldwide for big cars,muscle cars,limousine,off-road veichles….now the America highways and freeways are full of cars lookin like condoms!
every 10 years or 150,000 miles (give or take) the battery pack will need replacing and this costs anywhere from $5k-$7k. this is why hybrids are useless, they are just a temporary car. thats exactly whats wrong with this country in fact, all we can think about is the short-term.
What about battery replacement cost?
There are no reliability issues…mine has 224,000km’s with no problems ever! I’m in what would be considered a severe climate…yet a simple diagnostic test shows my batteries are 99.75% as effective as they were over 4 yrs ago.
Toyota is in the final stages of developing Diesel synergy hybrids as speak. Nearly 100 vehicles are currently being tested in northern Japan.
The European Prius factory site is currently being considered.
cool i didnt know that about the factory, but what about european drivers, do they have their own factory too?
i still think a diesel is much more reliable
also there is no getting away from the fact that you have to replace the battery pack every 5 years.
Wow! Do you realize hoe out of date your info is? The factory that makes the battery is in the U.S. as is the new Prius factory!!
By the way the old battery was Nickel hydride.
There’s no such thing as a lithium/nickel battery.
I’m sorry that you think the prius was developed for highspeed highway use. Toyota has never once hid the fact that the synergy system works to it’s stengths best when in stop and go traffic. Gridlock is a massive problem, the Prius helps in this situation.
they mine the lithium/nickel in canada, ship it to china where they are made into batteries, shipped to japan where they are put in the cars, then shipped around the world. because of this, and because a regular land rover/hummer has relatively simple materials put into it, in a lifetime (from production to junkyard) the prius will emit a similar co2 footprint as a land rover lr3.
why would anybody buy a hybrid over a diesel anyway?
this guy is an idiot, but he is right.
toyota is covering up that the prius isn’t fuel efficient. at highway speeds, it will only do about 17 mpg (i mean at like 75 mph) keep in mind at the same speed, a bmw m3 will do 19 mpg.
because toyota goes through such great lengths to make them, they emit the same in a lifetime as a land rover lr3 (ill explain in another comment)
The prius seems to be such a touchy subject. I can’t help but notice that there are people who really like the car and people who really despise it. In the end its just a car, I myself love it because its my first car and it has been good to me.
I think the toyota prius is great. I’ll write you an essay if you’d like. Of course I wouldn’t put all pros and no cons in it ^^
Again what is Toyota covering up? Be specific.
The Prius is built in a ZERO landfill factory, it is 95% recycleable, it’s a super ultra ow emission vehicle, it costs the same as a moderately equiped 4 cylinder Camry, it is moveing into it’s third generation (even better than ever!), and by the way… no one has more hands-on experience with hybrid technology than me, so don’t tell me to do my research!