The Prius C

Reviewing the 2012 Prii, which Toyota says is the plural of Prius. Yes, there's more than one of them.

Toyota Prius Alpha

Toyota is getting 8 the number of orders they've targeted for their latest Prius, called the Alpha.

DRLs

Do you like daytime running lights on your vehicle? I do, but my new Prius does not have them. I was initially disappointed when I found out, since the salesman told me the car had them. Yes, I should have checked. But it's okay after all. If I need my lights on, I'll just turn them on. See this for criticism of DRLs.

Toyota's Prius is selling well. "Toyota sold 19,173 Prius hybrids here in the States in July and another 18,866 in August. It seems highly likely that Cash for Clunkers helped those figures a bit for both months, and the Toyota brand in total saw a sales increase of about 15 percent last month over the previous August."

A Prius, a Tahoe, and Me

Brent Littlefield, a Republican startegist, comments positively about the Cash for Clunkers program, the most positive thing to come out of the Obama administration among many bad ideas. Give taxpayers the freedom to spend their own money, and the economy will grow, he says.

Absolutely, true. I took advantage of the program myself, trading in a 1999 Chevy Tahoe for a 2010 Toyota Prius. The Tahoe was a good vehicle, but it had developed potential problems that I didn't want to fix, and I loved getting $4,500 for it.

The Prius is shown on the day before we actually bought it. Click to enlarge.

I love the Prius. It still has less than 500 miles on it and I'm still driving on the gas the dealer gave me. I'll report back later on my experience with the car, especially the gas mileage. In the meantime you can check out this site for someone who has plenty of experience with these vehicles.