2011 Toyota Prius

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Q: what is the real price of toyota prius 2011?

A: $23,810 for the base model. $29,080 for fully loaded model with all the bells and whistles

Q: Poll: What do ya think about the new 2011 model of the Toyota Prius (picture included)?
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A: I agree with Pinball_fan. It’s just a concept car. Based on looks only, I guess it’s not all that bad. But with the technology available today, they should be able to do a lot better. It better get 100 miles per gallon because looks sure ain’t gonna sell it. It’s not exactly what I’d call sleek.

Q: TOYOTA PRIUS 2008 OR FORD FIESTA 2011?…………?
for a first car?……why?

Im thinking for a car next year or maybe in 2 or 3 years?………..
newer isnt always better
I also like the camaro or the mustang but still not sure….

A: Neither. Don’t spend $20k+ on your first car, its a waste as chance are, you’ll crash it. Also please, don’t be a spoiled rich girl and drive around in a V6 camaro/mustang. Buy something cheap to learn on, then buy something nicer.

While the prius is better on gas, unless you’re driving it for 300k+ miles, you don’t get the money you spent on it back. They tell you its “Green” or good for the environment, but in all reality the way the nickel for the batteries is mined destroys miles upon miles of land and turns them to nothing, all they want is for you to think they care about the environment.

Q: 2009 Toyota Prius question?
Im looking at a few 2009 Toyota Prius’s that range from having 30,000 to 46,000 miles on them, im wondering if i should be concerned about the mileage on them i know thats not a lot at all, but i dont know how things work with hybrids and if im going to expect problems in the near future with this vehicle? i’m also considering a 2011 Toyota Corolla…

A: “im wondering if i should be concerned about the mileage on them”

I’d be worried about a Prius with any mileage.

If you value your life and your daughter’s life, don’t buy Japanese cars.

-TOYOTA SUCKS

Q: is there a drive car show for 2011 prius?
I saw a ads for a car show for 2011 sienna, will it be anything like that for other toyota cars?

A: There have been events for the Prius in the past. However, traditionally the next year’s Prius doesn’t come out till after the August factory holidays.

Q: How do you get more mpg on a vehicle?
If a Toyota Prius has 51/48 estimated mpg, if you can get more, how do you get more?

(Owner of a brand new 2011 Toyota Prius I bought on Saturday, I only get 43 mpg)

Should I drive it on the highway for better mpg?
So far the car is great. The interior looks good, but the materials are cheap. Its fun to drive, and has good cargo room.
Just forget about Alan. I’m never talking to him again.

A: Your car should get better fuel mileage after the engine is broke in. The fuel mileage is usually worse at first, due to the engine being tight.

Q: When do the 2011 cars start becoming available?
I am specifically thinking about the Toyota Prius. We want to buy a 2010 model and have heard that when the next year’s models come out, the current model goes on sale. Curious how long we have to wait…

A: Traditionally the Prius’ model year starts being manufactured right after the August factory holidays with the first cars arriving in North America about the middle of October. However, this is subject to change so watch for the announcements of the new model. Once it’s announced, the previous year’s model will go on sale. The longer you wait the less it will be but the greater the chance you won’t get the options that you want.

Q: Which car is better? VW Jetta TDI or Toyota Prius?
This will be my first car, I need it to last me a while, which one is more dependable. Both cars will be 2011.

A: It would go with the German technology VW, less complicated and more dependable than the Prius and you don’t have to replace a expensive battery pack every 8 years…plus it’s know fact that diesel motors outlast gasoline ones by double… Plus it gets better overall mpg..

Q: Why should I buy a hybrid car when a non hybrid car gets similar gas mileage?
Current Fuel economy ratings and prices for hybrid cars don’t seem to make sense.

2011 Honda Insight: $18,000 – 40/43 MPG
2011 Honda Civic Hybrid – $24,000 – 40/43 MPG
2011 Toyota Prius – $22,000 – 51/48 MPG

The gas mileage all sounds great until you look at the 2011 Hyundai Elantra which is $17,000 and gets 29/40 MPG. And the 2012 Ford Focus is expected to get similar MPG.

It makes the Insight look like a decent deal but why would anyone pay $7000 more than the Elantra for a Civic Hybrid?

And if the Elantra can get such good fuel economy with a plain old internal combustion engine shouldn’t the hybrid cars have much higher MPG?

Are MPG ratings low for hybrids and people actually get better mileage than the estimates?

A: The EPA ratings are really for comparison and not what you’re supposed to get. The way it is supposed to work is this:

1. You have a car that you want to get rid of. You look up it’s EPA rating and then compare it to the actual MPG you get (from your logbook) and come up with a percentage. That percentage might be greater then or less than 100%.

2. You look up the car you would like to get, then multiply it’s EPA rating by the percentage that was calculated in step one to see what you are likely to get.

Unfortunately, the EPA threw us a curve when they changed the ratings because now there are pre-change and post-change ratings which makes the comparison harder to do. (Especially for those cars that only have “pre” ratings).

Now my 2004 Prius was rated at the time at 51/55/60. I’ve now driven it 115,000 miles and the logbook show an average of 57 mpg. That consists of about 20% vacation trip miles and 80% commuting miles. Since the combined EPA number was 55 for combined that means it’s 103% over the EPA number. Given the accuracy of the measuring devices, anything within 5% is the same as zero, so I’ve received the EPA number. Had it been after the new lowered ratings, then I would have been quite a bit over.

The fly in the ointment here is that most folks don’t keep a logbook and so don’t really know what they get. If they do any kind of mpg tracking at all, it’s usually on a vacation trip when the car gets it’s highway mpg and they assume it’s getting the city EPA mpg as well.

In driving other cars on my commute (like a Corolla) and trying to drive them in an economical fashion, I’ve found they get about half the mpg of the Prius.

In addition, the Prius is a mid-sized car, not a compact. It doesn’t take a lot of engineering skill to make a smaller car get good mpg.

In my opinion 29/40 is a long way from 57 mpg. Remember that unless you’re driving almost all long distance highway trips, if you get EPA mpg you’ll mostly be getting 29.

Q: POLL: Please take this survey?
Choose one of two choices for each number below:

1. Hot chocolate or Coffee

2. Fried Chicken or Spaghetti

3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charmed

4. Bacon and Eggs or Pancakes and strawberries

5. John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan

6. Ice Road Truckers or Antiques Roadshow

7. 2011 Ford Fiesta or 2011 Toyota Prius

8. Fried Shrimp and fried potatoes and cole slaw or 8 ounce Ribeye steak and cheese mashed potatoes

9. All expenses paid week trip to Florida, or all expenses trip to Alaska

10. Corona or Heinekin

A: hot chocolate
spaghetti
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pancakes and strawberries
JFK
Ice Road Truckers
2011 Ford Fiesta
8 ounce Ribeye steak and cheese mashed potatoes
All expenses paid week trip to Florida
Corona hands down!

Q: Is S400 Hybrid worth it?
My dad wants to get a brand new S-Class, the 2011 version when it comes out. When does come out by the way? Anyways, he has the money to buy a S65 but he also likes to save the environment. He wants a Mercedes-Benz for sure and he came across the S400 Hybrid. He read and watched a lot of reviews on it(the 2010 version) and they all said it wasn’t as nice as S550, and it is a bit sluggish. Reviewers said it feels really slow.

Here is the thing, we live in Michigan where there is 6 months of winter. It usually snows 2-3 times a week. Some people say if the driver is careful, a rear-wheel drive(S400 Hybrid) can handle the snow and some say it’s dangerous. I know 3 people who totaled their rear-wheel drive in the snow, but they were all teenagers. If he gets a S550, it will be a 4MATIC. Also will people think that my dad couldn’t afford a S550 if he gets the S400?

Also part of the reason he wants a S-Class is because well #1 it’s the top selling and most popular luxury car in the world but also because it’s used as state/president cars in Asia and Europe. Which one do they usually use? S550 or S600?

Is getting the S400 worth it? Would you get a S400 or S550 if you could afford it, even though S400 is more environment friendly? But S550 is environment friendly too right? I heard S550 uses recycled material and burns fuel cleaner than Toyota Prius, which is good for the environment.

Thoughts please, thank you (:

A: You’ve been watching Top Gear, huh? Maybe you haven’t. I don’t know. But anyway, if it does snow a lot, you should DEFINITELY get an all-wheel-drive/4MATIC. The best luxury car for an area with a lot of snow is the Range Rover. It really can handle snow well. He shouldn’t get a RWD. It’s not going to be good in a lot of snow. But if you’re getting an S-Class (my favorite sedan in the world) you definitely should NOT get the hybrid. 0-60 in 7 SECONDS! That is VERY slow. It is very sluggish. I know it’s environmentally friendly, but it’s so boring to drive. Don’t get it. One car doesn’t make any difference. The S550 uses a bunch of recycled material- well so does the S400, and the S600, and the S63 and S65, too. Not just the S550. It burns fuel a lot cleaner than a Toyota Prius. Everybody says the Prius is environmentally-friendly, but it’s not! It uses a LOT more energy to make a Prius than an S-Class, but I’m not going to go there. Now I’ll answer your questions one by one. The 2011 S-Class will be released November 15, 2010, but there might be a delay. People will NOT think that he’s poor if he gets the hybrid, people don’t think that when they see hybrids. Some will say, “Ah, there’s an idiot who sacrifices power for environment,” while others will say, “Ah, a good fellow, trying to save the Earth,” but nobody will think that he’s poor. Poor people get the E-Class. Which one do the presidents in Asia and Europe use- definitely the S600. If your dad can afford it, he really should get it, it is a phenomenal car in terms of performance, especially since it is so heavy. But the AMG models are even better. It’s actually kind of tough between the S600 and the S63- the S600 having a smaller engine but 12 cylinders, while the S63 having a larger engine but 8 cylinders. Anyway, is the S400 worth it? Nah. Very expensive, very sluggish, very slow. Of course, it’s an S-Class, and compared to any Lexus LS model, it is better, but for an S-Class, it’s no good. If I could afford it (I can, actually) I would definitely get the S550. The S550 isn’t so bad in terms of environment. You’re right, it has a lot of recycled material, but, then, so does the S400. It definitely burns fuel much cleaner than a Prius- a horrid car indeed. Overall, if he really is willing to sacrifice a lot of performance for environment, he should get the S400, but if he doesn’t want to spend a lot on a car that is VERY slow, he should definitely get the S550/S600, and I would personally get the S600.

Q: (homework) please can you summarize and respond this article?
Air Cars: A New Wind for America’s Roads?
by Jim Ostroff
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Courtesy of MDI
A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all over the country
An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.

The expertise needed to build a compressed air car, or CAV, is not rocket science, either. Years-old, off-the-shelf technology uses compressed air to drive old-fashioned car engine pistons instead of combusting gas or diesel fuel to create a burst of air to do the same thing. Indian carmaker Tata has no qualms about the technology. It has already bought the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market.
The air car can tool along at a top speed of 35 mph for some 60 miles or so on a tank of compressed air, a sufficient distance for 80% of consumers to commute to work and back and complete daily chores.

Courtesy of MDI
On highways, the CAV can cruise at interstate speeds for nearly 800 miles with a small motor that compresses outside air to keep the tank filled. The motor isn’t finicky about fuel. It will burn gasoline or diesel as well as biodiesel, ethanol or vegetable oil.
This car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today’s fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius. The air tank also can be refilled when it’s not in use by being plugged into a wall socket and recharged with electricity as the motor compresses air.
Automakers aren’t quite ready yet to gear up huge assembly line operations churning out air cars or set up glitzy dealer showrooms where you can ooh and aah over the color or style. But the vehicles will be built in factories that will make up to 8,000 vehicles a year, likely starting in 2011, and be sold directly to consumers.
There will be plants in nearly every state, based on the number of drivers in the state. California will have as many as 17 air car manufacturing plants, and there’ll be around 12 in Florida, eight in New York, four in Georgia, while two in Connecticut will serve that state and Rhode Island.

The technology goes back decades, but is coming together courtesy of two converging forces. First, new laws are likely to be enacted in a few years that will limit carbon dioxide emissions and force automakers to develop ultra-high mileage cars and those that emit minuscule amounts of or no gases linked with global warming. Plug-in electric hybrids will slash these emissions, but they’ll be pricey at around $40,000 each and require some changes in infrastructure — such as widespread recharge stations — to be practical. Fuel cells that burn hydrogen to produce only water vapor still face daunting technical challenges.
Second, the relatively high cost of gas has expedited the air car’s development. Yes, pump prices have plunged since July from record levels, but remain way higher than just a few years ago and continue to take a bite out of disposable income. Refiners will face carbon emission restraints, too, and steeply higher costs will be passed along at the pump.
Zero Pollution Motors doesn’t plan to produce the cars in the U.S. Instead, it plans to charge $15 million for the rights to the technology, a fully built turnkey auto assembly plant, tools, machinery, training and rights to use trademarks.
The CAV has a big hurdle: proving it can pass federal crash tests. Shiva Vencat, president and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors, says he’s not worried. “The requirements can be modeled [on a computer] before anything is built and adjusted to ensure that the cars will pass” the crash tests. Vencat also is a vice president of MDI Inc., a French company that developed the air car.
The inventor of this technology is Mr. Guy Negre, who is the founder and CEO of MDI SA, a company headquartered in Luxembourg with its R and D in Nice, France.

A: Best way to do this assignment is to break it down into bite-size pieces. Take each paragraph and jot down the most important point(s) in it. For example:

An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.

becomes:

Zero Pollution Motors is developing an air-powered car that will cost $20,000 and run all day on nothing but air and a bit of salad oil, alcohol or a pint of gasoline.

Do the same for each paragraph. Now you’ll have a condensed version and, more importantly, it will be in your own words.

Then shorten ever more, if possible.

Q: Discrete and Continuous Data?
I need some homework help… Would “Toyota hopes to produce 100,000 Prius hybrids for the United States in 2011″ be an example of continuous or discrete data? I’m so confused! Please help!

A: Discrete. The number of cars must be an integer.

Q: I don’t know what i can write about this article that relates to microeconomic, please help?
Really need your help , i hav no idea what i can write aboout this article that can relate in the terms econ?
please can someone read this article from wallstreet journal, or my microeconomic class i have to write an essay,in th essay i have to relate the article into miroeconomic terms. Could you please help me to find terms to describe this article( terms that relate to micoconomic).
Nisn Price Electic Leaf for U.S and Japan
on tuesday set the pricing for its nw leaf electric car that gos on sale in theU.S and japan in December as the japanee auto maker tries to lure buyers to its big bet on electric vehicles.
in the U.S the zero emissions leaf will carry a sticker price of $32,780 and buyers will be eligible for a $7,00 federal tax credit for lectric vehicles. In Japan the car will cost buyers $32,000 are a governmet incentive is applied there. the price in pan will be 3.76 million yen, or $4,700 before the incentive Nissan abandoned an earlier proosal to lease the Leaf’s bttry to consumers as a way to dera the cost, citing government hurdles in Japan. The auto maker has the capacity o produce 50,000 of the electric vehicles a year in Japan from 2011 to 2013 at which pont nissan will add pruction of te leaf and its batterie in smyrna, tenn. The U.S plant will have the capaity to build 150,00vehicles a year. nissan said t will begin taking purchse oers for the 2011 leaf on april 1 in japan and apr20 i U.S the vehicle hi has a 100 mile range wil be available or sale in all U.S states by the end f 2011. U.S sales of the leaf will begin noregon ,california, washington, arizona and tennessee. “we want to mas aret our ars so our gol ws t sell them at anafordable pice” Nissan’s chief operation officer, Toshiyuki shiga said in Japan. The Leaf has attracted a lot of attention in te auto industry as all electric vehicles have s far ony been sld with high prics and in low volumes. Nissan hopes the laf wll compete with hybridspowered by gasolinnd electricity such as the prius and hoda motor corp’s insight as auto akrs begin to offer ival visions of fuel efficient low emsssion vehice bu electric vehicls remain constried by their batteres limid range. laer this year general motors co. is to begin sales of its rage-extended chevrolet volt electric sedan in california . Michian and washington D.C toyota plans to begin sales of a small electic vehicle in 2012. brian crolin , seniorvc president of sales and marketing for nissan in north america, estimated that the feling costs will be slightly less than a third for a comparable internl cobustion engine. the leaf’s cost to buyers in the U.S is about 21% blow the cost for customers in Japan, inlding japanese goverrnment subsidies. Mr. carolin said the difference is in line with nissan’s global pricing patterns, in which hgher prices are charge in japan and europe. “cars in the U.S are cheper” he said.

A: You poorly re-typed a copyrighted news article from the Wall Street Journal, and then you expect other people to do your homework for you?

PRICELESS!

Q: Discrete and Continuous Data?
I need some homework help… Would “Toyota hopes to produce 100,000 Prius hybrids for the United States in 2011″ be an example of continuous or discrete data? I’m so confused! Please help!

A: *It would be discrete, A discrete variable is one that can have scores of discrete points on a scale. For example, a family can consist of 3 children, 4, children, or 5 children, but not something like 4.5 children. So, Toyota could produce 100,000 hybrids, but not 100,000.5…For your information, a continuous variable is one whose scores on a scale are continuous and not discrete steps. For example, the time to complete a race could be 20.50 seconds or something like 20.5011 seconds*

M.S. Experimental Psychology

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