Soo my Honda Accord finally died and I’m probably gonna get a hybrid to replace it with. Anyone bought a hybrid recently they’ve been particularly happy with?
Kinda into the Hyundai Ionic but I have no idea if Hyundai support still sucks. Kia Niro seemed solid. Lexus CT is weirdly in my 20k-25k price range so that’s also been a contender.
I’d probably do electric if I could, but I’m bouncing from apartment to apartment right now, so, no idea if my next place would have a way to charge it.
I got a prius C like a year after they were on the market because used ones weren’t showing up & the civic my wife had when I moved out here was showing its age & it was and still is the cheapest hybrid with the best gas mileage
I will happily drive it until automated EVs are mainstream in a decade or whatever
the hatch space isn’t massive and the AC takes a little while to blow out the chemical smell after you shut it off but it’s a great car, the backseat is surprisingly comfortable, I can’t really see spending any more unless you need more space or you don’t do a lot of city driving, because the highway numbers aren’t that impressive compared to current mazdas
The armrest situation kind of sucks on the cheaper model but I got used to it
it also might be my imagination but it feels way nimbler than the couple times I’ve driven a regular prius
That helps, thanks. Probably gonna try test driving a regular Prius today and see how that strikes me.
my take is, if you’re already prepared to spend over $20k on a korean car, get a japanese car
and if you’re already looking at priuses, definitely compare the C to the fullsize. I find the latter just as hard to love as everyone always said. the preowned market is at least a lot more saturated though.
If you want a hybrid go Toyota, they still do it the best.
I have a Camry hybrid and I near live my life in it.
Lexus CT should have the identical powertrain to the auris/corolla hybrid, if you get the chance, sample both to find out if you want to pay the premium for the admittedly good interieur of the lexus.
i’ve been pondering getting a CT three years ago, but went for a V6 petrol, Crossing that off the bucketlist first…
since the timing belt will have to be replaced next year and a new set of winter tires would be up as well, i’ve been looking into possible follow up models, and am also thinking about some hybrid models.
EVs aren’t there yet (in that price range, that is) in terms of acceptable range, and the ioniq/leaf/Zoe are currently the only models that are available with acceptable range and price, if you get a good deal and have a wall outlet your disposal… which you seem not to.
So, hybrid toyotas currently seem to be the best option when it comes to availability, price and dealership support, and felix seems to have Covered that well enough, better than i could at least.
… i repeat. stay away from it. Don’t even think about it. why?
well, it is basically this ugly thing
put in a nice suit, and for good measure they somehow strapped a Hybrid drivetrain in the back to make it a faux 4WD monster that has worse mileage than one of the Diesel versions of this car.
so.
because i absolutely adore it, and my taste is nothing to write home about, i cannot recommnd this wonderful oddball, because i like it too much and am biased towards zem crazy french voitures, tres bien~~~~
This is unhelpful, but what you should do is invent time travel and then return to the past to score this screeming hot deal on a baller ass ride:
how do you buy a car as an adult on an hourly income and not be destitute
I managed to get a pretty good-paying job at Amazon Robotics doing tech writing, which is like, the most frantic, unhealthy, stressful position I’ve ever held, where I and everyone around me are doing at least three people’s jobs. AND, as a bonus, we’re all working to replace vast swaths of other people’s jobs with robots.
I feel like we’re moving into an era where you can either get a job with a soulless megacorporation that’ll militantly march you toward your own obsolescence, or, you don’t get healthcare or the money to buy essential shit like a car.
Anyways the Lexus CT was weird. It’s basically an older Prius wrapped in a rich person car, with a lot of little amenities here and there, but none of the supposed luxury quality you’re supposed to get. Drove pretty well. Had farty leather seats and a fucking STEERING WHEEL HEATER.
Drove the regular 2015 Prius today and liked it. Gonna try to find a 2016 since apparently there was a jump in quality between '15 and '16.
I had a 2011 CRZ manual. It was a halfway decent car once I did some minor mods to it (cold air intake, short shifter, Honda Fit intake manifold). I got 100k miles out of that car without any problems and I averaged 43mpg. I now have a 2016 C300 and a Alfa Romeo 4C. I am seriously considering a VW eGolf or Fiat 500e if I can get one cheap enough.
Save up $3k and buy something Japanese used on Craigslist
I know this is also impossible but there you go
Being able & willing to buy a new car is one of my breakpoints for determining when someone has more money than sense.
the preowned market here is terrible
it killed me to buy a new car but it actually made financial sense, which went against everything I knew
leaving america and moving someplace where capitalism isn’t completely broken actually makes you have to question a lot of your heuristics and instead just make the easy choice sometimes because it’s not always wrong
like it turns out the whole “just get something a few years old with a 40 or 50 thousand miles on it for half of the sticker price” logic is strongly predicated on oversupply in the US market & there being a huge chunk of the population who needs lots of cars much cheaper than that for their livelihood.
every few months I check craigslist to confirm this, and yes, trying to get a used prius C would’ve saved all of like three grand out of 21, would’ve required waiting two or three more years, would’ve made selling our existing car more of a pain in the ass, and would’ve gotten me a vehicle with a rebuilt title because it was in a crash, because no other used cars are even circulating. none of which takes into account hybrid battery wear.
it took months for me to accept this, honest
the car I owned before this (not the civic that belonged to my wife) I sold to a friend for $800 because the door handles came off
Carvana is a pretty cool website. You buy a used car through the site, the car is then shipped to you and you have 7 days to decide if you want to keep it. The site also shows you how much time is left on the car’s warranty. It seems like it makes the used car buying process much simpler.
I wanted a hybrid so bad when I bought a car earlier this year but I really could not afford it at all. I ended up with a Cruz that I actually really like, but the protip I picked up for poor people is that Ford Fiesta is as decent as any budget subcompact but for some reason doesn’t hold it’s value for shit. If my family hadn’t helped with the purchase that’s what I would have ended up with.
I think it’s because ford subcompacts just weren’t credible in the states for so long even though they were always some of the better American cars in the European market
Americans looking at that market segment are way more likely to buy Japanese or Korean
sth I find interesting, tbh, because why’d you choose asian over the blue oval? just asking, since I’m curious (and also since I’m also asked often why on earth I bought a french barge instead of a proper car, so I know that question very well ~~~).
