Toyota Prius: 2 Prii family

com wrote: 

I have a 2001 Toyota Prius. Ordered Sept. 2000, received beginning of
Feb. 2001. Finally got rid of my Mercury Mystake (mystique).

My mother liked it so much, and with all my talking about it, she
ordered a 2002 Prius in June 2001, received Nov. 2001. (Whaa - she got
the color I wanted, and didn't get the color that she really wanted
(same as mine) so as not to copy me...) She traded in a Chevy Corsica.

My husband would usually try and steal my car whenever he could.
(After all, we figured that whomever has the longer commute or if we
were going out somewhere together, then use the higher MPG car...)
Although he loved his Saturn SL2, when Toyota sent out the Pioneer
letter for the redesigned 2004 Prius, he jumped on it. Pioneer
ordered the 2004 Prius on the July 4th holiday weekend 2003, and
received it in Nov. 2003. (We still don't understand the point of the
Pioneer orders - I know a guy who walked in off the street (never
having seen a Prius other than mine in passing) and bought a 2004 Prius
at a dealer in Oct. that didn't have any more Pioneer orders...)

But we were late to the game to be a 2-Prius family. On the
toyota-prius Yahoo!Group, there were a few that had beaten us to it, or
were a 2 or more hybrid family, even a 3 Prius family...

And soon, due to a job relocation (living in a big city I can walk or
take public transportation everywhere), I'll be needing to sell my
unused Prius. I'll miss them...

com wrote: 
My wife and I were in the long queue waiting for our 2004 package 9 from
Sept 2003 until it arrived March 2004. We got a black one, because we
had a "take it or leave it" choice. Two months later, an out-of-state
dealer called to say our white 2004 package 9 was available. I flew in
to Charleston, WVA and the salesman picked me up for the second 2004
Prius purchase. I didn't trade anything in. We sold our 2001 Prius after
we got the white 2004. Sold the black one after 6 months for two
thousand more than what we paid, so we are back to one Prius. Still
thinking about a 2007 with the touring package in that new green color
though...

We bought a 2004 (package #7) back in November of 2003. My wife and I drove
it cross country from San Diego to Florida and back in December of 2005. The
car was comfortale enough during the trip so we called our local dealer from
Texas and ordered a 2006 package #8 for my wife. We picked it up in January
2006. We used to have two Honda Accords. No regrets. We had one major
problem with the multi-function display after the 2004 was out of warranty
but Toyota took care of it less the labor cost.

Kari

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I just joined the club Thursday with a second 2002 that has 103K miles on
it. My wife has had dibs on the green 2002 we bought new, and now I have a
white one. The 1985 Volvo station wagon I had been driving was off the road
anyway (I replaced the Hall effect sensor in the distributor yesterday) and
things just sort of came together. I just love the driving feel of the
Prius; the smoothness and quietness and the nimble feel of the electrics
combined with the amazing turning radius.

As an avid DIYer I have always wanted two nearly identical cars for the
times when I am having trouble figuring out what is going on when one acts
up. Coincidentally, the service record of the one I just bought is the same
as the one we have had - beyond routine maintenance, no repair except a
replacement windshield (this *is* Arizona!)

Mike

Currently I have a 2000 Corolla outside my 2005 Prius. Ever since we
got the Prius the Corolla has been my personal commute car only with the
Prius doing all the main work (commuting my wife to work and all weekend
trips, etc.).

With the 2000 Corolla just starting to show it's age (we recently had to
replace o2 sensors), we're eyeballing the features of the 2008 Prius as
a potential purchase with all it's plugin features and better mileage.

The other thought has been to sell the Corolla and just become a 1 car
family (my wife works close enough to where I work to where this might
be possible). But then again the Corolla is still fairly cheap on the
insurance and gas (hey 35mpg is respectable for an all gas car).


Gregory Harris
com

Michael Pardee wrote: 

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Please, don't use this awful plural!

"Prii is a pseudo-Latin fabrication. The real plural of the Latin word Prius
is Priora. (Prius is the neuter form of Prior, which means much the same in
Latin as in English, but can function as adjective, adverb or noun). I'd say
the invariant plural Prius, or just Priuses are defensible. Priora is
cumbersome, and wouldn't be recognised as a plural by your average English
speaker. Prii is a bit silly. As for Toyota's authority - I've never seen
them use a plural of Prius in any of their literature, so I'm not sure we'll
get an answer from them. Probably because marketing types seem to have a
morbid fear of plurals; they keep talking about "product" and such-like.
Toyota generally just talk about "the Prius". I suspect their internal style
guide rules against pluralising any of their vehicle names. And I'd tend to
agree with them - it's clumsy. Try to rephrase, or use "the
Prius". --KJBracey 12:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC). I don't have a referential
link handy right this second, but I recall seeing a link to a Toyota rep
saying the plural form of Prius is 'Prius' 65.244.227.194 04:59, 15 March
2006 (UTC) Rob Palkowski"
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toyota_Prius#Plural_form_of_Prius

Diako, the linguist

Diako wrote:
 

Well the ultimage authority - googlefight.com - says it's Prii (Prii =
324,000, Priuses = 96,400):
<http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=priuses&word2=prii>.
;-)

But I'm with you on this, it should be Priuses. Prii peeves me almost as
much as faux Latin plurals of virus. (Although neither drives me to
apoplexy as much as the dreaded /chaise lounge/.)

Paul

I like the suggestion of somebody whose identity I have forgotten: Prius
cars.