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Ever since last winter, with its crazy snowstorms, and even a bit before that i’ve been extremely unhappy with the Prius. I’ve never felt entirely safe with that car in anything that wasn’t dry weather, it tends to throw its traction control system on very quickly and, quite frankly, when that does come on it seems the car slips more.
Now aside from not liking a 2WD car, I have a space problem since I want to get a second fairly large dog, and Elka already has some trouble fitting in the Prius.
I had decided, several months ago, that I was going to trade the Prius in come this August for a larger car. It was between the Honda Element (ruled out in one test drive), the Subaru Forester, and the Honda CRV. I didn’t like the CRV’s drive that much. I really liked the Subaru Outback’s drive but the dealer let me put Elka in the Forester and the Outback, and the Forester was the clear winner.
However, I have now decided to move up the date of the trade-in to sometime next week; and yes, this is because of the tons of problems that Toyota is having. I’m getting a lot of flack for that, with “gullible” being one of the nicer words used. This is from multiple people.
Now, personally? I don’t give a shit if I’m gullible. I may well be. But is my safety worth the risk? I do not think so. The plain fact is that I don’t trust the Prius, and haven’t for awhile; the recent hype has only increased that many-fold.
I also do not like Toyota’s handling of the entire mess, though that on its own would not be cause for me to trade in the Prius early.
What it comes down to is this: It’s absolute insanity for human beings to be manning over a ton of metal at high speed. I think cars are amongst the stupidest and most suicidal concepts that we as a race have adopted. But until there is a better option and one that allows me to also transport my dogs, then that is what we’ve got. I’m going to do my best to make sure that the vehicle is the safest that I can afford, and kids? That ain’t the Prius.
-Lisa, on March 10, 2010 at 1:16 pm