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Get a 2014 Camry much better then a Corolla
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Per year 100,000km for 3 or 4 years. i know a little bit about maintenance.
What is ur reason ?
Better ride quality and is very reliable that's why taxis are always the Camry, Corolla ride sucks u will feel every bump and ur car will feel like crap driving on crappy downtown roads
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I have a 4cyl camry now previous a corolla and previous to that a cruze . Tips are much better with the camry gas mpg the same with all 3 chev was lowest cost per km because the car cost many thousands less to buy . I feel human with the camry after 10 to 12 hours on the road the ride is better . The cruze was hard on the human body the corolla much better . remember you will mile out whatever car you buy in 3 or 4 years. before everybody jumps on me about mpg I drive in the burbs only and 80% of the time on the 400 series highways at 115klms and avoid rush hours when i can
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Then get a Prius. Compared to a Corolla, fuel savings would be about $4000 per year at current gas prices.
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Prius looks ugly but thanks
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Yes, but your bank acount will be pretty! What's more important to you? Prius has a pretty shocking reliability (considering it is carrying 2 drive trains), and the MPG is astounding, even on a 6+ year old version.
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Here is an instructive parable.
There once was an incompetent boy who realized early that he was pretty much useless at everythng. He figured he might live another 65 years and realized that his prospects did not look great. So he took stock and decided that the only way he could have any sort of material comfort was to be a kept lad.
He gave up trying to do well at regular education and went to acting school. As a side job he worked as a roadie for the fashion industry, eventually touring with the runway girls. He studied hard. He learned how to dress and he worked on his hair. He learned how to use the slow, sidelong glance. He learned to blink slowly. He took voice training and learned to put actor's pauses into his speech. He unhooked his lower spine from his hips and learned to strut with a loose swagger. He walked slowly to make it last.
Eventually the runway girls started to notice him. They were gorgeous, eye catching young women. What symmetry! What lines! How they glowed! How the men wanted them! You could go blind if you stared straight at them. But he took little notice of their attentions: he was after bigger game. One day he met an odd, skinny, geeky looking science student doing post-graduate work at the University. She was in Chemistry and her prospects looked very good. Industry and government both wanted her. She was brilliant but not as wise as our incompetent young man. He had found what he had been looking for! Her brainy but unworldly friends couldn't believe she was dating such an attractive boy. He kept his unschooled thoughts to himself. In the end he lived happily for the rest of his life. Her? Well that's another parable.
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My wife is in finance-IT at one of the large banks. I'm a well kept boy, if not so pretty.
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Used Hybrids are risky vehicles to buy. Especially if there is no warranty left on the hybrid components. The battery pack replacement on a Prius is at least 5000. If you're going to buy hybrid, new is best.
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Anecdotal, but still maybe instructive. I drove my 2006 prius for >10 years, >225,000km and the battery was still fine.
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If you find a car at 10k or less, buy it.
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Yeah but it has a small accident from behind.
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I disagree with this advice. The Toyotas have excellent reliability and fairly cheap repairs. They rarely break and the batteries usually last the life of the car. I'm working on a battery today from a 2008 Prius that has 360,000km on it. It has one bad subpack out of 28 and a replacement subpack costs about $40. I fixed a pack out of a 2004 last year and it took 3 subpacks. It had 305,000km then and now, 11 months later it has 380,000km. Good replacement packs are about $600. It takes about an hour to swap a full pack. Servicing is a lot more work and expertise but not expensive. Lots of guys like me do it.
I help people who drive a lot and these old Priuses are really good performers. One guy does 2400km a week- 90% highway. He has a 2008 Prius. In all cases these guys put on 100,000-150,000km and sell them after a year or two. They typically drop from $5,000 to $2000 in value and are rough when they sell them. Repairs are minimal. One guy hammers his over dirt roads doing newspaper delivery- he needed some suspension work but it was cheap (He's the guy whose car took a bullet but that's another story- it wasn't quite bullet-proof!)
I have been describing the Gen2 Prius which was from 2004-2009. The next gen Priuses are really nice and get even better fuel economy but they do need some attention paid to the EGR system or there could be trouble. I had to replace an engne on a Prius V at 350,000km because the previous owner didn't do the cleaning. At the very least, if you have a Gen3 Prius, use top gas with good detergents, clean the PCV valve and, if you can, clean the EGR passages.
Here's today's job. Gen2 Prius. Bad subpack marked with an X.
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How about chevy cruze 2014 .its pretty cheaper than toyota. Almost half to half. Why people choose toyota
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If you plan on driving 100,000km per year then fuel economy will be very important. Work it out. At $1.25 per litre, every litre per 100km savings will be $1,250. So a car that gets 9 l/100km will cost $5000 more per year than a car that gets 5 l/100km. If you keep the car for four years that works out to $20,000 extra you pay to the oil billionaires.
The oil billionaires need the money and they thank you. As an Uber driver you won't be making very much at 9 l/100km. Good luck. Be smart. Use your head. Don't go for glitz. A car is just an appliance. Think of the money, the environment or both.
The oil billionaires need the money and they thank you. As an Uber driver you won't be making very much at 9 l/100km. Good luck. Be smart. Use your head. Don't go for glitz. A car is just an appliance. Think of the money, the environment or both.
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I wish that a math wiz here on the forum would do a radar chart (spider chart) of the factors that go into profitability in rideshare. Car payments, fuel economy, working hours, whatever. I think the chart would show that normal gas cars yield little profit. Frankly, normal gas cars are obsolete. There are no-compromise choices available now. The cost of ownership of a hybrid is less and they hold their value better. In a growing number of situations, electrics are even cheaper.
People who drive standard gas cars may not know this but brakes on a hybrid or electric last about twice as long. And with electrics there is very little maintenance- brakes and suspension, mostly.
It would be fun to see how electrics and hybrids map out on a spider chart compared to a straight gas car. I think market competition will soon push gas cars right to the edge of profitability for rideshare. As far as looks goes, you don't want to end up a stodgy old-timer in the electric age. The ladies (or enter preferred gender here) won't go for yesterday's look.
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People who drive standard gas cars may not know this but brakes on a hybrid or electric last about twice as long. And with electrics there is very little maintenance- brakes and suspension, mostly.
It would be fun to see how electrics and hybrids map out on a spider chart compared to a straight gas car. I think market competition will soon push gas cars right to the edge of profitability for rideshare. As far as looks goes, you don't want to end up a stodgy old-timer in the electric age. The ladies (or enter preferred gender here) won't go for yesterday's look.
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