A great car for someone looking to spend less on gas and more on traveling around on adventures. I love packing my car with gear (yoga mat, swimsuit, picnic, the works!), grabbing a few friends, and setting up my playlist to play out of my awesome sound system. The interior feels roomy with the domed roof but it parallel parks like a dream for urban adventures, like downtown LA ramen crawls. In a year of owning it, not one system has gone bad. Once I thought my dashboard light had blown out but I had turned the level of brightness down with my knee! Luckily Toyota has great online forums who set me straight.

The Prius is the perfect car -- with two exceptions. It's bad with hills, and it's bad with snow. Driving up a snowy hill is impossible. Normal paved hills are fine...dirt roads not so much. Other than that, it's been reliable, and I have no complaints. The gas mileage was great when I got it -- up to 60 mph highway. Now it's just good, 40mph or more. The car has 100,000 miles on it, and the decline in mileage occurred over many years. I still love my car. I'd like to buy a new one, because I don't like having an old car now that it's starting to have a few things break (a water pump last year, a catalytic converter this year) -- but I'm going to get another Prius.