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How many Toyota Prius cars did you encounter on your commute?

To me it looks like we are being invaded by Prius cars. Every other car I see on the road is a Prius.

Public Comments

1. Yellow Cabs in Vancouver BC has several
2. i live in malta and so far i seen only 2, i think prius will only last until they give trouble i dont like them
3. Prius is very well built car. Buying my Prius was a way to give the oil giants the finger. Fill up every 2 or 3 wks. and have to put in only 8 gal. of fuel. If Americans learned to be less dependent of oil, then maybe the price would drop. Supply and demand is the name of the big oil game.
4. I hate Prius's! Everybodies driving them now because they're trendy, not for ecological reasons, it's ridiculous. I just love having them all clogging the HOV lane *sarcasm*. They love to drive 10-15 mph BELOW the posted speed limit while reveling in their pseudo-righteousness.
5. Put my vote on the anti Prius side. I owned one for two years and I found that most of the information about them is advertising hype. Do they get 55 MPG? No, more like 34-35 on the combined city and freeway driving almost everybody does. Are they easy to fix? No, mine sat in the shop while they tried to figure out what was wrong. Then they tried to make me pay for part of the repairs because they said only part of a complete system failure was covered under warranty. I trade mine for a Mercedes Benz that got 30 MPG and never gave me a days problem ever. I might ad that the CLK 230 Benz was only about $5,000 more than the Prius. It is probably ten times the car. I find the vast amount of Americans believe the Hybrid is the wave of the future. I think it is the hype of the future.
6. Hybrids are not the wave of the future. They are merely a part of the evolution of the automobile. They have yet to prove to be the answer to any of our problems. For one thing, our problems would be best solved initially by our behavior, but since America has a poor energy policy, that's unlikely to happen.
7. Yes, I'm seeing more of them every day. That's got to be a good thing, in my opinion. The people I know who have one love them. They didn't buy them to be trendy, they bought them to try to make a difference, to use less gas, pollute less, etc. I got one myself recently, and I AM getting 55 mpg. It's obvious that how you drive will affect your results. This is part of the evolution of the automobile, and certainly not the last word, but it is a good step in the right direction.