Just picked this up - Prius C

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Im not a critic. It is what it is. With me its all about bottom line. Right now the Prius C is the loser when it comes to a Yaris in that department.

Its not in my interest for cars like the Prius to do well. I dont want Toyota to make cars I dont want to buy. I want Prius's to sit on the dealers lot and rust. I want Toyota to lose BILLIONS of dollars making the PRius. So I have to tell my side of it. I need as many people who think like me as possible.

I must crush the Prius anyway I can.

I want a small car like maybe the iQ that weighs less than 1800 pounds and has a 1 liter or less GASOLINE engine, costs less than $15000 and gets 50 MPG. I could live without airbags, crush zones, ABS, traction control, and a lot of other things I cant think of. I bet without those things like car would be <$12000.

Its nothing personal.

If gas goes over $5 you will do very well with the Prius. You will have made a wise choice. We need to drive cars that get better than 50mpg on a large scale and bring the oil companies and the hostile foriegn countries that hate us to their knees. The Prius does that.

Unfortunately it just give the money we would give to our enemies to Toyota.

I was just reading my reply to this post (from yesterday) and it dawned on me -- Bronsin writes "With me it's all about the bottom line" -- Then why did he get an automatic?

[tooter]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I was just reading my reply to this post (from yesterday) and it dawned on me -- Bronsin writes "With me it's all about the bottom line" -- Then why did he get an automatic?

Sometimes it's all that's available...

There were only three in the whole state of California when I bought mine. In the evening, the location of one was disclosed to me and I drove 50 miles to be there first thing the next morning when they opened with the cash in hand to immediately buy it on the spot. It not only had hand crank windows, but used a real key to open the doors and the hatch.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by tooter

Sometimes it's all that's available...

There were only three in the whole state of California when I bought mine. In the evening, the location of one was disclosed to me and I drove 50 miles to be there first thing the next morning when they opened with the cash in hand to immediately buy it on the spot. It not only had hand crank windows, but used a real key to open the doors and the hatch.

I know. I decided my previous car only had about 500 more safe miles left (steering rack) when I was on a trip and headed to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. MA. I plopped myself down in Chicopee, MA and started a search for my Yaris . I searched every dealer in the entire Northeast region of the U.S. and only found five 5 speed manual liftbacks. I ranked them in order of desirability. #1 was in Cambridge, MA near the Harvard campus. I paid a visit to the dealership and they had lied....the car was still out at sea on a boat! My #2 choice was in Rhode Island and I immediately drove there and bought my Yaris.

If a person only has one vehicle, then waiting or not is more likely a front burner issue. Bronsin has a Corvette and a motorcycle. I've ridden in a car during an East Coast winter, but I've never tried to drive in one. Perhaps he wanted an automatic because it is safer to drive an automatic during an East Coast winter? Bronsin?

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I was just reading my reply to this post (from yesterday) and it dawned on me -- Bronsin writes "With me it's all about the bottom line" -- Then why did he get an automatic?

I have something called "polyneuropathy" in my feet. Pushing in a clutch made my foot hurt so much I could harly walk at times.

So I sold my ECHO and bought a Yaris with AT.

Im a much better man for it.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

I have something called "polyneuropathy" in my feet. Pushing in a clutch made my foot hurt so much I could harly walk at times.

So I sold my ECHO and bought a Yaris with AT.

Im a much better man for it.

I hear ya. I'm sitting with one leg propped up on a chair right now. In California I put a tarp on my driveway to get it through the rainy season (before repairing) and I attempted to walk around the edge of it and slipped. Essentially I sat on my corkscrewing leg as I was falling. It is essentially the same injury that San Francisco 49ers running back Garrison Hearst had on the field that put him out for so long. It didn't heal right, and later that year I had to go back in the hospital. After 4 days of fighting the infection the doctors said that I had just turned the corner so they could tell me that if I hadn't I would have either lost my leg or died. The hospital was a high rise and one of the floors served as a convalescent hospital. The next day they put me in there for 2 weeks. After I got out of the hospital my leg healed, but blood would pool in my feet. The vascular surgeon told me I'd have to wear compression socks for the rest of my life. I lost weight and the pooling stopped and I no longer needed the socks. The infection I had was called Cellulitis, and occasionally I'll have a reoccurrence. Antibiotics take care of it, and occasionally I'll have to prop my leg or legs up for a bit....until June of this year. The antibiotic didn't take care of it and I had to go into the hospital for 3 days for an IV drip antibiotic. I get these reoccurrences in both legs, even though all the pieces of metal for my ankle are only in one leg. The infection that put me in the hospital in June was in the leg without metal in it. The last time (before this June) that I had Cellulitis was in 2009 and for the first time I got it twice in one year and 2 months apart. I'm hoping this isn't happening again right now. The doctors told me early on that my circulation will never be 100 percent in either foot and even when I'm at my best weight and exercising I can still tell that my circulation will never be 100 percent. Other than when I get Cellulitis, I don't have any pain and I have normal sensitivity and function. I hope it stays that way...and I hope I'm not having a reoccurrence right now. I may go to the doctor later today.