Reply #11: We love ours!

[Dem Agog]

Maintenance is very low, just standard oil changes, etc.

There are no "batteries" to buy outside the car. It has one battery that is powered by the gas motor and recharged that way. (The car isn't just battery powered, and you don't "plug it in" ... some people think you do). The batteries are warrantied for something like 100,000 miles but tests show they are fine even longer than that in most cases.

It has plenty of power, but you should take one for a test drive and see for yourself.

My husband and I carpool in our Prius, and average 48-50 miles per gallon. We fill up at a cost of about $20 every two weeks or so. Consumer Reports & other companies like to say you don't save money with a Prius, but we have cut our commute mileage so much by carpooling and buying the Prius that we're definitely saving a few thousand a year in gas.