PRIUS wins Drive People's Choice Award 2009

Consumer Reports does not list it as a small car; it lists it as a family sedan. The United States Environment Protection Agency lists it as a midsize car.

Get the f*ck over it.

It maybe as heavy as a mid-sized car, but the interior is not conducive for comfort when seating 5.

Jason

A Camry is a mid sized car. A Prius is the same size as a Laser, and unless you're going to tell me a Laser is a mid sized car also that'd make one

-- Regards, Noddy.

Have you ever sat 5 people in it?

Three kids can sit *comfortably* abreast in the back seat.

I've never seen it referred to as a small car in this country so I don't know where your getting that from.

So what does that make Barina sized cars, "really small cars"?

Camry is a mid-sized family sedan like the 380 was, Laser, Corolla and Astra sized cars are mid-sized vehicles and then you have the small s*it.

Commodore and Falcon are large. Camry/Avalon/Aurion/380 are mid sized. Laser/Corolla/Astra/Prius are small. Barina/Getz/Jazz et all are micro or light.

-- Regards, Noddy.

You probably won't ever see them classified as a "small car" anywhere, as Hybrids tend to be whacked in their own class regardless of size. However, in a physical sense, the Prius is in the size class of a Corolla or Civic.

-- Regards, Noddy.

That's right,...KIDs! :-)

Jason

Still a piece of s*it regardless.

I've had two adults in front, two adults and one child in back, and one child in the hatch. Technically it's a seven passenger since there was room for another child in the hatch had the dog not been along.

WHAT ABOUT THE RESALE??

The loss on a Prius @ trade in can just about buy you a complete brand new Corolla.....

Just buy a same sized Corolla, the extra $25k buys a whole lot of ULP.....

There *is* no Corolla that's as big as a Prius.

Next.

My Corolla Wagon is bigger, and has a better return on investment as well as better highway speed economy :-) Oh and it cost me $20,000 less to buy new.

UIh-huh.... You've seen a Toyota Camry, right?

Some of my most valued friends are Amercians. The clue here is that they're

Americans, by and large, can fall into whatever category they like. They have to be the most ignorant, self absorbed race on earth with a few exceptions.

Clearly you know very few Australians :)

Good.

Piss off and drive around in your mixmaster in the misguided belief that it's a Chevy Impala. The rest of us will continue to think you're a f****it.

-- Regards, Noddy.

So, what do you do with the extra three inches of boot space in the Prius?

-- Regards, Noddy.

"Don't get me wrong; some of my best friends are Jews."

You certainly are a clueless f****it. I haven't touched a gun, let alone toted one, since 1983. And I had no choice about it back then because I was in the army. Born and raised in New York City, retired as a software quality assurance test engineer: not anywhere near being a redneck.

Yup, as I said, you are a full-blown bigot.

More stereotyping from you.

You don't think, period.

Sod off; I hear your mother barking for you to go home.

It's not just the boot space. It's also the width. It's ALSO a back seat with HUGE leg room compared to just about anything in that class, leg room that takes it a major step above the cramped interior of the Corolla.

But facts get in your way, so...

Your Corolla wagon is narrower, with tighter seating across and smaller front seats, AND the leg room in the back seat area is MUCH less than in the Prius.

Next.