Find your perfect car with Edmunds' expert review of the 2017 Toyota Prius, including the Hatchback and Hybrid. Get in-depth information and analysis on every Prius. The 2017 Toyota Prius V is the largest Prius model offered, though it's now also one of the oldest. To find out why the 2017 Toyota Prius V is rated 5.8 and ranked #5. Don't understand a review that states it accelerates sluggishly. Come on guys, a lot of us women drive Prius' and are not looking to drag race anyone while we are driving... Compared to my 2007 Prius sedan this car has awesome acceleration! Am very disappointed there is no slot to hold the Fob as my 2007 had but maybe that is just me. I wonder why the engineers sacrificed or forgot that. I have the complete technology package and have had no problems with the dynamic assisted front radar and it automatically slowing the car when cruise control is engaged - works flawlessly on my car. I do dislike a center console that is hinged toward the front passenger seat - seems very awkward to me. Love the panoramic moonroof just question why the engineers chose to make it more of a stationery window that doesn't open than a real sunroof. It rides smoothly and whisper quiet so I am extremely pleased with the ride. Some of these vehicles do not look attractive or cheap. The dealer had a white Prius V that looked very cheap inside and out. I had them ship in a Silver Metallic one with the black and gray interior and there was a world of difference in how the car looked inside and out. Mine was so much richer looking than the Titanium White one... Even the sales people were going outside to look at it in silver (light gray) and were making the same comment. Very comfortable to drive, love the navigation system built in, ability to sync my garage door opener through the rear view mirror, sound is decent withe the 8 speakers in the five model. The inside door trim no longer has any fabric - so yes it does look a lot different and to some it may look cheaper. It is a Wagon geared toward families with easy to clean surfaces. There is leather at the bottom of the inside windows followed my molded plastic. No big deal for me - she should be easy to keep looking new and won't rot like fabric or fade over time. I think you should judge the V for yourself. This is my 2nd Prius and I have owned 3 Camry's also in the past, in addition to 2 Buick and a Subaru. My highest mug in the city has been 55.1 mpg and When I filled her up last week I got about 47 mpg combined in city and highway driving which pleased me greatly. Much higher than my 2007 Prius sedan ever got and the car is still breaking in its engine. Update: gas mileage continues to fall. The average gas mileage is only 36.1 (though the Toyota computer thinks the overall average is 38.1!). For a Prius this is terrible. Others have noted some Prius Vs get great gas mileage (mid 40s) and others, like this one terrible gas mileage. Wish I could turn it in as a lemon but the Toyota techs say the difference between actual and computed is within tolerances! To me it is false advertising. And the rating system above does not have an area to mark Toyota down for poor fuel economy and disinformation provided by the MID. 8^( The radar dynamic cruise control is great, but the pre-collision system truly falls short to the point one wonders if it is working. Even when set at the greatest distance for protection, it rarely engages except as (or after) braking in a true emergency situation. That is not a good implementation in my personal opinion. If I compare it to the performance of the radar dynamic cruise control that appears to work as one would expect (if a car pulls in front of you it automatically decelerates up to and including braking if required) at a comfortable distance (that you set in a similar fashion). If you are going to be moving something long, please know that the front seats do not fold forward, you need to remove the headrest and fold them back before folding the back seat forward. Overall it has been a very good car so far and it has a surprisingly comfortable ride. Average 47.5 mpg first 5k miles in LA. Then I notice if I drive below 70mph on freeway I get 45 to 48mpg. At higher speeds 37 to 42mpg. Now I think I can average over 50mpg. Bumper to bumper traffic can get me 65 to 81mpg. Long road trips average 41mpg at over 70mph. Going on prolong uphills average 37mpg at 60 to 70mph. That is with a fairly full load. I kept my tires at 45psi but have not verified if it affects mpg, I think it does but braking time might be slower. Recommended is 36psi. I like the look with windows tinted and it's very roomy. Had issue with blind spot so I added blind spot mirrors, positioned them at lower and outer and it helps a lot. Overall very please with the Prius v. I hear that the battery is good for the life of the car. These are not lithium but nimh batteries which are less prone to degradation compared to lithium. There are such tiny side mirrors that it is impossible to adjust them to see approaching cars at or beyond the rear bumper. Several times I pulled out in front of other cars that did not appear in either my rear or side mirror. It got to the point where I did not feel safe in the car. I returned it and traded it for a RAV 4 after just 3 weeks. I have never driven a car before where you were unable to adjust the mirrors sufficiently to see oncoming cars. This problem combined with the lack of visibility because of the rear seat head rests made it a non-starter for me. It had to go. Tresmonos I don’t understand why people put up with long commutes in sh1tty efficient penalty box cars. I refuse to spend 1/8th of my day in a car. In my city, a lot of the real estate costs (commutes) are associated with ‘bad’ schools. The ‘bad’ schools still qualify their curriculum, it’s just demographic / economic disparity that shows up in standardized tests. They’re not ‘bad,’ it’s just a population that is harder wrought. I’m not living in a mcmansion and spending money on some overpriced private POS school because I’m an idiot with statistics while contemplating suicide for 1/8th of my waking life. Shoot me and put me in the ground. The world is fake. People make these choices for a multitude of reasons. When I got married and we decided to start a family, my little bungalow in the city wasn’t going to cut it and buying a bigger house in the area was too expensive. So we built a bigger house 15 miles out and yes the commute sucks at times. But we have more land to play and suburban streets to ride bikes around. It’s safer for the kids, and perhaps once they’re off and married we’ll move back into town for the convenience or better yet another 100 miles out to the country since I came from a small town and prefer the quiet as I get older. I can see the symphony and ballet and baseball and football on our 75″ TV with surround sound. The Prius V was one of my semi-finalists – it was plenty roomy and had a decent cargo hold. I just wanted something a little taller. But getting 40-44 miles per gallon is very attractive to me – it’s a question of saving resources. And yes my kid goes to private school, not to avoid the riff-raff, but because the school she attends was best suited to meet her unique needs. Our neighborhood school would have been fine otherwise. PrincipalDan That’s just like your opinion man. (FYI the reviewer did say the seats are fabulous.) I’m speaking for myself. Personally I wouldn’t do such a thing. (Have a ridiculous commute that is.) I do get a laugh at my BIL and SIL who fret about the state of the schools in the area in which they live in TN. Currently their little darling is going to a Christian preschool. Neither one of the parents has likely been in a church of any kind since the last family wedding or funeral. (Although his Daddy is a pastor’s child.) •. George B tresmonos, not all long commutes are equally bad. A somewhat scenic low-stress drive for 45 minutes isn’t too bad while I find spending the same time looking at concrete while stuck in congested stop-and-go traffic to be very stressful. School performance is more closely correlated to the students and their parents than money spent or the quality of the teachers. Schools with a large percentage of students from apartments tend to be bad. Schools with a large percentage of Asian students tend to be very good. Some parents push their kids to do well in school and others don’t. Cgjeep I’m 13 miles from my work but that is easily a 40 minute commute inDC area traffic. But it is my guilty pleasure. I have twin 7 year old boys and am constantly on the run. The 40 commute is my private alone time to drink coffee and listen to a book on the stereo. I’m far enough along in my career that it doesn’t matter if I’m a little late so the traffic doesn’t stress me out. Food shopping is my other guilty pleasure now. Oh and getting the tires rotated. Tire place in same shopping center as a coffee shop. With 3 cars I’m there 9 times a year. Kids change you. Williams I wouldn’t say this car counts as a penalty box. Even most of the subcompact cars actually have merits apart from price and fuel economy that can make them desirable to plenty of people. Well, perhaps not the Yaris. Besides, some people get a thrill out of hypermiling and seeing how little fuel they can use. My best friend had a Fusion Energi from Oct 2015 to Feb 2017, and used to try and get as many all-electric miles as possible, and to keep his lifetime MPG up. Now, he has a 2017 Volt and really likes playing the fuel-efficiency games. Nevertheless, as Guy laid out for us, this Prius a car that’s perfectly comfortable and livable. In general, the appeal of the Prius has been the fact that it’s a spacious, everyday car that will nevertheless deliver low-40-MPG fuel economy at a minimum. Only recently, in my mind, has the styling turned toward unpalatable. Kychungkevin My wife works as sale in NYC and require to drive her car everywhere. It is 35 minute drive one way from our home without traffic or 70 minute+ every work day. If we move anywhere closer we would be living in tiny 2 bedroom (or less) apartment with no garage and worst school. In our case the city mpg is very important and can’t be an old beater that could break down in the middle of traffic. A Prius make sense here; although I rejected it cause of the style and got her Sonata Hybrid instead; but I wouldn’t question other people with our situation driving Prius. Rpn453 An orange Prius with racing stripes would attract far more attention in Western Canada, as it is a much rarer vehicle to begin with and, unlike a truck, people don’t expect Prius drivers to attach fifteen pieces of flair to their vehicles. I think the average person would notice an orange Ram in the same way they notice a yellow Cavalier; there’s a disconnect between the flashy color and the common vehicle underneath. Red hasn’t been an unusual automotive color throughout most of my life. I wouldn’t look twice at a stock red Ram with chrome wheels. The Laramies have included silly chrome plastic wheels as stock items for years, so that look is normalized. But red certainly does stand out a bit more than the typical dreary colors that are currently popular, so I think Mr. Guy’s description is fitting enough for this period. 30-mile fetch Poked around in one at the dealer recently and it is certainly the nicest Prius yet. That’s a bit of a smartest-kid-on-the-short-bus argument, but the dash pad is now soft-touch, the steering wheel is nice to hold, the digital displays look only 10 years old now instead of 30, and the seat was fairly comfortable despite some lingering Toyota-esque driver ergonomics going on still. Just let the steering wheel telescope another 2 inches, how hard is it to do that, Toyota? So it sips fuel nicely on your long commute but still isn’t that pleasant a place to spend it otherwise. The liftback form factor is still a winner, though. Luke42 As a long-time Prius owner, I found this article pretty useless. It was mostly about the author’s prejudices against the car and the people who own it, and his failure to reexamine them over the 16+ years the car has been available in North America. He took a Prius on a road trip and it didn’t suck. Not a big surprise to anyone who’s ever given the car a fair shake, or measured it against its intended purpose. And, yet, he’s still convinced that the car is a “coexist” bumper sticker with four wheels, even though he seems to know about as little about Prius as he does about the people who own and love this car. I didn’t find this article to be delightful. I found it to be a tedious examination of the author’s ignorance about cars not in his driveway. He made a little progress, but 90% of his journey is still ahead of him. And we haven’t really started talking about the car, yet. I deliberately used the word “own” to describe the driver’s relationship with the Prius. It’s an owner’s car, not a driver’s car. VWs are driver’s cars — I’ve owned both VW and Toyota, and I prefer an owner’s car. Scoutdude You can “care” about cars, not necessarily be frugal and still own and appreciate the Prius. For many people their commute is putting along from stop light to stop light combined with going 0, 10, 20 or 30 MPH on the freeway with occasional spurts up to 40 or maybe 50. So the Prius or another Hybrid is a great option to dramatically increase the comfort. Recently in Seattle we had a Tanker overturn and block both directions of I5 for the better part of the day. Then we had a nice little snow storm that was actually sticking on the streets of Seattle and outlying Freeways. Just by chance I had to take something large with me into town, so I took my wife’s Escape Hybrid. The luxury of not worrying if I was going to run out of gas from idling and creeping my way home was priceless. The Escape was actually purchased because it was a good deal and my wife couldn’t commit to what she wanted as a replacement for her car that had been totaled. My experience driving home that night made me decided that instead of selling it this summer once we have time to find her the exact right car for her w/o overpaying it will stay in the fleet for the foreseeable future. Heck we may even become a 2 Escape Hybrid family and just get her a loaded ’10 or newer and I’ll make our current ’08 my daily driver. Scoutdude Yup that is one where you got me being able to walk home. I was lucky on the one hand in that the decision was made to close up and go home at 4. That gave me a jump on sneaking down the side streets to make to the Rainer Ave entrance to 90 in “only” about 40 minutes. The problem was once over the bridge everywhere was already a parking lot and the snow was piling up quickly. So I made my wat to 18 only to find that the state patrol had failed to post the chains sign, not even for semis and a couple ended up in a big mess closing both directions. Psarhjinian The “nickel” comment likely came from a (debunked, industry funded) study* several years ago that laid the blame for Sudbury, Ontario’s since-healed but mining-ravaged outskirts being caused by the Prius’ NiMH batteries. Sudbury was a nickel-mine town for more than a century, FWIW. But yeah, mining is ugly, be it for rare-earth metals or nickel and iron. So is petroleum extraction, while we’re at it. * Side note: Autoblog’s breathless, uncritical, blatantly-clickbaitish repetition of that study was why I quit reading Autoblog and started at TTAC. You can read into that what you will. Luke42 The difference between copper & nickel and oil is that you only have to extract the metals once for the life of the car. There’s also there’s a good chance they can be recycled once the car goes to a junkyard. Or, you can extract (more) oil every day, AND extract a lot of the same metals from the ground to build a more traditional but less efficient car. EVs move the needle even farther, and are agnostic about their power source. They can run off of coal one day, and solar power the next — just so long as you provide transform the energy into the right number of amps & volts & cycles. There seems to be this idea promoted by some that if you are interested in a car with the merits of the Prius (sips fuel, very reliable, fairly inexpensive) that you have your life’s priorities out of whack. You’re a flawed person. A lot of folks have more than one car, and a Prius might just share garage space with another car that is completely different. Some of those people might also have other interests in life, such as motorcycles, bikes, travel, computers, whatever. It is politically convenient to box all Prius owners into a defined space. They are all boring, they have no life, the life of a Prius owner is no life to live, etc. The folks I know who own Priuses (Prii?) seem to have fulfilling lives and numerous interesting spare-time hobbies. They are no more or less worthy of occupying space on this planet than anyone commenting here on TTAC. I’m glad I came across this Prius review on the siteit has served as a little tiny reminder to myself not to mentally pigeonhole people based on what car they drive, clothing they wear, whether they have a tattoo or not, etc. Oh, by the way, I agree the styling is weird. I’d live with it, though, to get 50 mpg. Hamish42 We live in Toronto, which is a pretty big city. When my wife bought her Prius I thought she’d be run off the roads by our SUVs and PUs. Quite the contrary, it has turned out to be a nimble little car well suited to the packed thruways. The quality is excellent, it works as advertised, and I actually enjoy driving it now and then. If nothing else it seems to work really well as an urban warrior in a city of 5 million maniacs. It’s too boring for me for every day, but there is a niche here it fills perfectly. It almost hurts to admit it’s a nice little car. Oh, and it is ugly as a brick. Rday I guess i don’t fit well into this crowd of elitist auto buffs. Since I don’t sleep in/with my car, looks aren’t all that important. And i don’t care what anyone else thinks. Cars are like women. The fancy looking ones are expensive to keep, hard to deal with at times, and often are a relief to get rid of. Average looking women/cars that can be counted on when you need them are much more rewarding overall and much easier to live with. Hence you will keep them for a longer time and even become attached to them. I bought a new 17 Prius type 2 last night for my special lady. My GF has a 13 Prius v and loves it but she wanted the better mileage since she drives so much and the technology on the new toyota’s is amazing. She loved the 17 from the start and will keep it for a long time and many miles. She drives over 30K per year and mileage is very important to her. I really like the seats and the visibility and these cars are pretty much bullet proof. I like a car brand where you never have to go back to the dealer for anything. Once i get to know the service advisers it is time to get rid of vehicle and never buy from that manufacturer ever again. Goodbye and good riddance to FCA!!!!Never will i let these a$$holes rip me off again. Good motoring. Syncro87 Curiosity got the better of me last week and I took a new Prius out for a test drive. The vitriol toward this car is silly. The current Prius is far from a penalty box. Seats were comfortable, and while not a “quick” car, it certainly had adequate power for the daily grind. The technology was amazing, really, for the price. I think the car I drove stickered for something like $25k and change. By most accounts, the Prius is exceedingly reliable and durable. Realizing that it’s uncool to voice anything but derision for the Prius in these parts, it impressed me as a great value and a surprisingly good car. The fact that some people get rankled when they see a Prius on the road or the car mentioned in an article may indeed say more about them than Prius drivers or the vehicle itself. Recent Comments •: Agreed – the front end of the Pacifica looks particularly cheap, but by all accounts (aside from maybe. •: The current Sorento is no more “van-like” than its predecessor (actually has a significantly larger. •: Not good, it amazes me we still need to do this. Why not look at the safety data sheets. •: That is not true. I drive Ford Cmax hybrid that is proudly made in US. Granted it is the only one in entire. •: This is a stupid way to study whether or not diesel exhaust causes cancer. DNA damage and subsequent.
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