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Originally Posted by wnut
Hi JacobP have you included the cost of maintaining the 80 000 mile Prius compared to an 80 000 mile Corolla?
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Yes, Prius is probably more expensive to maintain than a Corolla, but a decade and a half of experience now show that Prius has an incredible reliability record. The stories of the expensive Prius battery replacements are actually overblown. It's far more likely that an automatic transmission in a conventional car will fail before you have to replace the Prius batteries. Most people drive the Prius up to impressive six figure mile mileages without doing anything except changing fluids. My relatives have an 80,000 mile Prius, and this was indeed their experience so far.