lauren80ryan

Congrats, Lauren. I'm glad you are so pleased with your car from the very start. You'll need to post pictures of your car in happy places! Just FYI: For some reason (it may simply be psychological!) there seems to be an MPG let down around 1,000 or 1,500 miles, so don't be worried if your once-great numbers start to slide. Also, your first tire rotation will cause quite a skid! Please tell me you are tracking your car's FE performance from the get-go. If not, I'll send you a spreadsheet that may help. (My spreadsheet has a lot of stuff going on so that I can track a number of variables over time. I also separately track "City" v "Highway" mileage.)

Thanks for your comment about my green prius excitement photo. Actually I just saw that you had posted when I went to the User CP to change my photo. :-) I think I will leave my newbie photo for a little while longer.

I don't have a clue how to post photos!!! Doing some research.
Martin37

Hi Lauren:

I did hear from Del Curry today with good news. He gave me the Vin number of my Prius and a date certain of Friday June 19th my wifes birthday of all things. Mine is the 12,758th 2010 Prius built. Do you have a Vin number yet? If so, the number after 50 is your build number in the series. So lets cross our fingers that we will both be driving a new Prius in ONE WEEK! Isn't that a kick or what?

I think our ship Nippon Highway will arrive on Wednesday. If you live in the Portland area, you could have your car as soon as Thursday.

Cross your fingers!

Dan in Grants Pass, OR

Hi Lauren! My message to you is too long, so I've sent it as a PM (private message).

Yes, you get the picture. :-)

It is a film that covers the hood, bumper, and sometimes other areas that are commonly hit by rocks/road debris. It protects the paint from scratching and chipping. I have it on my 2005. It works well. The Prius' shape does not deflect objects well - it does not create a wall of air in front of it to push rocks, etc. out of the way. They now put the film in the door handle cups. My old one has a suprising number of scratches there, even though I never have to use the key.

If you are interested, shop around. You may get a better price than the dealer can offer. Get references to make sure the work is quality.

Sorry, I had to run errands. No pics yet. As I said it is sitting in my driveway waiting for 3M chip protection. It is covered in pollen, so I haven't taken any pics. I thought the dealership would call for the 3M appointment earlier in the week, but I had to call them, yesterday. So it sits.

I like the added power, but I really haven't had a chance to 'get to know it' much yet. I have thoroughly read the manual (about 600 pages!). And I go to the window and just look at it sometimes. After Tuesday it should be ready to go.

The dealership had a second sticker for some misc. stuff (mostly dealer services) we were able to get that taken off, so paid Toyota's MSRP. My husband did call around to some other dealerships - often they had a second sticker with dealer 'fluff' (as he called it). Back in 2005 dealership were tacking on $1000-4000 'high demand fee.' Basically, what the market will bare. We paid MSRP then, by going to a dealership away from the big city up in Skagit county.

We weren't even sure if we were going to 2010, perhaps wait for them to get the kinks out of the new generation, but after test driving one it was a large improvement over a 2005. We figured that our old one was just going to keep going down in resale value, so now is the time to upgrade.

We were lucky. After looking at the options (and $$$) we decided that simpler is better for us. After letting the dealership know what we wanted they said they had one coming in within the week. It actually showed up on the truck the evening we went to put a deposit on it. Picked it up the next day. Unfortunately, it has been sitting in the driveway since then waiting for the 3M chip protection film to be installed.
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Which one have you ordered?