Prius C Price range in the US

This appears to be the first road test:

2012 Toyota Prius c Review by David Thomas

 

But, as Danny notes, it adds other amenities that a higher-mileage driver would appreciate like the boxes, height-adjustable seat and armrest. It's still a way of giving a lower headline price, but it's not entirely wasted.

Actually, if anything it should cause them to drop. In fact, I expect liftback sales to drop because, finally, buyers for whom subcompact is sufficient finally have an efficient choice without Honda's battery issues. The higher roof also gives it more utility than the Insight even though I suspect the Insight might be able to beat the mileage on easy highways.

But, rising gas prices should offset any liftback sales drop.

To me, a great thing about the lower-cost subcompacts is that it could give Toyota a use for their NiMH batteries that would allow them to move at least some of the Gen 4 Prius models to lithium as their lithium prices drop and supply increases.

I'm glad we don't have to buy right away, but I'm definitely going to for a test drive. I just hope my wife likes it.

 

Yes I read what else comes with the level II but it still doesn't change the fact that if you're looking for a cheap commuter CC will cost you $1,000 to get.

I predict the C will sell very well but there will be precious few level I's in the tally. Typical dealer practice: keep one level I in stock to advertise and up sell everyone to a II or III.

 

So they finally colored the mfd-screen,what stopped them from doing in in the updated Gen. 3 Prius ?

 

Well i am not sure about the US-Prius but the euro-version Prius definitley gets the same new mfd-features as shown in the Prius c with only one difference,its beeing presented in 16 different green tones instead of colorfull as shown in Prius c !

 

I agree, its about the ads, but other car companies do it, not just toyota. The prius c really starts at the two

$19,900 +$760 destination = $20,660
versus the prius liftback two
$24,000 +$760 destination = $24,760

Which is quite a bit less expensive. Now the liftback has some features that the c doesn't have and will likely be discounted more than the prius c. You can add features to the prius c less expensively like nav and sun roof, but some options (solar roof, dynamic cruise control, leather) aren't available. All in all it does drop the hybrid premium for many, and if you don't need the space or some of the non-available features it has quite a nice value proposition.

A US 2012 yaris SE manual which has cruise but is a much lesser car is $17,160. I don't think the $3500 is a bad premium for all the upgrades in the prius c two. A different competitor is probably the honda fit manual at $15,945.