What do YOU carry in your hatch?

One Large Umbrella
One Small Umbrella
Pancho
Flashlight
Tire Gauge
First Aid Kit
Bottle of Water

and in the winter:
Small shovel
Ice Scraper

Otherwise I try to keep it light in increase mpgs

 

I didn't take a picture, but yesterday I hauled a christmas tree home. Opened the hatch, spread a tarp, folded the seat down, and tossed it in with room to spare. Meanwhile, people with huge SUVs were still trying to figure out how to strap a tree to the roof. One person even had theirs on a trailer. Maybe I should have offered to deliver a few trees for a fee?

 

Generally, my canvas bags, paper towels (roll of), and the cargo net that I have never gotten around to installing. (Except for the canvas bags, the rest is under the floor of the cargo area in the hidden areas.)

 

A carbon-fiber racing bike. No way in hell it's going on the roof.

 

Engel MT45 refrigerator. I work full time and go to school at night, keep my lunch and dinner in the fridge in the prius to keep from eating junk food twice a day.

 

Plywood and a small subwoofer:

Test fit



Speaker grill just cleared



Carpeted (spray adhesive and $12.00 carpet, staples)



Subwoofer nicely hidden



Can still access cargo tray



- D

 

nice

 

We did the same two days ago. It's amazing how much you can get inside a Prius.

One of my most smug Prius moments was a year or so ago at a Home Depot. I came out of the store pushing a cart with a big box. Parked across the aisle from me was an SUV, the owners of which were trying to stuff an identical box into the back of the SUV. By the time I reached my Prius, the SUV people had given up on getting the box into the back, and were in the process of unpacking the contents in the hope that it would fit without the packaging.

When I stopped at my Prius with my identical package and opened the hatch, they gave me a look like I was the most stupid person on earth. I slipped the box into the back, closed the hatch, and was on my way. Prius: 1, SUV: 0.

Tom

 

Same as that guy before, my bike. It's not going on the roof, or in a hitch carrier.

 

LOL! Love it. We squeeze a lot in at Costco but nobody does a double take. There's usually 3 other Prii within sight in that parking lot so it's no oddity.

Thanks, now if I can just finish it off I'll actually get to hear it play!

- D

 

I have a .50 cal machine gun pointing out of my hatch. Sometimes I make the passenger sit there.

I can't take pictures however. The battery on my camera is dead. Sorry guys.

 

Well, here's what's (semi-permantly) in the hatch of my 2010 (I like to bike, so always having it with me gives me reason to ride it) and temporarily in the hatch of my wife's (we braved the snow Saturday to get it). The tree looks small in the hatch, but it's a good 6 feet tall on its stand, never let it be said there's no cargo room.

I don't have a picture but we also fit a roto-tiller in the hatch of a Prius last spring when we were digging a new garden.

 

Yeah, I had to strap Christmas trees to the roof-rack on my Jeep GC before I had the Prius.
Now I can accommodate a 7 foot Christmas tree inside the Prius, no sweat. The plastic webbing helps of course to reduce the branching radius, and I make sure I have a plastic sheet covering the floor. But it never ceases to amaze SUV and sedan drivers .... " you can get that tree into a little Prius"? ... and they watch it disappear!

 

+1. Nice job on the Subwoofer.

 

Thanks! More details on the install can be found in this thread: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-ii-...7-jl-audio-subwoofer-amplifier-installed.html
As for Christmas trees, we cut a 15 footer on a friend's property. No, it didn't go in the Prius! Dad's GMC pickup covered that duty.

- D

 

Normally I just have a collapsible plastic crate to hold grocery bags, etc. It is tied at the bottom to the cargo net so it does not slip around. Since it collapses, I can flatten it without removal and put other stuff in there as needed. If I need to access under-floor storage, unhooking the top hooks on the cargo net lets the whole thing hang out over the bumper. Entirely satisfactory.

I have not yet needed to test the total capacity with rear seats down, but it looks to be huge!