New c2 has arrived

My wife's new c2 got to the dealership this afternoon.
The salesman sent us an iPhone pic.
We may be able to pick it up tomorrow. I hope!
The weather this weekend is going to be great!

 

When we took the test ride on Monday, in a crazy orange C1,
it had that same white paper on the roof and hood.
It looked better w/o the paper, when we went on Wednesday to have the old Corolla inspected.
But, my wife still hated the Orange. She wanted white, but I told her the snow plows
would push her up on the sidewalk during a snow storm..
I talked her into picking my favorite color..

 

We picked it up this afternoon.


Seems like something on the transport dinged a few paint chips in the hatch.
Otherwise it seems it very nice shape..
I drove it home and reset the trip meters, so my wife could take a relaxing hypermiling drive.
But, she did some jackrabbit launches and a few hard braking stops anyways..

It was a slow ride, with a lot of stops for traffic and bikes etc.
And we ended up with a surprising amount of EVing..
(At least I wasn't expecting it to be 59% of the drive)..

 

They will repaint the hatch or do touch-up, whatever we want.
I think we should try the touch-up job, since that wouldn't effect
the hatch color 5 years down the road..
Don't know what the culprit was, might have been a hanging belt buckle.
Our very first car (a 1969 Maverick) had it's trunk lid chain-blasted on the truck. It HAD to be repainted..

These chips look like what the nose will look like after driving around here during the winter..
Many times, a sander truck will do a drive-by chip job on your parked car..

Because they aren't fully boxed, many cars have minor paint scratches and chips during shipment.
But most Toyota cars are pristine on delivery. Yours will very likely be in perfect condition..

 

We are in Woburn, and this is our 3rd Toyota from the local dealer.
Our sales guy was good. We had our car within about 6 days of deciding to take a test drive.
We could have gotten a c2 faster, had we not wanted Red..

Robert Fahey
Woburn Foreign Motors
394 Washington St. Woburn, MA 01801
[email protected]
781-718-9872

 

The standard silver makes the new c look like a smaller version Prius.
But Absolutely Red makes the c look like a Sporty Prius!
My wife loves the color and has already told me five times,
that I was right to pick the red..

She was reluctant at first, since we already have a Torch Red Escape.
The colors are kinda close to being exactly the same..

 

The next town over (Lexington MA) has about a million Prius owners,
every time one of them sees us driving by, they do a double-take..

I guess seeing a Prius this color must be rare around here..
Most are white or silver..

 

Worse case scenario

We did a 20 mile road trip this morning. Somerville MA is a traffic nightmare.
Always on the brakes. No hypermiling is possible. But we did press the ECO button.



With all the hills, I was amazed we did 62% in EV mode.

While watching the power-flow display, I was really surprised to see the engine was off, while going 40 MPH..
I'm new to hybrids, and I didn't really expect this kind of EV performance.

If you have a slight down-hill run, just how fast will this car go, in EV mode?

 

For spills..


If your cooler flips over, there is a drain hole under the spare tire..

 

Thanks for the link. I had already read part of it, now I know where to find it and finish up my reading..

My wife and daughter just got back from a little vaca road-trip to Burlington VT.
Did pretty well, for not being hypermilers. The odometer is tacked to the bottom of the pic.