New Prius v owner!

Congrats and enjoy your ride..

 

I did similar to you. I bought a 2013 v 2 because I didn't want all the other stuff/expense - but I did get the upholstery redone. I just don't like cloth seats anymore. And, I really don't mind going from my Suburban at <15 mpg to this at 45 mpg! I kind of feel like gas is free now.

 

Have fun in your new ride. My v3 is now 25000 miles and 1.5 years old - still runs perfectly.

 

Mine had Katskin leather installed in it too when I got it.

 

Congratulations. Does your 3/36 warranty apply when you purchased?



iPhone ?

 

Congrats on your new v! We've had ours for almost 18 months now and we are very, very happy with our decision to get a Prius.

 

We've had our 2013 Prius v Two for about 3 months now and it's been a great car so far. I tend to get over 50 mpg, but the wife doesn't do hypermiling so that brings it down a bit

We bought our car using the USAA car buying service - it made the whole process quite painless.

What kind of discount did you get for your "almost new" model?

 

Congrats on the new v, we got ours about 3 weeks ago, Love the thing. The dealer had a few 2012 Liftbacks, but no incentives on them, we liked the larger v anyways as it was replacing a Pathfinder and the more room the better.

Congrats and welcome to the "v" club!

 

Very nice! Tinting the windows makes a big difference in your interior temperature.

 

Specially with 5% tint on the rears.

 

Toyota is just another company in an ocean of companies that fail to grasp the shift that has been happening in consumer electronics and the ensuing dramatic increase in expectations of user experience from average people. It is not at all surprising that once that average person has witnessed a $300 iPad do everything from 3D maps to games to internet to high definition video to wireless self-updating of software, paying thousands of dollars for what amounts to circa-1990s graphics and hardware labelled as "advanced technology" is a really difficult pill to swallow. I think now that Tesla's dashboard is out there and providing a new reference for how things should be done, we can perhaps hope to see stuff like Entune join the rest of us here in the 21st century...

It's really not you that is weird, it's the automotive companies that are weird and clinging to bizarrely-antiquated hardware and software.

Lucky for you and me, the v has plenty of room for mounting electronics (I got the left-mount proclip: http://www.proclipusa.com/dashboard-mounts/vehicle/toyota/prius-v/2012-2014/proclip-left-mount-804714-18875.cmsv ... I should probably do a post on that), and your USB and 12V adapters give you enough flexibility to simultaneously have both a dedicated GPS unit (garmin, etc) and your iphone/android device hooked up at the same time.