Greetings from S. Florida

Well, greetings!

I picked up my Prius on Thursday of last week and haven't come down off of cloud-9 since.

I've been wanting one for a couple of years now, but just haven't been able to put it together until now. Posted a couple of pics in the pictures Sticky so I'm not going to repeat them here.

It's been a long time since I've driven much for pleasure (the lack of terrain here makes it kind of boring.) However, I drove almost 350 miles this weekend just marveling at the car.

While I think that there's all kinds of cool things about the car, by far the coolest is that little display at the bottom of the Consumption screen that lists the average mileage. I'd have been happy with the 45 on the sticker (that's what my parents get in theirs in California), the 50-51 number that's living there right now just makes me giggle each time I think about it.

If anyone has any tips on gliding, I'm all ears!!!!

 

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That's basically what I'm seeing. I'm still on my first tank, so I don't have anything even close to definitive yet. The average number on the MFD is hovering right around 51.

If I use a combination of paying attention and CC with light traffic I can keep the graph of 5 min averages close to 75. But those aren't realistic conditions for me. I suspect that the number would be better if there were fewer inconsiderate drivers here and I was less concerned about driving defensively.

Just driving at 65 mph in the right lane on I95 can be a real challenge (because too many others are trying to do 70...) I've already committed to staying off the freeway much as is possible until I can move away from these nut cases.

You know, I know that everyone claims to have the "worst" drivers. I just know that when I go other places I find the driving behavior to much less egregious than it is here, and I positively long for the "worst" drivers in my home town; they're angles compared to some of the best here.

 

Hey Ryan,

No, I can't say that I have any experience with either of those dealerships. However, I'll say this, the ONLY reason that I bought mine from a southeastern region dealership was because I did it through the Costco autoprogram where the pricing is somewhat controled.

Beyond that, I'd say get out of the southeastern region (that'd be AL, FL, GA, NC & SC) or do something like the Costco thing. Even the good dealerships will be hamstrung by the region pricing rules.

 

Thanks!

And LOL....I live in Margate (actually if you threw a ball over the fence in my back yard, it would land in Coral Springs)....and no, I can't say that I'm going to miss it when I finally see it receeding in my rearview mirror for the last time, I really want to move back to California, I'm just not sure I can afford it.

 

The car that I was driving before was a Ford Ranger pick-up that I inherited. The truck replaced a Jeep Cherokee that was having major mechanical problems.

You know I don’t miss either. Maybe it was having spent about a month at Christmas driving my parent’s Prius. But I know at least some it was overcoming simple inertia (i.e. having a car with capabilities that I didn’t need, but keeping it because I had it.)

 

LOL....that sounds like what I do when people ask where I am from (as opposed to where I live.) If I answer San Francisco, they all know, but if I say Berkely most of the time I get a look that says they know the name, but have no idea where it is.

And yeah, I really miss having four seasons instead of just two (hot and tourist.)

And really LOL about the snow....sounds sort of like a DBA from Panama that used to work for us. He had to go to a client site one winter about five years ago. No one thought too much about it until we all realized that it was possible for someone in their mid-thirties to have never seen snow.

 

Have wondered what it would be like on the Turnpike. I've even thought about driving up to Orlando just to find out (OK and to visit Disney too.)

I work in Delray Beach and did do the communte on the Turnpike a couple of times; it turns out the commute is really "better" on I95. Would really like to see what happens out in the central part of the state, but I guess that's already been answered.