"I heard lots of people were returning them."

I'm sure you would have heard something here (Priuschat) if there was really anything wrong (with the exception of a lean to one side or the other).
Forgive my ignorance but what is FUD by the way?

GT

 

Mucked Up Data I believe.
I have not heard of this happening, has not been needed for either of ours and have not seen this making the rounds in the anti-Prius gang.
Although I am sure it will start making the rounds if it is outlandish enough

 

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is the only use I've head for FUD.

 

Google shows nothing. I'm guessing this person heard it from the same folks who told him that the Hummer is better for the environment than the Prius.

 

I haven't even got mine yet why would I even think about returning it?

 

You can return a Prius like a pair of jeans? Who knew?

 

Good point...they don't make a denim-colored Prius yet. I never heard of a dealer yet that allowed a "return." Except for the one brand in recent commercials that allows for a three-day test drive.

 

That must be exciting news for all the people who are waiting to get one. They won't have to wait as long. Wishful thinking

 

I don't know how it works in other states, but in Missouri you sign a contract and get a origination title when you leave the dealership. That pretty much closes the deal. I'm guessing the dealers who allow you to "return" a car give you a demo car for three days or whatever. I've heard of such promotions. But this so-called "story" is bogus on the face of it.

 

This sounds like a rumor started by dealers to try to get some used prius' into their inventory, so they can sell them at a quick profit. After all, they need some revenue to pay for all those huge SUV's sitting there gathering dust.

 

Well, I can understand people returning them for $4-$5000 in pure profit... Especially those who paid under invoice.

 

Did you mean "under MSRP" or did you really mean "under invoice?" :jaw:
If the latter, what does that take? Compromising pictures of the franchise owner, the sales manager, a goat, and an Elvis impersonator?

 

Heard? From whom?

FUD

 

Prius FUD has been a rich source of amusement over the years, along with occassional frustration. But this one falls squarely in the first category.

Who thinks these up? Do they get paid, or purely job satisfaction?

I heard that space aliens are... Please complete it for me, and try to include something about Prius.

 

using the wheel trim rings as a homing device to track the location of all Prius. It's the only explanation for the trim rings that makes sense. :madgrin:

 

Dogfriend, it would be interesting if we could hear a reply to your questions "Heard? From whom?", but I have a feeling those will go forever unanswered. Typically those questions get me a "deer in the headlights" response from people.
I appreciate your Wiki definition. I'm sure there is a lot of truth to that.

Thanks,
GT

 

Should have said, "No, get your facts straight, that's GM hybrids, not Prius."

 

I think he was talking about MAIL ORDER BRIDES......

not ... Fuel Efficient Rides!!!

73 de Pat KK6PD

 

This sort of thing is a pretty common human reaction. We don't like it when other people do better, especially when it seems like they have an unfair advantage. The Prius is an unfair advantage: it costs about the same as a comparable normal car, it costs less to maintain, has better features, and gets great gas mileage. How unfair is that? Our sense of fair play demands that there must be a down side to all of this goodness; a sort of "time to pay the fiddler" day of reckoning. To offset all of its good attributes, the Prius must be: 1) dangerous, 2) wimpy, 3) unreliable, 4) not sexy, 5) have hidden costs, or some combination of the above.

I'll give you another example of this behavior: silicone breast implants. Silicone breast implants were evil things that wreaked death and destruction upon any hapless woman who so much as even looked at one. We all know this from the media reports and the colossal lawsuits that destroyed an entire industry. What most of us don't know is that there has never been even the tiniest bit of scientific evidence that silicone breast implants are dangerous, other than the risk from the surgical procedure itself.

So how did silicone breast implants become the evil things that they are today? Unfair advantage. That's right, silicone breast implants are an unfair advantage, and therefor must have a counterbalancing dark side. What's more, they are an unfair advantage relating to sex, which in our prudish society makes them doubly suspicious.

People get sick, and some of the people getting sick had breast implants. Given our societal suspicion of the dark side of an unfair advantage, it wasn't too hard to convince a jury that the evil things had caused the problems. Burn the witches! Or in this case, sue the manufactures making these evil devices.

Silicone breast implants are old news. When more exhaustive studies eventually cleared them of all blame, we hardly heard anything about it. Absence of evil is not titillating, the makers of the evil things are out of business, and the lawyers have taken their money and moved on to children's vaccines. The cycle goes on.

Tom