Saying "Aloha" to new Prius!

looks good. congrats!
You didn't want to wait a little longer for the Hawaii Prius special edition?
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Aloha from another SBM #2 here on Oahu, I bought mine last September.

 

Congrats on your new baby I sure it will have a great life out there in paradise.

 

I can just imagine how expensive it would be for gas in the islands nowadays. I lived in Maui for about 5 years and it is definitely a great place to live. Enjoy your Prius. Regards.

 

Hey, congratulations on getting a great car.

I'd like to ask a question if I may, what is the average annual driving distance for a car in Hawaii? If that's too tough how for do you drive in a year?

Oops, another question, what is the price of a gallon of gas there now?

 

congrats! Spectra Blue is extremely rare here in the SF Bay Area, but it's one of my favorites.

 

Congratulations! Best of luck with your new great looking car! :high5:

 

Before buying our Ptius I had a '92 Miata which was my daily driver. I had 193K on it when it gave up the ghost, so that was about 13K a year. Our '94 Camry has about 140K on it now. My wife drove the '94 Camry to work for about seven years and then used it for transportation to get to her volunteer work, shopping, recreation activities, etc so it has averaged about 10K a year. I now drive the Prius three times a week to work and she gets it twice a week as she has the longer commute on Wednesday and Thursday and I drive the Camry.

Gas prices here on Oahu now average $4.36 but since gas on the other islands is more expensive the statewide average is $4.56 today.

 

Man that's a lot of road time. We retiree parents are averaging about 5000 miles per year split between two cars. Most of that is surfing with an occasional trip to town, and our kid is planning to abuse our Prius with a 1.5-mile high-school commute.

So our six-month oil changes rarely have more than 3000 miles on them, yet the oil still looks & smells filthy. Probably all the water that hasn't warmed up enough to evaporate.

 

congrats

 

thank you.
I wondered because I thought being on a smallish island would reduce your drive distances. You and you wife do similar miles to the average mileage here. Fuel price isn't as bad as I thought it would be. There is a 30 to 40 cent per litre premium for petrol purchased in remote areas here. That is you pay a little over $6.00 a gallon for petrol in the city and a bit over $7.00 per gallon in remote country. I suspect it's the population density keeping the price down.