C300 Vs Prius

The other day I went to a friends house that I havent seen a couple of years. We started catching up and started talking about our new cars that we had just bought. He started to tell me about his new MB C300 and how he bought it at 1500 below invoice and how bad nice person the MB is and how he drive at 130MPH from San Diego to Bakersfield. BTW he has no fear of ever getting a ticket because he's a federal agent. He let me drove the car and I gotta say it's really smooth and the acceleration is fast. 0-80 in holy crap, and it's only a 3.0 V6. His MB is somewhat bone stock though. It has no nav, only halogen headlights but it does have power everything. He was so proud of his car. When we get to talkin about my car I can see the grin on his face. I told him don't laugh at my Prius. My Prius can kick your Mercedes nice person in everything except for the speed and it gets 55 miles to the gallon. I showed him how the smart key works. We got in and I told him to hold the keys. I said listen and tell me what you hear. I pushed the start button and shifted to D and took off. He said thats it? I said yeah thats it. I didnt let him drive because he had a couple of beers. He said that if I get pulled over he's gonna tell the cop to f-off. I took him on the freeway and showed him the dynamic cruise. I set the speed at 70MPH I pull up to a big rig doing 55MPH and got behind the big rig. My prius decelerated enough that he lunged forward a bit. He was amazed and said "Holyschit that's your cruise? yeah, I dont have that." Then I show him the LKA. I set it then let go the steering wheel right when it beeped and the Prius corrected itself right before it went into standby. Now he's scratching his head. I said lane keep assist baby. After the short freeway run we went back to an empty parking lot and I show him the auto reverse parking. He kept looking at the back up cam and the steering wheel turning by itself. After it parked he said do again do again so I did it again. He asked if it can parallel park like the Lexus. I told him yeah but I've never tried it. We went back to his house and setup a few empty boxes and it worked. He was really amazed at what the Prius can do. I also showed him how my Tilt 2 connects to the stereo via BT and the steering wheel buttons controls the media player. He also loves the dash display and the buttons come on when I push the steering wheel control. After I showed him my Prius, we changed subjects to drug busts.

 

I'm sure he's exaggerating about doing 130 from SD to central cal. He probably cruise at 80-90 and topped out at 130 when there's no traffic. I'm sure he got pulled over lots of time but were never given a ticket. I've seen CHPs hiding on the side of the freeway all the time with their laser guns.

 

He puts 20-25k a year so I'm sure the warranty will run out in a couple of years. I don't remember if he said the dealer gave him life time oil change or not but he did say that the dealer gave him life time free car wash. All I got was 25k free maintenance which is pretty useless since the Prius only require oil change once a year.

 

It could be a dealer thing. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach offer free oil change, car wash, free flat repair for as long as you own your car.
"Lifetime" car wash is extremely useful compare to 2 oil changes with synthetic. It takes 24mo or 20k to get 2 oil changes @ $60 each. Thats about $120 There's also tax and fees. Lets say $140
Any car wash place that offer unlimited wash charge about $30/mo. You'll make back $150 in 5 months of ownership. You could say what dont you wash the car yourself. I would say why dont you change the oil yourself.

 

Black cars are known to show every imperfections. I'm sure if we put a white car and a black car through your MB dealer's car wash, the black will show all the scratches while the white one wont show squat. I can assure you that all the same tiny imperfections are also there on the white car. You just can't see it. That's why I bought a white Prius. The free car wash thing is must likely a dealer thing not an MB incentive. It's an option that you can choose to have it washed at the dealer or elsewhere except there's no charge if it's washed at the dealer. If my dealer had similar offer, I would probably bought the car there. I haven't voluntarily washed my Tacoma in 5 years. Every year I let the rain do it for me. I'd take the free car wash over free oil change any time.