Generation ONE Prius - any still on the road?

My neighbor two doors down still has one - a pretty light blue/lavender color. It looks really good for it's age and can be seen running around the neighborhood pretty much every day.

 

I see about 1 a month and probably miss more than that. Considering they weren't common when they were new, that's pretty good.

 

I see them, here in the Twin Cities, on a regular basis still. In fact, this week those sightings have become a bit surreal. Having purchased my Classic model back in Sept 2000, the placement of my order for a plug-in model marks an event I dreamed about happening a decade later. And it did!
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Are you smoking something? Besides those of us who post on this forum, I see plenty of them on the road too.

 

I spot one occasionally. They're cute. The gear selector is large. Jay Leno thinks they will become a classic car.

 

Funny to think there are aleady "Classic" Priuses. But they've been around more than a decade.

 

Which Gen 1 Prius?

There's the NHW10 (1997-2000) sold new in Japan, & later used to a small grey market in Australia, New Zealand & UK.

and, there's the XW11 (2001-2003) sold in the U.S.

Through various channels - a few on PC got a hold of the NHW10's and found out the hard way that some of the bugs still needed working out. And since there's no support for the NHW10 outside of Japan, it can be a headache having them put back in good order.

Long story short, they're both still on the road - although the number are likely down from the 100,000 + originally manufactured. But that's the usual order of cars, after they've been in production for 12 or 14 years.
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You mean NHW11, now XW11. (I HATE whoever screwed up the Wikipedia entry for the Prius and most/all Toyotas. Toyota has NEVER called their Priues XW11, XW20, XW30, etc. Bwilson4web looked into their "reasoning" and we disagree but neither of us have time to fight it or make changes to have them undone by whoever the "genius" was.)

I know of a folks still driving their NHW11. I see some parked or running around from time to time, including one today.

 

Since many programming languages start their numbering at 0 rather than 1, calling the Japan only "first" model of Prius gen-0 works fine with me.
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Which ones haven't you seen? I kind of liked the electric green ... kind of a dark jade color:



On sunny days it really sparkles. Here's a link to the colors, for those who haven't seen them, or for that matter, any of the early model cars:

http://gtcarlot.com/colors/Toyota/Prius/2003/

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I see a few around, but they're fairly rare compared to the Iconic model.

I love that green colour - too bad it wasn't kept. The colour and the name (Electric Green) seemed perfectly appropriate.

 

There's at least 3 in my home area. At one house I've seen 2 Gen 1 Priuses and another Gen 2 parked outside. I've seen two different Gen 1 Priuses (1 green, 1 silver) used as pizza delivery cars.

 

My Dad has one. I am considering the second or third Gen.

 

I saw two today in the parking lot of a large strip mall. I parked my white 2nd gen right next to a white 1st gen.

 

Our Generation ONE may just run forever.

I just replaced spark plugs and PCV valve in our 2001 at 144k miles, and our mpg crept back up over 48 for our holiday driving.

Other repairs in 11 years of ownership include the exhaust system at 90k, front brakes at 130k, tires at about 30k/90k and two 12 volt batteries. (Thanks to Priuschat and the old Yahoo group for advice on how to do that!)

Does anyone have an idea how many classics might still exist?

Mark