Hello hello.

Good afternoon everyone. I've been a lurker on the forums here on and off for a few months now, figured it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and start up an account finally.

I'm a college student (art major!), and I drive an '08 Prius that I got January of '08. You've all heard it before, but I love the car. I'll admit, from time to time, I miss my old car a lot, but it was a good time to make a change. That car was a '93 Land Cruiser that my parents had bought used a few years before I got it. It had around 185k miles on it, lots of little problems, but had a ton of sentimental value and character. However, with the gas prices at $4+ where I live, and the thought of a major problem showing up with it, I decided it was time to let it go.

Anyways, now that I've had my Prius for a year and a couple months, I still feel like I don't know enough about it! Even after just a day or two reading through the forums here I learned a number of things. My salesman was a nice guy, but didn't know nearly enough.

And naturally, I'm always looking for new techniques and options to try to get the best gas mileage possible. Right now I'm averaging a little over 43 MPG, which (after browsing here for a while) feels inadequate.. I've yet to make any modifications to the car beyond the norm, but I'm thinking of getting into it.

If anyone is still reading by this point, congrats! You win my e-kudos. I don't usually write this much in an introductory post, but I love my car.

 

I guess I dropped that sentence in at a weird time. I mean I'm looking into more of the aesthetic modifications. I had gathered that doing much with MPG is hard to do. I imagine I still probably haven't mastered driving the car with the best MPG in mind, which has been something I've tried to pay more attention to in the last month or two.

And unfortunately, I don't live in a cold climate right now. With any luck, I'll return to one in the next couple of years, because I prefer them more anyhow.